Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-10-03
rur commI,.,ouer Of Indian affairs

ut Washington has submitted his an
nual report, In which he states that
the Indians are becoming adopts In
nncicraf,s aud that education has
progressed rapidly in the government
schools There were enrolled 10 the
achools 2a,35s pupils The commits
sioner lays stress on the need OF legis-
la,ion to restrict the sale OF liquor In
the reservation.
JOHN REEVES and his brother George
escaped from the penitcntiary AT
Frankfort, KY, by scaling the walls
They were sentenced to 81 years each
for burning half tho town OF Temp
kinsville.
Gus CARLSON. q farmer OF Woodbury.
county, Ia, fell in front of cornstaik
cutter and one leg was cut of below
the knee. lie cannot live.
GoLp has been found In paying
quantities on the farm OF Bahne
Lueclse, ut Camanche, near Clinton. H.
An assay shows gold and silver OF an
aggregate value of si3 TO the ton.
MISS FRANCES L. WILLARD, OF the
Worlds w. C. T.. u, has sent out an
appeal to the local unions In the Unit
ed States to organize meetings to pro-
test against the Armenian mnssacres
and also to raise money for the suffer-
ers and send IL to Mrs. Helen NJ. Barker
at Chicago.
+. C KnAFrs and George Dixon ut
San Francisco lowered the worlds
five-mile tandem road record by nearly
two minutes, placing the figures ut
l0:22 As.
ARTHUR j. KING. head of the firm OF
II. g. Dun & Co. of New York, died ut
bloomfield. n. j., on the 2sth, aged 20
years.
An embankment OF earth caved In on
Fifth avenue, New York, killing one
man and injuriny two others who we're
digci ing trench.
THE money value Of army horses
condemned during the past year Is
placed ut 10000, and Secretary La
mont has issued an order looking to a
more economical administration in this
direction. His instruction Is that IN
spection reports, condemning cavalry
horses for being vicious and unman'
agea BILE In ranks, arc not TO be ap'
proved. except in raro cascs. The
number of cavalry horses condemned
last year for various causes was $40.
AT the West Wisconsin Methodist
conference the vote in favor Of admit
Ting women to the general assemblies
was SO too.
A FERRY boat while crossing the river
TYNE, near Shields, Eng, sank and
seven persons were drowned.
HEAVY downpour Of rain on the
a6th washed away the south part OF
San Marcos, Tex. The houses gener'
ally were himsy ana foated away rs
IL they were bonts. The NJ, X. Il I.
lost about ~ miles OF track.
An an,i.masonic congress has opened
at Trent, Austria, with delegates pres
cnt from all European countries and q
group OF French Canadians, the prince
bishop of Trent presiding. The object
OF the congress was ITO make known
10 all the immeasurableness Of the
moral and material evil the church an6
society have suffered through freema
sonry and TO seek nu nntidote."
HARRIS BOONE, co!ored, shot thu
town marshal at Sparta, Ga, in tus'
and some citizens then shot Boone tt
death.
HARVEY w. FuGLE, ten.year.olt
boy, vas smo.hered to death VIII II
playing in n wheat bin in an elevator
at uagerstown, Md.
AT Buffalo, n. Y, Peter knmm killcE
his wife with Ratchet and then Gu
his own thr,,at. They had been sep
arated for several months
TIE people of Washington county
Kv.. have risen in rebellion and tori
down about oil the toll gates in thu
county.
The paymaster Of the Longda'e Iror
Co. was riding on an en?ine on TIT
Short Line railway near Charleston
w. Va, on the eth with $500 to pa.
employees, when he was held up by
robber and the money secured. Shot
we're exchanged and the paymastcr wa
killed, the robber escaping. A poss
went after the robbcr and lynchin!
was expected.
TIE big textile factories at Man
chester, n. H., Waltham, Mass, Troy
n. Y, Ho!lidaysburg, Pa, and Ames
bury, Mass, started up on the est
after an enforced idieness OF severa
months, and more than 10000 idle mel
were given employment