Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-02
THE WEST.

DIR. EDMUND j. JAMES, OF the Whar-
ton school OF finance and economy, has
decided to refuse the offer OF DIR. Will
lam Harper to organize In the new
Chicago university department sim
liar to the Wharton school.
On his recent visit TO Ann Arbor,
Mich, ex-President Cleveland was
elected to mem bcrship and initiated
into the Sigma Chi q college secret
society.
The doctors of Gary, s. D., reported
new cases of diphtheria, and the city
board OF health suspended the schools
and placed the city under rigid quar-
antine.
FIRE at Dunlap's Island, MINI, the
other day destroyed seven buildings,
valued ut $3.50 One man lost his
life.
REV. JOHN TEMPLE, Of Evansville,
Ind, has been sentenced to serve sew
enteen years in the penitentiary for
manslaughter He killed Warren
Gray, who was acting rs peacemaker
between Temple and his wife.
DIR. MORRISON MUNFoRD, late editor
of the Kansas City Times, died ut Kan
sas City on the afternoon of the 27th ut
4:2O of pneumonia, after an illness of
five weeks.
Two more indictments were found on
the Goth by Chicago's grand jury and
evidence against the board Of education
heard.
The lower house of the Iowa state
legislature on the Goth adopted bill to
make silver dollars legal tender in Iowa,
heading off loans and trust companies
from requiring payments to be made in
gold.
The republican state committee of
Missouri have decided to hold the con-
vention for selecting national delegates
and state ticket ut the same time and
place. jefferson City, April 81 and 2S
were chosen.
A MEMBER of the Chicago board Of ed
ucation has been indicted for boodling.
ANOTHER outbreak of the Sioux ut
Rosebud agency is feared.
AN official of the Chicago & North
western road said the other day that
the forthcoming quarterly dividend Of
the company will not, as spectators
anticipate, be increased, as the surplus
earnings will be expended on improve
ments.
c.. DoERR & Co., Chicago board of
trade men who have been long" on
100000 bushels of wheat with the
market declining. failed on the 2sth.
Armour & Co. and long list Of other
firms are the creditors.
TROOP C. Fifth United States cavalry,
left Fort Reno, Indian territory, on the
2sth for the Cherokee strip. The strip
has been full of boomers and more
troops will be sent there.
The Santa Fe has let the contract for
the big building which will hold the
Argentine shops, and has begun grad
ing.
Coz. J. +. WADE. of the Fifth United
States cavalry, has been assigned to
take charge of the work of clearing
off intrudcrs on the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservations, which are to be
opened for settlement between April l
and 10.
MANAGERS of Chicago lines believe
that the opening Of lake navigation will
help their receipts from western grain
shipments immensely. New Orleans
has hurt them this winter.
EX-STATE SENATOR NJ. b. HEREBY,
one of the members of the Chicago
board of education, has been in
dicted. Like the nine indicted doodle
aldermen he was charged with con-
spiracy to commit bribery. Hereby is
chairman of the board of education COM
mittee on supplies. He intimated that
his indictment was spite work. the out
growth of disappointment Of certain
firm nj not securing contracts.