Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Senator ingalls, is expected home

Senator Ingalls, is expected home
soon.
Senator Perkins opened the republs
can campaign at Emporia on Septem-
Der 1 in two hours speech.
The military authorities at Fort
Leavenworth are cleaning up the quar-
tiers in order to head off the cholera
The statement published that Span
tsh fever had broken out among the
cattle in Greenwood county is positively
denied.
The report that Spanish fever was
prevalent among cattle has caused
some uneasiness in several southwestern
counties.
Perry King, wanted in Crawford
county for the murder of man named
Page in 1885, is under arrest at Baker
City, Ore
John Boone, a deserter, was shot and
killed by sentinel at Fort Leaven-
worth the other morning while trying
to make his escape. He was doing duty
as convict at the time.
While boating on the Delaware, near
Thompsonville, the other day Grant
Evans and his sister Bertha and Miss
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young Evans, were drowned by the
capsizing of their boat.
Maggie Jonas, Is years old, fired a
shot at her sweetheart, William Swartz,
at Kansas City, Kan, the other even
ing and then shot and killed herself,
because, as she stated in note left,
that her love for young Swartz was not
returned.
Thomas Devine,, who worked in the
butterine department of Swift's pack
ing house, was accidentally drowned in
the Kaw river just below the Union
Pacific bridge at Kansas City, Kan, the
other day. He was boat riding while
intoxicated.
Kansas got away with the three lead
ing prizes at the Knights of Pythias
drill at Kansas City. Mystic division,
of Girard, won the prize of 81, 500;
Galaxy division, of Pittsburg, carried
off the second prize of $1,000, and Erie
division took the third prize, 81, 900.
A gasoline stove explosion caused a
fire in the bottoms at Kansas City. Kan.
the other night that burned Daniel 6
Comforts livery stable and about a
dozen horses, several gambling houses
near the state line and number OF
smaller buildings, covering an entire
square. The loss was over $4,000.
The other night the residence of Eli
Potter and the adjourning residence
of City Clerk Albright at Kansas
City, Kan, were burned. The Pot
ter residence was the most singular
structure in the west and was built and
furnished at an expense of $4,000. 1t
was insured for $4,000. Mr.. Albright
placed his loss at Sc ZOO; insurance, 81 )
600.
At the late Third district Christiar
Endeavor convention, held in Lawrence,
C. M. Brown, of Ottawa. was elected
president for the ensuing year; w. E.
Haskell, of Marion; Fife Parker, OF
Olathe; George Foster, of Douglas
county; Maud Sayers, of Franklin couu
ty; vice presidents; Maud Sayers, OF
Franklin county, secretary and treas
/ urer.
A car load of watermelons shipped
from Texas to firm in Topeka, upor
which the shipper had prepaid $685. %
freight, was stolen from fthe Santa Fs
yards in that city the other night
There were 92O fine melons in the car
| and who got them is the question the
| Santa Fe officials are interested in learn
| ing, as the company will have to stand
| the loss.
The tenth state fair will be held a
Topeka September IL, 10, IA, Is, 16 and
| II; and no meeting is of more impor-
! lance to the people of the state than thi:
! fair. There are offered this year some
| 900 in premiums, purses and spec
| ials. An extraordinary effort has beer
made to help place Kansas where She
belongs, at the head of the worlds fair
| by offering the largest premiums fol
| cereals and grasses that have ever beer
| offered in the west.
| AS the north-bound passenger trair
| on the Joplin branch of the Memphi
road reached Neutral station the othe-
day some neighbor boys reported tina
| they saw several persons lay ties an6
| rails across the track at a bridgea shor
distance north of the station for tn,
purpose of wrecking the train. Thu
train approached the place cautiously
and the distractions were removed bu
the miscreants had fed. The train wa
full of passengers returning from tn
reunion at Baxter Springs.
The grand lodge of the colored Ma
sons, recently in session in Atchison
elected the following officers: Crane
master, Benjamin Wilson, Wichita
senior grand warden, J. M. Stewart
lola; junior grand warden, j. M. Glass
Leavenworth; grand treasurer, J.
| Moore, Lawrence; grand secretary. b
II. Curtis, Baxter Springs; commission
ers to the Worlds Masonic assembly
which meets in Chicago in 1898, G. w
Smith c. III. Langston, 81. III. Curtis
w. B. Townsend and Joseph Jones.
The weather report of Chancello
Snow, of the state university, for An
gust shows that it was an average Al
gust. The temperature was very littl
below the average, although the frs
week was hot, the mean temperature c
that week being 80 degrees. The rain
fall was a fraction of an inch lowe
than the average. The humidity wa
somewhat greater than usual.
marked increase is noticed in tn
miles of wind travelled, the whole nun
Der being $3.50 miles, S55 more tina
the August average. There was nc
an entirely cloudy day in the month
While returning home in a WACO
from republican rally the othe
day two young men, John Hale an
Walter Scott. residing in the norther
part of Bourbon county, and who ha
always been the best of friends, el