Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

jamestown elected q woman mayor.
There will be q G. A. r. fair at Leav-
enworth on May 7th and Sth.
Grass is ahead OF time in this state
and 1t already makes good pasturage.
The mayor and council OF Pittsburg
have ordered the board awning to go.
Atchison has an extra justice OF the
peace and doesn't know what to do with
him.
Trego county is shipping large guam
titles OF chalk aud yellow ochre TO
Chicago.
Farmers around Lawrence comp lain
that much rain has retarded spr ing
planting.
Ten cows belonging to one man were
killed by lightning in Brown county one
day last week.
Hog cholera has killed hundreds OF
swine recently in ChautauQua county,
and is still raging.
All Hee, a Topeka laundryman, has
gone to Canton, China, TO convert his
heather countrymen.
Henry Kirchoff, aged 10, fell head
long over stair rail ut independence,
and crushed his skull.
A. T. Mitchell and A. Schwager have
been appointed postmasters at Fremont
and Odin, respectively.
Charles Scott, o colored boy Of
Atchison, tried to pull gun out OF a
boat by the muzzle and was shot and
killed.
Durkee & Stout, grain dealers and
shippers at Fort Scott, have made, it is
reported, $4,000 in corn during the
past year.
Ex-Congressman Peters has been
nominated for governor by the King
man Courier and Endorsed by the
Hutchinson News.
The old residence OF Jim Lane at Law
renee was destroyed by fire on Saturday
last. 1t was one OF the historic land
marks OF that historic city.
Over 100 farmers in Saline county
viii cultivate an eighthf an acre Of
sugar beets this season under the in
struction Of DIR. Scheidtweilder.
According 10 the Hutchinson News
Mrs. Mary A. Humphrey OF Junction
City, author OF ''The Squatter Sover-
eign," is engaged in writing another
novel.
Burt Beck, q school teacher from
Sprague. Neb., was arrested at Topeka
rs. With him was a school girl with
whom he had eloped, leaving wife aud
three children.
A big revival meeting attended
nightly by 600 to 700 people, is being
held at Emporia under the leadership
OF Evangelist Frame and wife, assisted
by all the ministers of the city.
A drowned team OF horses belonging
to Andrew Brainerd of Eureka, have
been found in Otter creek, ten miles
from that town and it is believed that
Mr., Rrainerd. too, has been drowned.
p, aged years, OF George Numa,
near Wichita, played with
in his fathers barn, set the
pire and persisted in the flames.
y iad,r was terribly burned while
trying 70 rescue him.
Professor A. r. Marsh, who formerly
occupied the chair of English literature
at the Kansas state university, and who
has been in Europe for two years, will
NC pTCoCuO ~ LILO
ment OF the university at Lawrence in
June.
Thomas johnson and Mrs. Waddle,
both married and living in the same
neighborhood in Leavenworth, eloped
from there, but were discovered ten
days afterwards at Sedalia Mo-, where
they were living as man and wife, and
arrested.
Topeka Lance: The state papers that
have been blaming the women of Tope-
ka for electing a democratic mayor.
will have to drop the charge. On the
female vote in Topeka, Judge Quinton,
the republican nominee, received a ma |
jority OF 2l6.
The Bandana club of Leavenworth |
was visited by Congressman Crisp Of
Georgia, Breckenridge of Arkansas,
Terry OF Arkansas, Bryan OF Nebraska,
Hon. John C. Tarsney and wife, Mr..
and Mrs. S. P. Griffith, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Sullivan, Mrs. Ball of Kansas
City and Colonel A. G. Dawes OF st.
Joseph, who had been in attendance at
the commercial congress at Kansas
City. They were first rendered a re-
ception at the opera house by the peo-
pie, where speeches were made, after
which banquet was given by the club
ct the National hotel.