Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| u. a. IL. recently nelu meetlnB at 10
peka and decided to hold two daylight
campfres at Concordia and Wichita on
March "a and %, at which time recep-
lions will be rendered General Alger,
commander-in-chief, who will then pass
through the State on his way from Da-
kota to Arkansas The date Of the an
nual reunion to be held in Topeka was
fixed for October z, 8, 0 and 10.
WILLIS MASON recently filed suit
against j. p. Berry at Topeka for
Islander and malicious prosecution,
claiming damages in the sum Of $40, 1000.
Both plaintiff and defendantar colored.
The SANDER consisted in calling the
plaintiff "a dirty, broken down soldier
deadbeat," and the malicious prosecu-
ton grew out OF State case against
Mason wherein Berry was the prosecut-
ing witness.
THE State Superintendent OF Insur-
ance has received from all the fire in
surance companies doing business in
Kansas reports showing the business
transacted by them in the State during
1889. 1t shows that risks to the amount
of So, I42, 49,. 25 were written in 1889 by
Kansas mutual companies, as compared
with So, ass, 520.25 for the previous year.
The foreign companies Of which there
are seventy-eight, wrote risks to the
amount of SlS4, $50, 1892 last year, the
business for the previous year being
Sl29, 945, O32. 90.
THE three-story brick block at Wichita,
owned by C. r. Miller and A. c. Robin
son, was partially destroyed by fire the
other morning The loss on building
was placed at $4,000, covered by insur-
ance; on goods at $50, 900; only partially
insured. F. A. Cooper, druggist, and
Grincar Bros, dry goods, were the heav-
lest losers.
THE Valley Falls bank robber, recent
~ shot at Meriden, was identified as
Sharon Robinson, q resident OF Ottawa.
He was at one time postmaster at Home
wood, Franklin County, and later
farmer.
THE biggest sugar manufacturing
project ever proposed in Kansas has
originated at Newton. The Kansas SUI
gar Company has been organized there.
1t proposes to build four sugar mills in
Harvey County, each to cost 100000.
SIXTEEN prisoners were recently taken
to the penitentiary from Wyandotte
County under various sentences, two Of
them being burglars who went up for
twenty years each.
ST. CLAIR PINRsToN, twenty years old,
stenographer in the Office of a promi-
nent Kansas City, Kan, architect and q
regular attendant OF the Y. NJ. c. A.,
was recently arrested while on bum
across the State line. He had stolen
number of articles from other young
men. Several counterfeit silver dollars
were found on his person, and a search
developed the fact that he was preparing
to go into counterfeiting on an extensive
scale. He was held for trial.
A. d. HowELLs, Rock Island agent at
Gladys, eight miles south of Wichita,
was assaulted the other night by Ed.
Shaw and received fatal injuries. Shaw
used butcher knife, cutting the agent
in the neck and abdomen. Shaw was
arrested. The trouble grew out Of the
fact that Shaw was in the habit of steal
ing ride to Wichita and back and How
ellis advised the conductors to watch
him.
Two Indian boys, one Sioux and the
other Pawnee, recently went on the
war path at the Haskell Institute at
Lawrence, and the Pawnee drew pistol
and shot at his adversary, but failed to
hit him. Tho belligerent Pawnee was
taken to Jail. He is said to be regular
tough.
JOHN STULTZ attended the Madison
Street Baptist Church at Topeka the
othet morning, and just as he was about
to take his seat fell dead. Heart dis
ease was the cause.
THE other night James NJ. Hughes,
proprietor of Topeka billiard hall, was
cut in the head by one Williams, des-
perado. Hughes was in most precari-
Gus condition, and his physician had lit
tic hope of his recovery. Williams was
intoxicated.
THE Governor recently made the
following appointments: d. E. Cornell,
Of Kansas City, Kan, director of the
penitentiary for the term commencing
April 8, 1890; Dr. C. Jones, of Topeka,
DR.. II. 7. Johnson, of Atchison, and DIR.
j. Milton WEIGH, of La Cygne, members
of tho State Board Of Health for tho
term commencing March %, 1890; James
T. Taylor, Of Atchison, member Of the
State Board of Pharmacy for the term
commencing March 90, 1890; Keenan, j.
Hurst, OF Howard, member Of the Live
Stock Sanitary Commission for the term
commencing March %, 1890.
CHARLES WILLIAMS and his son, aged
twelve years, were found murdered in
their beds at Galena the other morning.
Williams was blind and had lost both
arms in an accident in the mines year
AFRO. Jerry Alipe, a negro, was arrested