Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-08-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Soaking rains We're reported generally
In the state on the 9th.
The republican convention OF Wyan'
d9tte county renominated w. j. Buchan
for the state senate.
Bourbon county farmers have raised
n purse for the purpose of employing
Melbourne to produce rain.
The Farmers's Alliance of Ford
county has collected a quantity of flour
to send TO the Homestead PA. strikers.
Kansas City, Kan, is figuring on Sc
curing the location of the new Methodist
Protestant university which the church
in the west proposes to build
Third district democrats nominated
T. J. Hudson for congress. Some Of
the delegates bolted and nominated R.
M. Cheshire. Hudson is the nominee
of the peoples party.
Mrs Groves, wife of w. II. Groves, q
we'll known farmer living near Effing-
ham, took dose of strychnine the other
night and died before the arrival of a
physician. When asked why she took
the poison she said she did not want to
be talked about.
At Lancaster the other day Harry
Grossman,a three-year-old child,secured
possession of bottle containing sooth.
ing syrup, during the momentary alb
sence of his mother, and drank the con-
tents. In short time the child became
unconscious and died.
An order has been issued by the state
sanitary commission to officers in the
counties along the southern line OF the
state advising the shcriffs to call for the
state militia if. necessary to prevent
United States troops from running cat
tie from the Cherokee strip into KAN
sas.
Col. y. A. English, one of the origi-
nal settlers of Wichita, died suddenly
the other morning of congestion of the
stomach. He was out driving the day
before apparently all right. He came
from Leavenworth in 1869 and Wichita
is now built all over the land he settled
upon.
John Newhouse was recently missing
from his home in Lawrence. He gath
cred his clothing together while the
family was on the lawn and left by the
back way. Newhouse had been en-
ployed at the university as u plumber
and earned good wages. No cause
could be found for his desertion..
The body of the young man found
hanging at the Fort Leavenworth mill
tary reservation has been identified as
that of Solomon Bernstein, of Atchison.
He was lately confined in the Topeka
insane asylum, from which place he es-
capped Bernstein was from one Of the
best Hebrew families of Atchison.
Patents lately issued to Kansas in
ventors: Attachments for cultivators,
Summers & Bolinger, Eureka; churn
dasher F. l.. Mccoy. Eskridge; car
coupling, w. A. Lee, Winfield; corn
harvester, J. Kipp, Piqua: elbow for
stove pieces, o. G. Cranston, Kincade;
coffee pot, II. G. Brown, Kansas City.
Frank Kershner, freight brake
man on the Santa Fe, was injured ut
De Soto the other morning, by blow
on the head from mail grab. He was
leaning from the steps of the caboose
when the iron hook struck him, frac-
turing the skull very badly. He was
taken to his home at Topeka, where
physicians pronounced his injuries
fatal.
A committee representing the African
colonization club OF Lawrence has been
in correspondence with Gov Humphrey
of late on the subject of securing trans
portation for number OF colonists
who are anxious to emigrate to Liberia.
The governor wrote in reply to the first
communication that no provision was
made by the state for furnishing such
transportation.
The one-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kirtle, of Kansas City Kan was
recently killed from inhaling gasoline.
The child was playing in the yard Mt
the family residence when he spied
can standing near the kitchen contain
ing gasoline. The little fellow un-
screwed the top and placing his mouth
over the nozzel began inhaling the
deadly fumes He had only drawn his
breath few times when he fell TO
the ground and in few minutes ex-
pired.
The colored emancipation day cele-
bratcd at Lcavenworth wound up with
two cutting scrapes. A colored soldier
from the fort, named Jones Bass, put
in an appearance at the hall where the
festivities were held and was so insult
ing that William Hawkins, colored, .
special policeman, attempted to eject
him. While doing so Bass suddenly
drew out dagger and stabbed Haw-
kins twice. In the next ARRAY William
Bailey, colored, stabbed his sister-in-
law, Mrs. Ishams, with long knife in
the left abdomen, inficting supposed
fatal wound. Bailey was intoxicated