Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-08-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

probably fatally injured In runaway
at Topeka the other day. She was driv-
ing team OF young horses hitched to
spring wagon when they became fright
ened and ran. colliding with lumber
wagon and throwing her out She was
badly cut upon the head and received
serious bodily injuries. She and her
husband were both badly injured in a
runaway in Topeka last April.
Gently pulling into the depot at Mills
boro' two small boys turned the express
truck on the platform just in time to be
struck by the engine, killing the two
boys and probably the station agent j.
F. Hey, who had an arm and leg broken
and received internal injuries.
THE other evening as the ST. Louis
express on the Missouri Pacific, going
south, was approaching the Soldiers
Home near Leavenworth, two veterans
were seen on the track and before the
train could be brought to a standstill
both were run over and one Of them
killed and the others left arm cut of.
The soldier killed was Charles c. NAL
lory, late Twenty-ffth Missouri in
fantry, and the one losing his arm
Charles +. Blakely, late company e,
Ninety-fifth Illinois
Two masked men entered the resi-
dence Of George Russ Mt Usage City
the other night, and while they were
Juggling away at Mr. Russ vest, which
was under his pillow, he awoke. Both
men jumped on him. In the melee Russ
secured his revolver. Both burglars
jumped through the window, taking the
vest which contained 81. 600. Russ fred
after them. They returned the fire but
did not hit Russ.
W. R. DAVIS, a farmer residing five
miles northwest of Lawrence, has very
mysteriously disappeared. Recently
he, in company with his brother-in-law,
was returning from trip to Jefferson
County. About six miles up the river
he told the young man to drive around
by Lawrence and cross the bridge and
he would wade across the river. Since
that time nothing has been heard from
him, and it was feared he had been
drowned.
j. X. SPENDLovE, convicted at Topeka
about year ago Of the murder o.
Gustav Werner and sentenced to life
was released the other
day on bonds to await the action of the
Supreme Court, to which he has taken
an appeal. Under the law passed by
the last Legislature he is entitled to
this privilege, and 1t was granted to him
several weeks ago but he did not find
bonds until recently.
EXACTLY at midnight the other night
Albert C. Mckinley, employed in the
Santa Fe yards, fell from the fifth story
Of the Morrison block at Wichita and was
killed. The building was occupied by
gamblers and sporting characters, and
as Mckinley had been paid off that day
it was thought he had been robbed and
thrown out of the window. All the oc-
cupants of the building were arrested
and held pending an investigation.
THE other morning Peter Letter was
found dead in his chair in his room, al
most howell, at Kansas City, Kan,
with bullet hole in his head. He had
been dead several days and a note left
BY him showed that he had committed
he deed himself. He was seventy years
I'D and one of the oldest residents of
he city. He was miser and seldom
vas seen in company. He had kept
mall cfnnn for 0n1 nnlr
lnown as ''Old Pete" In the note
written just before he committed tho
Iced he told where pot OF gold con-
aiming $500 could be found by digging
lnder the floor, which the coroner found
IS stated. He left will bequeathing
Il, 600 in Government bonds to each of
our relatives in Germany and $500 to a
riend to take charge of his estate. The
oroner also found his bank book show
ng good amount to his credit and
Z, 900 in Government bonds. The old
niser bequeathed all of his property,
kept left as above stated, to the Y.
i. C. A.
DURING the storm at Leavenworth on
he evening OF the Sd the residence of a
drs Borgerser was struck by lightning
nd considerably damaged. A large
'arn on the premises OF John Berry, a
market gardener near the city, was
truck and entirely consumed, with its
ontentS.
The weather report of Prof. Snow, of
he State University, for the last month !
avs that only two Julys of the past
wenty years have been warmer-in
B6S and 1874.
AT the little mining town Of Brighton,
bout six miles southwest OF Leaven-
'orth, Tim Isam, popular and well-to-
o colored man, waslately found dead in
ed by Paul Hitter, his nephew, and a
eighbor. His two children were sleep
lg quietly on each side of him. He had
cen murdered with an axe. Young
litter WAS arreated nm susnicion The |