Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-01

ed to death in granary, one end of
which was used as smoke house and
from which the fire caught.
Suit against Thomas Curry. news
dealer, was brought in Quinn's court
at Abilne for criminal libel 1t was on
account of Curry's alleged selling of
copies of the Sunday Sun of Kansas
City, containing two column write
up of the Prather cases.
A. J. Peed of Lamar Colo. and Miss
Rose Mnllin of New Castle, Indiana
ment 1t was the first sight of each
other. Both were satisfied. mar
riage license was procured and they
were married by Rev. z. H. Vaughan.
A very big fine mare, the property
of V. Highberger, of Wesphalia, jump
ed out of the lot few days ago and
came tearing down the street and
back again, biting herself on the front
leg and side repeatedly. 1t was soon
known that she was mad from hydro
phobia. Men and boys followed her
Dr. Kirkpatrick put all out of danger
by killing her with rifle.
Thomas C. Russell, chairman of the
Bourbon county Democratic county
committee, died unexpectedly Sunday
evening at Fort Scott. He had about
recovered from an attack of pneumonia
and his wife was out calling when the
attendant sent for Ter He died few
minutes after her return of neuralgia
of the heart. He was 35 years old,
and was the founder of the town of
Bayard, in Allen county, naming it af-
ter ex-Secretary Bayard. He was
native of New York.
| The Quantrell raid monument COM
mlttee, at q meeting to make arrange
ments for the unwilling of the monu-
ment at Lawrence on Decoration Day,
appointed Paul r. Brooks and Gurdon
Grosvenor to confer with the mem bers
of the G. A. R. to arrange joint COM
| memoratlOn exercises on the day of
the unwilling. An invitation was ex-
tended to Hon. James Horton of Kan
sas City, who was there during the
raid, to be present The monument
is to cost 81, 500, and is to be shipped
from Vermont on May 20.
Sheriff Glover of Johnson county ar
rested at Rosedale and took to Olathe,
Sunday, Sam Robinson, the remaining
member of the negro gang which has
terrorized johnson county with num-
erous robberies during the last year.
The gang robbed Kefer Bros. hard
ware of Olathc last December of about
81 900 worth of rifles, shotguns razors
and knives, and four of the members
are now serving seven-year sentence
each in the penitentiary. Most all
the stolen property was redeemed,
having been found in possession of
each as divided
A crowd of boys, while fishing near
| Mill Creek bridge on the North
side of Fort Scott Sunday, unearthed
a number of old valuabl coins, which
have evidently been buried there by
some one in an attempt to hide stolen
treasure. The boys were lounging
around on the bank when they saw
the edge of coin protruding from
what appeared to be mole hill, they
commenced to dig in the mound and
had soon unearthed a number of old
| coins, some coined by the United
States, but mostly of foreign coinage.
Some were very old and one large cop
per bore the date of 1879, while half
penny was coined in 1905.
News has just reached Hawatha, of
what came near being a dou BILE drown
ing. Mr.. Dowcll, of Robinson, was at
Mr.. Davis farm buying stock when he
heard faint for help. Going in the
direction of the sound he saw a small
child struggling to get out of large
barrel CT water sunk in the ground.
Hurriedly he pulled it out, when to
his surprise another little body arose
to the surface which he as quickly got
out. Mr.. Davis came at his call to find
his two children three and four years
old apparently iifeless. After two
hours of hard work over them they
revived.
The gas strike on the Moherman
farm on Hickory creek, in Peoria town
ship, near Ottawa, is one of consider
able magnitude, if the present indica-
tions arc of value. The find" was
made by sinking well, at depth of
24O feet, the flow gas was such that
the tools of the workmen were blown
out, and it has been impossible to re-
sumo work.
Scores OF excited cattlemen have
gathered at Eureka to protest against
the release of a train load of cattle
that arrived Monday and are now held
in temporary quarantine by the sheriff
pending the action of the live stock
sanitary commission. The cattle were
taken to Eureka to be pastured. They
were shipped from San Simeon, Ark,
but the stock men fear that part OF
them at least are Mexican cattle and
therefore liable to communicate SPLEEN
etic fever to the native herds. Chair
man johnson of the sanitary board is
already in the city and the other two
members will arrive soon, so that a
decision is expected at once. In the
meantime members of the Cattlemen's
Protective association are Assem- bling
in force and it is feared that trouble
ensue should the sanitary board re-
lease the cattle.
benjamin f. Phelps of Leavenworth,
was stricken with heart disease late
Monday night and died in few min
utes. He was Knight Templar, a
Shriner and a HEN Der of all subordin-
ate Masonic bodies and well known
throughout the state.
Miss Mary NJ. Yeager, aged 20 years,
daughter o: Mr.. and Mrs. George
Yeager, living near Eureka, has gone
insane. Excessive study and severe
attack of the la grippe are attributed
as the cause of her arrangement She
is graduate of the Wichita business
college.
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