Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-26
State News.

to Topeka.
Mr.. Drew, mayor elect of Topeka
received / of the womans vote.
James Ramsey has succeeded
Strauss as chief Of police in Topeka.
Eastern capitalists are talking of
putting up paper mill in Cherryvale.
Country grain men say that about
so per cent of the Kansas wheat crop
is destroyed.
The body Of Captain d. s. Elliot
was returned to his home and buried
in the family lot at Coffeyville, April
ID.
The retail clerks union of Topeka
have been making fight to have all
clothing stores closed at 80. and
have practically won their point.
A 1O-year old girl was accidently
shot and killed by her brother near
Valencia recently. 1t was another
case Of pointing gun that wasn't
loaded"
Nathan Pixley was shot and mortal
~ wounded by Charles Jennings at
Larned recently. Jennings gave
himself up and claims the shoot ting
was in self defence.
1t is reported that D. M. Davis,
the missing cashier Of the defunct
Cross National bank of Emporis, has
been arrested at Cleveland and will
be brought back to Kansas.
Charles S. Griffin of Lawrence, who
has been studying at Harvard, and is
now travelling in Europe, has been Of
fered a professorship in the imperial
university of Japan at Toxic.
Ottowa had a miniature cyclon e
April IL, which did some damage to
out buildings, and tore up some
shingles. Those who saw it say the
cloud was aoout the size of balloon.
Miss Cora Coffey, of Harrington
who is lying at the point of death
was, at her own request, united in
marriage to her lover, Edward w.
Folsom.
Rev. G. M. Sheldon has donated a
book case, containing 100 books to
the Office of the street railway at
Twelfth and Jackson streets in Tope-
ka, for the use of men who are wait
ing to go on duty.
Mrs. Gillett, wife of the cattle
plunger is coming back to Abilene.
The new board of penitentiary d.
rectors have let the contract for -four
to the Lincoln Milhng Co. OF Lincoln,
Kans., made q contract for 5000
pounds of beef with Armour, and 49,
600 pounds Of pork with Cudahy.
Felix Flanagan, a Kansas City
jointist, has been sued by Isaac
Landrum for selling whiskey to his
wife until she became a drunkard.
The case was ruled out, but Landrum
carried it to the supreme court and
won.
There is scandal at the Topeka
asylum over the charge made by Mrs.
Marks of Johnson county, that her
daughter, patient there has been
beaten and choked. Mrs. Marks
secured a release and took her daugh-
ter home.
1t Is thought that the defunct EN-
poria will pay fifty cents on the dol
lar.
The Harris Shoe Co. at Leavenworth
has It's shoes made by convict labor.
40 hands are employed.
Lieutenant A. G. Afford, who was
killed at the battle of Caloocan, was
buried at Lawrence April Is.
About 400 vacant lots have been
secured in Topeka for the poor to
make garden on this summer.
The mother of ex-governor John A.
Martin died recently ut her home in
Kansas City at the age Of 80 years.
]. N. Mickey of the Usage City Free
Press has been elected clerk of the
court Of visitation at 81 200 year.
A Kansas buyer recently sold 500
horses in st. Louis. His name is A.
G. Jordan of Lyons. He wants 5000
draft horses.
Gertrude Boam, a young Topeka
girl, took a dose Of strychinne and
died. Her father denies that she in
tended to commit suicide.
Miss Mamie Hall, daughter of a
prominent farmer near Hutchinson,
was accidently shot and instantly
killed by her little brother.
]. A. Thiebaud OF Cherryvale ended
spree by committing suicide in his
parlor Monday. He was 81 years Of
age and leaves wife and two children.
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