Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-08-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

NouErcoSiuuh Ss IL DOhaivcts Va ~N''et
will make six speeches in Kansas dur
ing this campaign.
John w. Breidenthal was elected
chairman of tho populist state commit
tee by q vote Of seven 10 three.
The handsome Santa Fe depot at
Nickerson was destroyed by Ere the
other day. II will be rebuilt Mt once.
The state most of the L. A. W. ut
Salins, August 9o.si, IL expected to be
n big affair. Over $1,000 in prizes ore
offered.
Andy Mcdonald, q Kansas City Are
man, was killed while making o run
tho other day, and three other dremen
with him were seriously injured.
Nate Earnshaw, aged II, residing
with his parents near 0lathe, commit
ted suicide the other day because his
father upbraided him for smoking
cigarettes
Friends Of Hon. A. p. Riddle, editor
of the Minneapolis Messenger, are
pressing his claims for insurance COM
missioner to succeed the late George
7. Anthony.
Gold standard democrats will meet
in Topeka shortly and select 90 dele.
gates to the indianapolis convention.
It Is probable that they will also put
up state ticket
According to Chancellor Shows
records there have been FIVE Augusts
during the last 20 years in which the
mercury has gone higher in Lawrence
than thus far this year.
F. NJ. Baker, a leading grain mer-
chant Of Atchison, believes the Kansas
corn crop this year will be 100000, 900
bushels. lie does not believe the crop
was injured by hot winds.
Miss Lucy Dougherty, daughter of
Rev. James g. Dougherty, Of Kansas
City, has been appointed librarian and
assistant teacher OF mathematics OF
Washington college, Topeka.
Jerry Simpson was renominated for
congress by the democrats and popu-
lists who held their conventions ut
Larned on the same day recently. A
sixteen to one platform was adopted.
Miss Lou jacobs, Of Wichita, fell in.
to well at Ness City the other day
and was drowned. She was promi-
nent society lady and the accident &C.
Cured while she was attending party
given in her honor.
Populists OF the Eastern division,
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the other day and nominated ex.Judge
]. P. Hindman for appellate court
Judge. Hindman was n republican
until about four years ago.
The annual session of the Kansas
lodge of tine Catholic Knights OF
America, was held at Leavenworth re-
Gently. George Christ, of Leavenworth,
was elected state president, and Father
Pompenny, of Pittsburg, spiritual d.
rector.
Judge vandivert was hung in efigy
at Larned one night recently and the
figure labeled "vandivert, the Gar.
vandivert is the judge who sent j. W.
Rush to jail for refusal to obey an or
der of the court, and the insult is sup
posed to DO the outgrowth Of this
trouble.
A bold robbery was pcrpctrated a'
Bonner Springs early one morning re-
Gently. Ingebright Rosmo awakened
TO find two men in his room. They
seized him and after tying his arms
and feet, gagged him with corn cob
The thieves took SIPS in cash and left
Rosmo was discovered some hours later
and released.
At Topeka demand was made
for public forum, where the
people could meet and discus,
the money question. Everybody was
talking about silver aud Topeka police
were forced to dispense the throngs or
the street that block the sidewalks
An old courthouse will be opened and
local speakers will instruct the hungry
voters.
william Chadburn escaped from the
penitentiary at Lansing, one Sunday
recently in n smooth way. During
chapel exercises he got permission to &c
to the closet, but instead Of doing so he
went to the guards room and put on q
suit of citizens clothes. He then man
aged to fall in with number OF visit
ors and marched out, passing three
sets Of guards.
Nancy Fristow died Mt Wichita the
other day ut the alleged age Of lo4 A
certificate to be married to Thomas
Murray given her in 1918 by her master
she retained until her death. She was
bought and sold several times In Mis-
souri,. She was 65 years old before she
saw o railroad. She had l2 children, II
grandchildren, IS great-grandchildrer
and 40 Observation-Disclosures
w. F. Allen, n free silver advocate o,
Ottawa, recently sold to s. F. Beelcr
q gold standard man, 1000 bushels Of
corn at II cents, payable in Mexican
silver dollars. The transaction wal
Proposed by Allen in free silver argu'
ment, who little thought that BeeleI
could get hold Of that many Mexican
dollars, but Beeler fooled him, an6
Allen would not 20 back on his word.
The millsrs of Leavenworth and
Atchison held meeting recently fol-
the propose of considering the pres
emit disastrous freight rates, and to de-
termine upon some united action look
ing TO relief. There was talk Of ap'
pealing to the Kansas board Of rail
road commissioners Under the pres
emit arrangement Of freight rates
Leavenworth and Atchison millers are
badly handicapped.
The republicans ut Wichita are
sporting two county tickets now as q
result of split over the nomination Of
N. S. Bridgemsu for clerk OF the district
court. Ex-Mayor Cox led the boilers
A severe wiudstorm struck Pawnee
Rock, near Great Bend, the other day,
destroying large number of buildings
but killing no one. There was no
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