Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-03-16
rrLEoRipnlo NEWS NOTES.
Spain has raised her tariff on wheat,

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Spain has raised her tariff on wheat
aour and bran.
Postmasters who failed Of conHrma
tion In the senate were reappointet
by the president
Cashier Shropshire OF the Central
rsilway of Georgia committed suicide
at Birmingham, Ala.
Ex-United States Senator Harlan o.
Iowa Is candidate for the Repub
lican nominal on for governor OF Iowa
A grand jury has indicted the OK
sheriff Of Clay county, Kentucky. fol-
usurpation Of office, the jailer fol
ma lfeasancc and another officer fol
murder.
q. II. Thomas has been appointed
postmaster at llernal, Reno county,
Kan. vice &. +. Thomas, resigned.
The First National bank of Tex.
arliana. Ark. closed Is doors throu Oh
inability to meet its obligations.
George Gould says money consider.
atoms were not thought OF In the
marriage Of his sister to Count de
Castellane.
East Pennsylvania conference OF
the United Evangelical church has
strongly denounced congress for
working on Sunday.
All the criminal suits against the
factions of the Order OF Scion have
been withdrawn, and the affairs Of
the order will be wound II? In peace.
The story that Congressman Harris
of Kansas was MARI led in Pittsburg
last week Is denied-no marriage IL
cense having been issued him during
the week ended February
The Utah constitutional convention
elected the permanent officers with
Hon. John Henry Smith rs their head
as agreed upon by the Republican
caucus. The Democrats made no
nomi nations, and the election OF OIL.
GERS was mostly by reclamation.
j. Howard Payne, county attorney
Of G county. Oklahoma, was found
dead two miles from Arapahoe. He
had been on q spree, wandered out of
town and got lot and chilled to
death. He was relative Of and
named after the famous author Of
Home, Sweet Home"
Ernest L. Squier. the st. Louis City
and Suburban Investment company
president, has disappeared. Numer-
Gus victims are reporting losses in his
schemes
The federal elections committee OF
the California senate has decided to
report favorabiy on q joint resolution
inviting the national conventions to
meet there in 1870.
The Indiana house has passed the
Republican congressional reappor
tioument bill. II makes three dis
tricts Democratic, four Republican
and the others doubtful.
Emanuel Binder, rs years old, liv-
ing seven miles northwest Of Sterling,
Kan, committed suicide 10y shooting
himself with shotgun, which he had
borrowed from neighbor.
The supreme court Of Independent
Order Of Foresters Of Canada has be-
gun mandamus proceedings in Chica-
go to compel the illinois state insur-
ance superintendent to allow the
society to do business in Illinois.
The attorney general of New York
has denied the application OF the
Central Labor union OF New York for
.eave to begin proceedings to dissolve
the Standard Oil company on the
ground that 1t is not n monopoly
The case has been pending some time.
1t is reported ut Madrid that the dis.
turbances in Cuba are not OF serious
nature. The Spanish governme At,
however, denies that it has received
that the twenty-four per-
sons reported to have been arrested
in Cuba have been summarily sem
fenced.
The boycott Of the War Cry by the
Typographical union In San Francisco
will probably result In an organized
against the Salvation Army by
the trades unions Steps are being
taken by the union to accomplish the
result, and copies Of their manifesto,
calling on all members Of unions to
refrain from having anything to do
with the Salvation Army, have been
sent all over the coast.
In Philadelphia Frank Robinson
was instantly killei and Frank Duffy
fatally injured by the explosion Of 0
cylinder charged with gas
Judge J. Il. Mcbride, brother Of
Mcbride of Oregon, ex-
presses the conviction that his
Or other will stand with silver mn.
CHEAP RATES.
Cheap tickets to Florida points
will be on sale Feb. 5, Mar. 5, and
April 2, 1895.
Mardi-Gras at New Orleans, Feb
ruary 20, 1895.
For above occasion tickets will
be sold to New Orleans and return
for SIS. Selling dates Feb. Is to "a,
return limit March 20, 1895.
W. c. KNIGHT.
Agent, Memphis Route.
Local homeseekers' Excursions.
On January s. February5, March
) and April 2 and 30 excursion tick
,ts will be sold at rate of one fare
for the round trip to all points on