Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-05-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Inc WIG Oh OcuutOF NtOEVuu Va hAn-
bama died In Washington Of peritoni.
tbs.
The loss by the burning Of the st.
Charles hotel at New Orleans Is placed
ut S750,000.
Some New York brokers were done
for 81, 200, 900 by Chicago manipulators
on Chicago Gas.
The smallpox continues to spread In
Chicago. More than 500 cases were
reported during April.
A. f. BELL, st. Joseph, Mo-, agent Of
the Reid Packing company of Kansas
City, has disappeared with between
So, 500 and $1,000 Of the company's
money. He had been living high.
John Atwater, a young man Of
prominent family committed suicide
In house of i'll fame ut Birmingh ham,
Ala after having been arrested for
theft
The city Of st. Joseph. NO., has
been flooded with unusually deceptive
counterfeit silver dollars. Even the
banks have been deceived.
DIR. Albert Day, famous for his sue
ccssful treatment of incbriatcs, and
who for the past thirty-ivc years has
been identified with the Washing
tonian home, at DO 'ton, is dead, aged
70 years.
Opposition to II. C. Solomon Of
Atchison, Kan, for the Populist NOM
ination for congress has developed,
and he will be bitterly opposed.
The town OF bolton. Miss, lost its
business section by fire of incendiary
origin. The loss is about $500
In Colorado Springs, Col. Slaughter
l,assctt, n mining broker belonging to
one of the best known families in
Kentucky. died from the effects OF q
fractured skull.
Allen Alfred, son of capitalist ut
Dallas, Texas, was arrested in Atchi.
son, Kan, for forging the name OF
Fitzpatrick Bros, railroad contractors
ut Beatrice, Neb., to checks. When
arrested. he was clipping with Miss
Anna Miller of Beatrice.
A locomotive ran into party OF
fifteen young men ut Homestead. Pa,
killing John Davis and fatally injur-
ing Michael OToolc and Thomas
lialloran.
The Rev. DIR. Thomas j. Con atty,
stat, treasurer of Massachusetts Irish
national federation, has sent II check
for S., 900 to DIR. L. a. Emmett of New
York, as Massachusetts, first contribu-
ton to the Irish parliamentary fund
in response to the appeal OF Edward
Blake.
The scorpion p,St has made its APP
pearance in Durango, Mexico, in
greater number, and with more dead
" results than ever bctor' known,
and many deaths have occurred dur
ing the past few weeks from the
poisonous insects.
Il. L. Goodrl has completed the
transfer to tha federal gov 'rnmcnt of
Evergreen lakes, sixteen miltS from
Lcadville, Col. 1t is intended Ia
establish there the largest hatchery
in the country. with II capacity for
1000, 900 fish.
1t is believed that when the total
loss of life from earthquake disasters
| in Greece aud from the subsequent
exposure of tn homeless pcop!c is
added up, it will b. found that nearly.
il not quite. so p,opl. have lost their
lives through tht rc.,n 81 antilles.
April disbursements un account OF
pensions argreg atcl Slh, lj:.jlO. rs
against sl.,S1l,76l for the month OF
April, 1893.
Government receipts for the month
of April wcrr: Customs SlO l'i.J9l;
internal r,vcnr,. Sli 80, ll;'miScel-
laneous, 81, lj.,5@S.
The pension Il sburS ,m,nts for the
ten months of this fiscal year amount
to Silt, BOB Isl as against Sl33 1s.3I5
for the same pcrioi last year
The receipts Of tn government for
the ten months of the present fiscal
year are s.l5. SOD7i and Tn diSbnrsc.
ments, S3li,3?:.lgJ, leaving IL d :ticit
| for the ten months Of Siij. ii;,ii1.
The regular monthly statement OF
the director of tii IN nj shows the
coinage execute nj the United States
mints during tn, month of April to
have been: Gold. $40. lSi.0DD: silver.
s5ji 900: scent pieces, Sl.,iOO Total
coinage, SiO.7jO,O00.
Two large boilers ut Robertson *
Goldwn's lumber mill Mt Williamson,
n. C.. exploded AMI fifteen persons
were injured AMI Isaac bright killed.
Several of those injured were women
who had taken breakfast To their hus-
bands.
United States Ambassador Runyon
at Berlin is making an effort t. head
off an increase IN the tariff OF cotton
seed oil. The liundc>rath recon-
mended that the tariff be Increased
from four 20 tn marks pr 100 kilo-
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