Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-05-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

regular mill between a Philadelphia
pug and local champion for purse
of 81 1000.
The recent heavy rains seemed to
have little effect on dampening the
ardor of aspiring politicians through
out the state
John Edwards, colored burglar. was
given twenty-six years in the peniten-
tiary by Judge Crozier at Leavcnworth
the other day.
Trilley Case, aged eighteen years,
daughter of a poor widow at Mankato,
committed suicide the other morning
by taking carbolic acid.
Kansas pharmacists recently held
three days convention at Chelsea park,
Kansas City, Kan. The next meeting
will be held at Wichita.
The people of Topeka gave Charlie"
Curtis royal welcome when he re-
turned from EmpOria with the honors
of a congressional nomination.
The young son of Ira Thomas, of Kan
sas City, Kan, while lately out hunting
was accidentally shot by an older
brother and perhaps fatally wounded.
Lieut.. A. j. Felt has purchased
the Atchison Champion, the late Gov.
Martins paper, and will take possession
about June 20. The price paid was said
to be $4,000.
A train on the Central Branch road
containing Ringling's circus. was re-
Gently wrecked near Concordia by run
ming into wash-out. Two showmen
were killed and four seriously injured.
1t is announced that Mrs. Frank 7.
Lynch will succeed her husband in the
management of the Leavenworth Stan
| dard. She has been elected director
and secretary of the Standard Publish
ing Co.
The ''drummers'' were given royal
entertainment by the people of En-
poria during their late meeting in that
city. They We're banquetted and one
of the ministers of the city preached to
| them at the opera house.
| E. c. Smith, a fireman on the Missouri
Pacific road. was held up in Kansas
City, Kan, the other night and robbed
of s1S7 and gold watch. Smith said
| he recognized two of the men who
robbed him as gamblers in the ''bot-
TOMS"
Irvine and Ella Osborn, brother and
sister, lost their lives in the Whitewater
near Eb1ing, Butler county, the other
|
swollen creek in buggy. and We're
swept down by the current and
| drowned.
| A witness testified against woman
in divorce suit at Wichita the other
day, that she had received attentions
from a prominent business man. not her
husband, and when he left the witness
stand the woman struck him a severe
| blow in the face.
At the Kansas state oratorical contest
in Fort Scott, E. p. Schueler, OF Mid
land college, Atchison, won first honors;
J. A. Orr, of the Kansas Normal college,
Fort Scott, second honors. The subject
of the former was. Our Nations Debt
to Posterity;'' the latter, THE Brother
hood of Man" There We're four con-
testantS.
Near Fall Leaf the other morning a
Rock Island freight train ran into the
rear of a Union Pacific freight. In a
few moments another freight ran into
the rear of the Rock Island train. Sew
eral box cars and caboose were
wrecked. A boy was injured, but not
seriously.
The first district conference of the
| Young Mems Christian associa tions,
comprising Doniphan, Atchison, Jack
son, Nemeha, Leavenworth, Potta-
watomie, johnson, Douglas. Jefferson
Shawnee and Wabaunsee counties, met
at Atchison on the Goth with sixty dele
gates present.
Hon. John A. Anderson, who fo1
twelve years was congressman from
Kansas, and who was appointed a yeal
ago consul gsneral to Cairo. Egypt
died at Liverpool on the 18th while OF
his return hsne. He leaves three sons
his wife having died about five year:
ago. He was fftyeight years old.
The Fort Scott Monitor has been solo
to stock company composed of Fort
Scott men. The price was $1,000. The
paper will be conducted as republican
journal, but will radically oppose pro
hibition. w. r. Biddle will have charge
of the editorial department, and the
management will be in charge of r. P
Rice and H. c. Loucks.
The celebrated Hillman case has come
: to the front again, the insurance com
panies having succeeded in securing al
order from the supreme court of thu
United States for new trial
This is case of alleged attemp
to swindle the insurance companies on
of large amount OF money by palm
ing off the body of one man fol
that of another on whose life ther,
were large policies Hillman has
policies aggregating $4,000 on hi
life in three companies and wheI
his death was announced not
great while after the issuance of tn
, policies the companies became sus
picious of fraud and refused to pay thu
amount of the policies to Sallie E. Hill
man. Death, it was asserted, re
suited through an accident. Afte
> the coroner's inquest the insuranc
companies succeeded in having tn
body exhumed, contested the sui
brought by Mrs Hillman, settin!
up the claim that the body was that o
a man named Walters. The lower cour
gave Judgment for Mrs. Hillman, AM
I | this Judgment has been reversed on tn
ground of error in the trial.
The coroners jury in the case Of tn
p two showmen killed on the Contra
: Branch road near Concordia, brought i
| a verdict that the accident was tn
I ! direct result of extreme negligence o
o the part of the Missouri Pacific Raj
| road Co.
! Gov. Ira p. Chase, of Indiana, a
| tended the state convention OF tn
|