Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-04-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

frame building at Wichita, valued at
$40, 900. was burned to the ground about
three o'clock the other morning. The
building was undergoing repairs and was
unoccup!ed. The insurance was $4,000,
and the fire was supposed to have been
the work of an incendiary.
The mystery surrounding the recent
murder of Mrs Mettiman at Leaven-
worth. possibly may yet be cleared up.
Benson, the pattern maker against
whom suspicion has lately been directed,
is known to have visited the home OF
the murdered woman on the night OF
the murder. when he disappeared. The
other day Mrs Benson received letter
from her husband, in which he confessed
to having sustained criminally intimate
relations with Mrs Routzahn, Mrs.
Mettiman's daughter, and stated that
Mrs. Routzahm knew all the circum-
stances of the murder. Mrs. Routzahm
acknowledges relation with Banson,
but says she knows nothing OF the
crime. Benson's letter was written
from Kansas City, and intimated that he
might commit suicide.
THREE years ago Herman Baumbach,
the son of q wealthy Toledo 20. coal
dealer, ran away from home and all
traces of him were lost until the other
day, when the parents receivd word that
he was in Kansas City, Kan. The
mother went to that city and found the
lost son working as second cook in
restaurant He was taken back home.
MRs. LEE JEROME, formerly Mrs. Tim
merly, died at Wichita the other morn
ing. She was probably the wealthiest
woman in Kansas, her property being
estimated as anywhere from 5000, OOO TO
81. OOO.OO Her first husband, Mike
Zimmerly, died about three years ago
and in less than one year afterwards she
married Jerome, who was at that time
O waiter in local hotel. He falls heir
to one-half OF her property.
WHILE Frank Sanders was cleaning
out we'll at Atchison the other after
noon the wall caved in, burying him UNI
der rock and dirt. The we'll was thirty
feet deep, and it took two hours to dig
him out. His body was horribly cut
and bruised. and his recovery doubtful.
WHILE some young men were careless
ly handling q p stol at Kansas City,
Kan, the other evening, and while the
weapon was in the hands OF Charles
Morley it was accidentally discharged.
the ball entering tho right breast OF
Adolph Gates and killing him almost in
stantly. Young gates had been married
but q few months.
IL the United States District Court at
Topeka the case of Moses Harmon, ed
itor of the Valley Falls Lucifer, was
tried the other day and the jury
brought in a verdict OF guilty. The
paper is free love organ, and Harmon
was charged with sending obscene mat
ter through the mails.
SAMUEL DAVIES, express agent, was
found dead in his bed at Wichita the
other morning. A box Of morphine
pills, with only one pill remaining, was
on chair by the side of the bed, and
this led at once to the suspicion that he
had killed himself. The coroner's in
vestigation resulted in verdict OF hav-
ing died OF unknown causes. AS far as
learned Davies accounts are perfectly
straight with the company.
TIE police commissioners OF Wichita
have decided to return to the fine sys-
TEN of handling the joints, and tho po-
lice have been instructed to call on
those suspected of being in the joint
business and inform them that $50
monthly fines should be paid and they
would not be disturbed.
JAMES GARRETT, serving six years
term in the Leavenworth penitentiary
from topeka, was found dead in his cell
the other morning. The deceased was
subject to fits and it is supposed his
death was the result OF one OF these at
lacks.
ANTHONY TRAINER, and his son Samuel
got into q drunken quarrel at Kansas
City, Kan, the other night when the
father drew a knife and fatally stabbed
the son. The elder Trainer Is an old
soldier and draws SIT per month for
wounds received in the army.
A LATE Topeka dispatch says that 1t
has been discovered in Grant County
that the county treasury has boon robbed
of several thousand dollars. About
year ago the board offered bounty of
five cents for each rabbit scalp and one
dollar for wolf scalps All along there
have been indications of crookedness,
but when the allowances were made at
tho April meeting of the county board
It was discovered that there was an
open, bold robbery. Payment has been
made for over so. 900 scalps which were
never taken.
THE programme has been arranged for
the Chautauqua assembly which meets at
Topeka in June. All the railroads will
sell round trip tickets for one fare from
June "a to July inclusive from all
points within $50 miles of Topeka, and
on June "a, Juno &c and July % from all
points in the State at same fare.