Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-06-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

IL. i. DemarOn was urOWucu III On"
lima few days since.
At the recent commencement OF tho
state university 10s diplomas were
granted.
The Annapolis Land Co. has been
declared insolvent and the court has
ordered that receiver be appointed.
The Burr Oak bank has failed with
liabilities of $4,000 and practically no
assets. C.. ID. Hurlburt, the manager,
has fled.
The shopmen of the Santa Fe road at
Topeka, will hereafter have an eight
hour day. This change is made to re-
duce expenses.
The encouragement has received in
formation that all the NJ, X. Il 7. rail-
way offices have been removed from
Kansas to st. Louis.
Willard and Marion Higley, aged
respectively 10 and II, were drowned in
Stranger creek, near Atchison, the other
day, while swimming.
The Kansas City, Kan, grain in
spectors continue 10 inspect grain at
Argentine Notwithstanding the orders
of the state grain inspector to the con-
trary.
Rev. c. f. Mortimer, member of the
Christian church who lived recently at
Atchison and Salina, was found dead in
his room in Lincoln, (Neb.) hotel the
other morning. He used morphine to
relieve neuralgia and probably took an
overdose.
A man supposed to be Thomas Kelly,
of Marshalltown, Ia, was killed by a
Rock Island freight train near Atchison
the other morning. He was evidently
a laborer about 80 years of age, and
was walking upon the track when
struck by the train.
The other day an unknown negro
entered the house of Alva Allen, q
farmer residing near Augusta, during
| the absence of Mr.. Allen. and criminal
ly assaulted his wife, Il woman 81 years
of age. The sheriff and posse were
in pursuit of the brute.
Samuel Childers, colored, was shot
and instantly killed at Kansas City,
Kan, about : o'clock the other even
ing by Constable ID. w. White. The
shooting took place in front of Childers
residenc on Thompson avenue, and was
caused by Childers refusing to go to the
court room with the constable after be-
placed under arrest.
The supreme court has decided the
Atchison mayorality contest in favor Of
Bland. democrat. The opinion was by
Chief Justice Horton and in substance
established the precedent that decis-
ions of city councils in contested
municipal election cases are renewable
by the courts. 1t is the first case of the
kind ever brought before the courts Of
the state.
Among long list of fourth-class
postmasters recently appointed in Kan
sas. were the following: Bunker Hill,
Russell county, w. c. Hoopman: Caney,
Montgomery county. Levi Glatfelder;
Cottonwood Falls, Chase county, w. E.
Timmons; Coyville, Wilson county. b.
Wetmore: Dorrance. Russell county. II.
S. Henderson; Lebo, Coffey county, Ma
nv V. johnson; Pomona. Franklin coun-
ty, c. II. Chrismans Sedan, Chautauqua
county, ]. L. Mattingley.
Stephen Hawkins, colored police
man, was shot at Leavenworth the
other night by John Rausman, an &C.
centric old Hungarian, and probably
fatally wounded. A party of drunken
foreigners had been bombarding Raus-
mans house with guns and stones and
had wrecked one end of it. Officer
Hawkins went to the house without
making himself known as an officer and
broke in the door to arrest Rausman.
No sooner had he entered than Raus-
man seized him in the dark and began
firing.
E. w. Isreal, one of the oldest and
wealthiest citizens of Wichita, died re-
Gently. lie was radical anti-monop-
olist and very bitterly opposed to trusts
On his death bed he sent for carpen-
ter-and ordered a coffin made of yellow
pine without ornamentation, stating
that he could not possibly consent to
be buried in n coffin bought from the
undertakers' trust. He also insisted
that his remains be conveyed to the
cemetery in an express wagon instead
of hearse, for the same reason. His
wishes were complied with.
A motion was recently made in the
supreme court to advance on the docket
case involving the validity of one
section of the new mortgage redemp-
ton law. Chief Justice Horton said
that the points involved in the entire
law ought to be decided at the same
time, and that when cases covering
every section of it were brought. up to
the court that all would be advanced
simultaneously. Cases covering all
points raised will undoubtedly be fled
this month so that the decision of the
court may be had at the September
term.