Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-08-29


Ingalls,
Maj. Tom Auderson's famous Modoc
club will accompany the Kansas dele
CATION to the g. A. r. national en-
campmcnt at St Paul.
The Emporia district conference OF
the NJ. +. Church adopted resolutions
denouncing the action OF state officials
regarding the prohibitory law.
George Kennedy, living near OF
tumwa, Coffey county, committed sui
eide while temporarily insane. He
had resided in that county since 1853.
A member OF the order of Mystic
Brotherhood Is credited with saying
that Gov. Morrill, will get the bulk Of
the votes of this anti-prohibition So
ciety.
A feature Of the coming Topeka fair,
reunion and carnival will be n state
band contest. Cash prizes aggregating
$1,000 are offered, aud 100 bands are
expected to be present.
A railway man who had Travelled
over the state said the attendance
from Kansas to the q. A. R. encamp-
ment at st. Paul would be very light,
the veterans preferrlng to wait and ut
tend the state reunion ut Topeka.
Republicans Of the Twenty Fourth
district nominated Z. w. Wellington,
of Ellsworth, for senator. In the
Thirty-Third district Walter Scott, OF
Jewell county, was named and In the
Seventh Is. +. Baker, Of Pleasanton,
was selected.
Roswell G. Horr, Of Michigan, will
make political speeches at Leaven-
worth, Fort Scott. Pittsburg, Eureka,
Hiawatha and Washington from Sep
TENDER 4 to II. Richard Yates, Of ILL
nois, son OF the old war governor, will
speak ut Kansas City September and
at Wichita on the 4th.
J.K. Fisher and wife, early settlers
in Atchison, celebrated their golden
wedding In Turner hall there the
other night in the company OF host
OF friends. 0ld-time songs, one OF
them sung by Mrs. John ]. ingalls,, and
q dancing programme Of the old.timc
ouadrilies, etc., were features OF the
programme.
At Critzer, q small station In Linn
county, the home OF Postmaster Kay,
an aged citizen. was discovered on fire.
Neighbors rushed in and took from
the flames the corpse of Mrs Kay, and
investigation showed that her skull
had been crushed. The old man Kay
acted suspiciously and he was arrested
for the crime.
A state meeting of the executive
committee OF the railway employees of
Kansas was held ut Kansas City the
other day. L. L. Bliler was chosen
president, C. II. Sheffield secretary and
james Gibbons treasurer. There are
$1,000 railway employees In Kansas and
the organization is for the purpose OF
demanding legislation in their interest.
Ed Bussey. st. Joseph travelling
man, cnticed two young girls from
their home in Augusta, Butler county,
the other dav AMI took them to Kan
sas CITY. They were followed and
Bussey was arrested. Officers could
not take him to Augusta because
angry citizens threatened to hang him
and he was placed in the Wichita Jail.
A row occurred at Leavenworth the
other day between Col. d. r. Anthony,
OF the Times, and the Salvation army.
Col. Anthony took exception to the
noise made by the army. lie walked
out into the street and kicked hole
in the drum, wbcreupon the Salvation
lists pounccd upon the colonel and
might have done him bodily injury had
not the police intcrfered.
Attorney Hurd, of the Santa Fe, de-
mics the published statement that the
railroads were refusing free passes to
populist politicians. He says the pol
lev OF the road is and has been to treat
ali parties alike. Mr.. Hurd says that
during the two years the populists
were in power in Kansas they asked
more and received more free passes
than any other political party, repub'
lican or democratic.
The penitentiary at present contains
but $50 prisoners, 4s less than were
there June /. During the entire
month of July but one has been re-
ceivcd. OF the total number, sc5 are
males, and 10 females, 8 OF the lat
ter being white. OF the males, go are
white, 23i black, Indian and 8 Next
can. Forty.pine are under sentence OF
death whenever any governor sees ut
TO sign warrants for their execution.
DR.. Oscar Christman, Of Go,port,
Ind, has accepted the chair OF history
in the state normal ut Emporia to sue.
coed Prof. johnson, who has gone to
Helena, Mont
Mrs. Sarah A. Thurston, Of Topeka,
n leader In the woman suffrage cause,
is in favor Of dropping further agita-
ton OF the subject In Kansas until 1898,
''when the effect Of the defeat Of 1894
will have worn off,"
At the soldiers reunion at Camp
Sherman near Parsons, during the prog
ress of a sham battle william Gross,
n participant, had both eyes shot out
and his face badly dishgured BY the
premature discharge Of 4 cannon.
Kansas colored masons, In recent
session at Leavenworth, elected ID. A.
Jones, of Leavenworth. grand master
and Henry II. Curtis, OF Baxter Springs,
secretary.
Judge Carver. republican nominee
for chief justice. will not make any
campaign speeches, following prece.
dsnt set by all previous candidates for
that position.
Al oiathe WIN ogR, son Of promi'
nent attorney, became involved In .
quarrel with Dr. Parker, . nephew Of
ex-Gov. 81 John. when org stabbed
Psrker with = knife. inaiotlng painful
injuries Taesaplr osn'sd > sensation