Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Four prisoners escaped from the
Atchison Jail the other morning.
A farm of 100 acres six miles from
Salina was recently sold for SG,250.
Vegetables and fruit have been much
damaged by hailstorm ut Sterling.
Picnic festivities are exercising the
minds Of young people ut FL Dorado
Chancellor Shows father died recent
~ in Fitchburg, Mass, aged 70 years.
The Atchison street cars are running
again. They had been tied up by u
strife.
Medicine Lodge had touch of the
late tornado. A brick house was de-
molished.
Godfrey Barber, young farmer, was
drowned in the Wakarusa near Sigel
while in bathing.
Nellie Drum, aged is, was dragged to
death by frightened horses ut Prince
ton, Franklin county.
William O'Conner fatally shot his
neighbor, Michael Burke, in quarrel
at Arpourdale, Kansas City.
Horace AYERS, farmer, committed
suicide ut Mankato. He was about 20
years old and somewhat demented.
Mai Frank Holsingcr, a horticulture
ist of Rosedalc, says frtit has been
greatly damaged in eastern Kansas.
The Acme cement plaster factory Mt
Gypsum City. twelve miles from Salina,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at S50,00O with partial insur-
ance.
As Mrs. Giesmann was going to Clay
Center alone, with load of oats, she
fell from the wagon as it was descend
ing steep hill, the wheels passing over
her chest. She lived only about half an
hour after the accident. She was q
widow with four children.
Charles P. Woodbury., prominent
banker of Ashland, was brutally as
saulted and almost murdered by George
Hall, leading politician of Clark
county. Woodbury. holds mortgage
on Halls farm, and the quarrel grew
ont of foreclosure proceedings.
Suicide, while temporarily insane"
was the verdict Of the jury in the in
quest held over the remains Of Nettie
Wallzen, n German girl, who died at
Wichita from the effects OF bullet
wound inflicted by herself. Tornado
talk had unbalanced her mind.
r. 7. jackson, superintendent of mail
carriers in Kansas City, has been sus-
pended by Postmaster Serviss. Jackson
refused to march in the Decoration day
10 ~ fs IA 1,a o1.innf-
ed to colorcd men mingling in the COM
pany he was expected to march in.
A number of workmen engaged in
tearing down the old Downs elevator,
one of the old landmarks of Atchison,
found a stock of clothing and dry goods
concealed in a bin. The garments had
evidently been concealed there long
time, as nearly all of them were rotten.
Joseph w. Ady is now disputing the
right of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific to occupy certain property near
Leavenworth. He is preparing bill in
equity which will be filed in the United
States court to GUST the company's ter
minals from the Leavenworth military
reservation.
Mai j. L. Woodward, president of
the First National bank at Macksville,
recently closed by the state bank ex-
aminer, accidentally shot himself while
out hunting. Some of the shot pene-
trated the left lung, and much doubt rs
to his recovery was expressed. He isan |
influential man in politics.
The committee appointed by the ex-
ecutive committee of the peoples party
of Franklin county to investigate the
charges and counter charges made by
State Printer E. II. Snow and p. p. FL
der has completed its work and submit
ted its report The report practically
exonerates both of the fighting leaders.
John w. Clark, Wabaunsee county
stock raiser, filed suit in the district
court against Peter Connolly, the Stock
Yards bank. Irwin, Allen e Co., C. +.
Morse, NJ. w. st. Clair and W. C. Her
ricci to recover $50. 900 damages for ma
licious prosecution. growing out of his
arrest for obtaining money under false
pretenses.
Gov. Humphrey has already suffi-
cient number of votes pledged to him to
insure his nomination as candidate
for congress in the Third Kansas dis
trict; but Kirkpatrick, the republican
who is running against him, is making
a personal canvass among the delegates
and may succeed in winning some of
them over.
A damaging electrical storm occurred
in the vicinity of Fort Scott. Besides
many minor distinctions a large barn
on the s. A. Lotterer stock farm, four
miles northwest, was struck and burned
to the ground. Two valuable blooded
horses and large amount of feed and q
number of farming implements were
burned in the barn.
The state hoard of railroad assessnrs