The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14

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Glasco, who struck bottle of nitro
glycerine while hoeing in his garden
at Piedmont recently, died at st. Fran
els hospital in Wichita, as result
of blood poisoning.
browns Laying Trout Line.-Homer
Williams, deputy county treasurer OF
Sumner county, was drowned in Min
nescah river about nine miles north
of Wellington. He was wading out
| in the stream to place trout line,
when he stepped off into deep hole.
He was 81 years old and leaves u
widow and one child.
Starves Himself to Death. After
three weeks of persistently refusing
to take any food other than was fore
ed upon him by the sheriff, Dick
Waterhouse, the negro who murdered
his wife July 20 by shooting her and
then beating her brains out with
hammer, died of voluntary starvation
in his cell in the county jail at Coffey-
vile.
New Bank in Ness county.-A new
state bank has opened its doors for
business at Brownell, in Ness county.
The occasion was celebrated by 4
harvest home picnic. A large num-
Der of people were in attendance. The
usual amusements and speeches were
very much in evidence and there was
display of fireworks at night. The
new bank is a home institution and
has capital stock of $4,000.
Sentenced to Die.-District Judge
Smart at Ottawa denied the applica-
ton of Mrs. Mollie Stewart, who was
recently convicted for the murder of
Mrs. Jane Schneck, for a new trial,
and passed sentence of death under
the old state law. The order was
given to convey Mrs. Stewart and
Frank Schneck, with whom she is
alleged to have conspired in the
crime, to the penitentiary at once.
Neck Broken in Family Row.-Sam
Rawley was instantly killed in Norton
by Ralph Madden. There had been
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Rawley and Madden families and a
younger member of the former and
Ralph Madden had a quarrel which
was staken up by young Rawley's
father. Ralph Madden struck him
with his fist and broke his neck. Mad
den is in Jail and two of his brothers
who participated in the row, have
left town.
Fifty-Ninth Crop. j. NJ. Pafford,
who lives one-half mile east of Hutch
inson, has just finished cutting the
fifty-ninth crop of alfalfa off his
twelve.acre patch. This plot of al
falfa was planted by Mr.. Pafford
twenty years ago and since then has
received no attention whatever except
the cutting of the hay each year. Not
a bit of it had been replantted. The
most important fact too is that the
crop just cut is the heaviest ever
taken off the field, being two feet
high and going two tons to the acre.
Sends Flour to Europe.-A train
load of flour, worth $4,000 has left
Wichita over the Missouri Pacific
railway for export to Glasgow and
London. 1t will be the first train
load of export flour ever shipped out
of Kansas by milling company. This
pioneer train consisted of 20 heavily
loaded cars. 1t carried about two mil
lion pounds of flour and the freight
on this one shipment was more than
$1,000. The shipment consisted OF
between 10000 and $4,000 sacks, each
containing 140 pounds of -four. 1t IS
manufactured and exported by the
Kansas Milling Company of that city.
This shipment of -four will be worth
about $4,000, delivered in Glasgow
and London. The cargo will reach
it's destination September /.
Voted for Dead Mana feature of
the primary election in Reno county
that attracted attention was the large
number of votes cast for George A.
Vandever, who was killed by train
the night before the primary. The
whole county knew about the
motor car accident that resulted in
the death of the Reno county republi-
can candidate for district judge. They
knew that the nomination of Mr.. Bra
nine of Newton was assured and that
their votes could not affect the re-
suit, so many voted for the dead law
yer. 1t was done through no feeling
of unfriendliness to Mr.. Branine, bur
simply as an expression of respect
for their late neighbor and friend.
Insane Patient Hung Hinself.-Al-
bert Venn, a patient at the Topeka
state hospital, was found dead by w.
II. Jackson. an employe at the asy-
lum. Venn's dead body was discov-
cred hanging, suspended about four
feet from the ground, in the old pump
house located on the north side of
the asylum grounds. Venn had com
mitted suicide. He was a single man,
az years Of age and was sent TO the
! institution from his home at En-
poria.