Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-05
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkeRs ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condemned News from A1 Parts ef
the Great sunnower state-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.

WHO Is mem Der OF the committee tC
secure the operation 81 the old Car
bondale railroad, is busy getting datp
together with which 70 press the case
before the board OF railroad commits
sioners
Moses Lauden bauch. no was ONLY
short time ago released from his
second confinement in the state peni
tentiary, was Monday bound over fo,
trial on the charge of burning the
largo barn of Farmer Van Horseu. al
Willow Springs, on the night Of Au.
gust Is.
The branch policy shop which has
been running in full blast undisturbed
IN ~. Scott, was ordered closed Mon
day and the managers went back to
Kansas City. One man raised the dis.
turbance that caused this action be-
cause he had bought all the numbers
and got no winning ticket
Mrs. Emma Bardlow, aged FL wears.
died at her home,sin Leavenworth al
'o'clock Saturday morning, of blood
poisoning, after an illness of a few
days. About a week ago she ate a
couple of boiled eggs, one of which
was bad. THIS caused her TO become
III, but it was not thought to be seri-
ously
a fatal stabbing affray took place
At barbecue on Lightning creek on
wednesday afternoon. w. n. Black
stone and a young man name Gentry
became involved in quarrel, result
ing in blackstone stabbing Gentry
several times. 1t is thought the young
man cannot survive his injuries.
Blackstone was arrested
The real estate Office of Frank Ap-
Plegate at Beloit was entered by burg
lars on last Thursday night and over
$4,000 secured. The money belonged
TO an eastern man who recently ar
rived and made arrangements to pur-
chase farm through the agency men
toned. He had closed the deal and
was to make the payment the next
day depositing the money IN Apple
gates safe until the time.
Monday afternoon about , O'Clock
dre was discovered in the harness
shop Of w. {. Hofmeister at Reloit.
The alarm was given and in a few
minutes the fire department had ex-
hpguished the flames, hut net until
considerable damage was done to the
building and goods The origin of
the IRE is unknown and il is attri-
huted TO spontaneous combustion
The loss is estimated at about $500.
The property and stock was insured.
A foreclosure SUIT was filled in the
United states Circuit Court at IT.
Scott Saturday for $3.50, 600. nv the At
lantic Trust Company of New York
against the Fort Scott Water Com
pany, the State Trust Company of
New York aud Chas. +. Coffin. receiv.
er for the water company. The peti-
ton asks that the works be foreclosed
and that receiver he appointed un-
her their action. The foreclosure is
IN s95o,ooo worth OF bonds issued by
The water company and now in the
hands Of the plaintiffs in the case.
John w. Reed, well.known man.
now engaged in the practice of medi,
zine at Flynn, whose death was re-
ported in the press dispatches recent
~, writes his friends at Ft. Scott, en-
iesvoring 10 discover who started the
'anard. He is alive and bitterly re-
sents the attempt IN blacken his char
acter and injure his future. He IL
welt known throughout the state in
educational circles, having been con
nected with the Kansas Normal col
Iege and has many friends Gin Kansas
City, where he studied medicine.
The John Brown Industrial College
~ Kansas City, Kansas is sure
~, Eighty acres of slightly land on
The heights west OF Bonner Springs
park were recently purchased by the
board cf trustees Of the college, cash
being paid for seventy acres and ten
acres being donated. The erection of
arge and handsome buildings will be
begun early next spring, portion
" the money for the building fund
having already been secured by con-
lribution from the friends of the in
.titutIon in the west. The school
will he devoted to the education Of
negroes, and il is proposed TO make it
notable memorial in honor of old
John Brown of Osawatomie.
Tom McGinnis was taking one of
The long pipes out of the boiler of an
rngine in the Missouri Pacific shops
vt Atchisou Monday. when big
black snake crawled out OF it. He
struck at the reptile with his ham
mer, when il fell and coiled itself
around the neck of II. u. Rogers. who
was working under the engine. Jer-
~ sullivan, fearing that the snake
wouid choke Rogers to death, hastily
grabbed the reptile by the tail and
commenced pulling. Rogers com
'neuced TO get black in tLe face when
Dan Masterson, In his desperation.
pulled off his hat and famed him. At
This juncturc Larry Gallagar appeared
IN the scene wi;h a knife and severed
the snake in twain.
For seventeen years" we heard a
farmers wife say Thursday: Il have
worried because part OF the crop is
short, but notice that we have never
,nown want, and that each wear
JrlnRS us IN better circumstances than
The year before il.
!. w. Blossingame, of DcDnison.
Texas, was in town Tuesday Some
time ago he put out l3, 900 head of cat
lie and when rounded up they were
5000 head short. He is looking for
missing animals or the fellows who
got away with them.-Clark County
Journal.
The Canton, Mcpherson county
creamery, during the last six month
handled @66,9l1 pounds of milk, The
average price per hundred was es
cents.
lion. j. n Finley, leading citizen
If Emporia. died Saturday night
lie has been a resident here for twen-
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