Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

could not live.
George, the fourteen-year-old SON OF
L. j. Patton, of Harvey county, was
accidentally shot and killed the other
morning He was in a wagon and n
sudden Jolt discharged the gun and the
charge entered his breast lie lived
about an hour.
The attendance for the present aca-
demic year at the state university has
surpassed the most sanguine anticipa-
tions At this time last year the en-
rollment was 474 This year the at
tendance for the different schools and
departments aggregates grand total
Of Sl5.
At an early hour the other morning
masked robber went to the house OF
John Killion. a well-to-do farmer liv-
ing in the eastern part OF Atchison
county, and when Killion opened the
door demanded his money, at the point
of revolver. Killion gave the man
all he had, some $500.
Washington Waterman, noted horse
thief, died at the Kansas penitentiary
on Christmas day. He was crippled
old man eighty-seven years OF age and
criminal of long standing. He had
served two years in the Missouri peni-
Tertiary and was serving his third term
in the Kansas prison when he died.
Henry Jordan, a Topeka colored
boy, stole money with which to buy a
target rifle. After buying the rifle,
Eddie Griswold excited Jordan's ire for
some reason, when the latter fred at
him. the ball entering young Girls
wold's head and inficting fatal
wound. Jordan was jailed to answer
the charge.
The Second Regiment Kansas Ma
tional Guard Columbia association,
which proposes to accumulate funds
for use and maintenance to attend The
Columbian exposition at Chicago, has
been incorporated. The capital stock
is placed ut S12, 500 and the incorpor-
ators are the officers OF the various
companies of the regiment
Upon tract of land adjoining Fort
Scott prospectors recently discovered,
only sixty.two feet from the surface,
two veins of excellent black coal, one
vein being two feet thick, followed by
another one thirty inches thick. They
also uncovered an immense body of
cement rock, under which was found a
body of mineral paint one foot thick.
The coal is said to be most valuable
quality of bituminous.
Mrs. Evangeline Baxter, living near
Manhattan, committed suicide the
other night by hanging herself to an
apple tree She had been an invalid
for some time and recently had shown
mental alteration and had been closely
watched. She had been assisting in
the kitchen just after supper and was
only missed few minutes when search
was begun for her, but it was two
hours before the body was found.
Mrs. c. 7. johnson of Kansas City,
Kan, whose prediction that the world
would come to an end Christmas, 1891,
ut p. m, has given her SO much motor
iety, spent Christmas day at home be-
ClOSCu ODC ACAuoNi W oNO
any of her numerous callers. In re-
spouse to an inquiry sent into her room
she wrote: Watch and pray; the Lord
has willed it." But the final destruc-
ton failed to materialize and all things
continued to move as usual.
At Augusta the other day w. A.
Rhoades shot his divorced wife and
then sent bullet through his brain,
killing him instantly. Mrs. Rhoades re-
ceived bullet in the neck, and may
recover. Last summer Rhodes secured a
divorce in Nevada. His wife brought suit
against his mother in the district court
for alternating his affection and had just
received a verdict of Sl.O0O damages.
On the morning of the shooting Rhoades
asked his divorced wife to remarry him
and the tragedy followed her refusal
The Kansas Poultry association, at
its late session in Topeka, elected the
following officers: President S. p.
Robinson; vice-presidents, John G..
Hewitt j. w. Werner and G. c.
Wilkins; secretary, j. P, Lucas, of To-
peka; assistant secretary, Mrs. j. p.
Lucas, of Topeka; treasurer, c. IL.
Rhodes, of North Topeka 1t was de-
cided that the association be incor-
porated under the state laws of Kan
sas, and that the next annual show be
held in Topeka the same week as the
Fine Stock association, in January,
1898.
The following Kansas veterans were
made happy the day before Christmas
by having their pensions granted:
Richard A. Hoffman, Thomas COtter,
Michael Zoller, Eugene NJ. Eldred, Al.
bert Coles, Mobiles II. Heaton, John
Trezise, Daniel q. Hahn, James H.
Trimble, Jacob II. Brown, Jacob r
Nonemaler. Warren Chapman, Alex
ander NJ. Staley, William w. Savage,
George Evinger. John ]. Townsend,
Au0ust Schultz. Willis Cinn, Henry A.