Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-07-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Tho board Of police commissioners Of
Wichita say they will put q stop to
Sunday liquor selling there.
A farmer ut Alton has contracted TO
ship 200 tons Of broom corn TO q manu-.
featuring firm In Sidney, Australia.
The charter for tho First state bank
Of Larned was recently filed with the
secretary Of state. Capital, $4,000
The Republican, published ut Del
phos, hns bolted tho St Louis plat
form on account OF the financial plank.
Democrats and populists recently
net Mt Emporia and renominated W.
A. Randolph for judge Of the Fifth
district
Andrew Dixon fell from q portico
TO the ground Mt Garnett one night re.
Gently, breaking his neck and dying
instantly.
Atchison was excited the other day
over o reported gold find near the sol.
diers' orphans home on property be-
longing TO the state.
Senator W. A. PETER, upon his re.
turn from Washington recently, re-
sumed editorial work on his newspa-
per. the Topeka Advocate.
Tho republican state central COM
mittec has Joined In q request that
Cyrus Leland be appointed on the ma
tionnl executive committee.
It was reported that Webb McNall,
Of Gaylord, q heretofore prominent re-
publican politician Of western Kansas,
had bolted the St Louis platform.
William McBrown, of Fall River,
was nominated for state senator by the
republicans of the Twenty Fourth dis.
trict ut Emporia. He Is an Ingalls,
man.
Rev. Csnuady Martin, pastor of the
colored Baptist church at Pittsburg,
was found guilty of second degree muir.
der for killing A. W. Wright, deacon
In his church.
Republicans of the Fifth district met
at Manhattan and renominated Con.
gresaman Caiderhcad by reclamation.
Gen. Grosvenor, Of Ohio, addressed q
rally Mt night.
Repub licans of the Fifth judicial dis
trict met at Emporia recently and
nominated Z w. Cunningham for
Judge. His opponent Is W. A. Ran.
dolph, the present judge.
The Thirty Sixth district republican
senatorial convention mot ut Hutchin-
son and nominated A. M. Switzer for
senator. A resolution declaring for
Ingalls, for senator was voted down.
At Weir City the other night Joe
Ferns, Of Scammon, and Tom Mackay,
OF Chicago, fought desperate pugil-
istic battle, which resulted in the Chi.
cago man being knocked out In the
tenth round.
The Methodist Episcopal quarterly
conference ut Fort Scott the other day
arraigned and criticised Police Com.
missioners j. J. Stewart and +. A.
Lyon, both members Of the Methodist
church, for failure TO enforce the pro-
hibitory liquor law.
Ernest williams aud Rev. Venable,
both negroes and presidents Of rival
republican clubs In Rosedale, became
engaged In O bitter quarrel the other
day, which resulted In Venabie draw.
ing revolver and shooting Williams,
inflicting fatal wounds
In a Justice court ut Kansas City,
Kan, recently, S. s. King secured q
Judgment on an old political account
against Fred j. Close. ex-Gov LEVEL
ling's private secretary. The amount
involved was small, but 1t stirred up
bad feeling between the two populists.
DIR. G. II. Graham was convicted Mt
Pittsburg the other night Of brutal
assault on Lizzie Shaughnessy. Dur.
ing the trial the girls father stole
behind the prisoner and made lunge
ut him with q long bladed knife, but
the sheriff caught his arm and led
him from the court room.
The appellate court convention Of
the Eastern division, Northern depart
ment, which met in Kansas City, Kan,
recently, was q very exciting affair.
Cyrus Leland took prominent part
and through his influence the anti
Trickett, or Buchan delegation from
Wyandotte county was seated.
The board Of directors Of the peni.
tentiary decided to reject the bids sub
mitted ut the recent letting for the
coal output and will readvertise. This
action was said to have been taken be.
cause II was apparent that there
was collision between the two coal
companies Mt Leavenworth and
at least one of the bidders
Clyde Thompson and three other
boys, Of Chetopa, recently boarded
freight train on the NJ, K. & I. rail.
way 70 20 TO the Indian territory to
work In q hay field. As they were
drumming" their way they got into
trouble with the brakeman and Thomp-
SON fell from the train and was fright
fully mangled. He died soon after.
A. D. Hubbard, receiver of the Snow.
Hamilton Printing Co., ut Topeka, Is
reported TO be short In his accounts
from S1,UVU W ootoV0 N SoAoEOC hos
been appointed 70 determine the exact
amount Hubbard was appointed re.
ceiver by the district court In 1895,
when the stockholders got into 4
squabble with Snow about state print
ing contracts.
Nels Larson, q crazy man, invaded
St Thomas Catholic church In Ar.
mourdalc on q recent Sunday night
while the church was crowded with
and made an attempt TO do
molish the affairs and hurled statue
Of the Virgin Mary TO the floor. The
was papic-stricken for
time, but Larson was seized and re-
moved and no one was injured.
The republican state central commit
tee has fixed upon August II and To.
peka rs the place for holding the state
for the nomination Of state
pfficers