Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-05-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| "' We LhOhtpoOh dh Olu ECoiuCHL VI
Eldorado, was found dead in bed the
other morning. Heart disease the
cause.
The flood in the Kaw river carried
away the county bridge at Eudora on
the 18th. The bridge was not quite
completed.
John Edwards, colored burglar, was
given twenty-six years in the peniten-
tiary by Judge Crozier at Leavenworth
the other day.
The recent heavy rains seemed to
have little effect on dampening the
ardor of aspiring politicians through
out the state.
Some Of the state papers are advocat-
ing the nomination of Hon. John ].
Ingalls, for vice-president at the Minne-
apolis convention.
The people of Topeka gave Charlie"
Curtis a royal welcome when he re-
turned from Emporia with the honors
of congressional nomination.
1t is stated that a movement has been
placed on foot among number Of
prominent citizens of Kansas to erect
the Plumb monument Mt Topeka instead
of at Emporia.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners and the interior wholesale gro
GERS recently filed motion in the dis
trict court at Atchison to dissolve the
temporary injunction in the Symns case.
A train on the Central Branch road
fotn
Gently wrecked near Concordia by run
ming into wash-out. Two showmen
were killed and four seriously injured.
A citizen of Kansas City, Kan, has
brought suit against two other citizens
to recover $1,000 for being bitten by two
vicious dogs belonging to the defend
ants. Besides being lacerated in flesh
and feelings the plaintiff fears hydro
phobia. The dogs were shot by the
owners.
Near Fall Leaf the other morning
Rock Island freight train ran into the
rear of Union Pacific freight. In a
few moments another freight ran into
the rear of the Rock Island train. Sew
eral box cars and caboose were
wrecked. A boy was injured, but not
seriously.
o. w. Little, of Wabaunsee, and Ira
p. Nye, of Greenwood, were elected
delegates to Minneapolis by the Fourth
district republican convention ut
Emporia, with w. Z. Brown, of Butler,
and William +. Waller, of Council
Grove, rs alternates. o. S. Woodward,
of Yates Center, was chosen presi-
dental elector.
The Fourth district republican con-
vention at Emporia took thirty-four un-
successful ballots for candidate for
congress and finally on the thirty-fifth
ballot nominated Charles X. Curtis, OF
Topeka. The first ballot stood Curtis,
IL; Buck, 90; Moore, %; Miller, IL;
Finch, IA. On the final ballot Curtis re-
ceived IS votes and Miller 80.
Mrs. Joseph Miller died at Atchison
recently from the effects Of gasoline
poisoning. She was Mt home alone, and
when her husband returned to dinner
he found her on lounge in an uncon-
scious condition. Physicians were sum
moned, but were unable to revive her.
She was scalded about the arms and
limbs and it was supposed she tipped
over boiler of water which was being
heated on gasoline stove and that the
water extinguished the blaze of the jets
She afterwards laid down upon the
lounge, probably in faint, and was
overcome by the fumes Of the gasoline.
Mrs. Miller was bride of less than a
month.
The grand commandery Knights
Templar, lately in session at Newton,
elected officers as follows: Grand COM
mander, Sir E. C. Culp, of Salina; dep
uty commander, Clark Gray, Of Larned;
grand generalissimo, Alex. G. Robb, OF
Mcpherson; grand captain general, K.
E. Torrington, of Emporia, grand prel-
ate, Richard Ellerby, of Parsons; grand
senior warden. w. C. Holmes. of Par
sons; grand junior warden, c. c. Ken
yon, of Abilene; grand treasurer,
Frank Lanyon, of Pittsburg; grand re-
corder, John II. Bown, of Kansas City;
grand standard-bearer. w. c. Chaffee,
of Topeka; grand sword-bearer, George
Jenkins, of Kansas City; grand warder-
bearer, Ed. +. Nebon, of Winfield;
grand guard, Fl. d. Wells, OF Newton
The next annual session win be held at
Topeka.
The celebrated Hillman case has come
to the front again, the insurance COM
panies having succeeded in securing an
order from the supreme court OF the
United States for new trial
This is a case of alleged attempt
to swindle the insurance companies out
of large amount of money by palm
ing off the body of one man for
that of another on whose life there
were large policies. HillmSn had
policies aggregating $4,000 on his
life in three companies and when
his death was announced not q