Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-09-19
GENERAL NEWS.
The Happenings of a Week
DOMESTIC.

formed close into land.
Mrs. X. II. Gaines Is under arrest at
Vincennes, Ind, charged with beating
her adopted baby TO death.
Near Echo Lake, Mich, bald eagle
caught up an Indian babe. 1t was too
heavy, but when dropped the fall killed
1t.
Soldiers are driving all white men
from the Sac and Fox and Iowa reserva-
tions in the Indian Territory.
big Ed" Hennessey, the notorious
confidence man, escaped by walking
bodily out OF Chicago court room.
Deacon Morgan. with Winchester,
put a gang OF White Cappers to light
at Granville. Ill.
Nine. Keller fell 800 feet from her
balloon into lake at Peoria, Ill. She
will probably die.
Dennis O'Flaherty. a wealthy Ne
braska ranch owner, is under arrest at
Harrington, Neb., charged with poison
ing three neigEbors.
Minneapolis rejected st. Paul's pro.
position to consolidate into one city.
Melbourne's last sttempt to produce
rain at Cheyenne was failure.
+. L. Carroll committed suicide in a
San Francisco hotel by exploding a dy-
Mantle bomb The windows were shat
tered, and portions OF Caroli's remains
were blown into the street.
Officer Kelly fatally shot James
Dewey at San Francisco for Directing n
the policcman's attacl, on cripple.
The peoples party OF Massachusetts
nominated the following state ticket:
Henry Winn Of Maiden, governor:
William ]. Shields of Boston, lieuten-
ent governor: Joseph D. Gable of West
field, secretary OF state; Thomas A.
Watson of Baintree, treasurer and re-
ceiver general; William o. Wakefield
OF Lynn, auditor, Israel D. Andrews OF
Danvers. attorney general.
Chris Magee, the Pittsburg politician,
announces In an INSPIRED" interview
that Blaine will not reject unanimous
nomination.
Gustave Berger, who was a German
count OF property in Topeka. KS. was
asked for 81 by his wife to buy clothing
for the children. A few minutes after
ward MIR. Berger shot his vile and
then killed himself.
G. N. Armistead was shot at Bolton,
Miss, by Tom Davis, brother OF young |
lady whom Armistcd seduced.
Secretary Proctor has accepted Gov
ernor Pages appointment to the Uni
ted States senate TO succeed Edmunds.
The Worlds Fair commission. which
has been in session at Chicago, has ad-
lourned to meet next April.
Tom BrittOn was split in two by q
saw while at work in q saw mill in
Paris, Texas.
The steamer City OF New York ar
lived at Queenstown Tuesday, making
me best record for the eastern trip
across the Atlantic in five days, twenty
two hours and fifty minutes.
The visible supply statement of Sat-
lrday. as reported by the New York
Produce Exchange, shows: Wheat, 49,.
1852, 435 bushels; increase, 49,, 1893 BUSH
BIS. Corn, 6, 967, 1881 bushels; increase,
1855, 1928 bushels.
Bishop FOss has sustained DR.. Thorne
IN his refusal OF membership in the NJ.
Z. church OF Asbury, Iowa, to q colored
barber named McCracken.
The Hon. Redfeld Proctor, secretary
If war, has sent letter to Governor
Page OF Vermont, accepting the APP
)ointment to the seat in the senate
made vacant by the resignation OF Sena-
or Edmunds.
There was grain blockade at Kan.
,as City.
An academy to teach the process Of
brewing beer is about to begin work in
Chicago.
Massachusetts, prohibitionists placed
! negro on the state ticket for the first
Time in the history OF the state.
Two more killings have occurred in
he Barnard Sutton feud in eastern
Tennessee.
A New York newspaper asserts that
lay Gould's health demands his retire
ment from business.
The miners at Bryceville, Tenn, are
again in an ugly mood and threaten to
turn all the convict miners loose in the
Bishop Leonard, of the Episcopal
has changed the sentence OF
Rev. Howard MacQueary to perpetual
for heresY unless. he re-
Giants.
Corporation Lawyer John M. Thurs
ton and GERRY" Simpson, OF Kansas,
had lively political debate in the ro-
tunda Of a Chicago hotel.
New York republicans, in session at
Rochester, nominated ]. Sloat Fasset,
now collector OF the port Of New York,
for governor.
The Comanche Indians are about to
build number Of houses and abandon
their tepees.
zone hundred thousand Texans pro-
test against the Sunday closing OF the
worlds fair. The day u fanaticism Is
passed" This telegram from the head
quarters Of the Texas state fair asso-
citation was received at the Chicago fair
headquarters.
FOREIGN.
The Car will probably visit France
soon.
Reports Of good harvests in the eau
casus have been received by the Rus
sian government
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