Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-05

THE WEST.
WILLIAM DKTTMKR, n barber Of St
Joseph, No., shot dead Franklin Breeze
in saloon, because Breeze had pun
ished him for beating an old man.
DICK CULLEN was lynched Mt Marsh
field, Mo, ON the night Of the Goth for
the cruel murder of q four-year-old
adopted son Of his stepfather.
THE Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific
have refused to obey Chairman Nudge
ly's order in regard to Kansas sugar
rates.
AT Dexter, Mo-, an unknown desper-
ado attacked the marshal to release q
prisoner. A fight ensued Ono citizen
was shot dead, another will die, the
unknown desperate shot himself TO
prevent capture and tho prisoner es
capped, while they were after him to
lynch him.
CONSIDERABLE fighting marked the
attempt of the indianapolis street car
company to run cars on the 9th. The
police were badly handled by the
rioters.
THE Knights Of Pythias Of Ashtabu-
la, O., have undertaken to raise fund
for the erection Of monument in mem
DRY Of the unrecognized dead who per-
ished in the terrible railway disaster in
1876 at that place. A circular contain
ing long list of the names of the lost
passengers is issued by committee
whose business it is to receive all COM
munications. The attention of the pub
lie generally is solicited. All commu-
nications or inquiries should be sent to
T. w. McCreary, secretary. and all con-
tributions to Lucien Seymour, treasu-
rer, Ashtabuls, o.
The United States judge Mt Spring
field, ILL.,. has decided that the inter-
state commerce law does not affect cut
rates made to Canada.
CHANCELLOR CHAPLIN, of the Wash
ington University, St Louis, declares
he has no knowledge of proposed
Elan to consolidate his school and the
Missouri state university.
JUDGE BLoDGETT, of the United
States court at Chicago, has rendered
decision upholding the Mckinley
custom administrative act
THREE inmates of the woman's prison
and girls reform school ut indianapolis,
Ind, set fire to the $500, 600 structure
on the evening of the 1st and it was en-
tircly destroyed.
KANSAS CITY seed dealers are indig-
nant ut the cutting off of consignment
privileges on fax seed, millet and other
seeds.
The annual meeting of the supreme
lodge of the Knights of Reciprocity
was held at Excelsior Springs, No, on
the 1st
WILLIAM II. BRADLEY. the venerable
clerk of the United States circuit and
districts courts of the northern district
of illinois, and prominent figure for
forty years in the judicial history of
the state, suffered stroke of apoplexy
ON the afternoon of tho st and in
stantly expired.
The northern heavens, as observed
from St Paul, were robed in auroral
green on the evening of March l, until
the stars were obscured. Wave after
wave of quivering light swept up from
the horizon like folds of feecy lace I'M
til the very zenith was reached. The
display continued from early evening
until late. constantly changing and
shifting. but through it all there was
not one tint Of warm coloring
THE Lima national bank, of Lima,
Ohio, was closed on the morning of the
1st by Examiner Q. H. Ford, on the or
der of the comptroller OF the currency.
The trouble was brought about by the
speculntions of the president, b. c.
Faurot, who for the past four years had
boen engaged in extensive railroad and
land projects in Mexico which had re-
suited disastrously.
REPRESENTATIVES Of the German Luz
therans of Illinois have formed q per-
manent organization for the purpose of
fighting for the repeal of the state law
passed in 1890 subjecting parochial
schools to the supervision of officers.
THE Minnesota state republican COM
mittee has decided on May Sat ST. Paul
as the date for the state convention to
select delegates to the national repub-
lican convention.
WHITNEY JONES, who helped to organ
ize the republican party in Michigan,
died ut Lansing, Mich, on the LIST, aged
so years. In 1872 he joined the Greeley
movement aud thereafter acted with
the greenbackers.
THE SOUTH.
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