Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-05-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


The Kansas commercial travellers have
been in session at Emporia.
The losses by high water Mt Kansas
City were greatly overestimated.
Little Johnny Patterson was buried
after eating toadstool ut Scranton.
The seventy carloads Of grain shipped
from Argonia arrived safely at New
Orleans.
Democrats of the Fourth congress
sional district have offered to fuse with
the alliance.
Wheat, rye and oats never looked bet
ter in Phillips county, according to the
Kirwin Globe.
The government farm Mt Leaven-
worth was among other lands sub
merged by the recent floods.
Housebreakers are under arrest at
Wichita, wanted for big jobs at St
Paul and Minneapolis, Mimi.
Lewis Elliott, brakeman, lost his
left leg in an accident on the Holyrood
branch of the Santa Fc and is under
treatment at Topeka.
The Emporia Gazette, an alliance
daily, has changed hands. W. Y.
Morgan, formally of the Strong City Re-
publican, is the new proprietor.
Isaac Hopper, loan agent, was
killed by shot through the abdomen
Mt Wellington. He had been quarrel
ing with Isaac G. Reed, prominent at
! torney.
Lieut. Gov A. J. Felt has purchased
the Atchison Champion, the late Gov.
Martins paper, and will take possession
about June 20. The price paid was said
to be 100000.
1t is announced that Mrs. Frank Z.
Lynch will succeed her husband in the
management of the Lcavenworth Stan
dard. She has been elected director
and secretary of the Standard Publish
ing Co.
A head end collision occurred between
two passenger trains on the Northwest
ern road at White Church, sixteen miles
west of Kansas City. resulting in the
two engines and one baggage car being
badly wrecked and two persons injured.
L. c. Smith, fireman on the Missouri
Pacific road was held up in Kansas
City, Kan, the other night and robbed
of Sl31 and gold watch. Smith said
he recognized two of the men who
robbed him as gamblers in the bot
TOMS"
Irvine and Ella Osborn, brother and
sister, lost their lives in the Whitewater
near Ebling, Butler county, the other
night. They attempted to cross the
swollen creek in buggy, and were
swept down by the current and
drowned.
A witness testified against n woman
in a divorce suit at Wichita the other
day. that she had received attentions
from prominent business man, not her
husband, and when he left the witness
stand the woman struck him severe
blow in the face.
John Hampstead, n dairyman, 6S years
of age. was driving over bridge over
Shunganunga creek ut Van Burcn
street, Topeka, when the harness
broke, forcing the horses and wagon
over the bridge. Henpstead's back was
broken by the fall and he died.
The republican convention OF the
Sixth congressional district elected dele
gates and alternatcs to the Minneapolis
convention as follows: Delegates, George
\. Sraulding, of Phillips county; A. n.
Brennan, of Cheyenne county; alter
mates. H. L. Burke, of Rocks county; w.
X. Brown, of Sherman county.
Hon. John a. Anderson, who for
twelve years was n congressman from
Kansas, and who was appointed year
ago consul general to Cairo, Egypt,
died at Liverpool on the 18th while on
his return home He leaves three sons,
his wife having died about five years
ago He was ffty-cight years old.
The Fort Scott Monitor has been sold
to q stock company composed of Fort
Scott men. The price was $1,000. The
paper will be conducted as republican
journal, but will radically oppose pro-
hibition. w. Il. Biddle will have charge
of the editorial department, and the
management will be in charge OF X. L.
Rice and ii. C. Louclls.
Glasco was recently visited by fall
of water of the nature of n waterspout
which flooded everything within reach,
the water rising high enough to break
into and fill the basement of the Spauld-
ing hotel to depth of six feet and six
inches. Suttons ice house was flooded
and ruined. Fences, bridges, walks,
etc, were washed away.
The Symns Grocery Co. at Atchison
has fled n reply to the answer OF the in
terror jobbers in the injunction suit
against the state board OF railroad com
missioners, alleging that if it were true
rs charged in the answer that the
rates on carload lots prior to February
10. 1899, were in excess of what they
should be it was equally true that Mt