Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-07-18
GENERAL NEWS.
A CONDENSED ARRANGEMENT OF
THE OoCURANCEs OF THE PAST
WEEK AT HOME AND ABRoAD-THE
PITa OF THE DIsPATCHE
Domestic.

| liam ogden. OF chicago, In accordance
with his last wish, have decided to de-
vote ! million dollars to educational
purposes. Chicago university will re-
ceive that amount for the establishment
OF graduate scientific school.
The Paris chamber OF commerce
strongly recommends manufacturers To
exhibit goods at the Worlds fair.
The clause in the new constitution oil
Mississippi requiring voters to register
four months before election Is giving
satisfaction.
The pope has decided to create in
Mexico three archbishoprics to be
called Linars, Oxaca and Durango, and
five bishoprics, Cuernavaca, Saltillo,
Tehuantepec and Chihuahua
The secretary OF the interior has APP
pointed as trustees for town site entries
OF lands In Oklahoma, John Foster, w.
$. Robertson vnd A. C. Smell, all OF
Guthrie, TO be known as board No. 9.
Ex-senator Blair. as United States
minister To Chi"a, has drawn but one
month s sal ary since his appointment. He
Is not now drawing salary as minister.
Senior Romero, the minister from
Mexico, denies that Mexico is ripe for
revolt against the present govern
ment.
A. L. Donthett, cashier OF the Porter
Donthett company, buttermakers at
Pittsburg, has been arrested on the
charge OF embezziing $85, 900 from the
company and falsifying the books.
Complaints have been made OF cattle
trespasses on the Cherokee strip.
Advices from Hayti report indications
Of an uprising against President Hip
polyte.
Min Shepherd has escaped from the
Bentonville, Ark, Jail. He was await
ing trial for killing policeman Ed.
Bright, OF Pierce City, Mo-, and con-
stable Dallen Of Arkansas.
John C. Robinson OF Kingston, Ind,
and David S. Wright, of Salem, Ind,
have been appointed special agents by
the president to allott lands in severalty
to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians,
Governor Russell has appointed as
the board OF Worlds fair managers of
Massachusetts, Alice Freeman Palmer,
Anna L. DAVIS, John W. Corcoran, Ed
ward Burnett and z. Clarence Hovey.
George McFarlane, halt owner OF the
Waikapee plantation, has brought suit
against the Hawaiian Commercial com
pany. of which Claus Spreckles is presi-
dent, for 81, 900, 900 damages for taking
forcible and illegal possession OF the
plantation.
The Harvey Peak tin mining COM
pany is now sinking five shafts near
Ranid City, S. d.
United States treas rr Nebecker
denies report that he is 10 resign.
The Egyptian cotton crop is in a
fiourishing condition. Plenty OF rain
has fallen.
American missionaries are alleged to
have been driven from POnope, on the
Caroline Islands, by Spanish forces.
Gophers and squirrels are seriously
damaging the wheat crop in Washing
ton.
P. W. Ryan. elected to succeed Con-
gresham Wade, OF Missouri, was Sc
verely hurt by fall on defective
sidewalk at Springfield, Mo.
At Baton Rouge, La, a cyclone de-
molished one OF the penitentiary build
ing, killing ten convicts and injuring
thirty-five, five fatally. In the city tif-
tv houses were unroOfed and number
of people hurt. Eleven persons have
died from injuries received and more
deaths are expected.
The visible supply Of wheat as esti-
mated by the New York Produce Ex-
change was 12,583,60l bushels, q de-
crease OF 1,015, 785 bushels, and of corn,
1920, 22l bushels, an increase OF 159, ITO
bushels.
Slocum, Smiler, Wood and Jugiro,
the four murderers, were electrocuted at
Sing Sing, N. Y. The job was finished
in eighty-five minutes and was pro-
nOunced success. All the witnesses
who talked said that death was aprar-
emily instantaneous and painless.
Chairman Taubeneck OF the peoples
party national committee is in Ken
lucky organizing for the August cleo
ton. he is very hopeful.
At Elgin, ILL.,, 41,04G pounds
OF butter brought o uniform price of II
cents per pound, the market being
shade lower than last week.
Captain Luther Martin, of Bruins
wick, Ca, drowned himself at the same
point where his wife committed suicide
ten years ago In like manner.
The grip Is working havoc among the
inhabitants near the straits Of Belle
Isle, Quebec, many having succumbed
to the disease.
It Is reported that all the barbed wire
interests Of thecouutry have been merg-
ed into trust to be known as the Col
umbia Patent Company.
Director General Davis OF tho Worlds
Columbian Exposition has selected the
Hon. A. G. Bullock of Massachusetts,,
the Hon. William Lindsay OF Kentucky,
Ferd W. Peck of Chicago, the Hon.
BENJAMIN Butterworth of Ohio, and M.
f. Handy Of Pennsylvania to visit
Europe In the interests OF the fair
Henry G. Adams, treasurer Of the
fund for the relief Of disabled universal
list ministers, was arrested in New
York in q civil suit for the recovery OF
n deficit of at. 100 In his accounts.