Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-14
GENERAL REVIEW
OF the Worlds Happenings for
a Week, In Brief.
Foreign and Domestic Pointers About In
dividuals-The General Course Of
Events-The Condition Of FL
nances and CropA

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closed its doors.
An epidemic similar to Ia grippe ha.
attacked many persons In San Jose, the
capital OF Costa Rica.
The American Library association. er
route east from Salt Lake City, stopped
q day in Kansas City.
Peter E. Wills has been found guilty
ct Columbus, Ind, Of the paternity o
the child Of his niece, Birdie Doll.
The Annandale Opera company Il
stranded at Cincinnati. the manage
ment having failed to pay the singers.
John ]. Morton, o prominent insur
ance agent OF Evansville, Ind, Is re
ported TO be 90, 900 short in his accounts
The state bank OF Homer, Nebraska
was robbed Sunday morning OF $1,000 by
by two masked men who made gooc
their escape.
George vassar, q negro burglar, wa:
shot and killed by Sheriff Ennis OF Mil
ledgeville, Ga, Sunday night, while
trying 10 escape.
The extremists who were expelled
from the socialist convention O short
time since, have determined TO organ
lie an independent body.
The advance OF large colony Of Ger
mans seeking homes In free, prohibi-
ton Kansas, passed through the barge
onice, New York, Sunday.
Bod burglars got away with $1,000
In cash and considerable valuable jew
alrv, fvov,, Tho h0,,oa ~ Gonr0a Scott Az
Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
w. A. Wilson, o Cincinnati drummer,
is under arrest In Wichita. Kansas, for
criminally assaulting Ph9nice Oswell,
girl under the age OF consent.
At q Halloween party at Fort Madison,
Iowa. Oscar S. Peters was shot through
the heart by pistol in the hands OF q
friend who didn't know 1t was loaded. "
Minnesota farmers are being robbed
by scoundrels calling themselves agents
OF the Chicago Purchasing company,
and initiate their victims for s. apiece.
A boy named Toelle accidentally shot
and killed his step sister, Rosa Curry,
aged "a, at Terre Haute, Indiana, Mon
day, while hunting with Flobert gun.
Some miscreaut misplaced the switch
at Wann., ILL.,, Saturday night, thereby
wrecking an engine and eleven cars OF
the Chicago & Alton. No persons in
jured.
The American Library association, at
its recent meeting in Chicago, elected
the following officers: President, K. A.
Lindervelt: secretary, c. F. Hills; treas
urer, H. j. Carr.
Jim Lee, O Chinaman, and his wife,
Won Chong. have been arrested at
Nashville. Tenn, at the instance OF Lee
Kee, another celestial. who says Mrs.
Lee robbed him OF $1,000.
The body Of an Italian named Francis
co was found In the streets OF Elizabeth,
N. j., with deadly stilletto wound in
the left breast. Michael Servi and wife
have been arrested for the crime.
The schooner Reuben Eastman, sup
posed to have foundered in the terrible
gale OF October %, has turned up at
Chatham. Mass, with her crew and car
60 all right, after fearful experience.
II. A. p. Cutter, Hawaiian minister
TO the United States, died at the Ever
EFT house, New York, Sunday. He was
born in Honolulu in 1873, OF American
parents, and was educated in Boston,
Mass.
Geo. Kurtz. 13 years old, took hold Of
his gun by the muzzle at Altamont,
Illinois, discharging the entire load
into his wrist, which was amputated,
the boy dying in very short time az
terward.
At Lumber City, Georgia, William
Blash, negro, was sentenced to be
hanged on the 2lst instant, for the MUIR
der Of Thomas Bone, prominent citi-
zen OF Montgomery county, just one
week previous.
The wires OF the various telegraph
companies, which were removed from
the floor OF the board Of trade over
year ago at Chicago, by order Of that
institution, have been put in again and
are now working as before.
A desperate giving his name as Car
bio Boulavaird, q trader OF Buenos
Ayres, was arrested Saturday night for
attempting to chloroform and rob q fell
1OW BttoCOhSCl AZ a OOhAp SesA W.
tween Paris and Havre, France.
1t is automatically stated that no COM
plant has been received by the state
department from the Gillian govern
ment OF the conduct OF Minister Egan,
and that his recall has not been consid-
ere6 by the president or secretary Of
state.
Larkin Nix, who killed George Mize
about q month ago, was taken from the
guard house at Meigg's station by an
organized mob, and fairly riddled with
bullets. He was q married man, but
became infatuated with Mics young
daughter.
Owing to the fact that the employees
of two firms of bootmakers are striking,
all the London bootmakers have agreed
TO declare q lockout AS result 5000
bootmakers were locked out to-day and
%, 900 more will ultimRtely be treated
in the same manner.
The Parnellsund anti arnell factions