Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-03-07

mates met at St. Paul, Mimi, on the
Sd and arranged the schedule Of games
for the season, which will open April
90 The Kansas City Blues will open
tho season at homo April 90 with Min
neapolis.
THERE was fall OF snow in San
Francisco on the ed, tho first In ten
years The fall was quito heavy while
II continued. but melted as fast as II
fell.
The London St. James Gazette TO
marked on the ed: "If Spain and the
United States 60 to war. 1t does moi
follow that the Americans will have
such mere walk-over rs they antici'
pate. Tho fall In the price Of Ameri'
can stocks tells It's own tale. American
commerce would DO fine bait fol
Spanish privateers, and the capture OF
Cuba would hardly compensate foI
such damages"
THE Cubans at Key West, Fla, in
cited by Americans, who were indig'
nant over the stoning Of the Ameri-
can consulate ut Barcelona, made a
movement to retaliate in kind on the
Spanish consulate at Key West, but
the mayor massed q strong police force
and spoke to the crowd OF the harm
they would do their cause. They
needed the mayors advice and paraded
the streets, cheering the action OF con-
gress.
On the LIST the Spaniards at Barcelo-
ma stoned the United States consulate
and shouted Down with the Yankees!'
The police had to charge the mob to
dispense them. The students Of Alvin
cia also paraded the streets and gath
cred before the American consulate in
that city, shouting their threats and
showing their animosity to America
on account Of the passage Of the Cuban
resolution by the United States senate.
Active preparations were being made
in Spain for possible war with the
United States
Much damage was done throughout
Connecticut by continuous rain. The
Connecticut river was swollen to three
times its normal proportions The
Coppermine dam In Bristol broke and
people living along the banks Of the
Pequaback river lost everything they
possessed and were obliged to leave
their homes in the darkness. Many
bridges were washed away. In New
York state three dams ut Schuylerville
and the large flume Of the Champlain
silk mills were swept away and also
many bridges.
The Chicago Review, q Catholic pa
per, published recently an important
decree of the Roman propaganda,
which considerably modities the one
previously issued condemning the Odd
Fellows, Knights OF Pythias and Sons
of Temperance. Catholics who be-
longed to those societies before the
condemnation decree are now allowed
to leave their names upon the rolls
and to pay their dues and assessments,
but not to take part in the proceedings
.of the societies.
THE New York Journal has called
attention to a decision Of the federal
supreme court in the case Of Laing VS..
Rigney and asserts that persons under
the ban of divorce in one state, who
have married In another state. are
criminals and can be arrested for
bigamy, and that the decision illegiti'
matizes children born of such unions.
FRED STUESKEI., n farmer near Chi
cago. and two of his daughters were
found dead and the mother and four
other children were reported as dying
from the effects of gas escaping from
the stove in the night
A GALLERY In the Casino mt Fall
River, Mass, collapsed during the polo
game on the 2sth and so spectators
were thrown to the floor. Thirty per-
sons were more or less injured. An
old man died and others were thought
to be fatally hurt
DARLINGTON BooTH and his wife have
decided to start an independent reli'
gious organization. They will, how
ever, surrender to the representatives
OF Gen. Booth, now In control of the
Salvation army headquarters at New
York, all the property and money OF
the army.
MELVILLE KENNEDY, colored, was
lynched by q mob at Windsor, S. C., for
assaulting q woman and q mob was
securing the country for his accomplish
to serve him Ia the same manner.
In q recent fire ut Duluth, Mimi.
Mrs. Paul Boolwein was burned to
death and property destroyed to the
value of $50. 900.