Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-05
Miscellaneous.

At the village of Pretty Prairie, Re.
no county, the other day eight couples
stood up and were married with one
ceremony.
George NJ. Beebe, who was tempo
rary chairman of the late Hill demo-
cratic convention at Albany, was once
secretary of the territory OF Kansas.
and was its acting governor when it
was admitted to the union as a state.
A. s. George, age twenty-five years,
met terrible death near Huron, Atch-
ison county, the other day. George was
working feed mill, and was in the act
of changing some belts when the sleeve
of his left arm caught on bolt in the
shafting. He was instantly hurled
around the shaft until the arm was
torn from the body. He died soon after.
At the late meeting of the G. A. R at
Atchison the report of the assistant ad-
iutant-general was read which showed
receipts during the nine months as S.
900. So; expenditures for the same pc
Rod, 81. ISL. 53; cash on hand, 81, 154. 10.
The report also showed that the posts
of the department had received SS2,-
Oo1. "a and expended $40, O5S. II, and that
they now hold in their general post fund
an aggregate of s.. 257. SO, while the re-
lief fund of the posts now amounts to
Sl,O44OS The membership in the state
is 20.610
Frank Cotton was arrested at
Armourdale the other day on the
charge of counterfeiting The police
seized complete outfit of counterfeit
ers' tools, consisting Of trunk, two
valises, stove for melting the metal
and large assortment of dies. The
trunk and valises contained stamps,
metal nodded into the size of silver
dollar, yet unstamped, and tools of VA.
rious descriptions On the other hand
it was asserted that Cotton was only a
detective who had the outfit on hand
for the purpose Of trapping a gang OF
counterfeiters
AIRS Sophonia jaeger, OF Willow
Springs, Douglas county, committed
suicide the other day by hanging her
self. Mrs jaeger had for some time
been subject to Ats of temporary in
sanity, and during one Of these sue
ceeded in committing the deed. The
family had been keeping close watch
on her, but she eluded them, and al
though out Of sight but few minutes
she was dead when found. She at
tempted suicide by drowning about q
month previous The deceased was
forty-seven years old and leaves hus-
band. but no children.
THE republican state central commit
tee has called two state conventions,
the first ut Hutchinson Thursday, May
8, the second at Topeka Thursday, June
so The first will elect six delegates to
the national convention in Minneapolis
and nominate three candidates for pres
idential electors and a candidate for
congressman at large. The Topeka
convention will select full state
ticket Each county is given one dele
gate at large and one additional dele
gate for every 200 votes or major frac-
ton thereof cast for secretary of state
in 1890. On this basis the convention
will contain I'll delegates
The forthcoming report of state
superiutendent of insurance will show
that the fire insurance in Kansas last
wear amounted to Sl34, 495. 31T. The
premium paid for that amount was ST.
67S, 99o51, the average rate being 81 80
per $1,000. The losses paid In the
state amounted TO $3.50. 4sO. 90. the aver
are rate of loss to the premium received
being a per cent or the above
amounts Kansas FIRE insurance COM
panies wrote policies to the value OF
S., no, COS. at q cost to the insured of
$50. 5s1. IS. Kansas companies paid for
losses s4l, ia ~. or about 81 per cent.
Of the premiums received. There are
ninety-one companies doing business in
the state. OF these eleven are Kansas
companies and twenty belong to fer
eign countries