Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-03
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS WEDNEsDAY, JANUARY g. 1894

Ward Briggs, the merchant of Pra 1
who cut his throat at Wichita Tues
day night at the wind ,Jof lone,
spree, died Friday. e.-z5
A delegate convention of the United
Mine Workers has been called to meet
in Kansas City January 81 to discuss
the action of Walters.
Fire broke out among the Christmas
decorations of Cathlic church in
Wichita and disasterous panic was
only averted by the GOODNESS of Father
Then.
Judge Jackson of the district court
Tuesday morning sentenced Wilbur
Norton and Morgan Wright to the
penii entiary for life for the killing of
Constable Siverd in Winfield, October
22nd.
The votes of the members of the
university extension class on the lee
lures Tor the next term were counted
this afternoon and resulted in favor of
the course of Prof. L. L. Blake on
ELECTRICITY and its Modern Applica-
tions. The course had large ma
jority, in fact over half the votes cast
were for this course.
gang of brutal thugs are infestlng
Pittsburg at present, Three citizens
were knocked senseless by this gang
on the same night. They do not rob
their victims and seem bent only on
an insane desire to do someone bodily
injury. The weapons used are sand
bags and brass knuckles. Citizens are
preparing themselves for the gang
and perforated carcass will proba bly,
be the next report
Berthe Gibbs. the seventeen-vear old
son of l.. Gibbs, well known farmer
who resiies six miles north of Fort
Scott, died Tuesday from the effects
of kick from horse received last
Saturday. He had commenced to sad
die the horse when he was kicked in
the abdomen which rendered him un-
conscious. His parents did not think
1T necessary to call doctor until
some time afterward when they saw
that he was dangerously injured and
then 1t was too late to help him.
The authorities of Ford county have
obtained an injunction from the dis.
trlct count to restrain the purchasers
of the Dodge City. Montezuma & Trim.
ldad railroad company in that county
from removing the rails and ties un.
TIL the taxes of 1898 are paid in full.
The several townships which voted
bonds to aid in constructing the road
have also sued out injunctions, and
the 100 nen who were engaged in taks
ing up the track have been relieved
from work until hearing of the case
G. be had in the courts. The line is
a short one and has been operated at
loss. A sale was finally made to a
construction company building road
to Cripple Creek. and the track was
being torn mp for removal to Colorado
One of the boldest hold-ups yet per
petrated on Kansas soil by the daring
bandit occurred about o'clock SUNDAY
night on the Kansas & Arkansas Val
ley division of the Missouri PacIfi.
railway, five miles southeast of Coffey,-
vile. The robbers let fiat car ont ot
siding on to the main track and
placed danger signal on this car and
when passenger train No. 232 neared
that point the engineer saw the signal
and stopped his train. No sooner had
the train slackened its speed than it
was boarded by eight men, and the
whole train force was corralIed. The
robbers then went through the mail
car, rlt1lng pouches and letters. They
next took in the express car. and hav-
ing finished this work they went
through the coaches robbing nassen-
gers indiscriminately. No violence
was offered anyone. The robbers Sc
cured big booty, but no estimate can
be given of the losss.
Two young colored children from
Ottawa were roasted alive at the
house of Mrs. Barnett near Sibleyville
late Wednesday night. Mrs. Barnett
IS an industrious colored woman who
owns four acres of land on the side of
the Blue Mound, about four miles
south of Lawrence. A short
time ago she was assisted by the
county and her neighbors to build
small frame house. She went to OF
tawa Wednesday to visit her son-in-
law, Emanuel Edwards, and left at
home four children of her own and
three of the Edwards children. 1t is
supposed that the little folks went to
bed leaving a big fire and that the
house caught from the stove The
others all escaped except two of the
children. These two little children
were grandchildren of Mrs Barnett,
aged respectively and Q years, and
were caught under the blazing roof of
the building when it fell The house
is at considera BILE distance from anv
of the neighbors, and only one man
reached the building before the root
fell.
Leda Stewart, the mistress of dis
reputable house in Fort Scott, fatally
stabbed herself in the breast with a
stllletto at an early hour Monday
morning, after desperate fight with
John L. Huggins of Lamar, Mo, ex-
register of deeds of Barton COUNT.
and ID. L, Brandon, editor of the La
mar Democrat. Brandon is a candi-
date for the appointment of postmas-
ter at Lamar, and he and Huprins
went to Fort Scott to get'some indorse-
ments from leading Democrats. They
called at the Stewart house to while
away the hours until train time The
women and the men were well ac
quainted, she having known them at
Lamar. certain letter came up as
topic of conversation, and Hupgins
grabb 1T from the woman and gave
1t to Brandon, who starte to read it.
At this the woman knocked him down
with beer glass. and after breaking
a tumbler over his head she brutaliv
lacerated his face with the fragments.
She then reached for stilletto and
stabbed herself through the right
lung, and her corSage was soon satur-
ated with her lifes blood. Brandon
was taken away before the police ar
rived and was taken out of town on
the first train. The woman can not
recover.
The constant war and wranplinp
among the officers of the deaf and
dumb institute at Olathe has almost
succeeded in wrecking the school.
James Ross, Familiarity called Uncle
Jimmy, prosperous farmer living
about two miles south of Liberal. Mo-.
celebrated Christmas eve by filing uu
on bad whisky and finally disappear
ing from the crowd he was drinking
with. His son failed to find him. but
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