Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-04-29
THE WEST.

THE Cherokee delegation which will
make the final settlement for the strip
has left for Washington.
JACOB NEWMAN, lawyer of Akron,
O., was victimized out of $4,000 by an
old swindle.
TREASURER ROYCE. of the Veteran
Soldiers home, of California, is short in
his accounts for large amount.
In Utah cowboys attacked band OF
thieving Indians and were repulsed,
losing two of their number.
A MONSTER mass meeting was held in
Chicago, at which strong resolutions
were adopted denouncing the Russian
extradition treaty as fugitive slave
law and calling on the government to
abrogate it.
DEMANDS of Cleveland brewers have
been refused by the employers and they
may strike.
IT is probable that Paderewski will
not perform ut the worlds fair because
of the quarrels of piano manufacturers.
EDITOR ROsEwATER, of the Omaha
Bee, is out with n scheme favoring the
foreclosure of the Union Pacific system,
letting the government get what it can
of its debt under foreclosure.
BY the collapse of a defective wall n
number of briclslayers in Cincinnati
were precipitated four stories to the
ground. one being killed and several
fatally injured.
AsIATIc lcprosy is reported to have
been discovered at Fort Wayne. Ind.
The victim is Syrian woman who has
been pcddling notions for some weeks.
She contracted the disease at Honolulu.
THE Transmissouri commercial con-
gress was called to order at Ogden, L.
T.. on the 24th. Free silver was the
subject which claimed most of its atten-
| ton.
TWELVE hundred Chicago iron mold
ers struck on the a4th.
THE threatened strike of carpenters
Mt the worlds fair did not come off.
When the walking delegate ordered the
men to cease work they refused and re-
quested that he he kicked OF the prem
ises which was done.
The body of Engineer Allison. who
went down with wreck on the Big
Four six months ago. has been rccov-
cred from the Wabash river.
JUDGE GEORGE +. SUGG, of the Chi
cago superior court. died after pro-
tracted illness. Judge Sugg had been
on the bench but five months and was
the youngest judge in Cook county, be-
ing but 81 years of age.
LIEUT.. Lulu LYNCH. a Salvation
army leader of Des Moines. Ia. died Mt
Marshalltown from the result of an eX-
plosion in which her clothes We're
burned off and she was terribly dis
| figured.
Gov. FIsHBACK, of Arkansas. has or
dered the strictest prosecution of all
concerned in the lynching of Flanagan
Thornton at Morrillton, and promises
the full aid of the state.
A TIGER which was being shipped to
New York got loose in the express ear
of Big Four train while passing
through Ohio. and created consterna.
ton for while.
THE magnificent new armory of the
First Illinois regiment. ut Chicago was
totally destroyed by fire and two men
lost their lives.
| ID. L. HEDGES. capitalist and the
Union Loan & Trust Co.. of Sioux City,
Ia. have made assignments.
THE extensive Russian exhibit for the
worlds fair has arrived
THERE was terrible cyclone in the
vicinity of Moore, Ok. on the night OF
the 25th. Nine persons were known tc
be killed.
THE mayoralty of Maroa, ILL.,, was
decided by Tipping a coin. The vote
had been tie.
THE Illinois and Sangamon rivers
near Virginia, H., have flooded thou
sands of acres.
SYLVESTER GoRBY. state geologist OF
Indiana, has been afflicted with
dementia.
THERE is very good prospect for q
fierce war on rates to the worlds fan
from the west over the $40 round trir
rate from Colorado points, announced
by the Denver 4 Rio Grande.