Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-01-07
TEE Fairfax tMinn., bank has closed

THE Fairfax Mimi bank has closed
It's doors.
OWING to low water the northwest
ern -four output for the week was the
lowest since July.
FAILURES and shut downs Mt Joliet,
ILL.,, have thrown numbers out of work,
many of whom are destitute.
The Illinois commissioners have made
q report to the effect that certain rail-
roads in that state are N an unsafe con-
dition for travel. They are the Chicago,
Peoria & St. Louis, the Jacksonville,
Louisville C St Louis and the Litch-
field, Carrollton 6 Western.
FIVE hundred and four newly elected
members were installed in the lodge of
the Ancient Order of Unked Workmen
at Seattle, Wash. 1t is said this is the
largest number of members over initi-
ated at one time by any secret order in
the United States.
Ed BUCKLEY, n well known steamboat
man, is starving himself to death at
Burlington, la. He is demented.
The Alton Qll) fintware factories
have shut down owing to stagnation.
JAMES WILLIAMS, the negro who arose
in revival meeting at Chicago and
confessed to two horrible murders, has
been adjudged insane
REV. FATHER CUSHING has been APP
pointed by the pope coadjutor. bishop
for western Colorado
THERE was terrible fracas in
nhnrol, of Dnrtau n iuef G rnvivn1 Cp1,-
vices commenced. 1t was caused by
married woman being in company with
man not her husband The husband
was killed, the interloper fatally
wounded and half dozen others seri-
ously injured.
BUTCHERS of San Francisco are COM
bining TO fight the Armour slaughter
ing enterprise at Baden.
THE supreme court of Wyoming de-
cided the Carbon county election con-
test in favor of the democrats, which
gives them the state.
Ex.Gov. HENRY C. BALDWIN, of De-
troit, Mich, is dead.
Two miners, prospectors, returned
from the San Juan, confirm the stories
of q bloody fight over claims
By the explosion of lampin Millers-
burg, o., two girls were fatally burned
in the presence of their invalid mother,
who also had her arm broken.
W. w. FooTE, democrat, has with
drawn from the senatorial race in Cali
fornia in favor Of Stephen NJ. White to
succeed Charles n. FELTON,, republican,
The Cincinnati Times-Star celebrated
the now year by issuing an enlarged
paper from its new building. The old
clar. IS absolutely abandoned, and
everything rom cellar to garnet in the
new building is new
BOB TAITGN, the slayer OF Jesse W.
Elliott was convicted of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be hanged
at Tahlequah, l. T., February IS.
JOHN L. OSBORNE, who seized the eX-
ecutive office of Wyoming, Is now recog-
nized as governor.
The Montana house was organized
by the election of u populist for speak
err. the democrats withdrawing, leaving
the republicans and populists in con-
troll. The senate was organized by the
democrats.
THE Indiana apportionment case will
come before the new state supreme
court, which is now of different polit-
ical complexion and 4 different ruling
is expected.
Gov. MCKINLEY, in his annual mes
sage to the Legislature of Ohio, says
that retrcnchment is needed as there is
a deficit of $50, 1888.
ONE of the Oregon electors was pop
ulist.
ELLSWORTH WYATT, the notorious
desperate recently captured in Indiana,
who is wanted for murder at Green's
boro, Kan, and for numerous crimes,
escaped from the United States jail at
Guthrie, Ok.
AN arrangement has been made by
which trains will run from Cincinnati
to Kansas City over the Rock Island and
connections