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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
THE LATEST.

THE Gaulois says that an engagement
has occurred between the natives and
the French expedition to the Upper
Niger and that the French were routed.
1t is feared that the natives have
blocked the line Of retreat OF the French
TWELVE persons were killed outright
and about thirty seriously or fatally in
jured by the explosion at the King pow
der mills in Ohio
LIEUTENANT DONALDSON. of the army,
was drowned with Miss Lottie Spur
geon recently at Santa Ana, Cal. The
Lieutenant had rescued two persons
carried out by the current but persisted
with the third
Forty strikers were killed and
wounded by troops at the nitrate works,
Chill, recently during riot.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has decided that it will issue an
order making reduction in grain rates
from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis-
souri,, to St. Louis and the Mississippi
river and to Chicago. Food product
rates east of the Mississippi, and not
involved in other suits before the COM
mission are not found to be excessive.
THE fourth trial of James w. Sykes
at Chicago for issuing fraudulent ware
house receipts to the amount of Sis, 900
terminated in acquittal, Judge Collins
instructing the jury to return verdict
Of not guilty before much testimony
had been put in for the defense.
UNOFFICIAL census foot.ngs make the
OF the fourteen largest
places in Vermont s4,076 gain OF H.
Gas since 1880. The entire State is ex-
pected to show population of $40, 900.
THE President has nominated Allured
b. Nettleton, OF Minnesota, to be AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury;
James Russell Solely, Of Massachusetts,
to be Assistant Secretary OF the Navy.
The Senate on the 10th resumed con-
sideration of the Sundry Civil Appro-
priation bill, the irrigation question
coming in for ventilation. The House
accomplished. little for want Of q
quorum.
FIVE persons from Chicago we're lost
in the recent storm on Lake Michigan.
the wrecks Of their yachts being OBJ
served in the middle of the lake.
CONGRESSMAN HALL, Of the Third
Minnesota district has been renomi-
mated by acclamatiOn by the Repub-
licans.
CHAIRMAN CANNON, OF the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, denies that
the appropriations for the current fiscal
year will exceed the revenues. He
claims that the revenues, even with the
reductions. will be S57, 407, 600
above all but the new pension law needs.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
GENERAL.

News has been received at Tangler,
Morocco, of raid by the Zemmour
tribe on the camp Of the Sultan's son
near Saale. The camp was taken
completely by surprise. Troops and
slaves were mercilessly slaughtered by
the raiders and fifteen prisoners were
burned alive.
II. NJ. STANLEY, the explorer Of Africa,
was married to Miss Tenant in West
minister Abbey on the 18th. lie was
still suffering from sickness.
ODONovAN Rosa Is period OF outlawry
from Ireland will expire next winter
and he is expected to visit his old home
in January.
THE Universal Peace Congress was
opened in London on the l4th by David
Dudley Field, of New York, who spoke
ably for arbitration and general disarm-
ament
FoRTY-rOUR members OF native regi-
ment at Dharmasala, India, have died OF
cholera.
INTELLIGENCE has been received OF
an engagement between the forces led
by Ell Senoussi, the Tunisan, and the
Mahdists and that the followers of the
Mahdi were defeated. Ell Senoussi has
captured FL Obeid, the capital of Kor-
dofan.
Mn GLADSTONE was taken sick on the
14th.
Snow covers the Central Alps OF
Austria. and the country looks more
like winter than midsummer.
THE river Adige in Tyrol has over
flowed its banks, and half of the city of
Trent Austria, is submerged.
As President Carnot was entering the
Champs Elysees, Paris, on the i4th
man fred blank cartridge at him. The
Pres dent was unframed.
A MEETING calling for retaliation on
account Of the Mckinley Tariff bill was
held at Sheffield, England, recently.
THE potato, oats, barley and turnip
crops of Ireland are reported in first
class condition.
The Salvador Government has de-
clared the country in state OF siege.
war with Guatemala being imminent
There are 10000 troops on the frontier
The English Government has accord
ed an increase of pay and other conces-
sions to the telegraphers
TIE Bishop of Limerick has severely
censured Dillon, the Parnellite member
of Parliament. for impugning the in
tegrity of the Pope.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
ouNPowpER EXPLOSION.

Sixteen Tons Of Powder on the Cars -
plOde-Ten Persons Killed aud Many In
Jurcd.
CINCINNATI, July l6.-A terrible ex-
plosion occurred late yesterday after
noon at Kings powder mills on the
Little Miami railroad twenty-eight
miles east OF this city by which at least.
ten persons were killed and q dozen or
more seriously injured.
Two empty freight cars were being
rolled on to q side track whore car
containing 500 kegs Of gunpowder was
standing. As the cars struck there was
terrific explosion and Immediately
afterward another car containing 500
kegs Of gunpowder, making 1900 kegs
altogether.
William Frauly, brakeman in the
service of the Little Miami road, was
standing on one OF the empty cars when
the explosion occurred. His body must
have been blown to atoms, as no trace
Of 1t has been found. Five other per-
sons, supposed to be employees OF the
powder company, were killed.
The Kings Powder Company and the
Peters cartridge works have works on
both sides of the river along the rail-
road. The explosion occurred on the
south side and the destruction was
enormous. There are number OF cot
tages occupied by workmen in the pow
der factory situated close to the track.
These were scattered by the explosion
and their inmates injured.
Twelve or fifteen girls at work in the
cartridge factory were crippled by the
explosion and the railway station, or
the freight house belonging to the Lit
tie Miami railroad together with all the
adjacent buildings, were set on fire and
totally consumed.
The havoc wrought by the explosion
of these sixteen tons OF powder was
dreadful. The track and ties OF the
railroad were fairly torn out of the
ground and great hole plowed in the.
ground.
The Peters cartridge factory was
burned to the ground and nothing but q
mass of blackened, smoldering ruins
remain to mark the spot where the
building stood.
As soon as the news reached this city,
about five o'clock, a relief train was
to the scene OF the disaster
with superintendent Peters and a.
large party Of surgeons on board and
relief was afforded the sufferers as soon
as possible.
The latest advices are that ten per-
sons, mostly railway employees, have
been killed, and thirty or forty OF the
mill employees wounded.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
NEW SILVER NOTES.
Description OF the New Money We VIII
Soon Get.

Description OF the New Money We VIII
Soon Get.
WASHINGTON, July 16.-The President
and Secretary Window have approved
the designs OF the new treasury notes
provided for the new Silver bill. which
were recently prepared at the bureau Of
engraving and printing in anticipation
of the passage Of the bill. These notes
will be of eight different denomina-
tions, as follows: One dollar, two dol
lar, five dollar, ten dollar, twenty dol
lar, fifty dollar one hundred dollar and
one thousand dollar. While each note
has a distinctive design outside of its
value designation, they all resemble in
form and general characteristics the
present legal tender note. They will
all be printed in black on the face and
green on the back.
A new feature of the notes. intended
to prevent raising or alteration, is the
printing of their value in big, black let
tiers across the back. This will be done
in the case of the ones, twos, fives, tens,
twenties and fifties. Black figures will
be used in case OF the 500 and the 81, 900
notes, as the width OF the note will not
admit Of the use Of letters of the de-
sired size. They will say on their face
that they are redeemable in coin and on
their backs that they are legal tender
for all debts, public and private. Por-
traits will be displayed on the different
notes, so far as selected, as follows: Ex-
Secretary Stanton on the 81, General
Thomas on the SIS, General Sherman on
the $40, Admiral Farragut on the 800
and General Meade on the 1000 The
vignettes for the 50, SEQ and $50 notes
have not yet been. decided upon.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

IT is reported that in riot near
Hears, Barnwell County, S. C., between
thirty negroes, armed with rifles, and
twenty-five white men, one negro was
killed and q number Of persons
wounded.
FIVE North Carolina negroes who tried
to escape their labor contract in More
house Parish, La, were shot and killed
recently by a posse that went in pur-
suit. 1t was stated the negroes COM
menced the firing.
FIRE in Denton. Tex, destroyed the
principal business block, causing $780,
600 loss
PRAIRIE fires arc sweeping over the
ranges Of Western Texas, but though
they are already Of vast extent very lit
tie real damage has been done.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
THE SOUTH.

THE South cottonseed mills and re-
finery near Atlanta, Ga, was burned re-
Gently. The entire building and 200, 900
gallons Of oil were destroyed. The loss
was $1,000 4~
A FATAL race riot occurred at Starts
mill pond, Fayette County, Ca, recent
~. The trouble commenced in q dis
pute over some wine between negro
and white man. After the fighting it
was found that eighteen were killed
and wounded. Four of the dead were
negroes.
ALFRED COOPER, colored, was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala. He smoked Gig
arctic until the black cap was drawn
over his face.
AT Ysleta, Tex, a terrible faction
fight was reported on the night OF the
18th for possession OF the city govern
ment Quite number were killed and
wounded. t
THE Trades and Labor Assembly Of
Louisville, KY, has removed the boy
colt from the Courier-Journal and
Times, caused by the employing of nom
union printers.
A PARTY Of thirteen were out rowing
on Lake Alachua, Fla, when the
boat capsized and Mrs. Burkheim, her
daughter and Miss Tillie Brown were
drowned. The others were rescued.
FIRE at Brunswick, Ga, on the 18th,
commencing at Littlefield's coal wharf,
destroyed property amounting to $780,
600. Three lives were probably lost.
FIRE in Dallas, Tex, destroyed the
Gould building and the Merchants Ex-
change, causing $50, 900 losses.
GENERAL HARMON, who at one time
was nominated for Governor OF Texas
by the Greenbackers, was killed re-
Gently by s. T. Cooney, at Birmingham,
Tex, for slandering Cooney's wife.
CONSTABLE PERRY and a deputy have
been killed and Buck Fugate captured
in battle in Perry County, Ky.
DR. N. w. MITCHELL, pastor of the
Broadway Presbyterian Churchi Fort
Worth, Tex, has been arrested for
forgery. He victimized nearly all the
banks N the city, and the money OBJ
tanned sby forging checks amounted to
something over 81 800; 90 this amount
he made good 5000.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SECRETARY RUsK has decided to
station inspectors at the leading British
ports so as to be able to prove to the
British Government that contagious
disease does not exist in American
cattle.
The President has approved the bill
for public building at Paris, Tex, and
that increasing the cost of the building
At Fort Worth, Tex.
TIE Secretary Of State has been in
formed that the Mexican Government
will issue NO further permits to aliens
to acquire real estate within twenty
leagues Of the frontier, until the bound
airy between the two Republics shall
have been finally adjusted.
THE President has sent to Congress
communications from Secretary Blaine
regarding international American pro-
lection Of patents and copyrights and
measures for the protection OF public
health against contagious diseases.
THE Senate has confirmed Adam E.
King, Of Maryland, as Consul General
at Paris
The bill reported to the Senate from
the Committee on Public Lands for the
disposal Of the Fort Hays military reser-
walton gives to the Kansas militia for
State camp purposes section Of the
land.
The President on the 14th signed the
Silver bill.
A STORY is published stating that two
Spanish Seniors were in Washington
semi-oficially to negotiate for the sale
OF Cuba to the United States. Twohun-
dred million dollars was the alleged
price.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
THE EAST.

THE coroner's jury In the Dunbar,
Pa. mine disaster has returned verdict
holding Superintendent Robert Lang
criminally responsible for the disaster.
THE celebrated General John C. Free
mont, first candidate of the Republican
party for President died from inflam-
nation OF the bowels at New York on
the 18th in the seventy-eighth year of
his age.
The Henry Miller brewery, Philadel-
phia, was damaged 100000 by fire the
other day. Two men were slightly in
jured.
ARCHIBALD MCDONALD, noted Cana
dian desperate confined in the Jail at
Canton. N. Y, recently broke his ball
and chain, threw the jailer into a cell
and locked him up and escaped.
ENGLISH capitalists have purchased
many Of the pump works in the East
and have organized q huge company.
THE yacht Marion. of South Boston,
from Rye beach to Pigeon cove, struck a
rock near Portsmouth, N. h, and sunk.
The crew Of four got into the tender,
which was swamped several times, and
three Of them were drowned.
EorHTEe has been heard Of the Glou.
cester Mass fishing schooner William
Rice since April s, and It is feared the
vessel and crew Of sixteen men have
been lost
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
MoHLER TlcKLED.
No GrasshOpper SO Pleased Over the
Glorious Rain.

No GrasshOpper So Pleased Over the
Glorious Rain.
TOPEKA, Kan, July 16.-Hon. Martin
Mohler, secretary of the State Board of
Agriculture, is about as happy as any
body in the State in consequence Of the
splendid rain. II regard the rain as the.
salvation of the corn crop of the State"
said Mr.. Mohler. There has been
great deal of exaggeration
and scare about the condition Of
the crop in this State. There
were only few localities where
the drought had hurt corn much. Those
were so limited that ! feel justified in
saying that the rain has made the corn
of the whole State. My best informa-
ton is that the downfall covered the
greater part of the State, and that it.
was heaviest in the sections needing it
worst, the southern and northeastern
portions. 1t is true that few more
days OF the drought would have killed
the greater portion Of the crop, but a.
miss in this case was as good as mile"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
CONGRESSIONAL.

SO4NoANMa1g1AOkNfAAa
WHEN the Senate met on the 10th consid.
GRAFTON OF the conference report on the Sill.
Yer bill was resumed and Senator Morgan
spoke against It. When debate closed q
vote was taken and the report agreed to by
% yeas TO 26 nays. Adjourned. "A large
part Of the time OF the House was occupied
In attempts to approve the journal, the
Democrats making the point OF no quorum
present The journal was finally approved
and the conference reports on the Dip.
lomatlc bill and the Agricultural bill agreed
20. The Land Grant Forfeiture bill was
then considered In Committee Of the Who.c
until adjournment
In the Senate on the nth Senator Teller
introduced Joint resolution declaring II TO
Be- the determined policy Of the United
States TO use both gold and silver as full
legal tender and lnstructing the President
90 invite tho Governments of the Latin
Union countries and such other nations as
he may deem advisable 20 Join the United
States In q conference to adopt q common
ratio between gold and silver. etc, which
was referred. Tho Shipping bill was then
discussed until adjournment. E. The House
spent considerable time In counting a
quorum on several questions, and finally
received the conference report on the Silver
bill, which went over by agreement one
day. When the House met at the evening
session no quorum was present and the
House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 18th q remonstrance
was presented from the Board of Trade OF
jackson, Tenn, against the passage Of the
Election bill The two shipping bills were
then debated ut length. The bills were
finally passed, the Tonnage bill by 20
yeas to IS nays, and the Postal
bill by % yeas to is nays. The Tariff bill
was taken up and the Senate In executive
session confirmed Colonel Alexander Med. |
McCook to be Brigadier- General and ad.
journed. :. In the House the conference re-
port on the Silver bill was debated at length |
end agreed to by strict party vote-i22 to |
90, and the House then ajourned.
SOON after meeting on the 18th the Senate |
proceeded to consider the sundry Civil APP
bill. which occupied most of the
sitting. The bill was not completed before
adjournment. The House went into Com.
mittee Of the Whole and disposed Of one
local bill. when the point OF no quorum was
raised. and 40 members being paired. after
O fruitless attempt TO secure quorum the |
House adjourned.
TIE session Of the Senate on the 18th was !
OF little Importance. Several bills and res.
olutions we're introduced and the suDdry
Civil bill further considered but not con.
cluded. Soon after assembling the House |
went into Committee of the Whole on the |
bill approprlating 1856, ls9 for additional
clerical force to carry into effect the De-
pendent Pension act, the additional force
provided for being 6j6 clerks. A long debate
which at times was quite heated.
but the committee finally rose and the blll
passed. Adjourned
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

TWELVE business houses and several
dwellings in Sherman, N Y, we're de-
strOyed by fire recently, causing $50, 600
loss
a DISASTROUS fire occurred at Phila-
delphia on the 18th, breaking out at At
lxinson's planning mill, Tenth street and
Susquehanna avenue. The aggregate
loss reached $500. 200.
THE iron and steel workers Of the
New Jersey steel and iron works at
Trenton have struck because the super
intendent has refused to sign the scale
in the absence of President Abram 5.
Hewitt in Europe.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
THE WEST.

ALBERT W. WEBB, chief of police o
Rockford, ILL.,, shot himself dead tn,
other day. TWAS reported he had com
mitted forgery.
TwENTY-NINE buildings in Ithaca
Mich, were destroyed by fire the othel
night Loss, $50, 600; insurance, S25, 900
EDWARD d. GALLAGHER was hanged
at Vancouver. Wash, for q murder last
November. He died cursing the sheriff
THERE was an explosion and fire or
the lake steamer Tioga at Chicago on
the 18th. A number Of stevedores en-.
gagged in unloading were burned to
death, though desperate efforts were
made to rescue them from the hold.
COLONEL ALEXANDER Med. McCooK
has been nominated Brigadier-General.
He was congratulated at Fort Leaven-
worth, where he was in command.
RAY HAWK, a boy, and Fred Arm
strong, man. were killed by choke
damp in an old shaft at What Cheer,
Iowa.
A SHOCKING calamity occurred on Lake
Pepin, Mimi, on the evening OF the 18th.
A tornado struck the steamer Sea Wing,
loaded with excursionists, which was
overturned and nearly all the unfor-
Inmates on board drowned.
The wheat crop of the Northwest is
now reported likely to be $4,000. 900
bushels, the fields being in fine condi-
ton.
The recent terrible cyclone was the
cause of the loss of at least fifty lives at
Lake Gervaise, MINI.
A PARTY Of German picnickers while
the track at Baden, Cal, was
run into by a train and four Of the party
were killed.
In a collision between a passenger
and construction train near Madison
Vile, O., two engineers, two fremen
and mail agent were injured.
Two hundred and fifty coal miners
Of Gallup. n. NJ, have struck for an in
crease in wages and decrease in the
ton weight Deputy sheriffs are on
guard.
CHICAGO Democrats have made two
nominations In the
First district w. C. Ewing. ex-United
States district attorney, was nominated,
and in the Fourth General w. c. New
berry was named. The First district is
now represented by Abner Taylor, and
the Fourth by G. E. Adams.
TWENTY-FIVE bodies of victims by the
disastrous explosion on the steamer
Tioga at Chicago have been recovered.
The Security warehouse and adioin-
ng premises at Minneapolis, Mimi,
we're destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
losses run into the hundreds of thou
sands.
Mrs. HETTY GREEN, of New York, has
won her case in Chicago for property
worth over million dollars, formerly
owned by George w. Gage, but taken by
her on foreclosure of a mortgage for
s150, 200.
JOHN RoTH died at Galena, ILL.,, on
the 18th after being without food on ac-
count Of paralysis for xty days.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
KILLED RY Lightning.

SCRANTON, Pa, July 16-During the
storm last night Swan NJ. Carlson. ..
miner who was sleeping on the floor,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. The bolt passed through an
open window, STRUCK him in the breast
and passing down the right leg burned
ittoA crisp. He was twenty-eight years
Of age, unmarried and his mothers only
support
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-02-15
STRUCK A SUNKEN PIER.
Mississippi S:eamer Sunk the Me =
phis Bridge.

Mississippi = Gamer Sunk on the Nj en-
phis bridge.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 10.-The tow
boat Port Eads, Capt. Nelson Davis, of
the st. Louis & Mississippi Valley Trans
portation Com pany, was sunk this morn
ing at O'Clock. at the site of the new
railroad bridge two miles below the
city. She carried crew of forty men,
and for time the widest rumors pre-
vailed, the loss of life being placed at
from twenty-five to thirty-tve; but 1t Is
now believed that only one person, the
coored chamberluaid, was drowned.
The Port Eads had tow OF Six grain
l,den barges and one luel barge, des-
tined FOR New Orleans from Cairo.
They passed the city shortly before
this morning, during a heavy fog. hug
ging the Tennessee shore. The steam
er approached the bridge slowly, but
owing to the dense fog she was unable
to locate the sunken pier. A moment
later she was seen to stop suddenly,
hang for minute, and then swing
around and settle on one side.
Men ran from every direction to the
4wl, fighting each other in panic
stricken desperation to reach IT. One
man detached the ropes holding it and
Was about 10 climb in when water
rushed over the boats deck and all ran
to the other side, when she settled
lower.
Ten of the crew were taken 10 the
United States Hospital, near by, suffer
ing from cuts and bruises, and the re-
mainder were cared for ct the houses
along the shore.
The Port Eads was valued at So, 900.
The barges and contents are uninjured.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-02-15
KIDNAPPING A SENATOR.
Sheriff Parker Placed Under Arrest =
BozemRn, Mont.

A dispatch of the Stn from Helena,
Mont, says: Sheriff Parker, who is on
his way to Helena with Senator Becker,
was arrested at Bozeman this afternoon
by the sheriff of Gallatin County, on the
charge of kidnapping the senator. He
waived eXamlnat on and was placed
under bonds. As the matter now
STANDS. Becker is at Bozeman with the
sheriff. and unless speciai is employed
lie will net reach Helena before to-
morrow.
Senator Becker was brought here on
a special train tonight. AT Bozeman
four men attempted to take the prison
er away, but were unsuccess III. Beck
er was brought into the Senate, hich
was in session, and the question wheth-
eli or not he should be fined tor con.
tempt Is now being considered by the
committee on privileges and elections.
The presence of Becker makes a quo
rum, and the Senate will probably sit
all night and pass laws, as il is expected
other Democratic absentees will be pres
ent Monday to block the proceedings.
The Republican Hcu-e and Senate
were IN session until go Oh the morn
ing Of the 9th, and passed eight appro-
prlation bills. Becker, the Democratic
senator who WAS brought in by Deputy
sheriff Parker, took no part in the
proceedings, but was counted present
by the lleute tenant-goyernor, thus max
ing quorum.