Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-05
SUNFLOWERS.
Grown in the Different Coun>
ties Of Kansas.
How They Progress i'm the Winter of
Their Prosperity, and Government
BY the People.

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The celebrated Hil1mon insurance
case is set for trial in the fedora
court at Topeka, February IA. Judge
Foster will probably preside at the
trial.
Mr.. VIM. Cra,ner, of Mississippi
and Miss Fannie Brosius, daughter oil
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Brosius, were unit
ID IN marriage Wednesday at the home
OF the brides parents in Hays City.
Topeka has a boy wonder. He is
ten years old, and can do very good
job at washing his ears. Atchison,s
boy lawyer and Chicago's boy doctor
are not in it with Topeka's product
Capital.
The thirty-first annual meeting OF
the State horticultural society closed
Thursday night. 1t was one of the
most important meetings in the his
tory of the society. The attendance
throughout was large.
The cattle shipping business has
not fallen off with the coming of win
ter. During the past two weeks cattle
mortgages to the amount of $193, 900
have been put on record in Dickinson
county, most of the stock coming from
Texas and Panhandle,
A number of negro boys in Newton
got into a fight which terminated by
one of the boys firing shot gun into
the crowd. Although h the distance was
very short none of the boys were in
jured. Two boys, Myrtle Gravell and
Moses Garness, were arrested.
Hiram p. Dillon, receiver of the
Lawrence and Emporia Railway COM
pany, has filed in the United States
court a bond of $4,000, which was
signed by j. r. Mulvane, resident vice
president, and l. i. Better, resident
assistant secretary, of the National
Surety company of New York.
The members of the Topeka district
of the Kansas conference of Methodist
preachers met Thursday at the Wal
nut Grove M. f.. cnurch on the corner
of Eighteenth and Harrison street.
There are about twenty-five ministers
from the district in attendance upon
the conference.
G. G. Brown, of Carbonda1e, Kan.
is missing from his home in that city.
and all efforts to find him have proved
fruit1ess. He left his home more than
week ago, and although his relatives
and friends have made dilig ent search.
they have discovered no clue to his
whereabouts.
They seem to think a good deal of
William ]. Bryan down in Mexico.
No other foreigner, except General
Grant, ever received such an ovation
in that country as has been accorded
the young silver champion. Who was
it said Bryan would never be heard of
after election?-Star and Kansan.
Senator Chandler seems to think
that if the republicans will only keep
perfectly quiet and not do thing, the
people will give them majority in
the next congress and re-elect McKin.
ley. The Grand Old Party is GER
tainly in a pretty bad way if the best
thing it can do is to do nothing.
Louis Catholic church, erected at
Good Intent near Atchison a few
years ago, burned Wednesday together
with its contents, including a large
library. The loss is about $3,5 500. The
insurance will about half cover the
loss. A defective fue is supposed to
have been the cause of the fire.
Major T. ]. Anderson of Topeka.
who was short time ago relieved of
ms position as as istant general pas
senger agent of the Rock Island. and
appointed city ticket agent of that
T 'ad at Topeka, has rendered his res
ignation of the last named position.
A woman named Devore, of Beloit.
while calling on neighbor stood with
her back to an open fireplace; her
Clothes took fire and she rushed from
the room. The wind famed the
flames till she was frightfully burned.
Dr. O'Brieu was called and did every
thing possible to alleviate her suffer.
ing, but she died from the effects.
Mrs. A. c. Moore, one of the en-
ployes at the woolen mill, at Topeka.
suffered a painful accident last Thurs
day. While working at one of the
looms, her hair became entrnp1ed in
the rneshes of the cloth, and before the
machinery could be stopped nearly all
of the hair was jerked ont of the wom-
ans head.
In fit of anger Fred W. Jones, a
young man of Topeka, drew a revolver
on his widowed mother, Mrs. Alice 81.
Jones at her home 111o West Sixth
street, and threatened to kill her. He
cursed her, and would have probably
attacked her had she not called for
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