Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-06-10

law.
Thomas Page, n Topeka miller who
carries fire insurance in unauthorized
companies, refused to pay the ten per
cent. tau required by the new law and
the case will be taken into court to test
its validity.
At Galena the other day Mrs. Jane
Williams, aged lOa, was married to
James Morgan, 80 years younger. This
was Mrs. Williams third matrimonial
venture, her second husband having
died in 1860.
While travelling with her husband at
Laredo, Mo-, Mrs. Helen Hummel. OF
Cherryvalc, tried to pull her pug dog
from in front of an approaching engine
and was herself ground to pieces. The
dog escaped.
Within few weeks Kansas papers
have noted the birth of n striped pig, a
four-legged chicken. an eight-legged
pig, three-legged chicken. double
headed calf, an eight-legged colt and a
three-eyed pig.
Fort Scott has inaugurated sub
scription with which to procure
medal or other token for every private
and non-commissioned officer in the
Twentieth Kansas company which
came from that town.
T. j. Ehlers, who died ut Eldorado
recently, though only 80 years OF age,
had stayed in his bed for II straight
years with every joint in his body so
stiffened by rheumatism that he could
not lift his hand or turn over.
A young girl named Walker, who
lives with her parents near Solomon
City. has since her birth been afflicted
with fisi skin, scales like those Of n
fish having covered her body. Her
ewes are red and inflamed and have
never been closed.
The chances of Joseph Dobbs and
Mrs. New for release from the Kansas
penitentiary was lcsscned by the con-
viction of Frank Allgood at Yates Cen
ter of forgery. Allgood sought to ex-
onerate Dobbs and Mrs. New by con-
Tossing that II was he who killed Mr..
New near Eureka.
Capt. John Sherrin, who died at
Salina recently, came to the United
States in 1910 and served In the Next
can war. In the early sos he was in
the command of Gen. Fremont the
pathfinder. He located in Nemaha
county in 1855, and in 1861 answered
Lincoln's first call for troops.
Thomas Reagan, the American who
was reported in press dispatches to
have been arrested in johannesburg,
South Africa, for assaulting a wealthy
financier, in the Standard bank there,
Is from Bourbon county. He and
brother went to Africa from Fort Scott
three years ago and are reported to
have become wealthy.
The sale of $3.50, 900 of five per cent.
bonds of the Kansas City, Bonner
Springs & Topeka railway. the electric
line projected to run from Kansas City
up the Kaw valley to Topeka, has
begun. The American Equipment
company has, according to the adver-
tisement, contracted to build the road
for $4,000 mile and have It finished
by November 1, 1899.
~ am wearing the same hat wore
when at home last" writes Private
Rainey to his Paola folks from the
trenches near Malolos. at is full OF
holes and minus a crown. The boys
all look like tramps-ragged, dirty and
full of fieas: You would not recognize
us as we line up for dress parade, but
we are not kicking and are satisfied to
be well and alive"
A picnic party attempted to cross the
Union Pacific track near Beloit closely
in front of an advancing passenger
train when the horses baked and q ter
rible accident was averted by the al
most superhuman action Of Engineer
Joe gladden., who stopped his train so
suddenly that his engine suffered con-
siderable damage from the shock; and
in throwing the reversing lever gladden.
struck his valuable gold watch, ruin
ing It entirely.
Topeka will institute proceedings to
condemn the waterworks plant and
convert It from private into munich
pal corporation.
The earnings of the Western Union
Telegraph company in Kansas last year
were SSH, 6Sa.0s and the expenses $751;
1916.
II cost a naughty Fort Scott girl SIC