Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-12-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Three prisoners recently escaped from
the Jail ut Sedan.
County officers Mt Wichita seized a
car load OF beer the other day that had
been shipped to that point.
Arrangements have been completed
for n joint debate Mt Lincoln, Mob, In
May between Kansas and Nebraska
universities.
Articles OF incorporation were re-
Gently filed with the secretary OF state
of the Commercial bank OF ST. John
and the State bank of Macksville.
Harry Ogden, an employee In the
Santa Fe shops ut Topeka, was held up
and robbed OF $50, his months wages,
on tho streets Of that city the other
hight
Ira ]. Bradford. OF Ellsworth county,
won the first prize in the oratorical
contest of the state normal Mt Empo-
ria, and will represent the school at
Warrensburg. Mo-, in May, ut the in
terstatc contest
The body Of an unknown man was
recently found in the woods near Piper,
Wynndot,e county, with his throat cut
The man had been dead several weeks.
lie had only one leg and appeared TO
have been soldier.
Mrs. Nancy Thompson, IS years old,
was recently found dead in Cowley
county, having died Of starvation and
neglect. She lived in secluded place
with half-witted son. The latter was
found thinly clad and almost frozen.
A sharper, who pretended to be sell.
ing Havana cigars for the benefit OF
Cuban revolutionists, was recently
beating the business men Of Stafford
county out OF small sums of money, by
receiving payments on future deliv'
cries.
Carrie Turner, the handsomely
dressed woman who committed suicide
in hotel Mt Beatrice, Neb., about two
weeks ago, was the daughter OF c. IL
Turner, of Atchison. who had just been
released from the Kansas penitentiary
for the killing OF j. H. Gilgore.
Rosa, the ll-year-old daughter o.
Moses Carrier, Of Salina, was fatally
burned tho other night by the over
turning of lamp. She was seated
near table on which the lamp wa:
standing, and small sister pulled thu
table cloth, tipping the lamp into TIT
girls lap
Adjt Gen. Fox, who recently found
n shortage of $4,000 in the property o.
the Kansas national guard, has report
ed the fact to the war department a
Washington with the statement tina
the missing property has been lost
stolen or destroyed, and cannot be nc
counted for in any other manner
Three men who were in Col. Abcr
nathy's barn ut Lcavenworth the othe
evening permitted two masked robber
to hold them up and rob them OF thei
watches and cash in pocket. The rob
bcrs secured three watches and abou
twenty-five dollars and left their vic
tins with hands pointed skyward.
Pensions recently granted Kausa
veterans: Original, John C McCarty
Argentine; Jacob Grover, Fort Scott
James L. Foster, Soldier. Increase
Elijah Monroe, Troy. Reissue, Sam
ucl ]. Churchill, Lawrence. Origina
widows, ETC., Sarah A. Goodsicls, Nick
erson; Belinda McCarty, Lane; Ann'
II. Fisher, Liberal.
Levi Cbubbucl,, secretary OF thu
Missouri State Dairy association. ha
been appointed by the secretary o
agriculture special expert agent o
the dairy division of the department o
agriculture for Kansas and Missouri
He will be glad to hear from any ont
in either state on matters OF intcres
TO the dairy industry.
Mrs. Emeline Davis, OF Lcavenworth
recently swore out warrant chargin,
David II. Haynes with bigamy ant
robbery. Haynes persuaded the woman
TO marry him, then secured $50
she had saved up and skipped. i
was then she learned that he had
wife (perhaps three or FOUR, and she
resorted to the courts for relief OF
ficers went to Atchson for the runa
way who was reported to be in hiding
about that town.
The excitement Mt Topeka incident
to the discovery OF recent gray,
robbcrics quoted down somewha
after the Indignation Mt the find
ing OF the bodies spent its fury II
threats to mob the medical college, ant
the offer of $500 reward for the rob
hers by the governor. The fncult.
denied all knowledge OF or complicit,
in the crime. The three bodies foun'
in the medical college proved to b,
those OF the recently buried wives o.
workingmcn.
Judge Hazen. Of the Shawnee count.
district court, has made ruling tina
in the settlement of litigation arising
out OF the recent mortgage redemption
decision Of Judge Martin, that dc
cisions made by him and based on Chic
Justice Horizons former decision vii
be permitted TO stand until the matte
is finally settled in the supreme cour
of the United States, but that In al
future cases he will be governed b.
the more recent decision OF Chic
Justice Martin.
DIR. ]. E. Minney. Dr. NJ. Il. Mitchell
and DIR. C. S McClintock, members o
the faculty of the Kansas Medical col
lege at Topeka, in which the stoler
bodies OF three women were found re
Gently, and S. A. johnson, janitor
have been arrested on warrants sworr
out in the district court by the county
attorney of Shawnee county, charging
them with having received stolen hu
man bodies They gave bonds for theil
appearance. A special grand jury ha'
been ordered to investigate the case.
The livery barn Of 7. W. WI
trout ut Logan was burned the
other night. together with eigh,
hcrses and other valuable property. A
lantern in the hay NOV the cause.
1t Is stated that the faculty and stu
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