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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-19
THE LATEST.

The Columb tile works, of Ander-
son, Ind, were entirely destroyed by
fire the other day. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $40, 500.
THE national association of state
labor commissioners has been called
for Denver, May "a to IS.
TEYAs was treated to an old-fash-
Toned, bowling blizzard. The temper
AZURE fell SO degrees on the night OF
the 18th.
AN alien land bill, similar to the one
declared unconstitutional, has been in
PRODUCED in the Texas legislature.
The state department has requested
IN answer from Lord Salisbury touch
ing British intentions in the Behring
sea controversy.
DIPLOMATIC relations are to be re-
sumed between the United States and
Italy.
A RELIEF exists that Russia will inter
fere in the Behring sea imbroglio.
SECRETARY NOBLE says that the
Cheyenne-Arapahoe lands will be
thrown open to settlement April 1.
ITALY has been chosen as one Of the
arbitrators in the Behring sea matter
DR. Mort SMITH, the new minister
from Hawaii was presented to the
president on the 10th.
THE senate has confirmed Judson C
Clements, of Georgia, to be interstate
commerce commissioner, vice Gen. w.
L. Bragg, deceased
AT large public meeting at Paris,
Can, ON the Right Of the 10th to dis
cuss the political situation, q resolution
in favor of political union with TIP
United States was carried by large
majority.
THE position Of head professor in po-
litical science in the new University OF
Chicago at salary of 81, 900 year has
been offered to Prof Edmund j. James,
of the Wharton School Of Finance and
Economy, University Of Pennsylvania
ITALY has denied that il proposes to
enlarge its silver coinage.
In an avalanche which occurred at
Pelueno, a city Of North Italy, eight
persons were killed.
In the senate on the 10th Mr.. Hale,
from the committee on naval affairs,
reported bill for the construction of
three battle ships of from $500 to 10
900 tons displacement, two armed coast
defense vessels, Eve gunboats Of 500 to
/, 200 tons displacement and eight first
class torpedo boats Mr.. PETER intro
duced by a request q bill to create .
fund by n graiuated tax on incomes
and real estate for the payment Of
pensions and giving the idle work. In
the house the tree wool bill was again
discussed. Mr.. bryan (Neb.) making q
speech thereon,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-19
THE SOUTH,

Hon. HENRY WATTERsoN, in an in
terview, declared that Mr.. Cleveland
should not be nominated for president
and that the democratic party should
come west for its candidate for presi-
dent
On the 18th two more suits against
the city Of New Orleans were fled in
the United States circuit court for
$50, 900 each in behalf of the relatives
of the Italians killed in the parish
prison on the 14th of March, 1891, for
the assassination of Chief of Police
Hennessy.
LARGE numbers of colored people
have left Arkansas bound for Oklahoma
THE Kentucky house has passed the
bill prohibiting lotteries of any kind in
the state.
A CoLoRED girl was lynched in Louisi-
ana on the 18th for putting trough on
rats" into the coffee Of q colored man,
with the intention of poisoning him
whereby the lives OF nine persons were
jeopardized
NICHOLAS CROUCH, the author OF
kathleen Mavourneen" and other
popular and famous songs, is dying Mt
his home in Baltimore.
AT the meeting of the Upper Missis-
sippi Turnbezirk the other day reso-
luton protesting against Sunday clos
ing of the worlds fair was adopted
THE typhoid fever epidemic made
fearful ravages at Villa Laredo, Mex.
The state military school at Charles
ton, s. @, was partially burned the
other day. Loss, $50. 900; insured.
Four prisoners broke jail at Texar-
kama, Ark, on the 14th, and made their
escape.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-19
THE EAST.

PENNSYLVANIA Methodists are OPP
posed to opening the worlds fair on
Sunday.
PRINCE JOHN SoBIEsK, grandson of
the king of Poland, was arrested at Mt
Kisco New York, recently with horse
and wagon which he had stolen.
The New York Produce exchange
has stopped dealing in puts and calls.
GROVER CLEVELAND has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address at
Valparaiso, Ind, ut the formal opening
of the new college chapel, May /.
JAMES TAYLOR, n ranchman from
Taylorville, CAL, was arrested in New
York the other day charged with the
larceny of $500 from his wife. Taylor
claims to be wealthy. His first wife
died He inserted an advertisement in
q newspaper and Henrietta Costa, of
Foliaville, France. answered it
Mrs MARGARET DAYTON, widow OF
the late William Dayton, who was on
the presidential ticket of Ere mont and
DAYTON, died on the 18th Mt her home,
Trenton, N. j., in the send year of her
age.
A CONCERT in Music hall, New York,
on the 18th in aid OF the Russian famine
sufferers brought out the charitably
and unsteady inclined citizens of that
city with the box Office result Of nearly
$4,000
The governor of Massachusetts has
signed the anti-free pass bill.
THE management of Yale college has
decided that next fall all the post grad
uate courses, with the degree of doc
tor of Philosophy" will be open with
out regard to sex.
The Paige tube works of Warren,
Pa, exploded on the morning of the
18th. The entire building was
wrecked Cyrus Milton, colorsd, was
instantly killed; William Shannon, OF
Pittsburgh, William Barnaby and
James jackson, badly hurt
DANBURY, Conn, suffered by a fire
recently which destroyed many build
ings, the loss being variously estimated
at from SIS, 200 to 500, 900.
THE New Jersey state republican
convention will be held on April %.
EIGHT cars and one engine were de-
molished in a freight wreck near Yon-
kers, N. Y, on the 18th.
A VOTE has been taken on the ques-
ton Of admitting women to the gen.
eral conference by the Philadelphia
Methodist Episcopal conference and
resulted in the defeat Of the proposition
by q vote Of 101 yeas to los nays
MAY KNowLEs. a handsome and
bright young actress, whose family Is
one OF the oldest and wealthiest in
Newburgh. died at New York under
mysterious circumstances recently.
She was 10 years old and very beauti-
fuie
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teopvRioHr iaSi

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the great, gripping, old-fashioned.
pill. There's too much unpleasant
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and make trouble enough, to do
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That's Just what DR.. Pierce'sA
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Instead of weakening the SYSTEM,
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They're the original Little Liver Pills.
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three for q cathartic. Sick Head
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They're the. cheapest pills you can
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turned. You pay only for the good
you get. It's plan peculiar to Dr.
Pierce's medicines.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-19
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

ENOAhos
TIE president and Mrs Harrison en-
tertained ut dinner on the evening Of
the 10th DR.. Won Hollenben, the new
minister from Germany to the United
States
JUDGE j. W. GREGORY, Of Garden
City, Kan. made an argument the
other day before the house committee
ON irrigation OF public lands, in sup
port OF the bill to cure defects in exist.
ing laws.
MRS POTTER PALMER made an nd.
dress before the special house commit
tee on the worlds fair tho other day,
urging favorable action on bill before
the committee to appropriate e1S5, 900
to be discussed directly by the board
of lady managers of the exposition.
ALLIANCE congressman will establish
an alliance congressional campaign
committee.
SENATOR HILL will deliver the amir
versary address at the commemoration
of the Mecklenburg declaration OF in
dependence at Charlotte, N. C., May 90.
ONE hundred congressman have
signed a petition favoring expanding
s.. 500. 900 for the improvement of the
channel connecting lakes Superior and
Huron.
GEN. ScHoFIELD says that the war
department will undoubtedly investi-
gate the charges preferred by certain
Mexican residents of Texas against
Capt John c. Bourkc, Third cavalry,
growing out of his conduct of the cam
paign against the Cara revolutionists
The judiciary committee OF the house
has submitted the report to accompany
the bill to change the naturalization
laws. It recites the shameful and IL
legal manner in which aliens have been
naturalized in many parts OF this coun-
try and declares that congress should
make laws to amply protect the states
against the citizenation of criminals,
paupers, anarchists and aliens.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued reci-
procity proclamation against Colon
bia, Hayti and Venezuela.
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GENERAL.


A MEMORIAL upon the situation Of
immigrants In the United States, sent
by Canadian bishops, has been sub
mittcd TO the pope.
The emperor of Germany ordered the
army in mourning for three days
owing to the death Of the grand duke
of Hesse.
The French bark Achille was sunk
in collision with an unknown steamer
on the 14th. Five of the bark's crew
were drowned.
The inquest into the circumstances
attending the death Of George Gopr
Robinson, q prominent broker and So
ciety man. shot by Lieut. ]. II. Hether-
ington, of the United States steamer
Marion, February IS, at Yokohama,
Japan, hns been concluded with YER
dict charging Hetherington with will
full murder
THE turbulent condition OF political
affairs at Quinto, the capital of Ecua-
dor. has eliminated in riotous demon
stration in which the German charge
d'affaires, A. Herman, was set upon
by mob and, 1t is feared, quite seri-
ously injured.
IT has been learned that in his recent
speech in London, England Sir Charles
Upper, when he said that on account
of the Mckinley bill Canada would
soon strike vital blow at the United
States in return, referred to a move
mcnt on foot to levy preferential duties
on British imports coming into Canada
The reports that Russia intends to
withdraw the prohibition Of the exc
portation Of oats are without founda-
ton.
In vatican circles IL is said that three
cardinals are now certain to be created
at the coming consistory in June. The
archbishop of Grau, Hungary, the
bishop of Breslau and French bishop
(Rouen. Tours or Bordeaux) will prob
ably be the three chosen.
A DYNAMITE explosion occurred in
Paris on the 18th which shattered the
barracks of the republican guard. No
one was hurt.
IT is reported from the City of Mexico
that Jay Gould has offered $4,000
for the Chapultepec castle.
CoRBETT has signed articles to fight
Sullivan in New Orleans September z.
The steamer Missouri sailed for
Russia with cargo Of flour and grain
for the famine sufferers on the 18th.
MINISTER UPPER states that the Do
minion of Canada is considering a re-
taliation upon Newfoundland fisher
men similar to the tax placed on Cana
dian fishermen in Newfoundland and
Wales
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, has
signed the commercial reciprocity con-
vention with the United States.
The returns issued by the French
board of trade show that during the
month of February the imports de-
creased 100000 francs and the exports
decreased 1854 francs, as compared
with those Of the corresponding month
last year.
ROME newspapers, including the
Tribuna aud Riforma, have been
seized for reporting the proceedings CT
the republican congress
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-19
THE WEST.

President ELIOT. of Harvard col
lege, gave an address ut the university
at Boulder, Col, on the 10th on elective
education. The chapel was crowded
and the discourse of President Eliot
was cheered to the echo. A reception
was held after the lecture. Mrs Eliot
was also present
THE blizzard ON the 10th did great
damage throughout Minnesota and the
Dnkotaa Communication with Mon
aana was cut on
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-29
Work AND FUN, TOO.
How the Boys OF tho Ninth Rusy and
Amuse Themselves In Camp.


Amuse Themselves In Camp.
STATE CAMP PEEKsKILI. June pa gale Of
wind that kicked the broad stretch OF the
Hudson from Stony Point to Peekskill into q
furious sea. and even drove ashore some Of
tho boats of the experienced rowboat for
rymen. who bring passengers from the town
to the camp. has been blowing all day
There was no deviation In the drills from
the appointed work as set forth In orders. but
every bit was DONE and done so we'll that even
critical Col. Phisterer. who was out on the field
with one Of the battalions OF the Ninth. said no
was satisfied. and Major Stackpole and Col.
Seward who were with the other battaltons.
After hard work. Jokes as old even Ms send
r RED H on Tom Collins for rubber over,
coats 20. and lot OF men Yer. -, put last night
them got back with the same sort Of success
that they used to have ns BOYS when they
went to the cobbler's for Ave cents worth OF
The men OF Company J.. Capt, Charles +.
KohlburCer's company. got in their, little Joke
teforetimes. when First Sergeant stone called
them for breakfast stone had been practis-
ing with the other ssrgeants; tns nrdsr nd S
blew his whistle for the breakfast assembly;
Tho company were ready, but they answered
the call on a run. all barking like dogs .
ono ~ or genuine eXe,e Sas JisceycrI
Rising from tho walters camp back OF tne
me-, hall. A tent was on fire and cvcn lit
tle lire away of from tho main encampmont
fT s%S due Th Is IN
mont, and especially In such wind. There
was u rush for the spot. and the tent was torn
down ana the fire smothered In my. NO one
a ara Its tay'ng any knowledge Us 70 now the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-29
OWNS WANDERING WITS.
EVERYBODY SAYS THE MURDERER OF
CLERGET rs IMBECILE
News sent to Ciergers Mother In France
that tho Roy n Dead and buried, bat Hts

News sent to CIerreps Mother In France
that tho Roy h Dead and Buried. bat Hts
Crime and Ms Punishment Not Told.
Whom DIR. Charles X. Magee. the Tombs
physician. examined on Wednesday evening
young Edward Divin. who had shot and killed
In tho General Sessions Court room the VIOLA
tor Of his sister, tho doctor thought that
Divins nervousness and indifference were
largely the result OF the strain through
which he had passed that day. and that
with sleep the young man would re-
cover his mental balance. In this he was
mistaken. The boy appeared to DO just
as much wreck mentally yesterday MORN
ing as he had appeared to DO imme-
diately after his crime. Several reporters
saw him in tho corridors OF tho Tombs In the
morning. and to them he seemed to be mbe-
cie. Hc was unable to carry out line Of
connected thought and constantly referred to
the pain In his head. Once no spoke OF wheels
going round and round in his brain. He FREE
quently asked for his sister. Several visitors
were permitted to 500 him. To one OF these
who asked II he remembered what had hap
pened the day before. he said. sanely enough:
MY uncle John told me l must not talk
about It."
Then he begun to weep like child and
brought to see him.
His lawyer. Abraham Levy. visited him
twice. Mr.. Lovy said after his second visit:
Il consider him an imbecile. He possesses
no power OF discriminating between ideas. and
no hardly distinguishes between right and
wrong. He seems to have had just ono strong
conviction. and that was that It WAS obligatory
on him to kill the man who ruined his little
sister Further than that he seems to have
He cried . great deal and called for his sister.
try to bent Elm snd
hs sste Mr. GG9ry will zen t
i2"Ps %hs S sSse
hisGsn fS 1as SHs'
to tic incoming Grand Jury n next s Wednes$ay:
- The corpse 81 MAY clergst when Diyin
to.morreI: About ii clock yesterday morn.
5 @ and ns sss the si %ssS
ksd GberSe s eSnss the
downward. had gone in succession through
the left lung. the heart. and the liver, y
pierced the heart between the right ana 1919
:, Henry ,Clerget the young mans brother and
er In France not to come to this. country to
Sey
was afraid to have her come here and learn
the truth. ruth, 20 he wrote her that Max was dead
and the vengeance that followed 1t. Henry
says that Max deserved his fate. and he does
not blame Divin,
The father Of the half-witted girl and her
paral ytic brother was we'll known in the Four
years. He worked in q chemical factory. and
was a member Of the Tammany Hall General
Committee for that district. He was menu
Der OF the Volunteer Firemen's Association
and followed old II Hose for many years
the family as to the spelling OF the family
name. John Armstrong. the uncle with whom
Bivin lived; asserted that the name is spelled
spelled it Divin. An uncle who lives in q DIFF
ferent part Of the city goes by the name OF
Divine. Lawyer Levy knew the father. and hO
declares that the name Is DiYins.
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Nnt,oua, Convention or EIocutIon,.ts.

The second days proceedings Of tho Ma
tional Convention Of Public Readers and
Teachers OF Elocution OF the United States
began at o o'clock yesterday morning. The
exercises opened with paper on Voice Gull
ture." written by James T. Murdoch Of Cincin-
natl. and read by his daughter and pupil.
cussed by Miss Cora NJ Wheeler OF Utica and
others.
Miss Hollingsbead next read THE Chariot
Race" from bon Hur." arranged by Mr.. ]. L.
Murdoch
then read n paper on THE Rush System
WHICH was later discussed ~ Mr.. 4. 4. Merrill
Indanapolis gave reading E Of MARX Twain
Iachos read four selections from Austin Doh
son. At the afternoon session Mr.. r. Townsend
chology and Expression" which WINS discussed
by Mrs. Elizabeth Conner Of Buffalo and Mr..
Mr.. Leland i Powers OF :. David Gerrick. and
by Mrs, Jessie EldriIge Southwick OF Boston
OF "Nydia the Blind Girl OF Pompei," from
Bulwer Lytton. concluded the exercises.
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1HEY SAP THE SURGEON STRUCK HER.
Thomas Caveny Had hit His Wife with
His Opium Pipe and Hurt IIer BADLY.

Thomas Caveny Had hit His Wife with
His Opium Pipe and Hurt Her BADLY.
Thomas Caveny. pressm an. who lives at
81 Cherry street, is known to his neighbors as
Tommy the Bug. on account Of his Eighty
temper.
He is accustomed to smoke opium. and
spent several hours yesterday with his pipe
The neighbors say that his wife passed the
time in drinking
They quarrelled about TX o'clock. because
Caveny tried to throw boy named Willie
Maloney out OF a window. the woman says
Caveny struck her on the back OF the head with
his opium pipe. and the bowl made q severe
cut.
An ambulance was summoned from the
Chambers Street Hospital.
Ambulance surgeon Staehlin responded. but
Mrs. Caveny resisted his efforts to dress her
wounds. Mrs. UNell. the housek eeper. and
several OF the tenants say that the surgeon
struck her several violent blows in the face
while the women present cried "Shame!" The
surgeon left telling the woman to- come to
the hospital II she required his services
The woman's condition became alarming
last night. and the police sent for an ambu-
lance to Gouverneur Hospital
She was taken there at 10Y O'Clock: House
Surgeon Donovan said after superficial ex-
animation that the woman was seriously In
iured. but would not die.
Caveny was arrested and locked up In the
Oak street station.
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SOBOSkI CHASING THIEVES
The Horse OF a Prohibition Candidate Killed
Under Him.

HENNEP1N. ILL.,. June 2a.-John Soboski. Pro-
hibition candidate for Governor OF Missouri.
was victim and the hero Of an exciting
adventure with robbers at the Magnolia House
In Magnolia street last night.
The hotel had i've guests. At midnight five
men. masked and armed with rifles forced
an entrance on the ground floor whore were
sleeping the landlord and his wife.
and succeeded in gagging and binding
them ard in securing tho vslunbles before
they could make an cutlery. Tho hired man
was treated similarly. and tho women servants
were terrified into silence by threats
One OF the robbers was loft on guard. and
the others made their. way W the stairs whore
tho guests were sleeping. Two were stationed
in the long hall. and tn" others. entering the
rooms IN succession. aroused the slecGGrs and
Then the rooms wore revisited. and the plum
dor secured reached $1,000 The robbers
then departed.
soboski. procuring horse. gave chase He
overlook three OF the thieves and in q lively
skirmish the pursuer's horse was killed under
him. Then the desperadoes fed.
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MRS. BLACKWELL AND HER son.
She Produces Documents TO Provo Her
Marriage and His Bir.h.

She Produces Documents TO Provo Her
Marriage and His Bir.h.
Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell. who after a sepa-
ration OF thirty years found her son. Edward j.
Blackwell. in the Wards Island Insane Asy-
lum. was at the Health Departm ent again yes
terday with copies Of the record OF her sons
christening and Of the christening OF one OF
her daughters. and with her original marriage
certificate.
Mrs. Blackwell said that her husband died
on Feb 8. 1888. at 196 Orchard street. He Is
buried in Greenwood Cemetery together with
O son who. she says. was run over In 1882 by a
car or truck in Chatham square. She said
that from the time her husband left her down
to the present she has vacillated between
Thomas r. Waltons home at 1910 Washing.
her time here she lived ut 81 Marion street
She made her living in this city rs nurse It
was while she was living at ~ Marion street.
in 1874. that her husband saw her and gave
her $40. She said that the reason she made
no attem ut to find her boy after her husbands
death was that Elizabeth White for whom her
husband had deserted her. beat her the day
after his funeral. and warned her not to try to
find her son.
1t has been suggested by some persons who
have seen Mrs. Blackwell that she is weak
minded and the victim OF u deusion. but the
genuineness Of the papers she has produced
has not yet been questioned.
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LANDSLIDE IN CINCINNATI.
IL Moves Very Slowly. hut Does Its Work
Thoroughly.

Thoroughly.
CINCINNATI. June pa landslide is slowly
descending upon the eastern portion OF East
Sixth street. known as Sixth street hill.
After the heavy rain OF last Saturday 1t was
noticed that largo patch OF earth 400 feet
square had separated from the hill and
dropped down the hill several feet.
About o'clock everybody was startled by
crash OF timbcrs and. hurryinG to the street.
were Mortified to discover that the double
two-story frame house, 207h East Sixth
known as Mrs Collins had been partly demol-
Collins was buried UP to her hips in mud and
water. few minutes later the structure
was a wreck.
On Sunday night the walls Of No; 300 gave
way. and the mass Of earth forced into the
basement the walls OF her house. No
down upon it. until at midnight the house
hold was aroused by loud cr Tf:, fol
Gated at once. In house No. 3O5 the
walls began to- crack about 4 o'clock.
on Tuesday. and an hour later the build;
ing was so twisted that the plastering crack cd
and fell off In large patches. while the chin
neys and mantels were bulged out in the
different rooms and had to be proppcd up to
admit OF the removal OF the furniture with
safety to the workers.
TO date some fifteen houses have been
wrecked. causing loss OF nearly 100000.