Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-01-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

secretary OF state Bush hns sold hi!
newspaper at Mankota TO J. L. Honey
Mrs. Hannah Il. Gilmore Is under mr.
rest ut Atwood charged with murder
ing her husband.
An incendiary fire Mt Chanutc do
stroyed five store buildings known %
the Freeman block.
The faculty and students OF Midland
college, ut Atchison, will try to raise
$4,000 for library.
Mrs. d. +. Franklin, Of wamego, re-
Gently gave birth to three girl babies,
all Vigorous and strong.
A Topeka telegram said Chairman
Prudential, of the populist state COM
mittee, would soon resign.
Hundreds of cattle were reported dy-
ing in Phillips county from disease
resembling the black tongue.
1t is said Grant w. Harrington, OF
the Hiawatha Democrat, will be Sem
ator-clect Harris private secretary.
Two boys at Fort Scott have been ar-
rested for stealing stereotype metal
from printing Office to make bullets
for the Cuban insurgents.
William Pennington, school-teach-
or, was recently arrested near Ere
tonia, ON n charge of burglary and
larceny committed at bethany, Mo.
A poll Of the present state senate de-
velops the fact that but three members
favored straightout resubmission. A
number favor constitutional conven-
ton.
At Radical. Montgomery county, DR..
Samuel Pegley, 20 years old, Is under
arrest for attempting to kill his II
year-old girl wife. He is thought to
be insane.
Labor Commissioner Bird has notified
all mayors of cities, towns and villages
in Kansas, and all police boards, that
the eight-hour law in regard to labor
must be observed.
The house voted to kill the bill MAX
ing 1t misdemeanor TO trespass. The
bill was SO rigid that q person who
even walked through another's or
char1 was subject to arrest.
Senator PETER announced from
Washington that he will devote his
time in future to the editorship of the
Topeka Advocate, and that he will OPP
pose fusion with the democrats.
A warrant was recently issued ut
Chercyvale for w. Ii. Linton, the pres
dential clcctor who is accused Of hav-
ing been desertcr from the army.
This time he is accused of adultery.
Edward V. Kellett, United States
vice consul ut Siam, on whose account
Uncle Sam has sent gunboat there to
protect our rights, was born and
reared in Wyandotte county, this state.
Gov. Leedy has reappointed John W.
Brcidenthal state bank commissioner.
L. W. Turner was named for secretary
of the railroad commission; G.. c. Glenn
ents supreme court reporter; Miss Jes-
sic Lewclling stenographer for the
railroad commission.
ALI Boursey and Ida Jacobs, Of jack
son county, went over to st. Joseph,
Mo-, the other day and tried to get
married but rigid questioning when
they applied for n license revealed the
fact that Miss Ida was too young, and
the license was refused.
Isaac Lane, of Holton, a cousin to the
late Senator Jim Lane, was recently
found destitute and alone, with no
fuel or food in his house, and incapa-
BILE of taking care of himself. He is
SO years old, and was the first man to
see the present site Of Holton.
An Ottawa preacher who has faith in
the publisher of IN eastern paper, has
undertaken to raise 1000 subscribers
in two lots of 500 each. II he gets 500
he is to go on u free trip to Paris. II
he gets 1000 the trip Is to be extended
TO Palestine. He has five years to do the
job.
The trouble over the orator to repre-
sent the Emporia state normal ut the
interstate contest next May has been
adjusted. The oratorical college re-
scinded its order declaring the late
contest illegal. This gives F. n. Ma
hin, of Arkansas City, the honor to
represent the college.
The Kansas Bar association ut To
peka last week elected these officers:
President, Judge William Thompson,
of Burlingame; vice president, Justice
S. II. Allen, Topeka; secretary, c. j.
Brown, Topeka. Silas Porter, 7. d.
Wall and Judge David Martin were
elected delegates to the national con-
vcntion.
Mayor Waggener, Of Atchison, has
vetoed the anti-high hat ordinance
passed by the city council. He
facetiously remarks that the ordinance
conflicts with the constitution Of the
United States, which affirms the right
of every woman to ''the pursuit Of hap
piness." In the east, he says, the wom-
en- are condemned for not wearing
clothes enough, and he does not believe
Il wise in the west to condemn her for
wearing too many.
Mulvane, Sumner county, was re-
ported as being "stirred up" by the
discovery that Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Will
SON, IN nged couple living there, who
have children and grandchildren, are
brother and sister. The appalling
news was revealed to them on the day
of their recent 39th wedding anniver-
sary. When mere babies the couple
had been separated by their parents
death. and, meeting years afterward,
their identity having become obliter.
ated, they met, fell in love, were mar
ried and came west.
A recent issue of n leading New York
paper contains an excellent picture of
Mrs. Willis Lord Moore, of Hutchinson,
president of the Kansas Social Science
federation.
w. Z. Ziegler was county attorney
of Montgomery county four years, and
among other achievements put $1,000