Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

county district court.
Nelson Abbott, founder OF the Atch-
ison Patriot, died Mt 0swcgo of pneu-
monia the other night aged 81 years.
lie was editor of the Oswego States
man at the time OF his death.
The slaughter house of John Byers ut
Kansas City, Kan, was destroyed by
an incendiary fire the other morning
together with 500 dressed sheep. Loss,
about 1000, with light insurance.
T. r. Pates. a Topeka book agent,
was recently found guilty Of forgery in
the district court OF Shawnee county.
He raised a check from five dollars to
five hundred dollars and had it cashed.
E. ]. Preston, who was recently tried
at Ottawa for shooting and killing his
wife and found guilty Of murder in the
second degree, was sentenced by Judge
benson to the state penitentiary for lie.
C. Van Leuwen, of Nortonville, was
killed by an Atchison, Topeka Il Santa
Fe train five miles east of Atchison the
other day. lie was sixty years old and
leaves family. Van Leuwen was in
the employ Of the road.
Dispatches received ut Topeka an
nounced the appointment of 5. Is. Brad
ford, ex-attorney general of the state,
to be inspector of seals and fisheries in
Alaska. The position is said to be a
good one in financial point of view.
George Clarke, son of Hon. Sidney
Clarke, was found dead in bed at the
residence of his father in Lawrence the
other day. He was twenty-eight years
old and married. Cause Of death not
known. The young man was railway
postal clerk.
The veteran Mason and grand treas
urer of the Kansas grand lodge OF
Masons, Christian Beck was found ear
~ the other morning on the floor of his
room at Leavenworth in critical con-
dition. Medical aid was summoned and
he was resuscitated. He is eighty-six
years old
Richard A. Messimer, of Atchison,
was instantly killed by n Missouri
Pacific freight engine Mt Paul, Neb.,
the other afternoon. Until a month
ago he was q member of the Atchison
fire department, when he quit and took
a position us brakeman. He was twen-
ty-three years Of age.
When the case against James Bren-
men, the slayer of Col. S. n. Wood, was
recently called at Hugoton. Attorney
General Ives announced that the state
was convinced that it could not secure
an unprecedented jury in Stevens coun-
ty, where the killing took place, and
moved to dismiss the case without pref
udice
James Smith, of Sedgwick county,
went to Kansas City the other day, got
full" raised rumpus at theater
and when an officer undertook to ar
rest him he drew his revolver and
emptied it, but fred with bad aim. He
was fined $500 in police court and in de-
fault of payment given Twelve months
in the local bastile.
A young woman, giving the name OF
Howells and claiming to be from So
lima, who in company with her alleged
husband had been at the Commercial
hotel ut Wichita for a week, was ar
rested the other evening charged with
systematically robbing the guests OF
the house. In her trunk was found
number of stolen articles.
A gang of military prisoners were en-
gagged in cutting ice on the Missouri
river, opposite Fort Leavenworth the
other morning, when q mutiny devel-
oped among them and determined ef-
fort to escape was made by large
number. All were rounded up" how
ever, except two who got into the tim
Der on the Missouri side, but were be-
ing vigorously pursued.
The friends of George bingham, the
rich ranchman of Greenwood county,
who had been missing since January 4,
found in the Flint hills of that county
the other day the badly mutilated re-
mains OF body which they think may
be that Of the missing man, though the
wolves had played such havoc with the
flesh that no one had been able posi-
lively to identify the body.
Just after dark the other night George
cooper, cOloreu Iuau VI NOISh Law
renee, was called out of his house,
seized by colored men, all masked. car
ried to the woods and beat almost tc
death. He was left unconscious but
recovered later and crawled home. He
had given testimony against several
colored men for stealing coal from the
Union Pacific yards. Several arrests
had been made.
Val Hollister. a saloon keeper of
Hutchinson, had occasion t. eject sam
Weisler an obstreperous customer re-
Gently. Weisler arming himself with
a revolver. returned, shooting Hollister
full of holes. After he fred three
shots, all of which took effectin Hollis
ter's body. the latter secured the weap'
on and turned it upon Weisler, the
bullet striking him Just below the eye.