The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-10-15
GENERAL REVIEW
Of the Worlds Happenings for
a Week, in Brief.
Foreign And Domestic Pointers About In
divIduaIs-The General Course OF
Events-The Condition of FL
nances and Crops.

tunnel were Overtaken by q train, tw
being killed outright, and three fatal
| ly injured.
The dead body of a newly born infan
was found Saturday at the door OF Dr.
ii. Newiand. St Louis.
Jerry johnson, a 15-year-Old SAT
blower, has escaped from the souther.
Illinois penitentiary.
Benjamin johnson was ground t
pieces at the Central distillory, 81
Louis, where he worked.
Parnell's physicians refuse, for tn
present, to make public the cause
| his death.
! Duluth, Mimi, still reports almos
unprecedented receipts of wheat.
Luther Darcy, the we'll known sprint
er, has retired
Prairie fires are reported ss raging il
| some portions of South Dakota, doing
great damage.
Sir john Pope Hennessey, member o
| parliament from Kilkenny, is dead. H
defeated Scully, the Parnen candidate
for the position.
Henry NJ Stanley has arrived in Lon
don.
Grand Rapids, Mich, suffered as150,
600 fire.
A daring Jail escape occurred at Car
roltOn, Texas. Seven prisoners, con
victed 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 shock
and large proportion is sprouting, SO
that it will be worthless.
William Cansfield confessed at New
Lisbon, Ohio, Tuesday, that he wreck
ed the train at New Palestine, Ohio, a
few days ago In which three men were
killed
Governor Campbell of Ohio is indig-
nant over an article copied by the Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette from the
New York Recorder, relative his finan-
cial condition. The governor tele-
graphed his attorneys in New York to
demand a retraction from the Recorder.
and If it is refused to bring suit for
libel. A retraction was also demanded
of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazett.
The trial of DIR. Briggs on the charge
of heresy is set for Tuesday, Nov. 4. in
the Scotch Presby terian church, at New
York.
Rivers in Oklahoma, swollen by the
heavy rains, have destroyed the prop
erty of "boomers" and washed out rail
roads.
Fire at Ottawa, Ont, Tuesday de-
stroyed Baskerville Brothers wholesale
grocery house and Kennedy McDonald's
agricultural warehouse. The loss, $780,
300, is covered by insurance.
More than so per cent of the claim of
the Union Pacific creditors have been
exchanged for three-year bonds.
Charles f. Emerson died at Oregon,
ILL.,, Tuesday, aged IS years.
Nine. Zazel, performer with cir
;us, fell from wire, distance Of fifty
eet at Las Vegas, NM. No bones
we're broken, but she was badly shaken
Up.
A heroic equestrian statue of General
J. S. Grant was unveiled in Lincoln |
park, Chicago, Thursday.
Miss Elizabeth Bisland, the heroine
# an around the-world trip, was we'd
led in New York.
James G. Blaine, jr., pleads poverty
n answer to his wife's petition for a di-
orce in Sioux Falls, S. d.
Hogs are dying of strange disease in
he country northwest of Goshen, Ind
he animals are usually sick two or
hree weeks before dying.
At Durango. Col, Baron Nordensk-
Did, the Swedish nobleman charged
18th Decorating ancient Indian graves,
'as dismissed.
General Franz Sigel delivered an ad-
ress at the German day celebration at
ort Madison, Iowa.
Charges of defamation of character
ere made in the Brotherhood of Train
len convention at Galesburg, ILL.,, I
gainst Secretary Sheahan by Editor
.ogers of the Trainmen's Journal. ;
Bishops Esher and Bowman of the
erman Evangelical church, were :
,und not guilty of charges against ;
hem by committee appointed by the
difference at Indianapolis.
d. B. Baker, manufacturer of boots {
nd shoes at Arlington. Mass, made an
ssignmeEt to G. A. Hatch and T. +.
oring of Boston. /
James Mcclure was burned to death
Braddock, Pa, in a fire that con-
lmed six houses. s
Peter A Worthley OF New York, |
ealer in hats and caps. made an as !
gnment to George A. Dunn without
references. &
A pool of rice mills is in operation G
DIV In New Orleans. e
The Roger murder case is before the
,urt at Jerseyville, III.
Rev. Mr.. Brady, Sedalia's athletic
,eacher. has resigned his pastorate.
A movement is said to be on foot in
estern Colorado to divide the state. d
A monument to the late Samuel Y.
Tood of Woodsdale, Kas., is to be a
ected. C
Incendiaries destroyed the records of T
aviess county, Ind, and the court
)use.
The society of the Army of the Ten V
,ssee will erect monument to Gen. Y
herman. c
The tin plate consumers of the coun-
Y have organized to secure a change /
the tariff act. b
Deputy United States Marshal W. L. 2
aylor was killed by ex-senator w. G.
Ogers at Skiatook, |. I. t
A letter relating to the Burlington. n
:, public building site, has been dis e
vered to have been tempered with. b
A big robbery of sealskins and i'm
rted shawls, valued at thousands of fl
liars, is reported as occurring on the y
Paul road, while in transit between 5,
ID Wing and Lake City, Wis, Satur- n
y.
A dispatch from Guthrie, o. T., SAYS A
has been received there q
I'm Washington that the Nez Perces 81
in the heart OF tho Chero-