Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-25
miscellaneous.

miscellaneous.
The appropriations of the Legislature
aggregated s2,G9G,5O0
Mrs Taylor, who was lately tried at
Abilene on the charge of MURDER was
acquitted by the jury.
Gov Lewelling approved every act OF
the legislature. OF the FOG bills which
were passed by the two houses, not one
was vetoed.
throughout the western part of the
state and is said to have been of great
benefit TO the wheat
Wichita and Lane counties have re.
Gently been swept over by destructive
prairie fires. One farmer in Wichita
county lost fifty head of sheep.
Edward Burgess. of Atchison was re-
Gently drowned at La Platte, Neb lie
was employed in the bridge department
of the Missouri Pacific road and lost hit
life while trying to cut away some drift
wood in order to save bridge
A committee of stalwart democrats
has been chosen to go to Washington
and make demand of the administra'
ton that the stalwart wing OF the party
in Kansas be recognized in the distri'
button of patronage in preference tt
the fusion element
James Wilson, farmer living near
Winchester, recently committed suicide
by hanging himself in the barn, the
body being found by his wife Nc
cause was known for the deed except
insanity. he having been once in an asy'
lum. Wilson was 40 years old anc
leaves wife and three children.
While conversing with her husband
Mt the supper table in Florence the 9th.
er evening, Mrs. Hanson Walters sud.
denly lost the power of speech. A
physician was called and said she was
suffering from paralysis of the tongue.
She had been enjoying good health be-
fore. Mr.. Walters has long since been
blind and followed the profession of
musician and vocalist
It is asserted that the republicans
have given up the fight against Sena-
tor Martin and no further effort will be
made to unseat him in the United
States senate. The papers which have
been filed with the senate by the re-
publicans of the legislature against
Martin will not be withdrawn from the
elections committee of the senate, but
no attempt will be made by the repub-
Leans to press the contest.
Squire Sharp, of Kickapoo, died the
other day. He was born in 1914 in
Brooke county, Va, coming to Kansas
in 1855. He was the oldest postmaster
in the United States by length of SER
vice and was the oldest justice Of the
peace in Kansas. Politically he was a
Jeffersonian democrat He was re-
spectcd by all his neighbors, being a
man of sterling honesty and integrity.
He exchanged photographs with POST
master-General Wanamaker short
time since.
Gov. Lewelling has been served with
q notice by Sergeant-at-Arms johnson,
of the senate committee, making nine
distinct charges against W. II. Nc
Bride, state superintendent of insur-
ance. The notice was served on Me-
Bride by the secretary of state, and
charges him with inefficiency, incom-
potency and dereliction in the dis
charge Of his duties The document is
quite lengthy, setting forth in detail
the specific charges 1t asks that an
examination into the same be made,
and that the superintendent be re-
moved from office by the governor.
The state worlds fair commissioners
are reported as not at all encouraged
by the outlook for the Kansas display.
They are handicapped by the small ap-
preparation granted by the Legislature,
and the result will be, unless the peo-
pie come forward with q subscription
of $4,000 or 5000, the Kansas display
will be skinny. The appropriation is
only s65, 900. of which s31, 900 must be
paid out to the old worlds fair associa-
ton for the Kansas building and the
expenses of the association up to the
time the new board took charge. The
building cost s22, 900 and is about COM
.pleted