Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-04
THE WEST.


AT San Francisco crazy man named
Rippey attempted to assassinate John
w. MaclSay, the mining king, and then
killed himself. Mr.. Mackay's wound
was not considered fatal.
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for the
removal of the Michigan-Peninsular car
works from Detroit to Chicago. The
chances are in favor of the removal.
The firm is capitalized at 81, 000, 900, and
employs 5000 men.
Az Coalton, O., three miners who
were ascending in the cage were hurled
to the bottom of the shaft and instantly
killed.
The German military bands which
will be heard at the worlds fair will
be composed of the finest picked must
clans.
Forty Japanese on their way to work
on the Payetta Canal Co. in Idaho were
met by party of unknown men and
warned to. leave the country, which
they did.
1r is reported that United States
special agents in the state Of Washing
ton have secured positive evidence OF
Chinese smuggling against prominent
men on the Pacific coast
THERE was a serious fire at St Paul,
Mimi, breaking out in the Minnesota
Shoe Co.'S works. Two firemen were
badly injured.
The supreme court of Kansas handed
down its decision sustaining the legal
ity of the republican house, Justice
Allen, the populist, dissenting
The coal miners strike at Centralia,
H., has been declared off.
FRIENDS of DIR. Cronin are taking an
active interest in the new trial OF Dan
Coughlin and claim to have found new
evidence which will surely convict him.
The National Union Of Brewing
Workers, including about l1,000 men,
with headquarters in St Louis, will, il
is reported, soon leave the National
Federation of Labor and affiliate with
the knights of Labor.
The killing of Billy Miller in n prize
fight ut San Francisco has been instru-
mental in the general assembly passing
bill prohibiting prize fighting.
REPORTS from Bisbec, Ariz, say n
bloody border war is looked for as y re-
suit of the killing of Edward Lopez by
Mexican officials across the line from
Bisbee.
The Pacific Short line is pushing
work on it's new $1,000, 1000 bridge at
Sioux City, and it is taken as an indica-
ton that the road has ambitions Pacific
coastward.
ALL of the Vandalia switchmen on
the Peoria division of the road in Deca-
tur, ILL.,, have struck for higher wages.
The demand was for SIS increase for
the foremen and % cents an hour for
the helpers.
A NEW mining district in San Bernar-
dino county, Cal, has been opened up,
and recently was sold to Mackay,
Flood & Co.
Mrs. LEASE denounces the cabinet of
the incoming administration rs made
up of the representatives of plutocracy.
CARTER Il. HARRISON secured the
democratic nomination for mayor Of
Chicago during the worlds fair His
platform is termed "wide open" one.
THE wall of burned building fell in
Chicago and seven persons sleeping in
an adjoining building were crushed to
death.
TYPOGRAPHICAL union No. &c, of Chi
cago, has Endorsed NJ. B. McCabe Of that
city for public printer.
JOHN w. MACKAY is still improving,
and there is thought to be no further
danger from his wound. Rippey, whc
shot him. is still alive ut the Receiving
hospital, San Francisco.
c. S. WILLIS and John Pace quarreled
over the possession of two lots in West
Guthrie, Ok, and Pace shot Willis. He
used shotgun and inflicted dangerous
wounds. Pace is in Jail.
A NEW line, to be called the Sioux
City, Chicago & Baltimore, is building
through Iowa and northwestern Mis-
souri, towards St Louis.
A DEMOCRATIC district convention to
nominate a successor to the late Judge
Scholfield, of the Illinois supreme court,
has been called for March 80. The
county conventions will be held on the
Esd.
THE jury in the Johnson-App murder
case at Princeton, Ind, failed to agree.
THE SOUTH.
nopspy Rpos u,.interS of Dallas.