Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-07-01
THE WEST.

ONE man was killed and two badly
burned by fire ut Murray & Nichols
Spice Co.'S plant, West Polk street,
Chicago
THE Columbia and the First National
banks, of New Whatcom. Wash, have
closed their doors.
FRIEDMAN & FRIEDMAN, wholesale
clothing dealers in Chicago, failed.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets about the
same.
LEROY PAYNE's big livery stable at
Chicago went into the hands of re-
ceivcr The place was foreclosed upon
by the Exchange national bank with a
s35. 900 mortgage.
FOREST fires are raging in Colorado
with unprecedented fury and have al
ready destroyed great deal of valu-
able property.
STARR & CUNNINGHAM, Cherokee
commissioners to sell their bonds,
were in Chicago waiting for the arrival
of New York bidder.
THE directors of the worlds fair have
completed the arrangement ts for having
religious services at the fair every Sum
day.
AT the worlds fair congress Of bank
ers, number Of speeches were made
on the silver question by the advocates
and opponents of free silver.
THE great American derby, worth
$50, 900 to the first horse, was run ut
Chicago and was won by Boundless
ELMER f. MORSE, of San Francisco,
the local cashier of the National Fire
Insurance Co., WAS lost overheard from
the yacht Rover off Mare island, San
Francisco.
THE first religious services of the
worlds fair were held on the 25th.
The sermon was preached by Rev. DIR.
Thomas.
AT Moorhead. MIMI, n daring robber
held up the cashier of bank, secured
SIS, 600 in gold and made good his es-
cape.
Gov. ALTGELD, of Illinois, has issued
absolute pardons to the anarchists
Fielder. Neebe and Schwab.
A SUIT for partition of Cherokee lands
has been brought by certain members,
the results of which will be far reach
ing if 1t is decided in their favor.
A RECRUIT at the United States bar
racks at Columbus, o., was shot and
seriously wounded while trying to de-
sert.
THE lumber yard Of John A. Wake
field at Omaha, valued ut $4,000, and
several buildings in the vicinity of the
yard were destroyed by fire.
THE Choctaw council met in extra
session to appropriate about 500, 900 to
pay the militia recently on duty at the
Jones-Locke war.
GEORGE BARNETT was instantly killed
and John Bartlett terribly injured by a
train near Bement, Ill. They had been
drinking and sat down on the track.
AT Coolidge, n. NJ, a cool robber held
up the cashier OF one of Harvey's ca.-
ing houses and robbed the safe.
AT FL Reno, Ok, Editor Hensley was
set upon by some county officials whom
he had criticised and severely beaten
up.
SAM P. ROSE, a leading attorney of
Denver, accidentally shot and killed
himself.
THE Canadian Pacific Is completing
its extension to st. Paul and will enter
the transcontinental rate war with a
$50 cut to Pacific coast points.
Gov. WEST, of Utah, says the people
of that territory are anxious for state
hood.
THE cowboy race from Chadron,
Neb., to Chicago was won by John
Berry.
AT Folsom, CAL. desperate convicts
attempted to escape, and in the fight
which followed three of them were
shot down by the guards
AT Lexington, Ok, fire destroyed a
hotel and eleven other buildings, and
two lives were lost in the flames.
In an accident at grade crossing in
Chicago on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy two children were killed.
THE Toledo Spice Co.. of Toledo, o.,
made an application for the appoint
ment of a receiver. The liabilities
amount to SAC. 1000; assets unknown.