Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-04-25
GENERAL NEWS.
THE EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
GATHERED, CONDENSED AND AR
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Domestic

F. A. Beilby of Florida. TO be commits
sioner OF tho Worlds fair for Florida. "A
gang OF land grabbers are trying to get
possession of valuable lands belonging
to the Puyallup Indians, near Tacoma.
Washington. IA big soldiers
reunion will be held at New York July
next. E. e. The southern Utes and a.
paches lost thousands OF head ofistock by
the recent severe weather. Arch
bishop Ryan OF Philadelphia has forbid
den catholics to bury relatives or friends
on Sunday Steps TO GUST Governor
Bulkely Of Connecticut have been taken
by the democratic candidate. Morris,
who claims he was elected. q. President
Otto Mears OF the Rio Grande Southern
Railway and several other persons have
been indicted by the Denver grand jury
ON charges OF bribery and attempted
bribery during the last session OF the
legislature. South Carolina mas re.
fused to accept her quote OF the federal
appropriation for mechanical and agrl-
cultural colleges on the Ground that
the federal government insists on des-
ignating the proportion to which white
and colored colleges are entitled.
Emil Pepperkorn and Mrs. Maria
SCHNEIDER, while convicts in the Ne
braska prison, Fell in love. Upon their
release they were married adam
Itzell's clothes we're stolen on a
train en- route to Chicago. He had
to 60 in carriage to hotel and call
for blanket To be sent him which he
wore until he could get new suit,
.4otast nnYntpNnpni0l nnn-
gress assembled in Kansas City with
"A states and territories represented.
The annual meeting OF the whiskey
trust was held in Peoria Iii. Editor
d. r. Anthony OF Leavenworth. kas.,
was horsewhipped by William Fortse-
cue. Hill. the negro postmaster OF
Vicksburg, remains in Jackson, and the
impression grows that he is afraid to
take his Office. !. Miss Phoebe Couzins
was formerly deposed as secretary OF
the board OF lady managers OF the
worlds fair. She declares she
will take the matter into the courts
before submitting to be ousted. 80.
Mrs. Halford, wife OF the presidents
private secretary, died in Washington.
=. The finding OF fifty human skele-
tons near Corpus Crispl, Texas. last
week is accounted for by William
Payne. manager OF the farmers alliance
at Whitewright, Texas. He says
eighty OF his comrades deserted in
body from the rebel service and started
for Mexico, not one OF them having
been heard OF since. and that they were
captured and executed to u man.
At New York Benedict & Gaffney,
dealers in teas, coffees and spices, lost
$50, 900 by fire.
Grocer Peter A. Donahue OF Cam
~ 'ass., is missing and his forger-
Eheoming to light. Secretary
> ~ issued an order disseminating
nal quai entine Stations ut Ell
"a Brownsville. Texas. :. The en-
y ~. of Brazil will reside with tho
Duke OF Nsmours at Bushey park, in
England, next summer. He is in good
health and spirits. Mrs. Thomas c
Clark OF Edwardsville. ILL.,, rushed to the
assistance o. her husband, in a fight
with burglar. and was shot fatally in
the breast. Mr. Flagler, the Standard
oil man, is back OF an enterprise TO
erect million dollar hotel in Atlanta
on the general lines OF his Ponce de
Leon, at St. Augustine. .. DIR. ]. p.
Fox, member of parliament for Kings
county, Ireland, assured the worlds
fair directors at Chicago that
there would be q fine exhibit from the
Green Isle.
Secresary Noble sent a telegram to
the register and receiver OF the land
Office at Ashland, Wis, suspending
his orders authorizing the filing OF
claims on the 18th and 18th inst,
within what is known as the Omaha
railroad grant. This action Is taken
upon information that serious trouble
will follow the opening OF the lands for
settlement.
Minneapolis mills last week ground
12l, 72O barrels of flour, against 10, 800
barrels the week before and 1l4.100
barrels for the corresponding period in
1890. There is perceptible increase in
the demand for flour and higher prices
are asked than week ago.
A freigt train OF thirteen cars and |
three engines on the Maryland Central |
railroad went through q trestle near
Baltimore, killing three men. Grand
trustees OF the brotherhood of trainmen
recently removed by Grand Master
Wilkinson at Galesburg, ILL.,, have
begun proceedings to restrain him from
a new board. The steam
er Gura, from Naples, with 9S2 Italian
and the steamer Majestic,
with 964 passengers, mostly German,
arrived at New York. d. d. Henry Baus, a
of Wood Haven, N. Y, was
awarded $1,000 damages by a jury
against Aloysius Steffens, pastor OF the
church OF that village, for
alternating his z wife's affections. =. "A
large sum OF relief money was disbursed
among striking coke workers in Penn
sylvania. Italians are being shipped
into the region to take the place of the
strikers. C. L. Davidson, OF Hull,
was elected department commander OF
The Iowa G. A. r. at Dubuque.
When the body OF William Jones,
which was buried at Corunna, Ind,
.wo years ago, was disintered, Thurs
law II was found In he Datrifiad ovaY.v