Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Miss Eugene Calico has been elected
assistant in French in the Kansas state
university. "-.
Richard Sem, II years old, was
drowned while recently bathing in the
river near Junction City. -
A specimen of -four ground bya wom-
an mill owner at Quenemo from wheat
grown by Trego county woman will
be one of the Kansas exhibits Mt the
worlds fair.
Grace Wiley, IS months old, recently
got hold of a can of concentrated I've at
the residence of her parents in Kansas
City, Kan, and swallowed some Of 1t.
Her life was despaired of.
Texas cattle fever is reported to have
broken out in bad form in Lyon county.
About fifty cattle had died. The dis
ease was communicated by drove of
Texas cattle lately driven through that
county.
Perry Cox, member of the Salvation
army, was fined 800 and sentenced to six
months in the county Jail ut Lawrence
the other day for using vulgar and OBJ
scene language to one of the girls of
the army.
Two hundred binders and headers
have been sold in Rawlins county this
season and it is estimated that it will
require an outlay of about $4,000 for
binding Irvine. The wheat crop of this
county is put at 1900. 900 bushels.
A car of No. l red wheat from Kan
sas was received by Kansas City COM
mission house on the 18th. 1t scaled
siXty-three full pounds to the bushel,
the heaviest carload received in Kansas
City in the memory of any of the old
timers
The Central Christian church, Kansas
City. Kan, was struck by lightning at
an early hour the other morning. The
spire and roof were slightly damaged,
while q considerable amount of plaster
ing was torn from the walls in the au-
ditorium.
The post offices at Bonner Springs,
Wyandotte county; Montrose, Jewell
county; Roxbury, Mcpherson county;
Brewster, Thomas county; Goodrich,
Linn county; Cove, Cove county, and
Harris, Anderson county, have been
made money order Offices.
A careful estimate of the corn crop of
Kansas has been prepared which gives
the probable yield of corn this year at
142, SAL, 1884, an increase over that of last
year of 3,477,643 bushels. The total
number of acres in cultivation in corn
is 5s,5s4. The mortgage must go.
The board of county commissioners
of Saline county have made an appro-
priation covering their portion of funds
for the Kansas exhibit at the Column
bian exposition and sent in $546, being
so per cent. of their allotment, to the
treasurer of the board of managers.
An eleven-year-old boy was recently
arrested at Kansas City, Kan, for maxi
ing repeated threats to kill his mother.
The mother swore out the warrant for
the arrest of her incorrigible offspring.
The kid will be sent to the reform
school as a stepping stone to the peni-
Tertiary.
Michael Fleischman, a Kansas City,
Kan, baker, committed suicide the
other night by hanging himself in his
stable. Dependency over financial and
domestic matters, and drink, are as.
signed as the cause. He was about 40
years of age and leaves q wife and four
children.
Robert Kane, while intoxicated, re.
Gently called on his brother-in-law,
Martin Killilalay, at Leavenworth, and
raised row. He was pushed out into
the street, when he threw a stone into
the house which struck his little niece,
Jennie Killalay, on the head and in-
flicted wound from which she died
The office of r. C. Meade, an insur-
ance agent of Atchison, has been at
tached for claim of $4,000 to satisfy
one of his bondsmen. Meade is presi-
dent of the board of education of the
city, and was absent when the attach
ment was filed. His friends claimed
that he would fix everything up when
he returned.
DIR. Stemen, of Kansas City, Kan, a
brother of the police surgeon of that
city, was the victim of a stroke Of
lightning during late storm. He was
sitting near a window at his residence
when lightning struck house on an
adjoining lot, the stroke prostrating the
doctor and rendering him unconscious
for some time.
At revival meeting in the colored
Baptist church at Lawrence the other
night Samuel johnson got religion and
commenced to shout. Some friends took
him outside where he threw himself
violently upon the steps, striking his
head in such manner as to cause con-
cussion of the brain, He was in pre-
carious condition.
The governor has approved the recon-
mendation of the board of pardons and