Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS Or INTEREST TO Dwell.
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review OF Perso nal and
General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

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General News Condensed to Short
Hurried Readers.
About. so delegates attended the
presbytery at Girard.
Sabetha will reduce her indebted
ness to $1,000 this year.
Cherokee county has been ayerag-
ing 25 marriages month this year.
The capacity of the smelters ut
Cherokee will probably be doubled at
once.
They rang the fire bell down at
Pittsburg as signal to close the
polls.
Atchison voted $500 konds to put
fire escapes on thtS Central school
building.
A movement is on foot for the sr
ganization of cold storage company
in Parsons.
Finney county farmers will plant
an increased acreage of sweet pota-
toes this year.
1t is said that Judge S. II. Snider.
who will retire from the Office of State
superintendent of insurance in a week,
will organize a joint stock Gre insur-
ance company, with capital stock of
100000, with headquarters at To-
peka.
A frightful accident occurred six
miles from Belleville Friday after
noon, in which Mollie Wenda lost her
life. She was driving a stalk-cutter
on her fathers farm, when one wheel
came off, throwing her beneath the
knives and causing the team to run
away. She was terrible maugled.
At Sterling Saturday fire destroyed
three barns and several small out
houses and shade and fruit trees. 1t
was the result of the burning of rub
bish by man named Allenbaugh,
when a gale was blowing. The neigh
Oors threaten to prosecute him to the
full extent of the law.
The grocery stores of J. I. Fleming
A. E. Martin, superintendent of the
wax tow factory, and G. II. T. Fuqua,
NIL in different parts of Fort Scott
were robbed Monday night by an ap-
parently organized band of thieves.
Money, watches and clothing were
taken.
Last November Mrs. w. r. Wagstaff
dropped her pocketboolx, containing
E92, at Paola. A colored man grab bbed
1t and made his escape, and has ever
since evaded arrest A few days ago
Chief Speer, of Kansas City, tele-
graphed Sheriff Butts that his man
was in that place. The sheriff went
up and returned with his man.
The Smith Manufacturing company,
of Parsons, shipped Monday over $500
worth of handles to California. 1t is
said that the people of Pittsburg
would like to secure this industry for
that city, and have made overtures to
the company to locate its plant there,
but 1T is not thought the company
will entertain any proposition of this
kind.
Information is coming in at Garden
City representing heavy losses of cat
tie and horses by the three days
storm which blew ont Sunday. Loss
es of from ten to fifty head of cattle
are reported by so many small stock
men that the aggregate loss will be
very heavy. A good many range
horses also succumed to the storm.
There was high wind continuously
for over fifty hours.
Elliott S. Reynolds, young attor-
county bar, was arrested Tuesday
morning, charged with forgery. d. J.
Stillwell, of Pittsburg, Kans., was the
complaining witness. An officer has
taken the prisoner to Girard for trial
Reynolds belongs to an aristocratic
family. once wealthy, and has had
several previous experiences similar to
the predicament he is now in.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease was ignored in
the reorganization of the Kansas State
Board of Charities.
Persons near Abilene fortunate
enough to be ont of doors at O'Clock
the morning after the storm saw a re-
markable phenomenon, The hail.
softened by the warm temperature,
developed phosphorescent qualities.
which made the ground appear as if
sprinkled with balls of fire. Picking
up the snow it gave the appearance of
fire dripping from the fingers. The
exhibition is not an unusual one at
sea, but is very rare SO far inland as
Kansas.
James Sampson, a well known far
mer living in the Missouri bottoms
near Atchison, has been missing chick
ems in great numbers lately, and few
days ago 12 young pigs suddenly dis
appeared. He concluded that pair
of foxes which had been seen in that
thefts- He tracked the animals to
their lair, and killed both, in addition
to seven young ones All the pigs had
been devoured, but rabbit and four
chickens lay in the hole untouched
Sampson dug into the hole and found
hundreds of bones,
George T. Anthony, the newly-ap-
pointed insurance commissioner, has
named E. H. Brown, of Olathe, to be
his first assistant.
Kafiir corn is becoming an impor.
tant factor in Kansas agriculture. The
yield is not SO large as other corn, bu,
it is always a sure crop, as it stand:
drouth much better than other crops
The Live Stock ana Breeders asso
citation will hold its annual meeting
in Leayenworth, August 20, 81, 90 anc
%, the week after Holton- They hav.
$4,000 in stakes Entries close Jun,
1st-
Perry johnson, a we'll known lum
ber man of Atchison, committed sui
eide by taking poison Monday night
/ He took the Kelley cure some tim,
ago for the drink habit, but it did no
give the desired results.