Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-27

w. P. Hall, a travelling salesman for
the Hill Safe and Lock Co., of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, died at Hiawatha Thurs
day soon after eating hearty break.
fest. He was taken i'll and died IN a
tigate, Hall had a family living in
Topeka.
The eastern bound Union Pacific
passenger train was thrown from the
track at Solomon, eight miles west OF
Abilene, by d broken truck at noon
Thursday. The sleepers, diner and
one coach left the track but did not
turn over No one was injured and the
passengers went on in other coaches.
Arthur Dickinson, the 17-year old
son of S. S. Dickinson, of Larned, an
old G. A. R. man, was Monday thrown
under farm wagon drawn by pair
of runaway horses. His nose, jaw and
thigh were broken and internal injur.
les were received by him which will
probably result in death.
On Wednesday Governor Morrill,
named as Special Commission to pur.
| chase and superintend the erection OF
the monuments to the Kansas soldiers
killed in the battle of Chlckamuaga:J.
L. Alternately of Leavenworth, S. r.
Washer of Atchison, G. w. johnson of
Nemaha, j. F. Stearnes of Brown and
Leonard Ackers of Seward county.
County Attorney Morris and Sheriff
Deets have been waging a war on
liquor sellers in Pittsburg lately.
Several have been arrested, their
stock and fixtures confscated and
taken to Girard. Nearly every law.
yer in the county is engaged one way
or the other in the fight, as the case
against Charles Goeoke is to be made
test case.
At o'clock Tuesday night Gottlieb
Huebner, aged 60 years, believed to be
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, a distance of
forty feet, and the creek being prac-
tically dry, his body struck the hard
ground, and he was probably fatally
injured.
The Mutual telephone company late
ly organized at Fort Scott to compete
with the Bell company, went into ac-
tual operation Wednesday. The new
company is using the Reynolds trans
mitter and subscribers are only charg-
ed 81 per month, while the Bell COM
company has already twice as many
customers as the old company,
whose patrons are all putting In the
cheaper phones.
At o'clock Tuesday afternoon, A.
Fellows, of Hiattville, was found dead
in a stairway on Main street in Fort
Scott. He had arrived there but a
few minutes before and it is thought
his death was due to heart failure
brought on by over exertion from
walking up from the Katy depot. The
deceased is large, heavy man, about
60 years of age. He had only resided
in that locality short time, having
formerly resided in Leavenworth.
A war on liquor sellers is raging at
Emporia. No less than two hundred
or three hundred saloonkeepers and
druggists have been arrested within
the past week or two, and in every
case fined by police court. Among
the number were some of the wealth.
lest druggists in the city, who move
in the most exclusive society, and who
are among the Oldest inhabitants.
Tuesday six alleged violators of the
prohibitory law were arrested.
At about o'clock Tuesday morning
a destructive fire broke out in the
general merchandise store of Alex Gun.
ningham at the corner of Main and
First streets, Council Grove. The
store building and stock of goods are
total wreck. The loss is from Sc 900
to $4,000 with insurance of 81, 600.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The prompt action of the hose com.
panies with a good pressure of water
saved number of other buildings.
At o'clock Thursday night about
so soldiers from Ft. Leavenworth
made united effort to lynch a bar
keeper Harry Smith and an inmate of
bawdy house named Alma Vaughn,
claiming that the pair had murdered
their comrade, Patrick V. Pagan, by
hurting him down the Home coal shaft.
The greatest excitement prevailed for
short time and Smith and the wom-
an hurridly escaped by the back door
and left the city. Colonel Hawkins,
commandant of Ft. Leavenworth, was
telephoned to for assistance by the
police and sent captain with a
mounted squad, who secured the city
and rounded up the belligerants of
his command. marching them to the
fort and placing them in the guard
house. Investigs ton into the case Of
Pagan, shows that he was visitor at
Smiths saloon short time previous
to the finding of his dead boiy and
that he had engaged in a rough and
tumble fight with Smith and the
Vaughn woman. When Fegan's body
was found his shoes and stockings
were missing and the general impress
sion prevails that he had been murder
ed
The weather during the past week
has been of the finest.
The Grand Union of the Equitable
Aid Union for Kansas met in fourth
annual session Tuesday at Lawrence.
There were fifty delegates present
from all parts of the state. The ses-
sion lasted two days.
Bryson, Hubb. Waed and Smith, the
four toughs, who shot and robbed old
man McGinty, at Wichita, in December
were found guilty on Saturday of
burglary and larceny and will each
receive good sentence to the peni-
tentiary.
Jack Walters, for whom Deputy
Sheriff Ross of olathe, Kansas, has
been searching for in Kansas City for
several past, was caught Monday
night Walters is wanted at Olatha