Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

IuE remains OF IN unknown Jrhup,
who had been killed by the cars, were
found on the railroad track near Hum.
boldt the other day.
O. c. FURMAN, o mail carrier at
Hutchinson, was recently arrested for
taking magazines from the mails to
read.
TIE Santa Fe Railroad Company has
subscribed $500 and the Rock Island
$500 toward the expense o: the Kansas
delegation to the National Grand Army
Encampment in Boston.
Two frame stores in Emporla, owned
by J. C. Hood and John Eskridge, were
recently destroyed by fire with their
contents. Loss, $4,000.
HASKELL INSTITUTE, at Lawrence,
graduated class of nine this year.
MRs. JONI LANGAN and her siX-year-
old daughter were frightfully burned
by gasoline stove at Topeka the other
day. The mother had left can OF gas
oline on the stove after lighting it,
which the child overturned, and it in
stantly blazed up and ignited her
clothes. In eXtinguishing the flames
the mothers arms and hands were ter
ribly burned.
ABOUT one o'clock the other morning
a meteor fell with terrific explosion
on o farm near Washington, scattering
rock in every direction. One piece
weighing nearly ton embedded itself
in the ground to depth of several feet
The rock was OF grayish color and
was intensely hot. The shock of the
explosion was felt for miles around,
many persons thinking it an earthquake.
l. 7. MILLER, Missouri Pacific con-
ductor was recently shot and perhaps
fatally wounded at Osawatomie by an
intoxicated man who mistook him for
another man against whom he had
grudge.
L. b. MYERS, while intoxicated went
to the house of Benjamin Van Horn. in
Kansas City, Kan, the other evening
about seven o'clock and demanded to
count of his abuse and taken refuge at
the house OF Van Horn, her uncle. He
made an assault upon her with pistol
and when Van Horn interfered Myers
shot him and then going up stairs met
Miss Carrie Van Horn, the seventeen
year-old daughter and he shot her also.
Myers then fed pursued by an officer
and several others when he fred upon
his pursuers and wounded young man
named Censor. He was finally cap
tured. 1t was thought that the wounds
of Van Horn and his daughter would
prove fatal.
An excursion train consisting of six
coach loads of colored Masons from Kan
sas City going to Bismarck Grove, jumped
the track eight miles east of Lawrence
the other morning. Seven persons were
injured.
THE wife and two daughters of
prominent business man of Wichita were
recently arrested in a dry goods estab-
lishment for shoplifting. They were
found to have some stolen articles on
their persons.
LAST winter ]. S. Frazer and W. Fl.
Gibson took q lot of Texas cattle to
Chautauqua County, which engendered
bitter feeling against them. Some
weeks ago Gibson was found dead in bed
near Sedan. and his death was great
mystery. Some time ago Texas fever
broke out among the cattle and the bad
feeling was revived. The other day
Frazer was found dead in creek near
Sedan having been waylaid and stabbed
to death. He was one of the most
prominent cattlemen in the county.
AS w. II. Hammel, real estate dealer
of Hutchinson, was lighting gasoline
stove the other morning. the lock on
the tank gave way and the tank fell
over with an explosion that saturated
the clothing OF Mr. and Mrs. Hammel
and they were instantly on fire. Mrs
Hammel was burned from head to feet
and died at one o'clock and Mr.. Hammel
died at three o'clock. They left two
boy fourteen years old
and the other babe.
c. w. KRAUsE, a member OF troop NJ,
Fifth cavalry, was drowned the other
night in the large fish pond just south |
of the post at Fort Leavenworth. He |
was bathing with other comrades, but |
was not missed until the latter had par
TALLY dressed themselves and found tn
Of Krause and he nowhere to
be seen. He was evidently taken with
cramps and drawn to the bottom. He
was twenty years of age and had served
but three months. His parents reside in
Michigan.
IT is said that Atchison's lady enumer-
ator secured more names than any Of
her co-laborers.
IT stated that thirty-six thousand
dollars will be spent this year in inn
proving the grounds and erecting cot
tages on the State G. A. R. reunion
ground at Ellsworth.
THE two-year-old son Of Eugene
Graves, OF Fort Scott, drank two ounces
Of coal oil recently and died of paralysis
Of the heart before medical aid could be