The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-07-09

| "a ZIG tnIcc WHlte men charged Wit
the murder of Few Fails brought in
verdict of not guilty.
MANY Jews are arriving in Palestine
from 200 to 800 families weekly. The
are entirely destitute and the distres
among them is terrible Bread is yer,
dear. Typhus and scarlatina is ragini
in Jerusalem and a general pestilenc
Is feared.
A FIRE is again raging in the Readin!
Co.'S colliery at Ashland, Pa. 1t wa
first discovered at noon and the mel
and mules were hoisted to the surface
Five hundred men are affected.
FIRE has destroyed the large bool
and job printing establishment of the
b. I. Wade Co. at Toledo, O. The los.
was estimated at $50, 900, which is near
ly covered by insurance
HE estimated gross earnings of the
Rock Islands entire system for the
month of June are S1,2S7, 500, an in.
crease, as compared with the same
period last year, of S129, Isl.
THERE is rumor current to the effect
that the Missouri, Kansas & Texas is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Arkansas Pass road. Officials of the
former road have recently made a tour
OF inspection of the latter.
The German teachers national asso-
cation in convention at Cincinnati
passed resolution favoring the print
ing OF all German literature in Roman
text and using the English script in all
German writing. There was n tie vote
on the resolution until the president
gave the deciding vote.
ANDREW ROWE, a wealthy miner of
Idaho, is held in Waseca, Mimi. vio-
lently insane He had been stricken on
a train.
THREE men were fatally scalded by
the collapse of a bridge With an engine
and construction car near Newcastle.
Pa.
MRS. ELIZABETH NEWTON, of Pitts
field, Mass, was killed on the Atlantic
steamship Saale on its voyage from New
York to London by falling down a
stairway.
WORK on the mines and mining
building OF the Chicago worlds fair
has commenced. national youths
worlds fair association, with patriotic
aims, has been organized.
The Illinois humane society has
taken steps to investigate the padrone
system in Chicago. 1t is charged that
scores of Italian children are held in
virtual slavery and forced to beg.
The rate committee of the trunk line
association has fixed passenger rates
from New York to the Missouri river at
$50 first class and S29 second class.
These rates are a-reduction of 81. IS and
successfully meet the cut made bv the
Chicago & Alton road
SEVEN hundred and eighty men
walked out of the Allegheny steel
mills of Carnegie Bros. & Co. at Du-
luesne, Pa, There was no question of
wages, the men simply demanding that
he Amalgamated association be recor-
llzed The firm refused to sign the
Gale and stated that the mill ALWAYS
vas and always would be run indie
of any organization.
IN the district coart at Denver, Col
'ecll Dean was given verdict of $780,
% damages against S. w. French for
he alienation of the affections of
Jeans wife. The reasons for the large
mountof damages given are that Dean
ad decided all his property to his wife.
eileving her to be true to him, and
hat French protited thereby.
IHE cornerstone of the Scarritt Bible
nd training school was laid at Kansas
ity, Mo-, on the 2d.
FOUR deaths from sunstroke occurred
Stockton, Cal, in one day recently.
The Bank of England has again re.
uced its rate of discount from to TX
err cent