Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-09-06
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l assaulted his sister Belinda, three year!
> older, at Rosedale, beating her with 9
! club until she was almost insensible
and then cutting her throat. The girl
! was not fatally in 'ured. The boy was
jailed, but his sister refused to prose.
: cute or appear against him.
A BULLETIN issued from the Census
Office at Washington has the following
, as to the county Indebtedness Of Kan
sas: Bonded debt of counties in 1880,
S',3G4, 277; in 1890, S14, 800, G75, or % per
cent increase; floating debt in 1850,
S591, GA; in 1890, S5SS, 1906 a small de-
crease; gross county Indebtedness, in
1880. $685. 92l; in 1899, S14, SIT, $50, or
So per cent increase.
THOMAS KING, colored man fifty-
three years of age, met death under pc
culiar circumstances at Argentine the
other evening. He was engaged in car
rying a school desk from one school
building to another, walking on q side
walk elevated about two feet when he
made misstep and fell from the side
walk to the ground, striking on his
HS"u anu ureuklHB MS neck.
IT is stated that 5000 head OF cattle
suffering from disease are held in quar-
antine near Newton. They were dying
of rapidly, but the nature of the dis
ease had not been determined.
L. j. WEBB COMMUNICATIVE Chief of
the Sons of Veterans, has announced
the appointment of Colonel Clay d.
Herrod, of Erie, Kan, for Adjutant,
and Colonel Hazleton, OF Norton, Kan,
for Qrartermaster-G General.
a. III. MARTIN, brother of the late |
Governor Martin. was stricken with ap-
opleXy while at the supper table at
his home in Atchison the other evening.
He was in critical condition.
JOHN SINK, farmer living eight
miles north of Salina, recently attempt
ed to kill his wife and then shoot him
sell. He fired two shots at her and
missed her, but she having fallen on
the floor he thought she was killed,
when he shot and killed himself. A
family quarrel was the cause.
The complaint which was presented
to the State Board OF Railroad Commits
sioners by the farmers concerning grain
rates to Missouri river points has been
and sent to the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
FRANK FLETCHER colored boy thir-
'een years old, while recently crossing
The Union Pacific tracks at Lawrence,
vas instantly killed by the cars.
GovERNoR HUMPHREY reviewed the
parade at Topeka on Labor Day.
SOME boys attempted to steal water
Melons from r. Sparks patch near
iirard the other night when he saw
hem and, shotgun in hand, started
fter them. When the boys attempted
0 run he fred at them, hitting George
LANES and putting about twenty-five
hot in his face and neck, one going
trough his nose and another through
Is neck.
ANDY Bowen, ten years old, was re- -
'ntly killed by freight train at Mer-
am Park. His father worked at the
lrk and the little follow had boarded
freight train at Kansas City, it was
to go and see his father, and
trying to get of fell under the train N
I'd was killed. "
FIRED HAGGART, an active member of ID
e Farmers Alliance of Jewell County. al
Is found dead on the road with his m
ok broken the other morning. He 4
d been attending an Alliance meeting
day and the greater part of the pre- q
ous night and when he got on his ri
rise to ride home he said be guessed ~
would go to sleep and the horse
'uld see him safely home. 1t was =
ought that he went to sleep and fell
the animal IL
FIRE at Hiawatha on the night Of the
destroyed nearly three business
'cks and caused q loss of $50, 600.
e principal destruction was in the
st National Bank building, owned by a
igressman Morrill, There the vault "
which were $50. 900 in currency and
ny valuable books and papers, gave -
before the intense heat and its con- az
IS were entirely destroyed. A num- s ~.
Of hne horses persisted. r.