Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-08-12
GENERAL.

THE expected war IN Sanoa orohe
out on July 8, when Mataafa's men
were attacked and routed by Malietoa's
troops. The vessels of the treaty
powers then interfered and put an end
to the war.
THE steamship Straits of Gibraltar
has been lost in the straits of Belle Isle
by collision with icebergs. Value,
$4,000 No lives were lost
THE condition of the silver market
created financial panic in Costa Rica.
Many houses have failed and great dis
tress prevails.
CASES of cholera are officially noted
in Rome, Italy.
A PARTY of bandits who attacked the
home of wealthy ranchman in San
Salvador were pursued by soldiers and
many of them killed.
THE war at Buenos Ayres will come
to an end soon for Gov. Costa's forces
are cooped up in La Plata and cannot
hold out much longer.
A LATE session of the international
socialist congress, at Zurich, was en-
citing on account of the adoption of a
resolution to exclude anarchist dele
gates.
Ir is denied that Mrs Sartoris (Nel-
lie Grant, will reside permanently in
this country.
TWENTY-FIVE eXcursionists were
drowned by the capsizing of Il boat of
Glamorganshire Wales.
FoRGERs Ducret and Norton have
been sentenced to imprisonment in
France. They boosted of having
stolen documents from the British
embassy. which they had really forged,
duplicating members of the govern
ment in reasonable practices.
FIRE destroyed nearly $1,000. 900
worth of timber at Liverpool, England.
The Italian government has decided
to forbid all pilgrimages to Rome in
the event of cholera continuing abroad.
THE various labor unions of Paris
that form the Labor exchange, which
was closed by the government during
the recent disturbances, will agitate in
favor of inaugurating general strike
of all the trades on October |.
The international socialist congress
has opened at Zurich. Switzerland.
PRIVATE advices from San Jose de
Cucuta, on the frontier of Venezuela,
represent that the revolt in Los AndeJ
is assuming serious aspect.
THE Canadian interior department
has ordered that the sale of the Thou
sand islands be postponed for the pres
ent.
PHILADELPHIA. New York and San
Francisco have fitted out nautical
school ships for the training of boys
for the mercantile marine. Philadel-
phia's ship, with eighty pupils, has just
made the passage across to England
and the newspapers there comment en-
Enthusiastically on the superiority of this
system over the apprentice system in
vogue in that country.
THE Canadian government granted
permission to West Point military
cadets to travel through Canada in uni
form and with arms on their way to
the worlds fair The permit was re-
quested by the United States govern
ment.
THE LATEST.
THE gold in the treasury is s',l57.s54
above the 800, 600, 900 gold reserve.
FLoIisTs of America met in conven-
ton at st. Louis on the 18th.
The silver men in the house fired the
opening gun of the battle at the caucus
by adopting resolutions outlining their
policy.
PREPARATIONS are being hastened for
the opening of the strip, and it is be-
lieved that the presidents proclama-
ton will be issued soon after the list OF
September.
COLORADO has determined to at once
start the building of n great canal, and
thus provide work for thousands OF the
unemployed.
OFFICIAL reports show that one OF
suspects removed from the karamania,
in quarantine at New York, was af-
fected with Asiatic cholera in a mild
form.
ZIMMERMAN was defeated by johnson
in the five-mile bicycle race at Chicago
by five feet. Time, 1874.
THE Worth county court house ut
Isabelle, Ca, burned the other morn
ing. All the county records, except
those contained in two books, were
lost. lncendiarism was suspected.
An operation has been performed on
John w. Mackay, the millionaire Cali
fornian, for the removal of the vermi-
form appendix.
THORPE. Wis, has been badly dam
aged by fire.
A SEVERE earthquake was felt at
Santa Rosa, Cal, on the morning OF
the 9th.
THE boiler of the planning mill at
Marshall, Tex, exploded Three per-
sons were killed and two badly scalded.
The fire in the Pennsylvania colliery,
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