Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-29
GENERAL NEWS.
The Happenings Of a Week
DOMESTIC.

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Fire at Jacksonville, Fla, moved q
path two blocks wide and six blocks
long. Thirty firms we're burned out
and sixty dwellings were destroyed. No
lives were lost, though there were many
injured by flying plate glass caused by a
dynamite explosion. The loss Is over
81. 200, 900, with one-half insurance.
Mics Hamburger, music teacher oil
Chicago. was drowned in the Ohio river
near Dayton, KY, together with two
companions. Their boat was upset.
Rudolph Schimpf, a wealthy German
of Peoria, ILL.,, drowned himself in Il
| fountain.
Indian land allotments are to be
guarded in case OF contest by requiring
notices to be served on the Indians
themselves. duplicates TO the Indian
agent in charge OF the tribe. and a copy
TO the allotment agent, the two latter
persons being expected to prepare the
cases for the Indians.
On petition OF the citizens Of Custer
county, Montana, calvary detachment
in an outlying camp has been ordered
to the agency on Tongue river TO better
guard the interests of both settlers and
Indians.
The state convention Of the peoples
party met at Dallas. Tex.
Anti-Harrison republicans threaten
to start new paper in indianapolis.
An Indiana man had the breech-pin
of a gun blown into his skull, and will
live.
Salvador defends her action in Selling
The Pacific mail steamer City OF Pan
ANA.
The Omaha strike was practically
ended by majority OF the men going
back to work.
President Hall of the Missouri alli-
ance, has issued circular in opposition
to the sub-treasury scheme.
Secretary Foster, in an interview in
Philadelphia. expressed great conh'
dence in the business and financial out
look.
A new metal has been discovered in
Pittsburg whose valuable properties
have attracted the attention OF govern
ment officials.
There was another boom in wheat in
Chicago and New York, and tumultu-
Gus scenes were enacted in both cities.
II is said that no spectators are making
money.
Michael O'Hearn shot his own daugh-
ter in tit of anger in Oscola county.
Iowa.
Mr.. Wanamaker is thinking OF intro
ducing pneumatic postal service in
81. Louis.
Two South Chicago policemen had n
desperate struggle with an insane negro
on roof.
A quartet of prominent railroad men
were arrested in Illinois for killing
prairie chickens.
Charles Lawrence. eX-assistant cash
icr of the keystone bank of Philadel-
phia. was sentenced to seven years i'm
prisonment for making false entries
and conspiracy.
Mrs. Mary Sweet, widow OF John
Sweet. killed in wreck on the Iron
Mountain road about month ago, was
awarded S25. 900 DAMAGES for her hus-
bands death in the circuit court OF Des
Arcs county, Ark.
Charles Houska, laboring man OF
Chicago, attempted to kill his wife. He
cut a terrible wound in her neck, and
then cut his own throat, dying in few
moments. Mrs. Houska may recover.
Liquor was the cause.
The lowest estimate OF the wheat
crop OF Minnesota and the Dakotas is
10000, 900 bushels.
Mrs. Anna D. Wood has been held
at Des Moines, Iowa, for send
ing obscene letters and postal cards
through the mails.
J. L. Ray. clerk for the bondsmen OF
defaulting Treasurer Woodruff, OF Ar
kansas, was arrested on the charge OF
stealing 100000 OF state script.
Chief Justice Blake, OF Montana, in
an interview at st. Paul, Mimi, said
that Montana republicans were unani-
nous in their support OF Blaine for pres
ident in 1892.
Near Burr Oak, Mich, an attempt
was made 10 wreck a fast mail train on
the Lake Shore railroad by placing ties
on the track.
Secretary Foster has gone to Cape
May in response to a summons from the
president.
The river ST. Marie, in Hayti, has
overlooked its banks. The bridge at
Portau-Prince was swept away and
thirty lives we're lost.
The time for the opening Of bids for
the construction of the government
building at the worlds fair has been
postponed until next Monday, TO give
prospective bidders more time to pre-
pare their bids.
The ninth annual meeting OF the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union will
be held in the Francis street NJ. E.
church at ST. Joseph, September 9Th,
9th, 10th and 18th, inclusive. The first
meeting OF the executive board will be
Monday night, September 18th, in the
lecture room OF the church.