Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS

hyic, Wuo uicu recently NJ 10
polka, left $4,000 to christ's hospital.
Tho annual conference and meeting
OF the State Temperance union will b
held In Topeka, March 8
Henry Page, of Kansas City, Kan,
who applied for q pension 20 years
ago has just been granted n pension
OF g per month, dating from July,
1896.
During the year Just closed 220 di.
vorce cases were filed In the Shawnee
county district court at Topeka. OF
these lis divorces were granted and a
dismissed.
Since his appointment last March,
M. C Kelley, state oil inspector, has
turned into tho state treasury 90, 500 81,
rs the surplus for the first nine months
OF his term.
The supreme court has handed down
an opinion In the Snow Hudson state
partnership contest, giving the Office
to j. X. Hudson. Associate Justice
Allen delivered the opinion.
The special session" OF the legisla.
ture that was to have assembled ut
Topeka on the 14th rs sort Of "legis-
lative uprising" without call from
the governor. did not materialize.
The sheriff tied up two Santa Fe
freight trains Mt Atchison the other
day by attaching them on m exeou.
ton for 80, 400. 40 for unpaid taxes The
matter was finally satisfactorily ar
ranged.
L. b. Woodward, 4 horse trainer Mt
Gardner, Is charged with making Q
murderous and brutal assault upon his
wife the other day while intoxicated,
beating her In shocking manner.
He was Jailed at 0lathe.
An Atchison woman whose daughter
got married without her knowledge
followed the young couple and ',yank-
ing" the bride away from her husband
took her to the parental home and
bound her fast to bed post.
Nathan Brown, OF Lawrence, 60
years old, was recently arrested on
the charge of bigamy. He was accused
of marrying the second time while the
application for divorce from tho
mother of his l2 children was pending.
A delegation OF the state temperance
union recently called upon the govern
or and urged him to remove the pres
emit police commissioners at Atcbison,
Leavcnworth and Kansas City, Kan,
and appoint men In their places who
would enforce tho prohibitory law.
c. F. Hutchings, the Kansas City,
Kan, attorney who was reported as
having been cited to appear before the
United States district court at Topeka
for contempt, with other attorneys, at.
tended as counsel for the defendants
instead of as one of the defendants.
Masked men the other night held up
and robbed the night agent Of the NJ,
X. & I. road and two other men who
were waiting for train ut Fort Scott.
The robbers secured gold watch and
small sums Of money from the men
and s34 from the company's safe.
There were two of the robbers who es-
raped without being identified.
Chairman Leland and Secretary Bris.
tow have issued call for meeting Of
the repu blican state central committee
In Topeka February 4, at seven o'clock
p M, for the purpose OF calling state
convention to select six delegates and
six altcrnates to the national repub-
licau convention and to nominate three
for presidential electors
The Kansus Improved stock Breed.
.rs' association Mt its recent meeting in
Topeka elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: President, 7. A.
Hubbard, of Rome; vice president, 8.
N. Babcock, of Nortonville; secretary.
treasurer, II. A. Heath, Of Topeka; ex.
ccutivc committee, o. p Updegraff, Of
Topeka; Z. Harrington, of Baker, and
r S. Cook, Of Wichita.
A story comes from Horton to the
effect that three masked men went to
the home OF Ed Welch, In the suburbs
Of that town, the other night, called
him to the door and. after robbing,
they took him some distance and
chopped his left hand of. lie was then
left and wandered around for two
hours before finding assistance. His
wife was absent. No cause could be
given for such proceeding.
The supreme court Of has denied
rehcaring Of the case OF Jonathan
Banks, a newsdealer at L,avenworth,
who, after being placed in Jail for vlo-
lating the law concerning the making
and distribution Of scandalous publ.
sought release by habeas
corpus proceedings in the supreme
court The writ applied for was de.
MED and the law upheld in an opinion
written by Associate Justice Allen.
Several days ngo Mrs Charles Dean,
Of Topeka, left her two small children
In room to themselves while she ran
over to q neighbors." Upon returning
she found that some one had removed |
The clothing from her l4-months-old |
babe. seated II upon the top OF a hot
stove and fed. The flesh OF the child
was cooked to the bone, and II died In
! few days. The miscreant who per-
formed the fiendish deed had not been
Mrs. Joseph Hildebrandt, wife Of
farmer living near Marysville, gave
poison to her eight children, ranging
IN age from two to IA years, the
,ther morning and then hanged her
elf In the barn. The mother and
,even children were dead when found
md the eighth child could not recover.
Her husband was In n hospital in Kan.
,as City suffering from cancer. It was
that her struggles with pow
,rty and want had driven the woman
insane.
The state board Of agriculture, at It's
ate annual meeting In Topeka, re-
elected ]. NJ Potter president. F. D.
secretary and Samuel Howe,
treasurer.
The 10th annual meeting Of the Kan
a. ctaia Historical sociatv will be held |