Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-17
GENERAL REVIEW
OF the Worlds Happenings for
a Week, in Brief.
Foreign and Domestic Pointers About HI
dividuaIs-The General Course OF
Events--The Condition Of FL
nances and CropA

~ injured. ,.,
The dead body Of newly born infant
was found Saturday at tho door Oh Ut
| II. Newland. St Louis.
Jerry johnson, l5-year-old SAFE
blower. has escaped from the southern
Illinois peniten,iary. =,
Benjamin johnson was grounu u
pieces at the Central dlstillery' o|
| Louis, where he worked.
Parnells physicians refuse, Tor tht
present, to make public the cause o.
his death. 49,,
Duluth. Mimi, still reports almost
unprecedented receipts OF wheat.
Luther Darcy, the well known sprint
err. has retired.
Prairie fires are reported IS raging II
some portions Of South DaKota' ooins
great damage.
Sir john Pope Hennessey. member o
parliament from Kilkenny, is dead; nc
defeated Scully, the Parnell candidate
i for the position.
Henry NJ. Stanley has arrived in Lon
don. -o
Grand Rapids, Mich. suffered aSloo''
600 fire.
A daring jul escape occurred at Car
rolton. Texas. Seven prisoners, con-
yicted OF various crimes, gained their
liberty, and have not yet been recap
tured. :
Forty per cent OF the wheat crop IN
North Dakota is said to be in the snocS
and q large proportion is sproutlng, 50
that it will be worthless.
William Cansfeld confessed at New
Lisbon, Ohio, Tuesday, that he wreck
ed the train at New Palestine, ONO, u
few days ago IN which three men were
killed.
Governor Campbell OF Ohio is indig-
nant over an article copied by the On
cinnati Commercial Gazette from the
New York Recorder, relative his imam
cial condition. The governor tele-
praphed his attorneys in New York 70
demand retraction from the Recorder.
and II it is refused to bring suit Tor
libel. A retraction was also demanded
of the Cincinnati Commercial GaZett
The trial OF DR.. Briggs on the charge
OF heresy is set for Tuesday, Nov. 4. In
the Scotch Presoy terian church, at New
York.
Rivers in Oklahoma, swollen by the
heavy rains. have destroyed the prop
erty OF ''boomers" and washed ous rail-
roads.
Fire at Ottawa, Ont, Tuesday de-
stroved Barkerville BROTHERS wholesale
grocery house and Kennedy Mcdonald S
agricultural warehouse. The loss, $780,
600. is covered by insurance.
More than 80 per cent OF the clam OF
the Union Pacific creditors have been
exchanged for three GEAR bonds.
Charles F. Emerson died at oregon
ILL.,, Tuesday, aged 70 years.
Mime. Zazel, performer with cir
cus, fell from q wire, distance of fifty
feet at Las Vegas, Nm. NO oones
we're broken, but she was badly shaken
A heroic equestrian statue OF General
u. S. Grant was unveiled N Lincoln
park, Chicago Thursday.
Miss Elizabeth Bisland, the heroine
of an around-the-world trip, was we'd
ded in New York.
James G. Blaine, jr., pleads poverty
in answer to his wife's petition Tor d.
vorce in Sioux Falls, S. ID.
Hogs are dying OF strange disease IN
the country northwest OF Goshen, Ind.
The animals are usually sick two Oh
three weeks before dying.
At Durango, COL, Baron NorrdensK,,
iold, the Swedish nobleman charged
with desecrating ancient lndiap graves
was dismissed.
General Franz Sigel delivered an ad-
dress at the German day celebration at
Fort Madison, Iowa.
Charges OF defamation of character
were made in the Brotherhood OF Train
men convention at Galesburg. Ill,
against Secretary Sheahan by Editor
Rogers OF the Trainmen's Journal.
Bishops Esher and Bowman OF the
German Evangelical church, were
found not guilty OF charges against
them bv a committee appointed by the
conference at Indianapolis.
d r. Baker, manufacturer OF boots
and shoes at Abingdon. Mass, MADE Ian
assignment to G. A. Hatch and l. r.
Loring of Boston.
lanes Mcclure was burned to death
at Braddock, Pa, in q fire that con-
sumed six houses.
Peter A. Worthley OF New York,
dealer in hats and caps. made an as
Segment to George A. Dunn without
preferences. -, ..,o.
A pool OF rice mills is in operation
now in New Orleans.
The Roger murder case is before the
court at Jerseyville, Ill.
Rev. Mr.. Brady, Sedalias athletic
preacher, has resigned his pastorate.
A movement is said to be on foot In
western Colorado to divide the state.
A monument to the late Samuel n.
Wood OF Woodsdale, Kas., is to be
erected.
Incendiaries destroyed the records OF
Daviess county, Ind, and the court
house.
The society OF the Army OF the Ten
nessee will erect monument to Gen.
Sherman.
The tin plate consumers OF the coun-
try have organized to secure q change
in the tariff act
DaD,,tv limited States Marshal W. L.