Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-02-13
THE WEST.

TkE WEoEs
Gov. THAYER OF Nebraska, has writ
ten Gov. Boyd that he will surrender
the gubernatorial Office to him on the
afternoon of the Sth.
The ''Kansas City Hummer" plunged
into freight on the morning OF the
7th on the Chicago & Alton near Cen
tralia, Mo-, and three men were killed.
An open switch was the cause.
TAHEE, the blind chief of the Iowa
Indians, is dead. He was descendant
of the old Blackhawk nobility and had
ruled the Iowas since White Clouds
death.
The large iron works Of Haugh,
Ketchem & Co. at Haughville, Ind,
were almost completely destroyed bv
fire the other morning. The company
was engaged solely in the manufacture
of architectural ironwork and had In
the course of construction n large
amount Of material for the government
building at the worlds fair, while con-
siderable work was under Roadway for
government and private buildings In
Buffalo The loss was $3.50, 900; insur-
ance. $7S,6O0
The Seattle wash National Bank
Building Co. has entered suit against
the Western Farm Mortgage & Trust
Co. for $4,000 alleged to be due on
bonds placed by the mortgage COM
PAW. The total issue OF the building
com pany's bonds was $3.50, 900, and it is
alleged only S2s 00U was received
Gov. BoYD, of Nebraska, assumed
control very quietly on the afternoon
of the 9Th. Nearly all the democrats
appointed by him before the conte st
also took their places
THE session of the interstate wom-
ems conference opened at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the evening Of the Sth.
The Russian government has official
" notified Chief of Police Farley, OF
Denver, Col, through its consular
agent Mt San Francisco that one OF its
treasury vaultsin Siberia was despoiled
OF gold roubles valued at $29G, 900 De-
cember 1, the perpetrators escaping ut
once across Siberia.
Two stablemen lost their lives by a
fire in coal mine at Lehigh, ]. L.
AN order to mine clear has been the
cause of n strike on the part of the
miners of the Usage Coal & Mining Co.,
of McAlester, l. 7.
THE Merchants bank of Moorehead,
Mimi, has closed its doors with Sl75,-
900 on deposit, including considerable
of the county funds.
THE city council of Chicago has
passed an ordinance granting permits
sion to build wigwam on the lake
front in which the national democratic
convention viii be held.
A SCHEME is on foot which may re-
suit in the shipment of grain from st.
Louis to European ports without trans
shipment. The success of the new
steamers, known as the "whalc backs,
in making the voyage from Duluth to
Liverpool has attracted the attention
both OF local exporters and eastern
capitalists, and it is believed that YES
sells of this class can be sent to Europe
by way of the Mississippi river and the
Gulf of Mexico. The main problem to
be solved is whether these vessels car
be built with sufficiently light draught
to cross the bars and still retain the
stability required to make the occar
voyage.
LOT jumpers were reported running
things to suit themselves Mt FL Keno
Ok.
THE Chicago Inter Ocean declares
that the National Union CO., the nlli
auce store corporation, is backed by
the national cordage trust and has sub
sidized alliance leaders
The Greystone club gave banque
in Denver, Col, on the night of the
9th. Gov. Boies, of Iowa, and ex-Gov
Crittenden, of Missouri, were the lead
ing speakers. Letters from ex-Presi
dent Cleveland, Senator Vest and Others
were read.
CHARLES E. MCCONNELL. a banker O.
Montrose, Col, declares that the silver
bullion of the country is under the con
troll of q clique which raised or de
pressed prices at pleasure and mulct
the government
THE united mine workers Of Americi
convened in annual session on the 9tl
Mt Columbus, o. Gov. Mckinley deliv
cred the address of welcome. In hi
address the president referred to thu
fact that only about one-sixth of thu
total number of miners we've organized
The order had not yet reached the poin
when strikes were unnecessary.
THE SOUTH.
THE other night a freight train raj