Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-17
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell
LERS IN THE SUNFLoWER.
The Weeks Review of Person nal ana
General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience OF
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The Golden Belt Medical association
Is In session at Salina. Medical men
are in attendance from various points
central Kansas.
A former citizen of Wichita, Robert
Philips, was killed in Washington. d.
., by falling 10 the ground from a
high building on which he was work
ng.
A dispatch from Salina, Thursday,
lays: The Smoky Hill reached Its
highest point at 10 o clock last night,
ana had fallen three inches by noon
today. large portion of the city is
still Hooded and hundreds of people
cannot reach their homes
Monday evening four car loads of
Kansas mem bers of the Christian En-
1eavor socicty left Kansas City for
! Boston 20 attend the national meet
.pg of the United society. The Kan
sas delegation numbers 100 people L.
Il. Roby, of Topeka, has it in charge.
The l6-year-old daughter, Fredia, of
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fietz of Leayeu-
worth, was taking some clothes from
wardrobe Tuesday morning, and
knocked u revolver off !. shelf In
falling 1t struck u chair, vas discharg-
ed and the bullet passed through her
stomach, inficting Il fatal wound.
1t is purposed to have the State
meet of the League of American
Wheelmen at Topeka August 10th and
| l7th. Arrangements are almost COM
plcted, and an interesting meeting is
| expected. There are 90 members OF
the League in Topeka, and 500 wheel
men are expected from all over the
State.
Charles Ramsey, II ycnrs old, saved
George Rhodes, u 15-ycar-old Topeka
boy, from drowning last Sunday.
Young Rhodes was bathing in the
Kansas river With party of other
boys, and became exhausted. He
swan as long as he could, and went
under the water several times He
tainted just as Ramsey reached him,
but the young man succeeded in reach
tho shore with him safely, though
they were 125 feet out.
j. ID. Ross, foreman of The Mulvane
ranch of 1000 acres west of Topeka,
was shot and killed Thursday evening
| by Richard Debarros, an cmploye and
tenant on the farm. The two men
had not got along well together, and
Ross had discharged Debarros and
went to his house that evening with
another employe to cvict him, with
the above result Ross was known as
n quiet, peaccabic man. The mur-
derer gave himself up to the authori-
ties
Dispatches from all over Kansas
show the rain AMI wind storm of
last Sunday to have been very severe
in its effects. The rain fell in tor
rents accompanied by high winds,
almost equalling in force hurricane
or tornado in some places It. did as.
sumo the proportions of tornado at
the little town of Caution, near To-
pelSa, and nearly every house in town
damaged, the High school building es-
pecially. At La Fontaine, near Ere
donna, the Christian church, in course
OF construction, was demolished, and a
brick school house damaged TO the
amount of $1,000 Bridgeport, on the
Smoky Hill river near Salina, is en-
tlrcly under water, owing to the rise
of the river. At Independence several
/ hnr IL
topa the smoke stack of the electric
light plant was blown over, and the
city was in darkness during the storm
At Burton the streets are ponds of
water. At Neodesha the Commercial
hotel the school building and bank
building were partially unroofed, and
flooded with water, and q wind mill
and IL oil dcrriclSs blown down.
Jerry Williams and his sister, Mrs
G. r. Ellis. were struck by fast Kan
sas City, Fort Scott &c Memphis train
early Friday morning at Oiatne. Mrs
Ellis was instantly killed and My.
Williams was fatally injured.
! Heavy rains are reported as falling
throughout Kansas Thursday night,
causing several washouts on the rail
roads. A portion of the north part OF
Fort Scott is under water, caused by
the rapid rising of the Marmaton river
and Mill creek. Many families were
compelled to move out of their homes,
| and much damage was done. Work
was suspended mt the Missouri Pacific
shops, and The Missouri Pacific depot
/ iS an iparanccihIn iel
The reunion of -Pennsvlvanians
held in Salina July 4, was one of he
largest meetings ever held in Central
Kansas. Fully 10 600 people thronged
Oalldale park and listened TO the pro-
gram, an interesting and novel feature
of which was the marriage ceremony
of Miss May Mack of Hutchinson and
Joseph Uaslinson of New Cambria.
This is probably the largest gathering
at wedding ever assembled in Kan
sas.
The Smoky Hill Is out of its banks
at Salina, and large part of the west
side of the city is under water. Peo-
pie are rowing around in boats.
An appeal in a sensational murder
Cdse from LARK county mas been hled
IN the supreme court. Last January
Sidney j. JacSnan was shot twice and
killed by Frank J. Ernest. The dis
trics court at its recent sitting con-
victeo Ernest of murder in the first
degree and he was sentenced to the
pcniientiary for life.
The value of the sea fisheries of the
United Kingdom last year reached the
total of $3.50, OO0, 600.
The Greenland scientific expedition,
OF which Prof. Dyche OF the Kansas
State university is member, sailed
Thursday from ST. Johns, Newfound-
land, to relieve Lieutenant Pearv.
who is supposed to be at Falcon Har-
Dor. They all hone 10 returp Lv tho