Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-03
GENERAL NEWS.
The Happenings Of a Week
DOMESTIC.

S. G. Haggcrt, Postmaster General, II
connection with the construction o
Section B OF the Canadian Pacific rail
way. The charge will be that Mr.
Haggert was interested in the contrac
given by the government.
At noon on the 22nd the Sac and Fo!
and Iowa reservations were thrown opel
to settlement. There were thre'
home seekers TO every quarter section
OF land, but so far rs heard from the
land was settled peaceably.
Articles OF incorporation OF the Mar
tin Car Coupler company, at Chicago
with capital stock Of 81, 000,0O0, wer,
flled with the secretary OF state OF Hin
OILS Tuesday.
Sapinsky * Stein5erry's barrel s'avc
and heading factory at Scottsburg. Ina,
burned Tuesday. Loss $4,000. 1t vii
DO rebuilt.
Detective James Brown brought suit
against the First National Bank, OF Co
lumbus' Ind, Tuesday 10 obtain 5000
due him Tor capturing Will Schrieber.
the confidential clerk OF the president.
who fled to Cana in 1888 with Sl5O,OJJ.
In fight between the families Of
Gottleib Kellam and August Blunt, near
Joliet, ILL.,, Tuesday, the latter's lO-year'
old daughter was killed By Kellam. de
is in Jail.
George Barker, of Catlin, ILL.,, was
arrested Tuesday for attempting to de-
rail a train on the Wabash, near Dam
vile. Saturday night. He said he SIM
ply wanted 70 see wreck.
The remains OF EX-Congressman w.
L. Scott were buried ut Erie, on the a.
ternoon OF the % inst.
President Harrison has appointed n
committee composed OF Lieutenant Col
onel John w. Barlow, Captain Thomas
W. Seymour, and Prosessor A. I. Mos
man to relocate the boundary line be-
tween Mexico and the United States.
AT the meeting OF the supreme lodge
Of Oddiellows Tuesday at St Louis 1t
was proposed TO reduce the age OF limit
alton from q to Is years. ~
Charming Baker and Burt Niles, OF
Beatrice, Neb., both suitors OF Miss
Zaida Barclay, had an attraction over
their sweetheart Monday, in which
Mills skull was fractured. His recov-
ery is considered doubtful.
Re Brothers g. Co., OF New York
weroforced to make q temporary a.
signment Tuesday on account OF the
failure of White & Co.
Owen Brady. OF Busler, Pa. Made an
assignment Tuesday TO l.. NJ. Wise.
Judgements were obtained against him
aggregating $50, q,
Tuesday the Southern Gas Trust and
Construction company, OF Jacksonville,
Fla. was placed in the hands OF q. Lo-
per Bailey. as receiver.
p. w. Huntington, banker OF Co.
lumbus, Ohio, secured q judgement for
az. 900 against Governor Tuesday Tor pa
per long due.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Clarke Daniels,
the latter a daughter OF Mr.. .. W. Pot
ter. OF Chicago, are spendin their hon.
eymoon at Buffalo, n. \.
The Mexican revolutionists were dis
persed and are trying t9 get back into
Texas. =,
DIR. Francis A. Schultz. q wealthy
physician OF Brooklyn. has eloped with
his servant girl.
Miss Lou Porter was probably fatally
injured by jumping from buggy near
Vernon, Tex. =,
Frank Pattrige, an attorney, jumped
from a train at Waco Tex, ana was Sc
riously injured.
A freight train was wrecked near
Willow Springs, Mo-. and Fireman
Forester was killed.
Cara and his band OF Mexican inva-
ders are practically hemmed in oy Mex
lean and American troops.
+: NJ. Roberts, u prominent farmer,
WIS shot and killed from ambush In
Miller county, Arkansas.
At Kansas City Judge Ganzhorn was
fined $50. sentenced to thirty days in
iail ard his Office declared vacant.
The Palmyra Presbytery, embracing
twelve courties os northeast Missouri,
has lust concluded four days session
at Palmyra.
Mrs. Ellen Stewart Wilson was con-
victed of counterfeiting at Kansas City
and sentenced to serve two years In the
penitentiary.
The Boone county Mo- white caps
who whippen Jack Crofton two weeks
ago. were heavily fined and jail senten-
ces imposed.
Fifteen thousand boomers rushed into
the new Indian lands which were
thrown open.
Mrs. Dell RathDun, wealthy widow
of Buffalo, n. Y, who disappeared from
Chicago where she had been visiting,
drowned herself in Niagra River.
WilliamC. Carlin has secured the
issuing of writ for the production oil
his wife in court in Chicago, on the
ground that she is kept prisoner by
Lawyer Moore. Mrs. Carlin was once
the wife OF Mr.. Watson, the st. Louis
iron man.
Samuel Thompson ane Eva jewell
who returned from Jacksonville, Fla,
with q very romantic story about hay
ing been carried out to sea and rescued
have received money 10 return to New
York, but there is evidence that there
is something wrong with their story.
According to the statement complied
by the New York produce exchanges the
visible supply of wheat in store and
| oGoot tl,a,i0fh inst Was "a D43. GA BUSH