Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-31

w. Hahn. manager Of the farmers Ill
lance store ut Bonner Springs, Kan,
has disappeared. The stores affairs
are In very bad shape. Suicide Is hint
cd at.
All Washington Is on the qui vive
for the temperance OF Secretary Blain
10 determine positively the state OF his
health and his probable political fu-
ture.
Allerton tried to break his record at
Independence, Ia, but failed TO make
only 2:l0l.
Good reports from Kansas and Mis-
souri, we're made to the Congregational
wo mems board Of missions.
The American association has admit
ted only Chicago. There are small
chances for Kansas & ty and other ap.
Iplicants unless there be twelve clubs.
The paying teller OF the New Or
leans national bank has confessed to
Sl90. COO shortage. The bank is still in
good condition.
The national Wesleyan Methodists ut
Grand Rapids, Mich. have cast out Il
minister for belonging 20 the G. A. II
Farmer Smith denies enmitv TO Sec
rotary Mohler OF the Kansas board o!
agriculture.
Benson. the Leavenworth, KS, butch
err, is alleged to have made another con-
fession o! the usual kind.
Secretary Blaine said in Boston that
he had never felt stronger than at pres
ent. Ais appetite Is vigorous.
An outbreak OF the Utes OF western
Colorado is threatened over hunting
rights. Troops have been sent to the
scene.
The Indiana farmers alliance favors
purchases from the national trade union
and insurance in the national alliance
aid association. The programme OF
speeches at the national convention has
been arranged.
The Minneapolis -four record was
broken last week, 1876. 900 barrels being
made. All the mi)(ers are overrushed
with orders.
A. o Burch. grocer OF Racine, Wis.,.
assigned Wednesday. His assets are
! IS. QUO, liabilities $4,000.
Women OF Hiawatha, Kas., tore down
the posters and Autographs OF the Lon
Ion Gaiety Girls from the bill boards.
and denounced those who attend the
performance as social outcasts.
The twelfth general conference OF the
Epworth League began at Topeka, KS,
Wednesday.
Earnings OF Michigan railroads for
the first six months OF 1891 were $43.-
J53, SIG. against $42. 7S5. $50 for the COR
responding period OF 1890.
Omaha insurance agents are wrang-
ling over rates, and contemplate max
ing q general reduction to cripple cer-
tain firms.
Fitch c. Cook OF Peoria. ILL.,, was
elected grand chancellor OF the Knights
of Pythias. Andrew +. Link OF Chica.
70, xas presented with past chancel-
lor's jewel.
". 5. Dolph, cashier for the Union
Pacific at Denver. Col, was arrested
charged with embezzling $1,000. His
parents live in Chicago.
William Readings barn and other
farm buildings near Decatur, ILL.,. burn
ed Wednesday. Loss $1,000, insurance
s400.
Sylvester Franklin Wilson OF New
York, protector OF female base ball
teams. was sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment Wednesday for abducting a
i5-year-old girl.
John Roberts, Grant Cousins and
James Lawson escaped from jail al
Shelbyville, Ill.
Lock & JEWELS carriage factory ut
Amesbury. Mass. and machine shop
burned. Loss $4,000 partly insured.
The National Street Railway asSocia-
ton is in session at Pittcburg. Pa.
Mrs. Newton Smith OF Moberly, Mo-.
fell dead, after having watched a. her
sick sons bedside.
A banner declaring for jeremiah
Simpson for president was carried in
the alliance procession at Salina, Kan
saS.
Special legislation will be necessary
to admit Cinnamon to prepare their ma
tional exhibit at the worlds fair.
Eugene Garcia. teller OF the Louisi-
ana national bank at New Orleans, con-
fesses to q shortage OF $4,000.
After O shut down OF seven months
the Anaconda mine OF Butte, Mont,
has been opened and men put to work.
Two mail pouches were stolen from
the Little Rock depot by James Ellis,
colored, who was subsequently, arrested.
John c. Austin OF New York, who has
been missing since July 4, Is alleged by
insurance companies to he in hiding.
The transnississippi congress, in ses-
sion at Omaha, adopted resolutions Ia
yoring the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver. -,
Miss Mamie Gregory OF Jacksonville,
Ill, married in Paris TO j. p. Andrews
Of Grand Rapids, Mich, proves to have
been deceived.
President Cross OF the Missouri, Kan
sas g. Texas road, has declared that the
general Offices OF that company shall be
removed TO Parsons, Kansas, at once.
Casey, ILL.,, is infested by burglars
who make nightly raids on the business
houses.
A natural gas explosion occurred in
Pittsburg, Pa, Tuesday, which killed
five persons.