Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-09-22
STATE NEWS PARAcRApHfD.
Work has begun oh a $4,000 hotel

Work has beguh on u $4,000 hotel
ut Coffeyville.
Discouraged over Ill health and
domestic troubles, q. N. Marley, we'll
known newspaper man, foreman in
the Office of the Osawatomie Graphic,
committed suicide with morphine.
The Missouri & Kansas Telephone
company Is extending Its line from
Oswego to independence and west to
Winfield. This will give towns along
the new line direct connection with
Kansas City.
The Sumner county jubilee and
wheat carnival was held in Yelling
ton last week. Sumner county has
been Mt the head of the wheat pro-
cession In Kansas for years, but this
season the crop borders on the colos-
sal.
II Ia the talk mt fusion headquar-
tiers that FULLY Scott, the democratic
nominee for congress In the Sixth dis
trict, will withdraw, giving to DR..
John d. Dykes, the populist nominee,
n clear field against W. A. Reeder, the
republican.
Hamilton johnson, a negro convict
in the state penitentiary at Lansing,
was instantly killed by the, falling Of
q piece Of slate in the coal mine. The
slate weighed more than 100 pounds
and struck johnson fairly on the
head, crushing his skull.
At Fort Scott the other day W. ].
Bryan was the guest ut state
dinner given at the Interstate
hotel by Mayor Goodlander. After
wards Mr.. Bryan delivered two
speeches to great crowds who had
come by special train to hear him and
to attend the Modern Woodmen log
rolling.
Praise Is due to the students of the
Kansas state normal ut Emporia for
their contribution of 500 to the Gal
weston sufferers. The young men and
young women who attend the normal
are not rich. What they give out OF
the school allowance means enough
to them to make their gift $1,000 in
stead of 500.
The southbound Missouri Pacific
"cannon-ball" passenger train was
wrecked two miles north of Paola,
near midnight, caused by the rails
spreading. The entire train. except
the engine and sleeper, left the track,
and one coach almost got off tho
right of way. II is remarkable that
no one was hurt.
The population of the city OF Tope-
ka. rs officially announced. is: 1900.
33,6Os; 1890. 31,0O7. These figures
show, for the city rs whole, an in
crease in population Of 1901, or $50
per cent, from 1890 to 1900. The pop
ulation in 1850 was 1882, showing an
increase Of 1855, or 10O.67 per cent.
from 1850 to 1890.
Louis Mccoy, n Caldwell negro, Is
under arrest charged with fraud in q
pension case. He made application
for n pension. alleging to have served
in company X, Sixty-sixth colored in
fantry, during the civil war. The pen
sion department claims that Louis
Mccoy, of Caldwell, is an impostor and
that the Louis Mccoy who served
in the army lives in Natchez. Miss.
State Auditor George +. Cole and
Attorney General a. A. GODDARD, sit
ting us a state contest board. decided
that the two republican senatorial
conventions in the Riley-Wabaunsee-
Geary district held recently were ir-
regular, and that no legal nominations
were made by either convention. 1t
was n contest between q. W. Me-
Knight, of Geary, and John +. Hessin,
of Riley.
At Emporia, Frank Newcomb at
tempted to visit his former wife ut
the home of her father. Hugh Knox.
When he arrived mt the house his
former wife told him he could not
enter, rs Knox was present and would
shoot him IL he entered. Newcomb
entered. He claims Knox opened fire.
Knox fired eight shots and Newcomb
four. Knox is in Jail and Newcomb
perhaps fatally wounded, one bullet
having entered his breast.
The negroes on the east side of Fort
Scott compelled the school authorities
to close Ivy school and dismiss sew.
eral hundred white pupils. The board
closed a negro school because Of lack
Of patronage and refused to reopen 1t.
Then the board provided wagon to
haul the negro pupils to another
school. The negroes refused to use
the wagon, but went with their chill
dren to the white school and insisted
on entering. The principal finally
closed the school.
A terrific wind and hailstorm passed
over Florence and vicinity the other
evening. The wind came from the
and was of n cyclonic ma
ture, trees being torn up, houses dam
aged, roofs blown off and sign boards
scattered. Large hailstones fell,
skylights and windows.
During the storm several small cy-
clones developed and haystacks and
were blown away. North
Of Florence there wns almost n cloud
burst and at Oursler hail was piled
several feet high and two miles Of
Santa Fe track was under water. |
set fire to several stacks
Of hay south of town belonging to 7.
). Padgett. Miss Lizzie Whitlock, o
and her brother were
.aught in the twister. They were
thrown into q barbed wire fence, the
buggy demolished and hand satchel
was carried away. Miss Whitlock was
bruised, but not seriously injured.
An attempt was made to rob the