Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-03-06

OF Ln0 nearJ-
Marshal county's grand jury met
Feb. IL and adjou rned Feb. % without
single indictment.
The state school fund commissioners
have purchased $50, 900 of the Shawnee
county court house bonds from the
county board at par, the limit fixed by
the law.
In recent poll of members of the
Kansas Legislature as to presidential
preferences, Mckinley received 40,
Reed 1s and Harrison votes out of rs
recorded.
The stateboard of railroad commits
sioners has advertised for bids fur
nishing seed grain to the farmers of
western Kansas. The board has de.
cided to limit it's purchases to one car
from each individual or firm.
Miss Amelia Schmaeling, who mys-
teriouslY disappeared three years ago,
and who, it was thought, had been
foully dealt with, has unexpectedly
returned. She had been in i'll health
which accounts for her strange &C.
tions.
The Frankfort gun club will be the
next to receive the conditions govern.
ing contests for the state champion
ship cup trophy. If this club does not
-then formally challenge the 'Leaven-
worth Gun club the conditions will be
! forwarded TO the Weir City club. An
other contest will probably take place
the latter part of April or early in
May.
Mrs. Sarah Wilkins, a noted widow
of Atchison county, after hearing her
attorney plead case in court in
| which she was interested, discharged
him and conducted the case herself.
| Mrs. wilkins is an extensive farmer,
very shrewd an rich. She once APP
peared in the supreme court of the
| state.
The fight between Patrick J. Purtell
of Leavenworth and Johnson, the
| Swede, which was to occur last Tues
day night at Galena, Kas., has been
| postponed till march 10. 1t is stated
/
the cause. AS late as Saturday even
ing. however, Purtell looked as strong
and healthy as a gladiator There
were probably other reasons for post
poniug the fight.
At 0 o'clock Tuesday night Gottlieb
Huebner, aged 60 years, believed to be
a farmer of Platt county, Missouri.
was found unconscious at the bottom
of Three Mile creek just north of the
court house at Leavenworth. He had
fallen from the bridge, distance of
forty feet, and the creek being prac-
tically dry, his body struck the hard
ground, and he was proba oily fatally
injured.
An Atchison man is making a good
living from very unusual industry.
He converts old horses into hides,
bones and substance from which
glue is made. Glycerine can be made
from horse fat, but in this instance
there is no glycerine, as these seventy
five cent horses have no fat The
price paid for old horses for this nov
ell industry is all the way from so cents
to Sl.5O and 1t is surprising how
many animals are offered.
William Baker, twenty-four years
old, and the sole support of his aged
parents, was instantly killed at noon
Monday in North Leavenwortn,
Kansas, coal mine by an electrical cur
rent of three hundred volts passing
through his body He and three 9TH
er men were operating the electrical
machinery for the mining company.
William Jenkins who was engineering
the machine received the same cur
rent but was not seriously hurt.
While preparing for bed one night
last week, about 10 o'clock, Frank
Pfeiffer, of Fort Scott, aged 10 years,
dropped a spark from his pipe into d
sack containing three pounds of gun
powder in an open wash stand drawer.
By the explosion which followed The
roof was raised and the front and
sides of the building were forced out
by the concussion. The young man
was horribly burned, his clothes
catching fire. He ran down stairs
where his life was saved by his par
ents. A brother who slept in the
same room, was blown from his bed
against the wall, but was not serious
ly injured. The Pfeiffer house was a
large one. The noise of the explo
sion was heard mile distant.
Inspector Johnson of st. Louis, Of
I A.
than the usual number of reports Fri
day. Three of them covered cases o1
violation of the law prohibiting the
mailing of obscene literature. S. H.
Kaffelt was arrested at Fort Scott
Kansas, Wednesday, for this offense
and went to Jail after admitting his
guilt Inspector Cochran who made
the arrest, also reports the imprison.
ment at Geuda Springs, Kansas, o1
Grant Thomas, who is charged with
the same offense. The third case is
that of w. B. Felts, who entered q
plea of guilty at Topeka, Kansas, and
was sentenced to thirty days lmprison'
ment. The Felts case has been pend
ing since June, 1892.
The eastern bound Union Pacific
passenger train was thrown from the
track at Solomon, eight miles west oi
Abilene. by broken truck at moor
Thursday. The sleepers, diner and
one coach left the track but did not
turn oyer. No one was injured and the
passengers went on in other coaches
The east bound Union Pacific pas
senger train was wrecked at Solomon
at noon Friday all the sleepers an6
two coaches being thrown from the
track by broken switch. The
cars did not turn over and no one was
seriously hurt
w. +. Coulson, a prominent grair
buyer of Anthony fell from the veran
da three feet high, at his residence