Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-11-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


glar record In one week st Topeka re-
Gently.
C. K. Holiday, Jr, received q larger
vote for chief justice Of the supreme
court than had been expected.
The annual meeting Of the Kansas
State Teachers association will take
place In Topeka December %. 20 and ~.
EA.Uhited States Marshall Il l.
Walker, WINS severely injured by being
thrown from street ear ut Topeka the
other day.
Fire ut Atchison the other day dam.
nged the dry good store Of Porter,
Swan & Co.; ID the extent Of over ST.
600 Fully insured.
In n recent game Of football ut Law;
renee between the Kansas university
and Iowa university teams, Kansas de-
feated Iowa, by score Of SO too
During the month OF September the
druggists of Topeka fled 5,e6i prescrip-
tions for liquor, while for October the
record showed $3.50, or m increase OF
LIS
DR.. Elisha Gum, one Of the oldest
and most widely known Baptist min
listers In the state, died at his home In
Fort Scott the other day ut the age OF
81 years.
Gov. Morrill, has issued full pardon
to Morgan Stickney, OF Nemaha coun-
ty, who was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for Ave years on the charge OF
burglary.
It In stated that Hon. Jacob Stotler,
the pioneer Kansas newspaper man,
who has been running hotel In West
Plains, Mo-, for two years, will again
enter the newspaper field in Kansas.
George Claypool, lineman Of the
electric company, was found dead In
the street near trolley pole in Atch-
ison the other evening. 1t was sup
posed that he came in contact with
live wire in some way. He leaves a
family.
Mrs. L. j. Blake, Of Lawrence was
taken i'll while shopping the other day
and died within an hour. Her hus.
band was killed two winters ngo while
at work piling up ice and last spring
son was killed in the railroad yards at
Kansas City.
Six men were recently arrested In
Kansas City, Kan, upon the charge OF
passing counterfeit money. They were
captured in that notorious quarter
known rs Toad.a-Loup. The officers
believed they had run down regular
counterfeit money distributing agency.
John II. Mulvane is said to have pur.
chased enough claims against the To-
pela Capital to give him controlling
interest in the paper. This, ut least
for time, retires Maj. Hudson, but
the new purchaser will give the Cap.
ital company chance to pay the in
debtedness.
]. A. Parker, an Atchison county
fruit grower, recently shipped two car
loads OF fruit to Germany. Twenty
eight barrels Of selected apples in the
lot went to the emperor Of Germany.
The apples were grown on young trees
and were said to be the finest ever seen
in the state.
Mac Mckee, treasurer OF Vichsburg
township, Jewell county, was recently
reported as having been robbed OF SECS
and left for dead In vacant house,
from which he had removed. When
found by his wife, after lying uncon.
scious oil day, no was yet unable to
talk. The robber was unknown.
A meeting to sympathize with the
Cubans in their struggle for liberty
was recently held ut Topeka. ADJ
dresses were made by several prom
inent speakers and resolutions were
adopted expressing sympathy for the
insurgents and declaring that the
United States ought to recognize them
as bclliserents-
About 800 citizens OF Edwards coun-
ty have petitioned Gov. Morrill, to
order that the sentence OF death be
executed upon Carl Arnold ard Will
liam Harvey, who were, on November
10, 1891, convicted Of the murder OF
John +. Marsh, mayor OF Kinsley. The
prisoners have been in the pcniten.
tisry about year under sentence Of
death.
In an alteration at Garden City the
other night between Bob Ross,
farmer and stockman, and John Scar
let. liveryman, Ross drew his pistol
and shot Scarlet In the hand and arm.
Citizens interfered, and during the
scufile the weapon was again dis
charged, shooting Ross back of the ear.
He was alse stabbed by Scarlet and
died in less than an hour.
Pension Agent Click has written q
letter to Congressman Calderhead In
which he says that the enumeration OF
old soldiers in Kansas reported by the
state board of agriculture Is about
correct. Secretary Coburn's figures
showed $4,000 old soldiers and Click
says that there are 5000 pension
crs on the rolls and OF that num-
Der about $1,000 nre males. There are
q, 800 widows. and about 1000 old sol.
diers In Kansas who do not draw pen
sionS
q. W. Parr, of Reno county. was re-
gently uTTcstcu upon sho CuuTRc VI
brutally heating his wife, who Is IN
invalid. Later his son was arrested |
and jailed at Hutchinson on tlfe charge |
of assisting his father In the assault.
II is alleged that two OF the woman's |
ribs were broken. The story is that
Parr and his son killed chicken and \
told Mrs Parr to cook II for dinner.
She said she could not do so rs she
was sick. Parr became enraged aud
dragging her from bed did the beating.
The neighborhood was much excited
and violence to Parr was threatened.
1t Is stated that the disease that has
been so fatal to cattle In the vicinity
Of Wichita has been caused by the
cattle feeding on dry cornstalka
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