Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

mated II. l.. Hedstand for congress.
Clyde Spaulding, IS years old, was re-
Gently drowned while bathing in the
kaw river at Lawrence.
Miles Walker was shot on the streets
of Kansas City, Kan, the other night
by footpads, who attempted to hold
him up and rob him. Young Walkers
wound was considered of fatal char
acter.
The grand lodge of the brotherhood
of bridge building men of America re-
Gently held its first annual session in
Fort Scott This is new organization
consisting of the bridge and building
men on the railways.
Charles Patour and Henry Wolf were
drowned in each others arms while
bathing in the Kaw river at Argentine
the other morning. Charles DeKuff
had a narrow escape from the same
fate. Both men were from Belgium
and worked in the smeltcr.
A Kansas man who has learned that
his hope of getting into the Legislature
is an ''iridesoent dream" consoles him
self with the reflection that, counting
all of his necessary announcements, cleo
pioneering and other expenses, the av-
erage Kansas legislator is left just
Sl1S.50 in the hole, besides his loss of
time.
According to reports received from
| grain men who have returned from the
western part of the state the corn crop
of that section, which promised so well
short time ago, will be practically
total failure. There had been no rain
for some time and the hot winds from
the Panhandle had withered all the
fields.
Henry Jackson. colored, shot and
killed his wife ut Kansas City, Kan, on
the night of the Goth. The two had
separated aud on the evening of the
murder jackson suddenly appeared at
the house of his wife and dragging her
into the back yard shot her four times,
causing her death. The murderer was
promptly arrested.
Miss Mary F. Stimson, only daugh-
renee, was killed in that city the other
day by jumping from a buggy. Miss
Stimson and several others were out
riding when the horses became fright
cned and started to run. The young
lady jumped out and falling on her head
broke her neck. She was 81 years of
age and n graduate of the university.
No trace of Z. c. Meade, the missing
Atchison insurance agent, has been
found. He is short about 81, 900 with
the insurance companies, but there is
due him on outstanding policies 1000,
making the loss about that much, which |
the bondsmen will have to pay. Claims
for money intrusted to Meades keep |
ing, aggregating 49, ZOO, have been re-
ported. The victims are mostly women.
A horrible cutting ARRAY took place
at Salina the other day. While crowd
was enjoying the delights of a merry
go-round" white laborer by the namc
of Alex. Robertson slapped colored
man. Three or four colored fellows
crowded around Robertson, and before
any one could interfere one of the ne
groes had cut him across the side and
back with razor, laying open his side
and in1icting terrible wound from
which it was thought he would die.
An attempt will be made to secure
the arrest of r. c. Meade, the Atchison
insurance agent who disappeared some
time ago, taking with him several thou
sand dollars belonging to Atchison
women, who had entrusted him with
the money for investment. A subscrip-
ton paper is being circulated to raise
reward money and the county commits
sioners will be asked to appropriate
$500 for the purpose. The A. o. U. w.
will also take steps to secure Meade's
to some foreign country.
A fiendish crime was pcrpetrated ut
Kansas City, Kan, about ten o'clock
the other morning in populous por-
ton of the city. Mrs. Minnie Hover, n
widow, is n copying clerk in the office
of the register of deeds of Wyandotte
county and on that morning went to
her work, leaving her fifteen-year-old
daughter Pearl at the house. While
the young girl was engaged in her
household duties negro man sudden
ly entered, seized, bound and gagged
and criminally assaulted her. In this
he left her and the outrage
was not revealed until the mother re-
turned for dinner when she found her
daughter lying upon the floor uncon-
scious. When the girl was released she
was enabled to give a correct descrip-
ton of her assailant.
A most novel and interesting conven'
ton was recently in session at Wichita
It was an association of adult deaf
mutes, numbering about thirty, resi-
dents of that section of the state. They
are known as the southern Kansas
Deaf-mute association and have been in
existence some three years Mr..