Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-02
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inson, took all her papers and belong
ings from: Pittslon, Pa, and conveyed
hem to New York. :. Frank Price and
| James Harris, both colored, fought at
st. Louis aud Price died Of knife
wounds inflicted by his adversary. 80.
l.. Pioget. manager OF Daniel Sullivan's
ranch, in Buchel county, Tex, has fled
to Canada with $4,000 of his employers
money and beautiful woman. He has
been located at Toronto and will be eX-
tradited. :. In the United States Dis
trict Court ut Boston, General b. f..
Butler, who appeared for Mrs. johnson,
defendant in prosecution for pension
| forgery. was ordered from the room by
Judge Carpenter, who had the marshal
and an assistant enforce his decree.
General Butler. with tears in his eyes,
said that he yielded to force: and when
he returned to the court after the Judge
had left the bench. remarked that the
room smelled little better. -. a family
in Arkansas drank coffee in which n
ccntipede had somehow got into ard
been boiled. The mother and two
children died, but the father and two
other children pulled through with
difficulty.
John c. Cahoon, the young natural
ist of Taunton, Mass, fell from q cliff
into the sea near Placentia, Newfound-
and, recently. The body was recov-
cred Tuesday. Four carloads OF
Pinkerton guards arrived in the coke
region OF Pennsylvania to take the
place OF the militia, as Governor Patti
son will not allow the national guard to.
ne used to evict the strikers. The
National Convention OF the Republican
League convened at Cincinnati, music
hall being thronged to its fullest capac-
ity. Mayor Mosby. General Foraker,
the Hon. II. H. Powers, and President
Thurston, OF the League. made stirring
addresses. The Kansas City and
Southern railroad was sold at auction
ut Kansas City, Mo. 1t was bid in by
John L. Blair for S2j0.000 He was the
only bidder The Woman's Board 81
PRESBYTERIAN missions OF the North
western met in twentieth annual session
at Peoria, Ill. Delegates representing
twelve states and territories were pre-
sent. &. e. Tue Chickasaw nations capital
is to be moved from Tishomingo Ito Da.
Wis, station on the Santa Fe.. The
argest death record ever made in
Cleveland was made last week, when
80 persons died. La grippe is largely
&. d.. Secretary Foster said
that he thought there would
be no surplus in q national treasury
next year. He is arrasnging to apply
tito the bonded debt. The Edgar
steel works OF Carnegie & Co.,
at Pittsburg, Pa. which have been clos
d for ten weeks has resumed, giving
to 1000 men.
An advance of 1871 cents in year OPP
lion wheat was established Monday at
san Francisco the last quotation being
1884 per GENITAL. Buyer the season
.lso advanced. closing at Sl.s6.
Brigadier General John Gibson, COM
the division of the Pacific,
was placed upon the retired list. Bril-
radier General Thomas II. Ruger sue
leeds General Gibson in command
At Sumner. Ill.,. Monday, James Os-
borne. of Bridgeport, died from the
effects OF a dose of laudanum which he
frank presumably through mistake.
One thousand coal miners of the Up
per Monongahela have refused to strike
Tor eight hours May 1.-The New
York State Alliance OF farmers was Or
ranized at Hornellsville. Eleven coun-
lies were represented. Governor
Perryman OF the Creek nation, pardon
ID Samuel Logan, the school teacher
sentenced to be shot for killing James
Mcintosh. E. e. The New York police are
looking for Rocco Ossini, an Italian,
who sold his bethrothed, Amelia Gandi,
10 q house OF Ill fame and beat her nigh
unto death because she objected. 80.
Actor Daniel Kelly OF the Fairies Well"
company thumped DR.. William L.
Schoch IN Newark, n. j., for speaking
OF Miss Bessie Gray, the
actors wife. Kelly broke the doctors
nose Troop L., OF the Sixth Calvery,
entirely OF Brule Sioux, has
been organized. This, it is thought,
indicates that the Sioux are peaceably
disposed. When the fast mail on the
Fort Wayne road pulled in at Pittsburg,
last Wednesday, the doors OF the express
car failed to open as usual. They were
forced in. and j. H. Robinson, a mes
,enger for thirty years, was found in
his chair paralyzed. unable to move or
speak. He is dying in hospital.
The St. Louis Presbytery voted almost
to recommend TO the gen.
eral assembly the appointment OF
women as deaconesses. :. The annual
statistical report Of the American Iron
and Steel Association. shows that in
1890 the United States produced the
greatest amount OF iron and steel ever
by any country.
Twenty thousand people attended the
funeral OF Congressman NJ. II. Ford, at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
At st. Paul, Mimi, q crude oil ex-
ploded in $4,000 gallon tank. John
Johnson had descended into the tank
with lighted candle to repair a leak.
The gas which had accumulated at once
exploded, and set fire to the tank.
Johnson was killed. e. The visible sup
ply of wheat and corn is, respectively,
% 1856, IO6 and 2,23S,S47 bushels.
Since last report wheat decreased 2l0,-
m IL