Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-26

LYaeErT & MYERs' tobacco factory
atSt Louis was partially destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Losses over $500, 600
GEORGE KIPPLE, n bachelor Of Plicors,
Ia, living alone. committed suicide the
other day by hanging himself to a
door-knob with n rope Topped around
his neck, passed around his leg. Topped
over his foot and fastened to the door
knob No cause is known.
The worlds conference of Mormons
is to be held in Independence, Mo-,
April o.
GREAT anxiety Is felt throughout the
Indiana belt for fear of the exhaustion
of natural gas, ut least for manufacture
ing purposes The big window-glass
works at Spiceland, in Randolph coun-
ty, have been compelled to shut down
on account of total failure of the gas
supply. New wells recently drilled in
that field did not materially increase
the supply, and tho old wells failing
their shut down became necessary.
The Jacxsonian club. OF Omaha, has
engaged rooms for 900 members dur
ing the Chicago convention.
The Big Four will run trains be-
tween St Louis and Chicago, utilizing
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois from
Shelbyville.
SEVEN Chicago aldermen were in
dicted on tho 21st for corruption in
Office.
The St Louis Methodist Episcopal
conference has protested against legis-
lntion to exclude the Chinese from this
country.
THIRTEEN boys all under Is years OF
age, were arrested in Chicago bucket
shop and pool room recently.
MINNIE JOHNSON, an Indiana female
convict, has confessed that she set fire
to tho Indiana woman's reformatory
March /, because separated from Patsy
Williams, a colored female convict.
Mrs SARAH ALTHEA TERRY, since her
incarceration in the asylum, has been
very violent and leads her attendants
life of misery. Refusing to conform
to the asylum rules and discipline, it
was recently necessary to use some
force with her, and she became so re-
fractory that she has since been put in
q straight jacket
A BIG milk trust has been formed in
Chicago.
WALTER = LEIeHTY, a we'll known
Nebraska railway mail clerk, was
arrested at Lincoln recently charged
with attempting to blackmail Cashier
Outcalt, OF q Lincoln bank.
AN undervest containing $4,000 in
cash and papers valued at twice that
was left in Turkish bath room, ut
the Palmer house, by ex-senator
Thomas NJ. Bowen, CT Denver, recent
". It was found half an hour later by
Colored Attendant Watson, and re-
turned after Bowen had been very
much excited.
VISITORS to the national republican
convention Mt Minneapolis will be treat
ed to q novelty. At n meeting of the
executive committee it was decided
to establish lumbermen's camp near
the exposition and serve pork and
beans and other food in lumbermen's
style. 1t is also proposed to establish
tents in which cots will be placed This
will be done to accommodate the over
fow
The local option bill has been de-
fcated in the Iowa Legislature.
The Wisconsin supreme court has de-
clared the reapportionment bill uncon-
stitutional.
WARREN WATSON. clerk of the United
States circuit court at Kansas City,
Mo, was run over on the evening of
the 2od in that city by Santa Fe
freight train and fatally injured. His
right hand was torn off and his right
leg severed at the knee.
A FIERCE storm of snow, rain and
sleet ragged throughout Illinois on the
s2d. Considerable damage was done.
The officers OF the carpenters coun-
Gil of Chicago are charged with failing
to account for several thousand dollars
of union money.
OVER 5000 Struggled false teeth were
found recently in the rooms of DR.. EN-
ma Keeling, of Chicago, by customs Of
ficers.
PERsEE SAM. an Indian living near
Albert Lea, Mimi, and his two sons,
split open the head of another old In
dian with an ak.