Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-03-07
Miscellaneous.

The Atchison Daily Patriot has sus.
pended.
Chief of Police Willserson, of Topeka,
has resigned.
A slight earthquake sh ock was felt
ut Caldwell the other night.
A recent count OF the money in the
state treasury shows the sum to be
LASS, 03323.
The Peavey elevator Mt Winfield, con-
tanning 10000 bushels OF grain, burned
the other night Loss, $4,000.
Tho Topeka Savings bank has gone
into voluntary liquidation. Deposit
ors will be paid and tho institution
Will wind up.
Primaries held by republicans in 20
counties on the'last day Of February
showed n large majority in favor Of
Mckinley for president.
Bishop John II. Vincent, Of Topeka,
has accepted the invitation OF Kansas
university to preach the baccalaureate
sermon at the June commencement
COL W. r. Davis, veteran soldier,
was found dead in his barn Mt Larned
the other afternoon. lie had fallen
from the hay loft and was dead when
fonnd..
In the trial OF Marion Asbell for wife
murder at 0swego the jury returned
verdict of guilty. The victim vas AS
BELLS second wife. The crime was the
outgrowth OF criminal relations be-
tween Asbell and the l7-year-old
daughter of his wife by her former
husband.
A Rock Island eastbound passenger
train collided with freight near Troy
the other night and fatally injured
three persons, NJ. A. Alexander, of
Troy; W. W. 0'Brien, Chicago travel
ing man, and A. Western, of st. Jo-
seph, fireman on the passenger. Mrs
J. ID. Williams, OF Troy, was badly in
jured.
Tho monthly report OF Chancellor
Snow, of the state university, says that
only six Februarys in the past 90 years
have had higher mean temperature,
while the maximum for the month, 70
degrees on the Goth, is the highest on
record. There were only six days on
which the temperature was as low as
80 degrees.
Tho temperance conference held In
Topeka In December last appointed
committee OF five, headad by James w.
Gleed, to select committee Of so, to
be known us the COMMITTEE on the en-
forcement of law" The work has been
completed by Chairman Gleed, who
Inns given out tho list, which Is COM
posed OF representative men selected
from the various political parties
At the late annual session Of the
grand lodge A. o. U. W., held.at Leav-
enworth, the following officers were
elected: Grand master workman. w.
NJ. Wallace (re-elected); grand fore
man, William Cross, Of Kansas City;
grand overseer, w. A. Morgan, OF Lam
sing; grand recorder, {. NJ. Forde ire
elected); DIR. W. R. Priest, of Con-
cordia, was chosen medical director
G. II. Pierce, postmaster ut Liverpool,
was recently arrested Mt Wichita on
the charge OF sending obscene matter
through the mails He attempted to |
resign and his resignation was not ac-
copied, whereupon he sent letter TO
the department couched In such Ian
guagc rs not only to bring about his
dismissal but got him into jail. Later
he pleaded guilty in the United States
court and was fined s5 by Judge Foster.
At an carly hour the other morning
the largo barn on the Joseph Whita-
lser farm, south of Leavenworth, was
destroyed by FIRE, together with con-
tents 1t was In use by II. A. Poinde-
stall, the race horse man. Thirty-nine
horses, all registered IS head Of cattle,
20 hogs aud rs tons OF hay were
burned. The loss was placed ut s20,-
900
I O. Van Fleet and A. N. Dake, hus-
bands of the two women whose bodies
were stolen from their graves to make
material for the Kansas
college, have commenced dam
age suits at Topeka against the college
for $40. 900 each.
Rev. DIR. +. W. Gunsaulus, of Chica-
60, has accepted nm invitation to de-
liver the commencement address 1t the
Kansas university In June.
The annual convention Of the Kan
sas State Temperance union met at
Topeka on the Cd with 100 delegates In
attendance.
A severe blizzard swept over q por-
lion Of Kansas on the I'd. II was re-
ported that on the Rock Islands Colo
ado line - inches Of snow had fallen.
John Sand. Of the soldiers home was
killed by the cars at Pope's
'iation, eight miles south Of IseeYsn-
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