Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-04-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ALI Carter, o Santa Fe brakeman,
was run over and killed at Sterry one
day recently.
Nelse johnson, o Swede. committed
suicide ut Topeka the other day be.
cause, rs he said, his daughters abused
him.
The Fort Scott Daily Lantern, q pop
ulist paper, has suspended publication.
The Weekly Lantern will DO con-
tinued.
Gov. Morrill, has received from tho
United States treasurer $4,000 rs tho
states pay for keeping old soldiers ut
the states home.
Senator Ben Tillman, of South Caro-
lima, delivered n speech at Wichita on
the evening OF the 18th. He was after
wards entertained by the Commercial
club
A Texas grain company Is asking tho
cooperation Of farmers to take stock
in an elevator at Wichita with stor-
age capacity Of 100000 TO 1000, 900
bushels.
Tho Armour Packing Co. is putting
In its great plant Mt Kansas City tho
largest Ice machine In the country. II
weighs 800, 900 pounds and will freeze
$50 tons daily.
Gov. A. ]. Smith, OF the Leavon-
worth soldiers homo, has written q
letter TO Congressman Steele demand
Ing rigid examination into the con-
duct of tho home
Thomas Davenport was held for the
murder OF ]. T. Lamborn near Fall
Leaf, and Charles and Annie Lamborn,
children OF the murdered man, were
held rs accessories.
The federal grand jury ut Topeka in.
dicted Thomas II. lain, an attorney,
for violating the anti.lottery law in
using the mails for the Pan-American
Coupon Investment Co.
The Lanyon Spcltcr Co. has closed
down its smelling plant at Pittsburg
owing to alleged lack Of work and
small profit This makes Is out of the
company's 06 furnaces idle.
Joseph Grilra, n young man from
Holiday, was recently fined se5 by
United States Judge Foster Mt Topeka
for sending n tough letter through the
mails to girl who had Tilted him.
The body of Ben Adams, clerk OF an
Atchison hotel, who was drowned in the
Missouri river last January. was found
the other day on Delaware bar, oppo-
site the soldiers home, Leavenworth.
Miss Maud Crauther, the former
postmaster ut Fort Riley, who was ar
rested on a charge Of embezzling 81,
400 from Uncle Sam. was acquitted by
jury in the federal court at Topeka
the other day.
The Trades assembly of Kansas City
recently expelled State Labor Commits
sioner Bird from its membership. 1t
also adopted resolutions scoring Gov.
Morrill, for seeking to have state print
ing done by convicts
Ex-Consul Waller has written to a
Topeka man that he will return TO
Kansas soon and take the political
platform. Waller says he fears total
blindness will result from his impris-
onment in Madagascar.
Tho annual session Of the North.
eastern Kansas Teachers association,
In session ut Atchison recently, elected
J. T. Dyche president and Miss Helen
Stauffer secretary. The next meeting
will be held Mt Horton.
The Topeka presbytery Of the Pres
byterian church OF Kansas, recently In
session ut Lawrence, elected Rev.
Charles Hayes, OF Kansas City, Kan,
and Rev. Henry Farwell, Of Lawrence,
delegates to the general conference Mt
Saratoga Springs.
The other day $50 students and sew
cral professors in the state university
ut Lawrence turned out to capture
George Taylor, the escaped Missouri
murderer, who was reported to be
hiding in the brush. They succeeded
in bagging q crazy man.
Both the house and senate committee
on military affairs have made strong
reports In favor Of granting pensions
to the heirs OF II recruits OF the Four
teenth Kansas cavalry volunteers, who
were killed at Lawrence by Quantrell's
guerrillas, August 81, 1868.
The Academy OF Language and
Literature, recently in session at Law
renee, elected officers for the ensuing
year rs follows: President, w. II.
Carruth, state university; secretary,
Miss Meddic q. Hamilton, Winfield;
treasurer, II. W. Woodward, Lawrence.
Under an order issued by tho secre-
,ary OF the state board Of health upon
q request from Warden Lynch, the
state penitcntiary has been quaran.
tined against the admission of prison.
ers from counties In which smallpox
has existed during the past few weeks.
The counties which 1t specially applies
are Shawnee and wyandottc.
The Encouragement decides that
boards OF health have the power TO es-
tablish any reasonable regulations rs
to the health of tho people, but such
boards of health have only the power
given them by the legislature. He Is
also OF the opinion that local boards of
health and school district boards have
no power to compel any person to sub
init to vaccination, and that school
boards have not the power to prevent
n child from attending school simply
because It's parents refuse TO have It
vaccinated. II the child has been ex-
posed to contagious disease then the
district board and the local boards Of
health have the right, In the interests
Of the people, to prevent the child
from attending school or going where
II would endanger the health Of the
people.
Viola Edwards, seven years old, was
burned TO death ut Fort Scott the other
day by her clothes igniting from a fire
around which she was playing In the
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