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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
STARVING PEOPLE.
Two Louisiana Parishes In Dire
Straits.
RELIEF COMMITTEES SENT OUT,
Assistance Urgently Needed-The Distres,
Due to Last Years Floods, which
Prevented tho RaIaing
OF Food.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb 9.-Four thou
sand people in Catahoula and Concordia
parishes in the northern portion Of
Louisiana are on the verge of starva-
tlon and have been driven to despera-
tion by suffering and hunger. Unless
aid is promptly sent them many deaths
from lack of food will be the result.
Last summers crops were destroyed
by the floods and the water remained
on the earth so long that it was inn
possible to raise either corn, cotton or
sugar cane and nothing was planted
except some quick maturing vegetables
late in the season. These were soon
exhausted, however, and the farmers
were compelled to sell nearly all
of their earthly possessions to Sc
cure food. When they had nothing
else to sell the people went to the
swamps and killed squirrels, rabbits
and raccoons and have subsisted entire
ly on wild game during the winter, but
this wholesale slaughter has depopu-
lated the forests OF every wild animal
larger than musl1rat
The people bore up bravely as long
as possible without appealing to the
outside world for assistance Many
moved away, but there are hundreds
OF Others who were not able to leave.
The citizens of the adjoining parishes
divided food with their suffering neigh
bors as long rs they had any, but the
constant drain on them exhausted their
resources
Finally the sufferers concluded to APP
peal to the outside world for help and
committee was appointed to visit Mem
phis, New Orleans, Vicksburg and st.
Louis to solicit aid.
Hugh Watson, editor of the Liberty
Herald, chairman of the relief commit
tee, arrived here yesterday and made
an appeal to the citizens Of Memphis
for money or provisions. The story he
tells Of the restitution is pitiful. The
only food the people have had lately is
pecans and acorns and what little they
could buy by hauling wood long dis
tances to the river and selling it to the
steamboats, The district embraces the
basins of the Ouchita, Tensas, Black
and Little river districts In terri
tory l75 miles long, which has produced
only twenty bales of cotton this year.
are 1000 people.
A meeting of the Memphis commercial
organizations will be called to raise
funds to send boat load of provisions
to the famine sufferers The Vicks-
burg and Natchez cotton exchanges
will take the same step. The New Or
leans board of trade has headed the |
list with S.. 0OO
Mr.. Watson says the farmers are now
blowing, but they have not enough |
food to feed themselves and teams. The
people of this section have always been
very poor. They have no means be-
yond which can be earned by doing odd
jobs in the territory round about and
even this entails upon them great labor
with little pay. In the warmest part
OF the year, when everywhere around
them crops are flourishing and farmers
are correspondingly happy, the deni-
zens of this narrow section are COM
PEELED to subsist from hand to mouth.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
Address
XuQ9ang1n SuraNt&..
Kansas City, Missouri.
Wv-HAME THIS PAPER every ysu
AN OPEN OFFER.

We are philanthropic. We want
to benefit people of this country and
we do not care to stop to count the
cost. You know that the great ma
jority of them are afflicted with in
digestion and we will do our best to"
relieve them. Any Of them send
ing their names to the SYLVAN
REMEDY CO., Peoria, ILL.,, wilt
receive by return mail, a box of the
Laxative Gum Drops. They are
the best things in the world for
dyspepsia, indigestion and constipa-~
ton. The three foes that lie in
wait for man and that cause him"
more trouble than all other put:
together.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
THE LATEST.

THIRTY-SEvEN seamen were drowned
by the wreck of u British ship off Caps
F; villano. Spain.
| A BAD rear-end collision occurred be-
tween stock trains on the 20" near 0s-
ceola, Ia Eight persons were injured,
four fatally.
TROUBLE along the Rio Grande dc
Sui border in Brazil has broken out
again A correspondent at Artegas tel
egraphs that the government police ar
rested and disarmed 100 federals who
were about to make raid
CONGRESSMAN PEEL, of Arkansas, is
being urged for Indian commissioner
under President Cleveland
The Colon bian warship La Popa has
arrived at Colon with thirty-two polit-
ical exiles who have been expelled from
Bogota on account of their participa-
ton in the recent riots,
II. w, WEIR. chief justice Of Idaho
during President Cleveland's first adj
ministration, died of apoplexy at Boise.
Idaho, aged 20.
People of four parishes in northern
Louisiana are reported in starving
condition from repeated failure of their
crops.
LETTER has been published from
Queen LiliuolSalanis minister of the
interior which puts the acts of the Ha.
waiian revolutionists, and Minister
Stevens with them. in bad light
Born houses of congress met in Joint
session ON the Sth and counted the
electoral vote. 1t was found that Cleve-
land and Stevenson received 277; Har-
rison and Reid, l45; Weaver and Field,
-
The citizens of Purcell, I. T., have
formed vigilance committee to pre-
vent lot jumping.
ESTIMATES of leading Montana cat
tlcmen are that at least IS per cent of
the cattle on the ranges have been lost
from the storms and terribly cold
weather Of the past two weeks
IT is said that the celebrated Econo-
mite society OF Pennsylvania is to be
wound up
1T was reported that another grave
crisis existed in France and that the
ministry had resolved to resign.
AN east-bound Big Four passenger
train was derailed at Pana, ILL.,. and
three coaches burned The baggage
master was killed and fourteen passen-
gers were injured
CINCINNATI medical students recently
got into a row in dissecting room and |
belHbored each other with fragments Of
human bodies
The king and queen Of Greece have
been visiting the earthquake wrecked
island OF Zante
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
THE SOUTH,

WHILE driving out of Cotton Plant,
Ark, Marshall Festerman's team took
fright and ran away, throwing him out
upon his head and killing him In
stantly.
The Richmond, Va, jefferson Davis
Monument association has asked for the
removal of the body of the confederacy's
president from New Orleans to Rcb-
lnond May 80
EN-Gov. r. NJ BlsHoP, of Ohio, is dan.
gerously i'll at the residence of his son
at Jacksonville, Fla He was governor
of Ohio from January, 1875. to January.
1880.
JOSEPH p. CoMEGYs, ex-chief justice
of Delaware, died at his residence in
Dover. lie was born near Dover in 1918.
COL A. C. DAWES, the we'll known
Burlington passenger agent of Kansas
City, died at Tampa, Fla. on the Sd.
THERE is disposition in the Texas
legislature to tinker with the state
constitution.
IT is shown that Gov. Hogg did his
utmost to prevent the atrocious lynch
ing of the negro Smith, ut Paris, Tex.
If possible the governor will have the
leaders of the mob punished.
IN the Alabama senate the bill to
create a new and complete convict sys-
tenn and to regulate and maintain the
same, after four days consideration,
passed unanimously.
JOSEPH WOLF, "a whisky dealer of New
Orleans, has secured q Judgment for
a, 900 against the whisky trust He
agreed to buy his whisky exclusively
from the trust and was to receive a re-
bate. He bought of other parties, how
ever 1t was decided that Wolf was
not compelled to confine his trade 10
the trust
GEN. MILES and staff have been in
specting the sites for q new military
post at Little Rock, Ark.
Gov. Hoee has sent q sharp message
to the legislature with reference to the
torture and burning Of the negro at
Paris, Tex
The Denison (Tex) Land & Improve
ment Co has gone into the hands Of
receiver.
The Alabama legislature voted down
the proposition to hold q constitutional
convention.
The gamblers at Pine Bluff, Ark,
have had their dens raidOd and their
trick paraphernalia burned.
THE Texarkana & Fort Smith road Is
contemplating building to Shreveport.
La
c. p HUNTINGTON interviews NJ
Galveston and excerpts to the sale of
the Waco & Northwestern railroad
THERE is probability of q big strike !
of engineers and iremen on the L q
n. over the question of wages
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
The Most Important Sale of the Year

This announcement is given you in
advance SO that you may either prepare
to be here in person, during the SALE.
orifyou can't come, that you may
Send Your Orders early and there
by get first choice of these beautiful,
silks.
If you desire to first write for SAM.
pies, we will cheerfully send samples
to You without charge; but we urge you,
to send as promptly as possible and we
will promise to use our best taste to.
please you And we give you this pro-
lection: If you become dissatisfied
with anything you receive from us, re-
turn it ut once, and we will refund your
money. We are anxious to please you.
and believe we can.
Following are some of the leading at
fractions of the sale:
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
GENERAL.

NJ. GERM. manager of the Financial
Weekly of Paris, has been arrested for
swindling.
THE death of Maj. Gen. Samuel Sprigg
Carroll, n gallant officer in the union
army, is officially announced.
THE controversy regarding the COM
ing of Mgr. Satolli to this country has
been reopened by q letter from Cardi-
nal Gibbons.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON has brought
suit for heavy damages against all who
were concerned in getting her confined
in an asylum.
THE Guaijara Indians of South Amer
ica have roasted alive three traders who
were caught stealing young Indian
girls for the purpose of selling them
into servitude.
INcEssANT rains have caused floods in
Queensland, which have inundated the
whole country.
THE government of Colombia will
suppress all labor organizations and
secret societies to prevent rioting.
FRANCOIS VAN RYssELDERGuE. the
great Belgian electrician, died at Ant.
werp, after brief illness, aged only
As. lie left widow and seven children.
THREE men were killed in a wreck on
the Baltimore & Ohio recently.
THREE thousand colonists in the prov
ince of Santa Fe, Argentina. armed
with rifles and also having possession
OF some cannon have risen in revolt
against the wheat tax.
The British troops have defeated the
Kachyen tribes in the Simla district,
India.
FULLER reports from the floods in
Queensland show that there has GER
tainly been great loss of life. ~
THE king of Butaritari has petitioned
the United States government for pro-
lection against the British.
THE name of NJ. Lazare-Carnot, father
of the president of the French republic,
is the latest to be mentioned in connec-
ton with the Panama scandals
A DISPATCH from Zanzibar states that
a band of Somalis attacked and beat
the Kismayu agent of the British East
Africa company and his guards. The
marines from the British warship Wild
geon eventually were landed, and after
killing eight Somalis put the rest to
fight.
THE husband of Nellie, daughter of
Gen. Grant, Algernon Charles L. Sar-
toris, died at Capri recently.
THERE is q cholera scare ut Marseil-
les. Fifty persons are said to have died
of the disease.
IT is believed that great railroad
building boom will Immediately follow
the opening of the strip to settlement
A BAND of conscripts began rioting
in the streets of Client, Belgium, and
put to fight ten gendarmes who tried
to restore order. A force of fifty gend-
armes eventually attacked them and a
hot fight followed. in which fifteen COM
scripts were wounded and three killed.
The Rio Grande Western and the
Union Pacific have restored rates from
points of each line to the east
NINE politicians and ex-officials OF
Italy have been charged with corrup.
ton in connection with the bank
scandals.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
UaruIy sioux.

PINE RIDGE AGENCY, s. D., Feb o.
Reports come into the agency that
strolliug bands of unruly Sioux are
making preparations for a racket Of
some kind. The police are watching
their camp near the scene of the muir
ders The Indians IRE making medi-
cine and singing war songs. The hos
tiles number zoo They are hemmed in
by a well armed Gordon of police
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
THE WEST,

OLD Two Strikes, the crafty Sioux
chief. is believed to be plotting another
outbreak and to have a hidden camp in
the Rad lands
Two lives were lost by natural gas
exclusion in the house Of John d. Shot
stall, Urbana, o.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
FrnnE smIfh Ia llrinr.

Topeka. Kan, Feb o-Frank, the
eldest son Of Hon A. W. Smith, late re-
publican candidate for governor. Is on
his death bed in Mcpherson and is ex-
pected to die at any moment The
young man is "a years old and was one
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11

THE sergeAnts and privates of the In
dian police who showed such bravery
in the fight with Two Strikes band
have been rewarded by promotion.
CoNvIcTs of the Indiana penitentiary
testified favorably for the warden.
ANDREW WITTE, a photographer Of
Moline, Ill, started for Davenport tc
purchase supplies and has not been
seen or heard from since. 1t is sup
posed that in attempting to cross the
Mississippi on the ice he broke through
and was drowned.
The auditor of public accounts, OF
Illinois, has revoked the license of the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas Trust Co, OF
Kansas City, to do business in Illinois,
the ground being that it failed to file a
statement in compliance with the law.
DIR. GRAVES has been released on
$50, 600 bonds. He is charged with the
murder of Mrs. Barnaby at Denver,
Col.
IRA n. TERRILL, speaker of the last
house of the Oklahoma legislature, who
murdered George Embree at the land
Office Mt Guthrie, Ok, who testified
against him in a land suit, was refused
a new trial by Judge Green and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life.
The long overdue steamer City of
Picking reached San Francisco all right.
HENRY GRAHAM, n Michigan farmer,
persisted in blizzard while looking for
his lost daughter.
GRAVE fears of an extensive strike Of
railway employees exist in Chicago.
The fire marshal, hosecart driver
and two business men of Leadville,
COL, have been arrested, charged with
larceny and incendiarisln.
THE residence of eX-Gov. Steele, at
Marion, Ind, was burned while the
family was away from home.
CONDUCTOR DAVE NORMAN, one of the
Santa Fe train freight robbers, made
his escape from one of the guards of
the county Jail at Santa Fe, n. NJ.
THE Peshtigo Mich Lumber Co has
completed negotiations with Perlev,
Lowe & Co., of Chicago, whereby the
formers entire cut of lumber from its
two mills the coming season is to be
sold to the latter. The cut will amount
to upward of 80, 600, 900 feet.
SMALLPOX is reported in Pittsfeld
township, Washtena county, Mich.
THERE was fire at the Peoria Qll)
Grape Sugar Co. s works, causing loss
of over 100000.
The home of Oliver Pattie, at Bcllairc,
Mich, was destroyed by fire and three
children, who had been left alone, per-
ished in the flames.
By a combination of populists and
democrats William Vincent Allen was
elected senator from Nebraska.
The saloon block at Wheatland, Ia,
has been destroyed by fire.
THERE is a remarkable religious re-
vival at Greenwood, ten miles north of
A BILL to prohibit gambling in the
state was killed in the lower house of
the Wyoming assembly by vote Of 81
to IL.
COMPTROLLER HEpBURS has appointed
J. D. Mcfarland receiver Of the Capital
National bank of Lincoln, Neb.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
THREE MARsHALs KILLED.
United States Officials slaughtered by In
dian Bill Pigeons Gang.

dian Bill Pigeons Gang.
MUsKoGEE, ]. T., Feb 9.-Informa-
ton has been received at the marshal's
office here that Deputy Marshals Heck
Bruner, Dave Rusk and Joe Knight
were killed in the mountains of the
Cherokee nation yesterday by Bill
Pigeon and his gang. Pigeon killed q
deputy six years ago while resisting ar
rest for whisky peddling. Since then
he has been scouting. He is a full
blooded Cherokee.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-07-19

fame. On each side there were sPo It's
made to eject scented water, which by
its murmuring invited sleep. IL eas
Crowned by a largo chandelier, Which
snresd LIGHT around, so rs to give 70
the whole the splendid appearance oi
millions of diamonds reh' ctlnS their
brilIiancy at once. This unique piece
of furniture was produced, We are told.
at the imperial manufactory Oh d.
Petersburg.
In these days, royalty does not soon
10 concern itself SO much about such
magnificent sleeping -couches- l.. s
well known that Englani's gracious
sovereign always includes led among
hcr travelling belongings, which Is sent
from Windsor Castle whenever Her
Majesty goes anywhere. 1t Is said to
be a perfectly simple bedstead OF maple
wood, with pl5in hangiugs arranged as
q tent, muslin curtains, AMI hair mat
tress. Two beds were manufactured
at the Castle works, one OF which was
placed in the Queens cabin on board
the Osborne, aud the other sent IN sd-
vance to the SchIoss occ Ipiel by Her
Majesty in Darmstait. The royal visit
or is said sometimes to leave her bed
As a sort of souvenir. One, We are tod,
Is at Dunkeld, anil others at Baden aud
Coburg.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-07-19
Where 1t ThuniarS Most.

Java Is said to be the region OF th,
globe where it thunders oftenest, having
thunderstorns on ninety-seyen days in
the year. After it nre Sumatra, with
eighty-six days; Hindustan, with fifty.
six; Borneo, with ffty-four; the Gold
Coast, with hfty-two; and Rio de Ja.
nero, with ffty-one. In Europe, Italy
occupies the first place, with thirty -eigh.
days'of thunder, while France and South.
ern Russia have sixteen days, Great
Britain and Switzerland seven days, and
Norway only four days. Thunder is rar'
at Cairo, being heard on only three day,
in the year; and is extremely rare in
Northern Turkistan and the polar re.
gions. The nothern limit of the re- ion
of thunder storms passes by Cape OSlc,
Iceland, Nova Zembla, and the coat OF
the Siberian Sea.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-07-19
LEPER VILLAGE OF SIBERIA.
MODEL ON EXHIBITION IN THE woMAN'i
BUILDING AT JACKSON PARK.

An exhibit In the woman's buildIn:
which appeals strongly to the heart O
the philanthropist is the model OF Kat,
Marsden's Siberian leper village.
Miss Marsden is professional rurs,
or the order Of the Red Cross, an Eng
lish girl whose heart was moved witt
pity for the sufferlngs OF the lepers il
the lonely depths OF the forests o.
Siberia. OF her own accord she started
on the mission which has become hel
life work.
She Travelled 1000 miles, 20O0 Of them
on horseback. Even after she reached
her journeys end her search for the
unfortunates was long and tedious,
but at last she found them in the hearl
OK tie forest, living In rude mud huts,
In the deepest degradation and despair.
Her appeals for help touched the heart
of her queen, Victoria, and reached
The ears Of the Empress OF Russia.
They are rendsr.ng her assistance.
In Russia and Siberia she raised
money enough to erect temporary habi.
tations for the lepers, and she is now in
America for the purpose of raising
more money with which to complete
her plans. She Is at present in Chi
cago, and can almost any tire be
found in her section.
The exhibit at the Fair consists OF
photographs and autograph letters, and
a model OF the village. or ra' her lepeI
station which will stand In the northeast
portion of Siberia, In tie province OF
Takulsb. There are two immense hospi.
tai building, foT TIE use of those
utterly incapacitated for work, sur.
rounded by village of smaller houses,
where leper families can live as happily
as IL is possible for those so afflicted
to dc.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-07-19

Asphalt pavement was FIRST laid IN
Paris In 1854.
| Nothing makes the world seem 90
= :Ious as 10 have friends at q dis
,snce; they make the latituies and
Ongitude3.
Sjf-belp Is tbs best kind. Il de
Telops us aud eases the community,
shlch Is thus left trse TO aid those who
:annot help themsslf.
In true kleptomania the victim
!Ce' not always distinguish between
lrti lies Of value and those which have
loLa. Some will pick up chips OF
8ood or bits OF gravel rather thay
nothing.
a luminous idea for the employ ment
IDt luminous paint: Use It for the
names OF streets and the numbers OF
louses.
Aluminium can be hardened by rapid
;ooling IN water, more especially II 1t
oe slloyed with small percentage Of
tanIum or tungestisn.
thunder storms are more frequent In
lava than In any other part OF the
world, there being an average Of o.
lays in each year upon which they
occur.
In Sweden and Norway the peat bcgs
cover many million acres, the depth Of
he turf varying from three 10 81 feet.
1t is used In iron works, wood-pulp
lctoIis,, glass works, brick works and
IS fusl for steam engines.
More than $40, ,OOO, 600 have leon
,ent out FROM the United Statss sinoe
.he nrst Of January last The gold
kings Of Wall street ara taking care Of
themselves, and the people will be "left
with the bags to hold"
The following pretty experiment is
iuggested by Charles Wetterer IN the
American Machinist: If iron or steel
ilings be correded In q damp atmos-
phere, and this rust added q little at a
lime TO Jar Of diluted sulphuric acid,
The CRYSTALLINE carbon particlssl that
existed In tue metal unite to form l3,ge
crystals; these same will be Of the hard
1iamond form.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-07-19

lnder her portrait is statue of Flor
.nce Nightingale. To the left is bust
II the Princess Christian, president OF
lie Royal British Nurses Association,
and who has tax en- an active part In
rganiziny protes slonal nurses into
.oties and In instituting reforms. To
!he right stands Miss Nightingale. A
bookcase Is filled with mementoes OF
Sister Dora, her chains, keys, scissor q.
md letterl from men Of distinction.
Here also Is the life of Sister Dora,
Eritten by her cousin, and a portrait
lf Mss Anoesley Kennedy, the noble
lr sh girl who last year volunteered her
nrVlc s in Hamburg cholera hospitals.
Of Miss Nightingale, of
Sister Dars and of many prominent
British nurses also adorn tie wsll+,
while a case Of medals is Of particular
interest.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-07-19
August
Flower

Miss c. G. McCLAvE, School,.
teacher, 753 Park Place, Elmira, N.
Y. This Spring while away from
home teaching my first term in a
country school I was perfectly
wretched with that human agony
called dyspepsia. After dieting for
two weeks and getting no better, a
friend wrote me, suggesting that 1
take August Flower. The very next
day I purchased a bottle. l am de-
lighted to say that August Flower
helped me so that 1 have quite re-
covered from my indisposition." @
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-07-19

A juryman at Ashland, Wis, made a
startling disclosure as to the small Incl
dent which led to the conviction OF
Baker in the Hurley Bank robbery case.
The envelope in which Baker eGore he
received the bills found on his person
could not hold the amount of money h,
had or claimsi he hal when arrested.
No amount of compression could have
reduced the package less tEan two
inches. This fact, brought out in the
jury room, quickly determined the yer.
dick[St. Louis Republic.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-07-19

~ yspep > a are re-
moved. Mr. Robert w.
w. Denyir OF 2aS Frank
lin Street, ln' Island
city, n. Y, ay "For
two years suffered
with dyspepsia, a n d
could find no cure for
It. A trip abroad did
DOT Improve my health.