Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-06-03
THE wEgT.

THE question of worlds fair opening
ION Sunday will soon be tested in the
courts.
TIE strike of telegraph operators on
the EI-t Howard division of the North
western road was reported proving
somewhat of n fizzle. All trains were
running on time and several men had
applied for reinstatement, but were re-
fused, as new operators were expected.
A REPORT came from the Colville res
ervation in Washington that the In
dams had attacked party of govern
ment surveyors and murdered two OF
them.
OLD union soldiers of Oklahoma are
indignant over the plan of Secretary
Hoke Smith for opening the strip,
which they claim will rob them of
their just rights.
TIE problem of how to make the
awards is costing worlds fair officials
lots of sleep, many of the exhibitors
protesting against the plan which has
been agreed upon.
A South DAKOTA man is going to at
tempt the perilous feat of planting
flag on the top of the famous Devils
Tower, supposed to be inaccessible.
THE first open Sunday at the fair
was Il grand success in point of attend
ancc, it being estimated ut over 100, 900.
CHIEF BUsHYHEAD is going to improve
his privilege of selecting section in
the strip by taking one which will be
eligible for TOWNSHIP.
WHILE ahe Foster failure has created
great disturbance in Fostoria, o., and
neighboring towns, it is not thought
there will be any further business ca
lamities as result.
The worlds fair congress of homeo-
pathic physicians and surgeons opened
on the Goth and distinguished men from
many foreign countries were in attend
ance.
WEAVER, GErz & Co.. coal dealers,
Chicago, have failed. Liabilities, $780,
600.
WHEAT ut Chicago has touched the
lowest point known for thirty years
with but single exception.
REV. DE-. SpREACHER, in the Euclid
avenue Presbyterian church, Cleveland,
o., preached sensational sermon de-
nying Bible infallibility.
Il. THATCHER GRAVES, of the Barna-
by murder case, has been released at
Denver, Col. on $50, 900 bail.
THE west bound exposition flyer
reached Chicago three minutes ahead
of time and the east bound got into
New York exactly on time.
JUDGE STEIN, at Chicago, granted a
temporary injunction compelling the
worlds fair directors to open Sundays.
Judge Stein belongs to the state judici-
airy. An injunction case TO compel clos
ing was to come before the federal
court.
SEVERAL. skeletons have been I'M
earthcd on the site of old Jacob'Crow's
tavern near Faribault, Mimi, rob-
bers' roost that existed on the highway
back in the Dos. The skeletons are be-
lieved TO be the remains of murdered
travellers.
Two North Dakota banks which have
not been operated on sound principles
have been closed by the comptroller.
THERE are rumors of an impending
outbreak among the Choctaw Indians.
THE excursion steamer Josephine was
condemned by the United States in
spector at Quincy, ILL.,. and she was I'M
able to take an exclusion party out as
advertised.
PETER y. NELSON, a farmer. was
driving across the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad track near Gales
burg. H., when he was struck by the
fast train, the Eli" and instantly
killed.
TIE NJ, X. e T. proposes to save tel
egraph tolls by using telephone sys-
TEN between st. Louis and Parsons,
Kan.
THE speakers ut the memorial day
services at indianapolis were eX-Presi-
dent Harrison and Gov. Mckinley.
AN attempt was made to blow open
the vault of the Helena, Mont, National
bank with dynamite, but it did not
succeed.
MoNTANA's beautiful silver statue Of
Justice at the worlds fair has been UNI
yelled.
S. Il. BARKER, the Chicago lumber
man, who is in difficulties, refused to
make statement, but the Union Ma
tional bank, one of his largest creditors,
says that he will pull through all right.
TIE Dahomeyans ut the worlds fair
dedicated their village with peculiar
and barbaric ceremonies.
THE SOUTH.
BISHOP MCCLosREY, of Louisville,
Ky, celebrated his twenty-fifth episco-
pal anniversary on the cath.
On the 18th the remains of jefferson
Davis were started on their journey
from New Orleans TO Richmond.