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

lions oil professional gamblers.
At the cabinet meeting Monday Pres
ident Harrison and his advisers are be-
lieved TO have considered the state
ments OF Minister Egan and Captain
Schley relative TO recent occurrences In
Chilli. They also discussed the riots
against foreigners in China.
Argument is in progress In the supe-
rior court In Indianapolis, Ind. In the
case O! Philip G. Decker, president Of
the German bank OF Evansville, charged
with contempt OF the state board OF tax
commissioners In not furnishing q list
OF depositors to the board.
In the London grain market foreign
wheat Is steadier, though prices are
against sellers.
Butter is In fair demand on the Elgin
board OF trade; 1900 pounds sold at %
cents, against % cents one year ago.
Masked men gained entrance to the
Cheyenne, Wyo., jail by strategy, and
liberated two convicted murderers. One
was recaptured.
John and Rube Elan, charged with
the death OF Mrs. Lo0per at Woodbury..
Tenn, on the night of May IA, were ar
rested at Hillsboro. Texas, and will be
taken back.
Frank Hanuah's boy was fatally man
gle1 by hog at Beloit, Wis.
At Topeka. Kas.. q warrant has issued
for the arrest OF Rev. John d. Knox,
charged with embezzling 500 while
acting as president OF the Knox Bank
ing and Investment company.
Fire destroyed the Cedar Beach hotel
at Lake Wawassee, Ind. Loss 81, 900;
insurance 5000.
The Central Trust company OF New
York has been appointed receiver OF
the Chicago house OF S. V. White q
Co.. TO assist the Illinois Trust and Saw
ings bank, which hal previously been
appointed.
Deputy Sheriff B. II. Melton Of Gads-
den, Ala, was Overpowered by five con-
victs, who hanged him, but he was cut
down by officers before life was extinct.
Diexel, Morgan g. Co. OF New York,
received over g., 1000. 900 in subscriptions
Monday to the new Union Pacific notes,
making the total subscription 81. 200, 600,
or 500, 900 more than was required.
Upon covering by shorts OF :;eptem-
Der contracts, coffee advanced sixty
points Monday at New York. selling at
l4.05 cents against b. 45 cents Saturday
evening.
Last Saturday the visible supply Of
grain was: Wheat, 26,S6l, 527 bushels;
increase. 2.3l7,923 bushels. Corn, s.
$4,000 bushels; decrease, 3d., S26 BUSH
els.
White & Allen. dry goods merchants
nj I.ampasas. Tex have made an as
signmcnt. Liabilities S45. 200; assets
$4,000.
Captain Gustavus A. Hall, z. S. A.,
retired, died Sunday evening OF pneu-
monia ut San Francisco. He was born
al Frcdonia n. Y, April Is, 1927.
The annual convention OF the Ameri-
can Bankers association will be held at
New Orleans November ii and l., in
stead Of October II and 10. as first an
nouncod.
As result OF the recent experiments
with smOkeless powder, Emperor Will
liam has ordered all steel or ornament
cd helmets OF soldiers replaced by cloth
caps OF o design not yet decided upon.
The checker championship games,
twenty-five in all, with fifteen openings,
were concluded in the rooms OF the Chi
cago Chess ana Checker club. The
final score was:' Baker, B: Reed. 0:
drawn, %. Charles F. Harkcr OF Bos-
ton, The winner OF the tournament, de-
feated +. p. l: ed of Chicago for purse
OF 81, 900.
Lena Dohbc tt arrived at New York
few days ago ind was refused pcrmis-
sion to land b, ausc she had neither
husband, gua Liam or money. Carl
Vanhoff Of Mi yankee. offered to mar.
nv her by proxy, but that wouldn't
work, and she will he sent back TO Ger
many.
Dave Thrash settled o debt OF $l.25
which he owed VIM. Dimaey, by fatal
~ stabbing him Mt Galveston, Tex.
Andrew Anderson. Martin Nelson
and Oh unknown man were drowned by
the capsizing Of boat near Madaline
island, Wis.
Late advices from Nicaragua indicate
that the reports OF revolution in that
country were the product OF imagina-
tive special correspondents.
The Peninsula ,ud Occidental COM
pany's steamship Tome, ct Greenock,
Scotland, was da ed by fire to the
extent Of Sl75, OO.
John Long, afi hit conductor, was
struck by the spo 81 water tank at
Hallville, Tex, L. ,cked of the train
and instantly killed.
Tom O'Brien, the all-round crook and
confidence man, is in the clutches OF the
New York police for buncoing q man
out OF $4,000.
John Topyrel was shot and killed by
huckster who caught him in the act
of stealing apples from his farm near
Kansas City.
General Boulanger, the noted French
loader, committed suicide at the grave
OF his former mistress on the Both ult.
He had bsen melancholy for so;ae time,
but his friends were not aware that he
contemplated suicide.
Wheat receipts at Duluth aggregate
nearly three million bushels per week;
Lawrence Leslie was run over and
killed by an east bound freight on the