Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-09-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Luther Il. PurvlS, LoulSDurg; Onhries
Hedinger, Strong City; Stephen Burney,
Jetmore; Anthony Curry, Soldiers
Home; Noah Rine, Burlington; Jacob
L. Dennelcr Winchester; Washington
L. Jones, South Mound; Bonsley E.
Blake. Tyrone; Levi r. Danfell, Doug
las; Films High, Iuka; Benedict
Friday, Nat onal Military Home;
William A. McKade. Eskridge;
Conrad Englehart Highland; Frederick
Wiley, Cottonwood Falls; jeremiah =.
Parkhurst, Wichita; Mary L. Millikan,
Colony; Mary a. Davis, Cottonwood
Falls; William T. Jones, Poor o; Will
lam II. Cousler, New Albany; Henry A.
Kenworthy, Stockton; Edward j. oDon-
nell, Stockton; Aaron Jones, Toledo;
George W. Chalmers, Osawatomie;
Aaron d. Showalter, Colony, and Frank
W. Stoneking, Arkansas City.
Otis BARNARD, about eleven years old.
was instantly killed by an ~" road
train near the City Hall in Kansas City,
Kan, the other afternoon. The little
fellow with several companions, had
]
ming and playing when he ran upon tho
track in front Of train and was
crushed to death.
The following members-at-large con-
stitute the Democratic State Central
Committee, in addition to those from
the judicial districts: w. c. Jones, Of
lola: James w. Orr, of Atchison; j. II.
Andrews Of La Crosse; w. c. Perry, OF
Fort Scott; Edward Carroll, of Leaven-
worth; 7. L. Leftwicke, of Larned, and
John H. Clifford of Manhattan, with w.
c. Jones as chairman. The committee
meets at Topeka, September 20.
WHILE DR.. William Whiting and A.
II. brooks, druggists, were cunning re-
cent?! in Rawlins County, one barrel of
Writings gun was accidentally dis
charged taking effect in the face of
Brooks, destroying one eye and SER
ously injuring the other.
WHILE attempting to arrest two inso-
lent negroes out Of half drunken mob
of about-a dozen at Kansas City, Kan,
the other night Policemen c. c. Ed
dangerous outs. Charles Hughes and
William Gray were arrested for the cut
ting.
TIE Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows began its sessions at Topeka on
the 18th. Governor Humphrey deliv-
cred the address of welcome on behalf of
the State, Mayor Cofran on behalf
of the city of Topeka, and p. G. NJ. John
NJ. Price on behalf of the grand lodge of
Kansas.
MRs. IDA c. MARTIN, widow Of the
late Ex-Governor John A. Martin, will
be presented, upon the occasion of the
annual encampment of the e. A. Il. of
Kansas at Topeka next month. with
gold medal bearing the inscription and
design of the badge of the Fourth Army
Corps, that having been the corps to
which Colonel Martins regiment the
Eighth Kansas, was attached during the
war. The medal will be of costly man.
ufacture and will be the gift of the q.
A. r. of Kansas.
PRIVATE MARTIN LYON, light battery
F, Second artillery, was struck by an
engine on the rapid transit line at
Leavenworth the other evening and had
both legs severed below the knees. lie
died soon after He was intoxicated at
the time.
HEAVY frosts visited most of Kansas
on the night of the 18th.
THE Democratic convention of the
Fourth Congressional district recently
met at Emporia and adjourned without
nominating o candidate for Congress.
This leaves the contest between the
Alliance candidate, j. G. Otis, of To-
peka, and the present incumbent Har-
rison Kelly.
THE reported death of cattle in large
numbers in Harvey County is declared
by Newton dispatch to be entirely
without foundation.
SUIT has been fled in the district
court at Lawrence by Linton j. Usher,
son of the late Judge Usher, against O.
E. Learnard, proprietor OF the Tribune
journal, for $50, 900 damages for libel.
The paper reprinted with comments an
item from the Omaha Bee in which it
was stated that Usher was accessory to
robbing a woman named Florita Russell
and also to the killing of his (Usher's)
clerk some time previous.
WALTER H. KEYS, Hfty-two years old
and fal1ir who followed fairs, was re-
Gently arrested at Kansas City, No, and
taken to Atchison to answer the charge
of abducting Tillie Friedenburg, q girl
OF fifteen. He enticed her away from
home under promise Of marrying her
and letting her lead an easy life. The
father followed Keys and caused his
arrest
TIE Woman's Press Association of
Kansas was recently organized at Tope-
ka. All women who are actively en-
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