Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-01-26
rELEoRApnIc NEWS In BRIEF.

The permanent fund of the Smith
sonian institution amounts to nearly
81, 0OO, 900
A movement is on foot for estab-
fishing ut Excelsior Springs Nation
nj Printers home.
Rival arbitration bills OF Attorney
General Olney and Commissioner
Wright may cause much debate.
The Kansas State Editorial associa-
ton was entertained by Lawrence
people. The members will visit New
Orleans next month.
The Augusta, Ca, Evening Chronicle,
United States Senator Pa. rick Walsh's
paper, has suspended publication,
after an existence OF six weeks.
The miners employed at the Scott
mines In Pennsylvania hive accepted
n reduction TO S. cents per ton, with
the provision that tho company's store
is to be abolished.
Senator Squire has introduced q
substitute for the free coal bill sent
to the senate by the house last srs ion
n bill levying an internal revenue tax
Of Sc per barrel on beer.
The corner stone of new Masonic
temple was laid in Detroit, Mich, by
the grand master OF the state, In the
presence of a large crowd. The
building will cost sjO),0o0.
Friends Of Mrs Bon Hardin Helm
are making earnest efforts to prevent
the confirmation OF Mr.. Joplin, who
was appointed to succ &c 4 her as post
master at Elizabethtown, X.
In Chicag there was inuch rejoic-
ing on the board OF traic when II was
announced that Senator Wa 'hburn OF
Minnesota, the anti-o,t;on st, mad
been defeated for reelection.
The California assembly by vote
OF O. to o has adopted n resolution de.
manding that congress defeat any re-
funding scheme for the Pacific rail.
roa Is and demanding the foreclosure
of the government mortgages against
the railroad.
In Albany, N. Y. white responding
to an alarm OF fire the driver and
ladderman were thrown from truck
No I. The driver. Robert +. Gilmer,
was killed. and the ladderman, John
Kinary, will die.
Senator Berry's bill makes it com.
pulsory on all roa Is in the Indian
terri tory To carry passengers on local
freight trains. and prov dies penalty
OF $50 for each day any road shall fail
or refuse to do so.
Secretary Gresham has submitted
to congress an estimate for an appro-
priation If 81. 900 for the execution OF
the obligat ons OF the Un.tcd States
and the protection OF e, interests and
property in the Samoan islands.
The senate comm ttcc Oh foreign
relations has authorized a favorable
report on Senator Mor-ins amend.
ment to the naval appropriation bill
maxim. an arpropria ion of Sll0,OW
for dredging the Pearl Harbor Ha-
vail bar.
The house COMMITTEES on election OF
president an vice president has
agree ~ report n joint resolution
m.nding the const tut IN 81 rs to
provide that the president .hall be
eligible to service for bat one term.
There was no dissentin! vote.
Twelve carloads " supplies arrived
in Lincoln from Georgia and were
promptly distributed IT, various points
in Southwestern Nebraska. Eighteen
carloads of provision, from New
Orle ms and two from South Carolina
are reported on the way.
United States Consul C'Neill at
Stockholm. Sweden. reports to the
state department that n bill was
passe by the Swedish government
on the eth instant raising the duty on
grain and -four TO the follow .ng rates:
All kinds Of grain per 200 pounds, 81
cents; m..t, Si.70; flour, Sl.7i
The secretary OF the interior has
issued requisition on the secretary
Of the treasury for gle, SIS, 600 for the
quarterly payment of pensions, as
follows: Top 'ka. Kan, IS 600, 900;
Indianapolis Ini., Zoo, 900; Phila-
delphia, 81, S25, 900; Knoxville, Tenn,
81, 500. 900: New York city, sl,650 900,
and Louisville, Ky, $1,000. 900.
II Jpe for the ultimate recovery Of
Whitelaw Reid has been given up by
his friends.
A dispatch from Paris says that the
income tax, which is the PIT measure
of NJ. Peytral, cannot be introduced
In the budget for ls95.
The state department has been in
formed that the South American Re-
public OF Colombia is redeeming its
paper currency in silver coin.
Della Stutiie bean. formerly OF Milan.
No.. committed suicide by taking
laudanum at Quincy, Ill.
Rufc Stone of Camden county, Mis-
souri,, while attempting to stop q
fight, was'shot and killed by Charles
Farmer.
Chief Justice Fuller decided the
John Sherman antitrust law was in
applicable to Sugar Trust cases.
Justice Harlan dissented.
Governor Pattison has accepted the
Democratic nomination for mayor oi
Philadelphia.
President Debs Of the A. r. u, and
his associates have been released on
s.. 900 bail each, in accordance with
the recent order Of the supreme court
The Western chair manufacturer
held q secret session at Chicago fol
the purpose Of revising price lists and
discussing plans in reference to the
spring trade.
In the Oregon senate q house con
current resolution for the election o.
United States senator by direct vots
of the people was referred TO thu
committee on revision of laws
In O'Neill, Neb., George Millihst
and Nose Elliott were held without
bail on the charge OF murder In the
first degree for the lynching OF Bar
rett Scott. the defaulting ex-treasurel
of Holt county.
The inquest on the bodies OF thu
men who met death in the great ex
plosion In Butte n week ago Is nov
In progress and promises to be q ionf
and rigid investigation as to who i
responsible for the terrible disaster