The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-09-10

MRS LAURA MOTT, OF South Hero
VT, has given $50, 900 for a home 70.
destitute children,
THE three Illinois monuments on the
field OF Gettysburg were dedicated on
the Sd, in the presence of Gov. Fifer,
ex-Gov. Beveridge and other notables
from Illinois.
A REPORT is current that the BanSue
de Paris has offered Russia d loan 81
Et2, 600, 900 at pei cent.
M. III. COLEMAN, of Halifax county,
Va, a negro, has resigned from the
postal service because of threatening
letters sent him, supposed by white
employees.
THERE is little probability that the
Tennessee legislature will repeal the
convict lease law. On the contrary,
the house has decided to investigate the
labor commissioner, Ford, for agitatine
the miners.
| The B. V. Page Co., of Chicago; oil
and lard refners, has assigned. Liza
bilities, 500, 600.
ALL the coal miners about Briceville.
Ill, have struck for weekly paw in ac-
With b1lG NEW lava
A LARGE majority Of. the Roman
Catholic cardinals are said to be in
favor of electing only an Italian pope.
THE execution of Lottis BullinG. the
ST. Joseph wife murderer, at Savannah,
Mo, was attended by sensational iri=
cident. While the minister was pray
ing by his side in the cell, Bulling drew
n raVrn1Vtn1s 1xy1iah h. H.
some manner, and shot himself. The
wound, however was only slight and
did not prevent his being dragged
shrieking to the gallows.
A VIENNA dispatch says that the
Russian villages near the Russo Austrian
frontier are thronged with soldiers.
The guards, who used to be merely
gendarmes to prevent smuggling, have
given place to whole regiments per-
manently quartered at every available
point.
HARMON MURRAY, the notorious negro
desperate, was killed recently near
Archer, Fla. by a colored lad whom he
was coercing into crime. The boy,
watching an opportunity, shot Murray
dead. He will get 81, 500 in rewards.
THE amount secured by the train rob-
bers at Samuels, Tex, is said to reach
$4,000.
RECENT cold weather is said to have
destroyed the corn crop in parts of Wis
consin and Minnesota.
The trades unions of Great Britain
have been formally invited to partici-
pate in the international congress in
Chicago in 1898
THE story of dynamite explosion at
White Pigeon, Mich, in which it was
stated that sixteen lives had been lost,
is declared fake pure and simple
The Georgia senate has passed the
house bill disqualifying physicians adj
dicted to drink from the practice of
their profession. Gov. Northen will, it
is said, sign the bill.
LONDON cable advices report the total
destruction by fire of the British steel
ship Carrick, owned in Glasgow and
bound from Dundee to San Francisco
with $500 tons of Scottish splint coal
Four soldiers, ]. O'Keefe, Corporal
Offerson, j. Brown and Patrick Hogan
belonging to company H, Fourth United
States infantry, were out on Lake Coe..<
dAlene in large sail boat when they
were thrown into the water. O'Keefe,
Offerson and Brown were drowned.
A NEW steamship line from Baltimore
to London is to be started by the Balti-
more Storage & Lighterage Co.
JUDGE SMITH, of Manchester, n. H.,
has decided that the Granite State
Provident association is solvent and in
legal business.
THE steam yacht Albatross, valued at
500, 900, has been wrecked near New
foundland. The only son of DR.. j. b.
EggleSton, the owner, was drowned.