Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-04-08
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
The Hoo Den or Sacred Palace OF
the Japanese at the worlds fair
grounds in jackson park has been ded-
icated with interesting ceremonies
THE Western Passenger association,
It is said will agree on 22-10 cents
per mile worlds fair rate.
THE date for the reciprocity conven-
ton to be held in st. Paul, Mimi, has
been fixed for June and g
The San Francisco Chinese Six Com
panies have issued new circular, Off
cially and openly advising the Chinese
to refuse to comply with the Geary
registration law.
The national council of the Cherokecs
passed the bill to ratify the amended
strip treaty, and opening is now an as
sured fact.
AT Tacoma, Ia. by the explosion Of n
boiler in a sawmlll. Henry McKinness
and his three sons were instantly
killed.
AT Rolla. n. D., party Of women
raided joint and were set upon and
terribly beaten by gang of the dive
keepers.
MRS w. j. KNIGHT of Dubuque, H.,
lost "a, 900 worth of diamonds from her
pocket while walking on Michigan
boulevard in Chicago
IMMIGRANTS are pouring into South
Dakota ut wonderful rate and the
state is filing up rapidly.
AT South St Paul, MIMI, Joseph
Hattermack and his twclve-year-old
son were drowned while out hunting.
CHIEF HARRIS has signed the bill for
opening the Cherokee outlet
The Judgment of Judges Kicks and
Taft Mt Toledo, o., in the Ann Arbor
railway boycotting case proved milder
than expected. 1t was held that engi-
neers could quit employment before
taking out trains, but could not desert
their charge ut any point on the run.
TIE stage on the Cripple Creek line
went over precipice near Colorado
Springs, Col. Nine persons were in
jured.
THE wholesale drug store of r. W.
Crawford was burned ut Des Moines,
In. Crawford was himself severely
burned
The EsquimauX at the worlds fair
will not be compelled to wear furs in
July.
| By an accident on the Jacksonville
Southern railway near Edwardsville,
H., four persons were killed and Il
nsmber seriously injured.
WILLIAM PENNELL was instantly
killed by an Illinois Central engine at
Kunllakee, III. Pennell was crossing
the track. His brother was on the en-
CINE and saw him about thirty feet
away, but could not identify him either
then or at the inquest
THREE new cases of smallpox are re-
ported at Chicago.
CARTER HARRISON was elected mayor
of Chicago by 1900 majority. The
significance of the election was that
everything would be run wide open.
during the worlds fair.
DEMOCRATS carried the election at
Milwaukee.
THE municipal elections in Kansas
generally favored the republicans. The
women polled an immense vote, fore
shadowing complete suffrage in the
near future.
AT West Superior, Wis. five carpen-
ters had terrible fall from siyty-foot
scaifold, sustaining probably fatal i'm
iuries.
The King James, new English steel
four master, was burned 200 miles out
from San Francisco and her crew forced
to take to the boats.
INTRUDERs in the Cherokee strip do not
mean to give up their homes without
fight, and are preparing to offer stub
born resistance to anyone LOOKING to
expelling them.
THE Sedalia- Warsaw narrow gauge
has been bought by the interests of the
new Springfield. Sedalia, Marshall &
Northern, and may be condemned to
the scrap pile.
THE republicans carried the munich
pal election at Keokuk, Ia
THE Bolivar & Kansas City Railroad
Co has been Incorporated to build a
railroad from Bolivar to a connection
with the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis.
THE old board of directors of the Chi
cago & Alton was reelected.
THE municipal election at Denver,
COL, favored the republicans
THE SOUTH.
HELP is solicited for the sufferers from
the cyclone ut Kelly, Miss.
IN Lincoln county, Tenn. the twelve
.year-old son of David Warden was driv-
ing n heavy clod-masher when, in