Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-09-22
NEWS NOTES.

carpenters secretary McuUire 10 report
was read, which showed that fifty
four cities have the eight-hour law,
nineteen Of which are in Illinois.
The secretary upholds strikes IL they
are properly conducted.
The secretary of the treasury has
asked the secretary OF state to in.
struct the United States consul at
Hamburg to detain all immigrants
from East and West Prussia, Posen
and Silesia during the prevalence OF
cholera in those districts.
The Democratic organization Of the
city and county of Albany. n. Y,
known As the "lIill oil. anization," at
the primary elections held to elect
ward delegates to the assembly and
county convention, passed resolu-
ton at every polling place expressing
deep regret Mt the withdrawal of Gov
ernor Flower from the gubernatorial
race and indorsing the candidacy Of
Hon. John Boyd Thatcher
As Engineer Tom Carter was oiling
his engine on trestle at Lonesome
Valley, on the Knoxville and Cum.
berland Gap road, a sudden lurch OF
the engine threw him over. and he
fell $50 feet. lie was dead when
picked up.
The American minister to the Re-
public of Colombia has arrived in
Colon from Bogota. en- route to the
United States. II is reported Presi.
dent Nunez is Ill.
Mrs. Anne Rogers, sister of Gen.
eral John A. Logan. died from an
overdose Of morphine.
CorIelia Coleman was put on trial
for arson Mt Lebanon, Ind. She is
charged with burning her divorced
husbands property.
Governor Altgeld has returned to
Springfield after his trip to New York.
A New York specialist told him that
he was threatened with locomotar
ataxia.
The Cook gang entered n store Mt
0kmulgee. capital of the Creek nation,
and secured $500.
While attempting to cross the track
ahead of the north-bound express
train ut Putnam, y. V, Mr.. and Mrs.
0rson Higgins of B.nson, VT, w.re
instantly killed, AMI a Little girl,
Mary Manley, wa fatal; injured.
The Sultan has again given practi-
cal evidence of his interest in Amer =
lea. His majesty was deeply moved
by the tragic details OF the fors $
fires in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and
he has given 300 Turk sh pounds for
the benefit of the sufferers.
In Dayton, Ohio, benjamin I. Travis,
aged IS, p.nsioner. AMI julia A.
Batten, aged 81, his paramOur. en-
gagged in quarrel with fatal results.
The woman used q club ON Travis, i'm
fiicting wounds about the head from
which he died u few hours later.
A Parachute. Col, dispatch says
cattlemen swooped down upon three
sheep camps on the MESA west of tn re,
shot and dangerously woundel q
herder named Carl Brown, drove off
the other h riders, and ran the sheep
over the cliffs along Roam cresk.
Elmer Crockett of Nelson, Mo-, 5
years old was instantly killed while
playing with shotgun.
A private telegram received at the
Japanese legation in London gives
the losses OF the japanese Mt the bat
tie Of Ping Yang as being eleven off,
GERS wounded and a6O officers killed.
The first days shoot OF the Elliott
Carver match at Kansas City resulted
in victory for Elliott The score
was Of to 90.
Madeline Pollard declined to ex-
press an opinion concerning the de-
feat of Colonel Breckenridge and de-
MED the report that she was going on
the stage.
Charles A. Southwick Of Louisville,
while beating his way on n Missouri
Pacific freight fell between two cars
while the train was passing through
Sedalia and was instantly killed.
One of the gran dest celebrations In
Sweden's history will occur December
0, on which date 300 years ago Gus
tavus Adolphus ii, the greatest Of all
Swedish kings. was born in Stockholm.
Chief Lawler of the
O. A. r., says that the customary pa.
rade will be held ut Louisville next
year and that the talk Of abandoning
the parade was largely confined to the
Mrs Catharine Robbins Howe, tie
confidence woman who was arrested
for neecing Yale graduates. has been
sentenced 70 two years IN jail.
Peter jackson. the colored pugilist
has sailed for St Thomas on board |
The Caribee. he told a reporter that
be really had no definite plans for the
future. His purpose IN the present |
Trip h merely 70 Wait his aged mother. |