Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-02-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Lie yer ola OOy OF MIS- hOOer
Beattie was recently drowned at Wa
mego by falling through the ice.
The executive com mittee of the Kan
sas repu blican league has fixed March
1, at Topeka, as the time and place of
holding the annual state convention of
the league.
The state bar association recentlv
held its annual meeting at Topeka It
was the most successful one in the
history of the association, one hundred
lawyers being in attendance
In making a run to fire at Topeka
the other day, Ben Carter, assistant
chief, was caught under the wheels of
the reel and killed instantly. Nels
Anderson, another fireman. was also
badly injured.
Mrs. Margaret Palmer, the young
woman who has won a reputation all
over the country as the silk worm
woman. has been convicted of obtain
ing money under false pretenses in the
district court at Topeka
The Bandana club. of Leavenworth,
proposes to attend the democratic con-
vention at Chicago next June in style.
The club will go in uniform-gray
Prince Albert coats, gray trousers and
plug hats OF the same shade.
w. w. Hetherington, president of the
Exchange National bank of Atchison.
died somewhat suddenly in that city
the other day at the age of forty-one
years He leaves a wife and four chill
dren, all of whom were away from
home when he died.
The veteran Mason and grand treas
urer of the Kansas grand lodge of
Masons, Christian Beck, was found ear
ly the other morning on the floor of his
room at Leavenworth in critical con-
dition. Medical aid was summoned and
he was resuscitated He is eighty-six
years old
Richard A. Messimer, of Atchison,
was instantly killed by a Missouri
Pacific freight engine at Paul, Neb.,
the other afternoon. Until month
ago he was a member of the Atchison
fire department, when he quit and took
position as brakeman. He was TWEEN
ty-three years of age.
Mrs Augustus Wilson, editor of the
Wilsonton Journal, has been app tinted
worlds fair press commissioner for
Kansas, representing the board of
lady managers. Mrs. Wilson is also a
mel Der of the advisory board of the
worlds fair congress, and is devoting a
large portion of her time to the various
interests committed to her charge.
The preliminary examination of Sar1
Minton. By Orner, Roman Chase and
j. ]. Leach charged with being mem
bers of the mob which killed Sheriff
Dunn January 5, was concluded at
Liberal on the 2Sth. The first three
were denied bail and were sent to the
Hutchinson Jail for safe keeping
Leach, being quite ill, would probably
get bail.
Just after dark the other night George
Cooper, a colored man of North Law
renee, was called out of his house,
seized by colored men, all masked. car
ried to the woods and beat almost to
death. He was left unconscious but
recovered later and crawled home. He
had given testimony against several
colored men for stealing coal from the
Union Pacific yards. Several arrests
hao been made.
gang of military prisoners were en-
gagged in cutting ice on the Missouri
river, opposite Fort Leavenworth the
other morning, when a mutiny devel-
oped among them and determined eff
fort to escape was made by large
number. All were grounded up" how
ever, except two who got into the tim
Der on the Missouri. side. but were be-
ing vige roEsly pursued.
The young crowd" of republicans
celebrated the thirty-first anniversary
of the admission of Kansas into the
union with a banquet at Topeka on the
evening of the Goth. Young men, and
many whose hair was streazed with
gray, gathered from all parts of the
state. The speeches on the occasion
were enlivening and the supper des-
cribed as being all that could be de-
sired.
Benson, the murderer of Mrs Nett
m au at Leavenworth, who was to have
been hanged February 5, has been
granted an indefinite respite. This
makes the second respite granted him,
aud is for the purpose of allowing the
United States supreme court to pass on
certain points alleged to be irregular
during his trial When the news of a
stay of execution was conveyed to him
he became very happy and predicted
that he would never be hanged
Val HOLSTER. saloon keeper of
Hutchinson, had occasion to eject Sam
Weisler an obstreperous customer re-
Gently. Weisler arming himself with
a revolver. returned. shooting HOLSTER
full of holes After he fred three
Shots all Of which took effect in Hollis
ter's body, the latter secured the weap-
on and turned it upon Weisler, the
bullet striking him just below the eye.
After firing HOLSTER fell, exhausted.
Both men were reported to be mortally
wounded.
Judge johnson has rendered de.
cision at Topeka of import ance to
those who hold Kansas mortgages aud
notes. The court holds that the notes
and mortgages constitute single con-
tract, and where, by the terms Of the
mortgage, the notes become due for
non-payment Of taxes or interest, that
protest must be immediate. and that an
indorsar can only be held liable on his
Endorsement when notice and protests
are had at the end Of three days grace
after the note becomes due.
T. Fl. Smith, of Topeka. was found in
the cemetery at Waubunsee the other
day with a bullet in his temple. A let
ter in his pocket told where he was
from and with whom to communicate.
His wife, i: is stated, committed suicide
at Topeka over a year ago and was