Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-23
GENERAL NEWS.
ACoNDENsED ARRANGEMENT OF THE
OCCURANCEs OF THE PAST WEEK
AT HOME AND ABROAD.--THE PlTH
OF THE DISPATCHES.
Domestic.

The New York Presbytery adopted
the majority report Of its committee
accusing Prof. Briggs Of heresy. The
trial will begin late in the year.
An old fued near Alfalfa, Ala, re-
suited in general fight at a church
trial, in which one member killed
another. An innocent worshiper was
also wounded.
BY elaborate forgeries negro soldier
named George Lewis nearly succeeded
in escaping from the Kansas state peni-
Tertiary and making $4,000 at the
same time.
A convention is in session at Fort
Worth to devise ways and means for
making Texas exhibit at the Worlds
fair.
Superintendent Porter has issued q
bulletin comparing the debts OF the
government, states and counties, with
the census OF 1880. 1t shows q great
decrease.
The Southern Baptist convention at
Birmingham, Ala, adjourned to meet
next year at Atlanta, Ga.
San Francisco thieves stole $1,000
worth Of property from the Police
Court building.
From latest accounts the republicans
have carried the elections in Arizona.
Mrs. James L. Turner Of Lansing,
Mich, has turned over her entire pri-
vate fortune to satisfy the $500, 900 in
claims of her husbands creditors.
At Atlanta, Ca, three murderers
have been sentenced: Charles NJ. o.
born. TO hang, June 26; George Wash
ington, (colOred( July 5; Elisha A.
Underwood July 10.
General Lemuel Todd, one OF the most
distinguished members OF the Carlisle,
Pa, bar, is dead. He was chairman OF
the first republican state committee in
1858, and presided at the republican
state convention in 1863, '6S and 1913.
A monument marking the exact
centre OF population according to the
late census was erected in Indiana by
the Chicago Herald.
Kansas City, Kas., policemen who
went to Argentine to arrest gamblers
we're themselves arrested and had trou-
BILE to get out of the lookup.
The supreme court OF the United
States affirmed the order OF the New
York circuit court, denying writs OF
habcas corpus in the cases Of the prison
ers Woods and Juguro. now in Sing
Sing under sentence OF death by electro
cution.
Deputy marshals arrested five wood
choppers on the Cherokee Strip, acting
in what it is alleged to be an unwarrant-
ed manner.
Pierre Morain, OF an old and noble
French family, committed suicide at
Boston through fear of Imprisonment
for abducting young girl.
Sig. Corte, the Italian consul at New
Orleans, says he saved the life OF Mayor
Shakespeare from mob Of Italians bent
on killing him the day after the lynch
ing.
In battle at camp in the West
Virginia mountains between the Halls
and Heeles. over forty shots were ex-
changed: two men were killed and sever
al wounded.
Michael Shelly, aged eighty, killed
himself at Wooster, o., after having
spent six hours on the witness stand
testifying as to the murder OF his wife
and the assault on himself by robbers.
By direction of the president the Ycl-
lowstone military post known as Camp
Sheridan, will hereafter be called Fort
Yellowstone.
The commission appointed to select
site for the ten-company military post
at San Diego is now examining the
many tracts offered.
The little village OF Valencia, N. NJ,
has been nearly wiped out by the flood
of the Rio Grande. Crops Whereabouts
have suffered.
The treasury department will appeal
to the United States supreme court for
q reversal Of the recent decision that
imported paintings on glass for Phila-
delphia convent are exempt from duty.
The California worlds fair commits
sion, which will meet in Chicago June
mas adopted resolutions indorsing the
appointment OF Walter S. Maxwell as
head OF the department of agriculture.
At the sixth annual meeting OF the
alumni OF the American college at Rome,
Italy, held at Baltimore, fifty priests,
representing nearly every diocese in the
Union, attended. Monsignor Farley was
elected president for the ensuing year.
Sever Serley, the defaulting $50, 000)
treasurer OF Chippewa, county, Wis,
was sentenced to four years in the Wau-
pun penitentiary.
Judge Shires OF the United States
court passed upon the question that the
Iowa prohibitary law Is in conflict with
the federal statues, the deiendents In
the cases cOntending that when govern
ment issues a license to sell liquor, the
license carries with 1t the protection OF
the federal government from the inter
ference OF the state. The judge ruled
against the claim and remanded the
cases to the state courts.
Forest fires have done over $1,000, 900
damage in Michigan. Hundreds are
destitute.
The national Order Of United Labor
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