Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-06-16
STATE NEWS pARAcRApHED.

June 81.
1t is said the farmers Of Ellis coun.
ty will have 5000 bushels Of wheat
for every farmer in the county.
The state board OF education has de-
cidcd to include the science Of agri-
culture in the public schools of Kan
sas.
John w. Breidenthal wants Con-
gresham Ridgley for chairman Of the
populist committee and II. II. Semple
secretary.
Republicans of johnson county
nominated John Thorne, of the
Twentieth Kansas, for clerk of the
district court.
Justice Fellows, known as the
"father Of Fredonin," died there re-
Gently in his ninetieth year. He came
to Kansas in 1857.
A tramp sleeping in John Swanson's
barn east of Ottawa started fire
which consumed the barn and con-
tents-also the tramp.
Coal miners and operators in the
southeast Kansas district have agreed
on n scale of wages and there will be
no strikes there, 1t is said.
II. Williams, chairman of the two
prohibition parties in Kansas, has
called state convention for Topeka,
June 20, to name state ticket.
Victor Benson, n 13-year-old New
York waif living with Alfred Folks,
near Fontana, was killed by lightning
while standing in the barn door.
Mrs. Mary j. Kirkbride, an aged
woman Of Kansas City, was found
dead in a shallow pond Of water.
She committed suicide because Of her
physical ailments.
Timothy Mccarthy, state auditor
Of Kansas two terms, eX-department
commander of the G. A. II. and one
Of the most popular men in the state,
died at Larned. He had q brilliant
record rs u soldier during the civil
war.
Joseph Hollingcr, the wealthy farm.
er-banker who was killed by a horses
kick near Chapman recently, came to
Kansas in 1872 poor man but sue
ceeded admirably and owned 5000
acres of fine land at the time of his
death.
William McDonough, who cut the
throat of q five-year-old boy in
cornfield in Lincoln county. was cap
tured by posse Of citizens after q
two-days' pursuit. McDonough had
been without food two days. 1t was
said he is insane.
A severe tornado and hailstorm
visited Mcpherson county the other
day. Sidewalks were almost impassa-
Die by fallen trees and other debris
and there was wholesale destruction
Of windowlights. The front of brick
business house was also blown in.
]. A. Miller, supposed to be de-
mented, tied n stone to his neck and
jumped into the creek near Elsmore.
His action was observed by two small
boys who were fishing near. They
plunged into the creek, cut the rope
loose and dragged the suicide TO the
shore.
While Mrs. ]. 4. Conner, wife OF
farmer ~ miles east of Paola, was
sitting at the dinner table holding
her young babe, a pot Of boiling cof-
fee was accidentally upset on the in
FAINT, cooking the flesh from the hips
down and causing almost instant
death.
The railroads have granted half
rate for the democratic and populist
state conventions ut Fort Scott on
July "a. The Kansas City, Fort Scott
& Memphis road is not member OF
the Western Passenger association,
but 1t has joined the association roads
in granting the rate.
The board of regents of the Univer-
sity of Kansas broke away from prec-
edent last week and elected Miss Eu-
genia Calico to the chair of French,
made vacant by the resignation OF
Prof. A. G. Garfield. Miss Calico 10
the first woman to occupy q full pro-
censorship at the institution.
Kansas is approximately 100000
ahead as the result Of the supreme
courts decision in the Harper county
delinquent tax cases. The decision is,
in substance, that when n county re-
ceives land for delinquent taxes 1t Is
responsible to the state for its full
amount Of the levy, and not its pro-
portion of the amount collected.
The supreme court has reopened the
celebrated murder cases of George
Dobbs and Mrs. Amelia New, now
serving life sentences in the Lansing
penitentiary for the murder, near
Eureka, Of Joseph New, the woman's
husband. The court has granted an
order to the district court to hear the
application for new trial, which the
lower court had refused.
The friends OF Capt. W. j. Watson,
Of Pittsburg, who recently lost q leg
In the Philippines, are working to
have him transferred to the depart
ment of law, under the Judge advo-
cate general. Capt. Watson has been
twice severely wounded, the first
time through the lungs while with
the Twentieth Kansas. He then came
home and after getting out Of the
hospital enlisted with the Fortieth in
fantry and returned to war.
A suit for divorce filed by Mrs. Mary
ellison, of Topeka, reveals the fact
that she was married 81 years ago
when she was aged 10 and her hus-
band 90.
Gov. Stanley is working to add .
collection OF books to the soldiers
library at Manila. II will be as q
memorial to the Kansans who were
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