Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-07-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

killed by the cars at Caldwell the other
day.
Heavy rains fell in the western part
of the state on the Goth, where they
were much needed.
Fire at Hutchinson the other night
destroyed Marshall's jewelry store.
Loss covered by insurance.
Charles Cutler, business man of
Balwin, was probably fatally injured
by a runaway team the other day.
The president has appointed r. B.
Morris, of Atchison, collector of inter
nal revenue for the district of Kansas.
J. ID. Caster, of Kingman county, has
been chosen superintendent of the deaf
and dumb institution ut Olathe, to sue
coed Mr.. Walker.
Mrs. lack Evans, who was injured in
the Williamstown tornado, died several
days after being injured, making the
eleventh victim of that dreadful storm.
The five-year-old daughter of Il. F.
Markley, of Minneapolis, was shot and
fatally wounded the other day by a
boy who was ''fooling" with Winches-
ter rife.
William Fletcher, Kaw river fisher
man, was raising his nets from skiff
near the Belt line bridge ut Kansas
City. Kan, the other morning, when
he lost his balance, fell into the water
and was drowned.
The government sorghum experiment
station is to be moved from Sterling to
Medicine Lodge, but the growing Of
cane will be continued and the strip
therefrom sent to Medicine Lodge to
be made into sugar by the Denton pro-
cess
John Reddin, Winfield brute, went
home drunk the other night and beat
his invalid wife so severely that she
died few hours later. When arrested
he had 81, 4a7 on his person, which
caused some speculation as to his his
tory.
Gov. Lewelling has sent letters to
the governors of North Dakota, South
Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas,
Arkansas, Missouri and Iowa, inviting
them to unite with him in a movemest
to persuade the railroads to reduce
worlds fair rates.
The state board of health met re-
Gently at Topeka and elected DIR. Frank
Swallow, of Valley Falls, president,
and Dr. II. A. Dyke, of Leavenworth,
secretary. The latter office pays 81, 900
per year and is the only salaried Office
connected with the board.
July IL will be Kansas day at the big
Christian Endeavor hotel in Chicago,
and there will be special exercises OF
interest to all Kansas Endeavorers.
The annual convention of the society
will be held at Montreal, beginning
July 5, and large numbers of Kansas
people will be present.
1t is stated that there is urgent need
of clothing, money and household uten-
sis at Williamstown, where the late
tornado tore down many buildings,
killed ten persons and injured fifteen.
Many of the victims of the storm, par
ticularly children whose parents were
killed, are reported to be in great want
The executive committee of the Kan
sas republican league met Mt Topeka
recently and resolved to establish q
literary bureau for the purpose of car
rying on campaign of education"
similar to the scheme recently agreed
upon by the peoples party. Charles 5.
Gleed was elected managing editor of
the bureau.
The fremont hotel ut Fort Scott coll
psed on the morning of the Goth by
the floors giving away. There were
one hundred persons in the building ut
the time, many of whom were seriously
hurt. but no one was killed. The build
ing was four-story brick structure,
and the collapse came without a mo-
mcnt's warning.
Rev. Werter r. Davis, d. D., the first
president of Baker university, died at
his home ut Baldwin City the other
night. He was one of the pioneers of
Methodism in Kansas. locating at Bald
win in 1858, bringing with him the fac
ulty with which to organize Baker uni
versity. The deceased was rs years old
and had been preaching for So years.
The men who caused the terrible
wreck on the cast-bound express train
on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad two miles cast of Barclay on
the morning of September 81, 1872,
which resulted in several deaths, have
finally been arrested. They are the
two Webb brothers, who resided near
Barclay and were under suspicion ut
the time.
The great case of the United States
VS.. the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
way, commenced by Acknowledgement
Olney to declare the roads land grant
void, affects hundreds of farmers in
Dickinson, Gearv, Morris and Usage
counties, who bought land of the rail-
road. Seventy land owners of Diclkin-
o,, couptv met rerautlv and resolved