Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-08-26

THE WEST.
THE Decentralization national bank,
of St Paul, which suspended few
days ago. will resume business just as
soon as the necessary formalities can be
complied with.
ST. PAUL and Minneapolis publishers
are talking of reduced prices for type
setting.
An express car containing consign'
ment of gold for Chicago was wrecked
on the Fort Wayne, at Whiting, Ind,
and the coin was scattered in the road
but was all saved.
IT was reported that soldiers and a
band of sooners had fought on the
strip and that three of the sooners had
been killed.
THE other night an unarmed body of
laboring men waited on the Chinese
restaurants in Selma, Cal. and deported
the keepers, sending them out Of town
quietly and using no violence.
GEORGE A. DEAN, an actor in Den
man Thompson's "Old Homestead
company, dropped dead Of apopleXy in
Chicago. Dean, who was IS years old,
has played the part of Cy Prime in the
company ever since the play was first
put on the stage.
THIEVES broke into the rooms of the
republican city committee, of Indian
apolis, and stole all the precinct poll
books for one ward and other valuab
information.
By an explosion in the boiler-room of
n wire works at Joliet, ILL.,, restarting
has been delayed, one man was killed
and two fatally hurt.
In order that they may not adjoin
any of the Cherokee allotments the
county seats and land offices in the
strip have all been moved.
IT is said at Denver, Col, that Will
r. Perry Quilted the county funds to
the amount of $4,000 before he abb
seconded.
A REPORT has it that Treasurer Nc
Curtain, of the Choctaw nation, has
failed with 100000 of the lease money.
THE worlds fair directory has re-
quested Theodore Thomas to resume
charge of the music.
WALTER SANGER, the bicycle cham
pion, has been expelled from the Mil
waukee club for refusing to appear in
u race after being advertised.
CROP bulletins of Illinois and Iowa
say that recent rains have been greatly
beneficial to corn, though more is need
ed yet. especially in portions of Illinois.
Apples and potatoes will be short in ILL.,
nois.
AT Caldwell, Id. the house of fam
lily named Brookshire, lately from Mis-
souri,. was burned. Two children aged
4 and years were burned to death.
TIE private bank Of ]. \. Knapp &
Co.. Of Cedar Falls, Ia, failed to open
its doors.
Z. NJ. DONALDSON. president of the
Marion (kan.) First national bank,
also of dozen Iowa banks and secre-
tary OF the Union Trust Co., Sioux
City, all suspended institutions, is u
fugitive, charged with forgery and en-
of over 5000, 1000.
Tgs But'::-.-Mueller Co., Milwaukee,
dealer in lumoer, has assigned.
THE Indiana Manufacturing Co., of
Peru, Ind, one of the largest wood
establishments in the west,
made general assignment of 10 per
cent among its employees.
THE Peoples bank of st. Paul, Mimi,
which closed August 4 in order to pro-
tect it's creditors from prospective run,
ut that time perfectly solvent
and able to pay all depositors, has re-
opened.
CONSTABLE JOE JONES was instantly
killed at Paul's Valley, !. T., by John
whom he was trying to ar
rest
THE Ohio Stone Co.. of Cleveland,
went into the hands of receiver. As
sets about sSOe, 900 and liabilities $780,
600.
THEODORE HAuGHEY, his son Schuy-
Ter Haughey and three others asso-,
ciated with them, have been arrested
at indianapolis charged with wreclling
the indianapolis national bank. The
q, r,acte ,vara nm la nv, the I'nited Sfatas