Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-02-22
State News.

There are twenty-four old soldiers
in the house. and nine in the senate.
About $685. has been appropriat-
ed for new buildings at the reform
sciluol.
lie members of the legislature are
being deluged by petitions against
resubmission.
The three year old child of VIVA.
Glenn. near Kingman was burned tc
death this week.
Kansas railroads carried nearly 2!
million persons in 1898 and killed
nineteen of them.
Chas. H. Ridgway of Ottawa is as.
s;stant superintendent of insurance
under w. " Church.
The b )use passed Representative
Adams bill making it a felony to
Jump" board bill.
An Arkansas City man was arrest
ed for chicken STEALING He had stol-
en-SO0 in two weeks.
S. q. Leowenthal of Junction City
has been appointed chief clerk in the
department of Havana.
Short-horn breeders of Kansas and
Missouri will hold their annual meet
ing in Kansas City this week.
A whole congregation chased a
negro burglar at Leavenworth Sun
day night but failed to capture him.
The bill to prohibit making hyp-
motto subjects of school children
passed the house by vote of 83 to 6.
Mrs. Anna Buerman was acquitted
on second trial of the murder of her
husband. Insanity was the defense.
Less than a year ago Effingham was
posse ssed of seven resident ministers,
actively engaged in the work. Now
thel g are only two.
Three new regents of the state
University are G. F. Scott, lola, F.
G. Crowell, Atchison and ]. w. For
new of Belle Plaine.
An old folk dance was enjoyed in
Marshall county. There were eight
present whose aggregate residence in
that county was 300 years.
The peach crop is reported de-
stroyed by the cold weather Apples
and small fruits have not been Sc
riously damaged. The cattle loss is
slight.
Harry Postelwait who killed W. c..
Boyd in Hutchinson over a year ago,
pleaded guilty of manslaughter in
the second degree, and was given a
sentence of five years.
Judge Hazen decided that the spec
al session was legal in every partic-
ular. Atty. General Goddard ex-
planned that his decision to the con-
trary was mainly precautionary.
The bill 10 reduce Pullman sleep
ing car rates in Kansas is killed.
Senator King is quoted as saying
Passes may have had something to
do with the failure to report this BILL
W. j. Judd was robbed of $500
worth of diamonds while on a Santa
Fe train near Kansas City enroute fol-
California. A fellow travelor who
had jostled against Judd was accused
and searched, but no clue to the rob-
berry found.
Two men who had been allowed to
warm in the waiting room of the Fort
Scott & Memphis railway station al
Baxter, held up and robbed the night
men of the railway and Adams ex.
press companies Saturday evening
They secured about 500.
Mac Stevenson, Chas. Brown and
Lee Winn shot 135 rabbits yesterday
afternoon in four hours. The killing
took place thirteen miles southeast
One hundred and ten of the rabbits
we're cottontails and twenty five jacks
and all were killed without the aid ol
a dog.-Salina Union.
Georgia Clay, colored servant gir
in the family of H. G Beatty, of Bur
lington, lost her life Monday night
Fire was discovered in her room and
when it was extinguished the gir
was found to be asphyxiated. 1t is
supposed che dropped a lighted match
upon the floor when she retired.
More than seventy-five labor dele
gates met in library hall, Feb. 6, to
organize State Society of Labor and
Industry. The convention was called
under the authority of the law passed
at the special session, which author
ICES this society to elect secretary
who shall assume the duties of labo,
commissioner.
Colonel Thomas Moonlight died al
Leavenworth Feb. 7th, aged 81. He
served as Colonel in the civil war
was governor of Wyoming under