Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-07-27
E, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY,, JULY 27. 1898

be erected at G ,ffeyville.
The Kansas troops accidentally poi
soned have all recovered.
Kansas banks h ave paid all their wa,
revenue tax ranging from $50 TO $500
Several banks paid as high as $500.
George Plumb, Of Emporia, brother
of the late Senator Plumb, will be the
fusion nominee for member of the leg.
islature.
Theodore r ,ucher, baker in Atchi.
sor, recently fell heir to $1,000, ,OOC
through the death of his father IN
Germany.
While sitting alone before ars open
window in her home Just south OF
Fort Scott. Mrs. James Mayberry,
wife Of a young farmer, was fatally
shot by some unknown person, the
shot coming through the window.
State Treasurer Htflebower states
that $45, 900 of the Quanlrell raid
claims have been received at his Office.
There is but $1,000 available for the
payment of these claims, and Mr..
Hetlebower says he will pay them in
the order in which they were received
Cyclists met at Emporla July 2ls,
and j. 81. Gabrice of Emporia won
the one mile ra e In 2:3O. The one
third mile race was won In 40 5
seconds by Lawson of Chicago. The
State championship ! mile was won
oy Mac johnson, of Council Grove.
lime 36 seconds.
There will be an annual reunion of
the old soldiers and sailors of south.
west Kansas at Stafford, Kss., Au-
gust 30th to September 81, 1898.
Ample tent accommodations free to
all visitors AID reduced rate es on all
railroads.
The II year old daughter Of Mrs.
Leona Foster Of Topeka was serious
ly burned Friday by the explosion
of pan of gasoline. There was no
fire in the room. The child ran out
doors roaming and a passerby ex-
tinguished the flames.
Atchison county farmers are
threshing wheat and are getting ten
and eleven bushels to the acre. The
average yield of wheat in Atchison
county is about Is bushels to the
acre. The present season has been
a bad one in this vicinity.
ATCHIsoN, Kas., July 19.-Two
masked men committed a bold hold.
up at Brown Bros. restaurant Fri
day night. The two proprietors
we're covered with revolver by one
robber while his accomplice leisurely
went through the money drawer.
They procured $35 in money and q
diamond ring.
LAWRENCE, Kan, Miss Martha b.
Snow, daughter of Chancellor F. II.
Snow OF the Kansas university, was
married July I6 to William Harvey
Brown. The wedding took place at
Nantuck, where the family now is
spending the summer. Brown is an
ex-student of the Kansas university
aud for several years past has
been in southern Africa, where he
has taken prominent psrt in the
government and has amassel consid-
cradle money. Brown leaves soon
for Africa, as he has been away six
mon hs and his interests need his
A tramp about p years old, enter
ed the house OF Jacob Williams, liv-
ing mile from Ellinwood, and twice
assaulted Mrs. Williams a
lady about 80 years old. She was
sick and confined to her bed. Her
condition is precarious. If he is
caught there will be lyE ching bee
in that county. Excitement is in
tense and vengeance is sure to follow
his capture. This is the same place
that Becker committed the murder
OF Myrtle Hoffmeister, for which he
was taken from the sheriff and hung
by mob. This tramp won't get in
the hands of sheriff If the hounds
do good work.
LOGAN. Kan A sad case of self
destruction occurred Thursday about
eight miles south of Logan. A young
woman, aged 20 years, daughter of
John Scott, prosperous farmer,
took her life by drowning her self.
The family were abse mt from home
funeral at a neighbor's
house, when the deceased proposed
to her younger sisters to take a ride
over the farm to see the cattle. She
had arrayed herself in her best
clothes and had made preparafions