Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-04-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Frank S. Thomas has been appointed
postmaster at Topeka
superintendent of Insurance Mcbride
has resigned and III. S. Snider has been
appointed to succeed him.
The town of Beaumont, in Butler
county. was one of the victims of last
weeks Storm. Many buildings were
wrecked.
The reported destruction of the towns
of Willis, Powhatan and Baker, in
Brown county, by the late storm
proved to be untrue, although the storm
was quite severe. Owen Peltcn, OF
Robinson. was reported killed.
A late fire at Mulvane destroyed the
Union hotel, the State bank. Hawkes.;
| grocery. hrs. SINNERS millinery. Fitz-
simmons hardware store, Tague's
bakery, Williams dry goods store and
eight or ten smaller establishments Of
various kinds
The late storm played havoc with the
| little town OF Parker in southern Kan
sas. About a dozen buildings were
completely wrecked. No one was killed,
| but David Cottle had an arm broken.
The Graphic and Pilot newspaper offices
| were wrecked.
| The examination of the negro Hud-
| son, at Salina, charged with the assault
! upon Mrs. Frost, resulted in the man
establishing his innocence, although
| Mrs. Frost declared him to be the gull
! ty party. Hudson had narrow escape
| from death by mob.
The Lansing post Office was broken
| into the other night and robbed of the
| stamps and much of the mail matter.
| The office is located in a general mer-
| chandise store, which was also ran
sacked. The robbery is supposed to
| have been committed by two recently
| discharged convicts.
| The recent storm did a great deal of
| damage along the Central Branch road,
west of Atchison. AT Muscotah num-
| Der of houses and barns were unroOfed.
| The house of John Baum was unrOOfed
and Mrs. Baum and her baby were seri-
ous1y injured and laborer named Neff
| had a leg broken. Others were injured
by falling timbers.
1t is stated that the government is
thinking" OF establishing an expert
ment station Of the weather service in
| the university at Lawrence. There are
only four stations of this kind in the
| United States-at Harvard, Cornell,
| Washington and the Rose Polytechnic
| institute. Each station is in charge Of
a government officer.
Rev. d. c. Miner has issued a card to
the temperance people OF Kansas, sug-
| costing that the twelfth anniversary
of prohibition May u be celebrated by
special meetings in all parts of the
state, at which demands shall be made
| for more complete enforcing of the
| law, mot only against lawless liquor
dealers, but also against perjured Off
| Gals
In the case of Senator Martin, whose
| right to q seat in the senate is contested
! by J. w. Ady. the senate committee on
privileges and elections has decided to
report favorably a resolution author
ling the committee to sit during the
recess by subcommittee or otherwise
and look into the claim of Mr. Ady to
| the seat, to go to Kansas if necessary
! and to send for persons and papers.
Grant Whirlow, living at Vinland,
six miles south of Lawrence, committed
| suicide in horrible manner the other
night. The deed was deliberately done.
He took a shotgun. loaded it and
| placed it on chair, the muzzle point
ing toward his head, and pulled the
trigger by means of Il string, blowing
| his head off. He was % years of age
and no cause for the deed is known.
The board of regents of the state
| university met recently at Lawrence
and reorganized by electing Gov. Rob-
! inson vice president. Charles Z. Scott,
secretary, and c. r. Mitchell, auditor.
Chancellor Snow is president of the
board. Prof. e. NJ. Hopkins and Prof.
f. II. Holder We're raised to full pro-
! fessorships, and ". c. Stevens and V.
L. Kellogg to associate professorships.
Horace Burl1, of Willis, IA years old,
was lately the subject of very bad ac-
cident. He was driving u sulky pillow,
and the team becoming frightened the
boy in attempting TO jump off the pillow
was caught in the lines, that were
wrapped around his body, and dragged
around over the field until every vestige
of clothing, except his shirt. was torn
from him. His condition was danger
Gus.
Justice Allen, OF the supreme court,
! has filed his dissenting opinion in the
! Gum habeas corpus case by which the
legality of the house of representatives
| was determined. At the time of the
| decision. Justice Allen delivered an oral
dissent and announced that he would
| file a more extended opinion in the
| Iuture me opinion H1tstl Dy MIN IS
the larges that has ever been written
by judge of the supreme court. 1t
covers seventy pages of typewriter
copy.
! Martin AiGhler, secretary OF the state
| board Of agriculture, from personal OBJ
erv2tiOns IN northwestern Kansas, re-
! ports that the wheat is generally look
! ing very bad, and that unless there is
good rain within 4 short time the crop
/ will prove almost 4 total failure. There
| is q small belt through Saline county
where the Wheat crop is in good condi-
! ton. but both east and west of there
| bad reports have not been exaggerated.
! He looks for a very large corn crop,
| however, ;ls il has always been the rule
! in Kansas thai dry springs are followed
! by wet summers
! Bulletins received at the Office of the
state board Of agriculture on the 1ith
| and crop intelligence from other sources
] continued to be discouraging. The
! wheat prospects were no better in the
aest and many farmers were blowing
their fields preparatory 20 putting in