Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-09-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

case and put 1t out, but not before both
houses were partly destroyed.
KANSAS undertakers. 1t Is said, have
formed combine against any new firms
that may wish to go into business IN
the State. They propose to boycott
firms selling supplies to new men. From
the cradle to the grave the combine
gauntlet must BIO run.
AT the annual meeting 70 the Kansas
Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers AS
ISOLATION. lately held at Topeka, the
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent E. D. King, Burlington; vice-pres-
ident George Plumb Badger Creek;
secretary and treasurer. Fl. A Heath,
Topeka. Executive committee, w. G.
McCandless, Cottonwood Falls; Samuel
Jewett, Lawrence and G. IL Wads-
worth, Larned. The executive commit
tee was appointed committee on need
ed legislation to secure dog law and
uniform wolf bounty law from the next
Legislature.
THE Kansas Swine Breeders Associa-
ton met recently at Topeka and elected
the following officers: President NJ.
Stewart, of Wichita; vice-president G.
w. Berry, OF Berrytown; secretary, o.
b. Stauffer. of Alden; treasurer, NJ. b.
Keagy, OF Wellington. Executive COM
mittee, w. S. Hanna, Ottawa; w. Z.
Gresham, Burton, and e. M. Flemming
Scandal. Examining committee, w. s.
Hanna, Ottawa; R. B. Griffith, Kansas
City; NJ. b. Keagy, Wellington, and DR..
F. L. Watkins, Harper.
IT is stated that C A. Benson, who is
thought to be implicated in the murder
of Mrs. Mettman at Leavenworth last
March, has been located in Colorado
and will soon be brought back for trial
Mrs. SUSAN r. RINGo died suddenly
at Atchison the other day ut the age OF
ninety-one years Her husband, who
survives her, is ninety-two years of age.
The infant child OF Thomas Hopp,
living near Hiawatha, was run over by
wagon and almost instantly killed the
other night. TWAS playing in the road
after dark.
HATTIE CADMUs, about twenty years
of age, who kept house for her father
on q claim fifteen miles south OF Gar
den City, recently committed suicide by
taking strychnine Her father, at the
time, was in Jail at Garden City for
burglary, and will doubtless go to the
penitentiary, and about nine months
ago her mother died OF heart disease,
while in Jail awaiting the action OF the
district court for having inhumanly
treated her daughters child.
THE other day John McGinnis, a
MINER was instantly killed by fall OF
slate in q mine at Pittsburg.
In a free fight in John McCiuny's sa'
loon at Clearwater the other day, John
Hanlon was struck over the head with
lighted lamp and so badly cut and
burned that he will die. Half q dozen
men were badly injured
THE President has committed to two
years actual Imprisonment the sentence
of five years imposed in the case OF b.
H. Jones, convicted of making false en-
tries in tho books of the National Bank
OF Stafford.
A MAN about thirty-fve years old, who
gave the name of Thomas Rogers, was
found by colored man lying on the
Missouri Pacific track at Kansas City,
Kan, the other night with leg and
arm cut of. He died soon after. 1t
was supposed that he was run over by
the east-bound evening Missouri Pacific
passenger train.
AS train on the Rock Island road
left Burton the other day at full speed,
when it approached a road crossing the
engineer noticed little girl between
four and five years of age on the track,
the engine being only twenty feet dis
tant The bar above the cow-catcher
struck the child on the head, crushing
1t and throwing her in the air about
thirty feet, causing instant death. The
high weeds concealed the child from
view until the engine was nearly upon
it.
PATENTS lately issued to Kansas in
ventors: Mortar mixer, James H. Poor
baugh, Burton; rope or twine hook,
James K. Miller, Emporia; stiffening
for collars, ETC., Lizzie T. Hadley, Kan
sas City; cuff holder, William D. FL
we'll, Marysville; button setting ma
chine, Derrick ]. Bushorr, Lincoln;
washing machine, Paris 7. Benbow,
Wichita
THE old soldiers Of the State will hold
their reunion at Topeka, October Z, s.
Q and TO-
FULLY ScoTT has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the Sixth
district.
FRED JONES, fOurteen-year-old boy,
was found dead at the end Of rope in
an clubhouse on his uncle's premises at
, Wichita the other night A short time
ago his mother died and no grieved
much and had been heard say he would
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