Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-25
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell.
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review of Personal and Gen.
eral News Condensed to Paragraphs.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the Nermilion Record.
The churches of Lucas have closed,
out OF respect to scarlet fever.
Mamie Nesbit is doing editorial
work on the Washington Watchman.
The Gypsum city schools have been
closed on account of small pox scare.
Some Dickinson county people have
set out for oklahoma to do missionary
work
planted this year near Lane, Rush
county.
No Big Sleeves is the party plat
form of a religious sect in western
Kansas.
Several towns in Southern Kansas
are experiencing smallpox excite
ment.
News has just been received of the
sudden and horrible death of DIR. j. Il.
Perraine of Vineland. While trying
TO remove a membrane from the throat
of one of the Clark children with his
finger he was bitten by the child. and
died in great agony from blood poison
ing.
Mrs. d. W. McGuire, wife of very
wealthy stock raiser of Fort Scott, has
been advised that she was one of the
heirs to $50 O0G estate left by her
aunt. Mrs. Makepeace ut Providence,
Il. l. Mrs. McGuire was not acquaint-
Cd with her aunt. She was an aged
widow and died intestate
Miss Katie Wrinkle, a young woman
Of Peck. Sedgwick county, was burned
TO death Friday by the explosion of
an oil can. Mrs. Meyers, who tried to
save her, was burned so badly that
/ there is little hopes of her recovery.
A hired man WAS badly, but not SER
iously, burned.
This is the way western Kansan
puts it: Leap year is not three
months old, and yet the new women
arc finding out that the men folks are
not to be fooled with. Several suits
arc already pending for breach of
/ promise, growing ont of propositions
made by the girls just or fun, to try
their bands at the new business"
Chaplaid Moorehead admi histered
/ the ordinance of baptism to twenty
cOnvicts at the state penitentiary last
sunday. Eleven were emersed and
nine were baptized by the pouring of
water. This is the first occasion
bD nil hos 49, Il
within the walls of the penitentiary.
The service was a decidedly impress
! sive enc. One of the men immersed
was "A life time prisoner.
In Harper county the acreage to
oats this spring is unusually large, and
the conditions at seeding time are very
favorab bic II has been several wears
since the farmers have had a good
crop of oats. and they seem to think
this Will be the successful year. Wheat
Is daily gaining in vigor, and is in
splendid condition. but the crop is
never sure until it is in the bin. The
preparations are being made for anoth-
er large acreage of corn, Indian and
Kafiir, and some of the farmers will
commence listing the first of next
/ month.
/ Luther Woodford, one of the pion.
GERS of Shawnee county, has just died
at Christ's hospital in Topeka. He
was known as the hermit because
he lived alone on his farm until his
last sickness. His friends say he had
not less than $4,000 in gold and bonds
and probably much more Before his
death he was asked about his wealth
and he declared that he wished he had
it so he could burn it all up, but he
would not tell where it was hidden.
His farm is seven miles from Topeka
and his acquaintance are sure the
fortune is buried there, and according
ly have organized a shovel brigade
and gone to looking for it.
Ed Thurston is under arrest at Law.
renee for Bookkeeping whisky. The
transaction took place in the alley just
back of the postoffice. Thurston had
just delivered the whisky to the man
and taken his money when Marshal
Prentice stepped out. The stranger
thought Prentice another man looking
for drink, asked him to drink from
his newly purchased bottle of stuff
The bootlegger knew Prentice and was
at once taken into custody by him.
The damage suit in the Maddo1
smallpox pest house case. at Ottawa
has drifted through several terms o.
court, and is still alive for a hearing
AT the coming term. Arlander Mad.
doX, who owned the old house used by
the city for pest house, and which
was burned down, brought suit fol
damages and trespass, which has fin
ally taken the form of two actions
One is to recover the alleged value o
the house, $500, against the city
claimed to be responsible for the act
of mob, and the other is for $50, 70
trcspass, against duals-co- joint
ly IL. d. Crane, DIR. Van Schoiack, 2
Kaiser, Geo. T. Brown and j. G. Maud
lin,
a Butler county paper in speakin:
OF the proposal to raise tobacco il
Kansas remarks that the wind an,
the hail conduces TO particularly fin
grade of finccut.
Eya Clara Collins, who has bee
bookkeeper in Seneca bank for scvel
wears, has resigned and will inves
some of her savings in journe
abroad. According to the Tribun
she is an up-to-date young woman
She is business, a leader in society,
worker in the church, dispenser o
charity and an expert in outdoo
sports
Farmers who put their corn in thei
cattle this season lost it. Farmer
who have their corn in the crib ar
still hoping.
Il. r. Hildebrandt, who establishe
the Hiawatha Journal, now has a 10
Or. the st. Joseph Herald.
Governor Riddle now says that tn