Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-17

Friday. They are: P. II. Albright
! president; G. c. Root and j. p Baden.
vice presidents; NJ. b. Kerr, treasurer,
aud A. 2. Limerick, secretary. The
executive committee remains the
same.
Two prisoners in the county Jail at
Salina, Ramsey and Bostick, escaped
friday by breaking through the cell
ing OF the room where they were con,
fined into garnet and thence to the
outside They were waiting sentence
for burglary.
The members of the State board
governing the Hutchinson rcforma.
tory, were summoned to Topeka last
week after superintendent Hatch had
been removed, and after two davs'
conference with the governor, decided
to resign. The members of the
board are FULLY Scott, Democrat,
Ooerlin; John Armstrong, Populist.
Great Bend, and J. NJ. Humphrey, Re-
publican, Fit Scott.
Mrs. p l.. Plumb has offered to do
nate half block of land in Emporia
TO the school district if the board will
erect upon the lots Il high school build
ng III memory of the late Senator
Plumb. The building is to cost be-
tween 5000 and $50, 900, and be used
entirely for high school purposes, aud
1t is proposed that the place be kept
mp as par, trimmed and beautified
as carefully as private grounds. The
proposition meets with the approval
of the leading citizens.
meeting was held by the citizens
OF Topeka 1T the court honse Thurs
day night, 10 protest against the i'm
prisonmeut of John l.. Waller, the
colorcd man, by the French govern
mcnt. d. C. Tillotson was chairman
and Judge Guthrie and other promi-
nent men made addresses. AS n result
OF the meeting, Il committee of seven
was appointed to report at future
ting in reference to the arrest and
incarceration of Waller, and why the
United States government had failed
so far TO investigate his Imprisonment.
The people of Sherman county cele-
Orated Tuesday The completion of the
State irrigation station located two
miles east of Goodland. Despite the
mud and rain Il large crowd was in
Goodland. The farmers turned out III
large numbers. Many men, interested
In irrigation, were present from cast
ern Colorado, southwestern Nebraska,
and from all parts of Kansas. Much
enthusiasm and interest was mani.
tested at the exercises held at the op-
era house in the afternoon, at which
addresses we're made by prominenx
men.
Miss Helen Gould, Frank Gould and
party passed through Kansas last
Thurs1a y and Friday over the Missouri
Pacific in II special car, in charge of
General Manager Doddridge They
were returning East from a pleasure
trip in Colorado. Stops were made in
Kansas at Wichita, Conway Springs,
CoffeyYille and Fort Scott An enter
prising reporter of the Wichita Eagle
by hard work secured few moments
interview with Miss Gould-.he rich
est youn:; lady in Amerlca-which is
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| man has been accorded that privilege
during the entire trip
The widow of G. II. Wicgant brought
suit ut Lcavenworth last week against
the Endowment Rank, X. of p. of the
World, to recover $1,000 life insur-
ance policy on her husband, made pay
able to her at his death PAYMENT
was refused. on the allegation that
Mr. Wiegant committed suicide. Mrs.
Wiegant has retained United States
Senator Baker and other able LAWYERS
to press her claim. Local Pythian
Lodges have protested against the
non-paymcnt of the policy Mr.. Vie
CANT bore high rank in the Pythian
order, being at the time of his death
an officer of the State Grand Lodge.
lie had life insurance policies aggre-
eating S@4, 900, all of which have been
paid with the exception of the one
nov III litigation. He died at Leav-
en3rorth last February.
Relatives of his victim have posi-
lively identified Ed. r. Smith, who
was recently sentenced at Wichita to
four years in the Kansas penitentiary
for the robbery of a palace car in
Wichita, rs Cigarette Charley" want
ed in illinois for the murder and rob.
berry of Edward OFT, in Du Page
county, Illinois. Decem Der 0, 1894.
They visited the Kansas peniten-
tiary anu in spite of his prison garb
and the fact that he was placed in a
yard with 500 other prisoners, thew at
once recognized Smith. The recoqpi-
tion vas mutual Arrangements we're
made for the return of Smith to Hi
nols at the expiration of his sentence.
unless conditional pardon should be
granted.
Twenty-six prisoners confined in the
State penltentiary at Lansing were
transferred to the Federal prison ut
Fort Lcavenworth Thursday. The de-
partment OF justice approved Captain
Pope's request for the transfer OF these
prisoners and the warden ut Lansing
was directed to turn them over to him
This includes all but two of the mill.
tary prisoners confined there.
Attorney General b. T. Dawes has
filed i'll the supreme court a motion for
re-hcaring in the suit instituted to
oust John w. Breidenthal from the of
ice of bank commissioner.
The State board of charities has ap-
pointed DIR. L. C. Biddle of Emporia,
superintendent of the State insane asy-
lum ut Osawatomie, 70 succeed L. +.
Wentworth, who has neld over since
Humphreys administration. J. E.
McCraig, from the Pennsylvania State
asylum at Danviile, has been ap-
pointed assistant superintendent of
the asylum at Topeka.
During the rainstorm, two little
daughters of A. Weekly, living three