Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-04-18
GENERAL NEWS.
rHE EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
GATHERED, CONDENSED AND AR
RANGED FOR BUSY READERS.
Domestic.

during the past week. Several COX,
strikers were arrested. Z. The bodies o
seven Italians and two Americans were
taken from the ruins OF the fire a
Rochester, Pa. One hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in gold, belonging t
the Italians, was also found, and al
Italian girl who escaped by jumping
says there is $500 more in the debris.
Frost in Alabama killed potatoes, to
matoes, cucumbers, squash, beans and
peas. The visible supply OF wheat
and corn is respectively -, 4S3,9l0 and
2,6Gl, 233 bushels. Since last report
wheat has decreased 26l,4 bushels,
while corn has diminished to tho eX-
tent OF 326, S07 bushels.
Butter on the Elgin board OF trade
Monday was lower and easy. All sales
were at % cents per pound. A year age
the price was 20 cents.
Gonsawlls was murdered an d robed oil
81, 80 the day he was to pay it for q
home for his intended bride at West
Liberty, Pa Eighty thousand Texas
cattle which have been sold to Chicago
packers cannot be shipped, owing to a
recent quarantine order of the govern
mont. The first case under the act OF
congress forbidding the importation of
loreign labor in Ohio was decided by
Judge Sage at Cincinnati. The offense
was bringing an expert to take charge
Of Louisiana sugar mills, the court
holding as the expert made no contract
the case did not come under the law. -.
Edgar ]. Somerville and James B. Ed
dy OF Pendleton, Oregon, have been ap.
pointed special agents to allot lands in
severalty 10 the confederate band OF
Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla In
dams residing on the Cmatilla reserva-
tions, Oregon. Bids for the Mines
building will soon be invited by the
Worlds fair officials. Professor John
M.COulter has been elected president OF
the Indian University. -. The New Or
leans grand.iury has begun an active in
vestigation of tho lynching of the Ital-
ians. The leaders OF the mob say they
desire to be indicted. The Rev. Sam
Small has been asked to account for
funds entrusted him for building u
methodist university in Ogden, Utah.
ae repels the insinuation and courts
Five Peoria citizens have
been summond before the Federal grand
jury in Chicago, and it is thought SEN
sational developments in the Gibson
whiskey trust dynimite conspiracy
case are at hand. -. 1t is expected that
over 1000 delegates, representing -
states. will attend the tnird-party con-
rention in Cincinnati, MayI9. :. Il. 3.
[mboden, a prospective bank president
" Fort Worth. Tex, pleaded guilty TO
orgery and and embezzlement, and was
given five years sentence. =. .Secre.
AIRY Tracy told the republican club of
that he intended to
'1form the service by eliminating
machine politics from the navy yards.
Prices OF pork produced will rise on ac-
.ount OF the removal of Germany's en-
Dargo Jack Halsey, sport, once a
is dying in Brooklyn
charity hospital ...P. T. Barnum, the
amous Snowman, died at his home in
Bridgeport, Conn, after long illness.
William Mccoy, the suspected
at Kansas City. could not be
owing TO fears OF mob violence.
Harry Donovan, aged I, heir to
800, 900, was recovered by his father in
| lonely farm house on Long Island.
He had been kidnapped from school
n New Haven. Conn, q few days before
It his grandmother's instigation. -.
Mills friends deny indig-
lantly that he is out OF the race for
he Sponsorship. lin the Wisconsin
legislature reapportionment was passed,
inform text books defeated and q reso-
ution passed favoring the election OF
United States senators by popular vote.
The steamship Cashmere from
ports arrived at New
FORK having on board 1000 Italian
This is the largest num-
Der of Italians ever brought to this port
~ one vessel.
VIM. Wallace, postmaster at Indiana
Iolis. is dead Hundreds OF Italians
ire being landed in New York. Mrs,
Annie Besant, the English theosophist.
has arrived in New York. AT Rome,
"a, Mrs. Ora Mckee was acquitted of
The charge of numbering Mrs. Wimpel.
Congressman-elect Watson of Geor-
ria, has declared his opposition to
Irisp for speaker. Twenty national
,anks in Kansas will denationalize and
under the new state banking
aw. Governor Eagle says he will
all convention ut Little Rock to de-
Use ways and means for the Arkansas
exhibit at the Worlds fair. The
oke strikers will endeavor to settle
heir troubles by dealing directly with
he employers, the labor leaders having |
greed TO step aside. ...All the miners
n the country will strike for eight |
lours May l.; the conference between |
workers and bosses at Pittsburg having |
djourned without making an agree
nent.
Foreign.
A man named Skeameikin was ar
ested in st. Petersburg while lying in
vait at doorway the Car was TO pass.
Ie had loaded revolver and a bottle
imposed to contain an explosive, and it |