Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-03-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

| u. have decided not to hold the next
national convention Mt San Francisco,
MS was previously proposed, but will
hold 1t nearer Kansas, rs they think q
crisis in the temperance work Is i'm
pending in that state.
The committee OF the A. F. of L. Mt
indianapolis, Ind, has recommended
to that body that May be set aside as
the day to inaugurate the eight-hour
movement throughout the country and
chose the carpenters to start the ball
rolling.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued
comprehensive order extending the
civil service to practically the en-
tire Indian service.
A DISPATCH from Cairo stated that
the khalifa had proclaimed n holy war
against Egypt and had called all der.
wishes to enroll under his banner.
THE large hardware manufacturing
concern OF Sargent & Co. at New Ha-
ven, Conn. employing some 800 hands,
has reduced the hours OF work IL hours
on account of the slack demand for
goods.
A VIOLENT shock of earthquake was
felt about eight o'clock on the evening
of the ed in the vicinity OF Machias,
Me. Houses trembled, dishes ratified
and clocks stopped. People rushed
from their houses in alarm.
The amendment to the interstate
commerce law to compel witnesses to
testify to infraction Of the law not.
withstanding the constitutional pro-
vision releasing persons from incrim-
mating themselves, providing they are
not prosecuted, was on the 23d declared
by the United States supreme court to
be effective and valid.
THE senate committee on territories
has agreed to report favorably the bill
for the admission of Arizona us state.
j. w. o. PATTON, q physician OF
Nowata, l. r., while crazed with
liquor. accidentally shot Charles Rob-
inson.
Mrs CHARI.OT1s A. DRAYToS, nee
Astor, secured divorce at Tren ton,
n. j., on the 23d from her husband, j.
coleman DraytOn.
AT Joliet, ILL.,, the mill of the Consoli-
dated Steel & Wire Co. was destroyed
by fire, causing loss OF $3.50, 001.
AT the new Berwind-White shaft ut
Dubois, Pa, II men were instantly
killed and some were mutilated beyond
recognition by gas explosion.
GAS exploded In the Adrian mine at
Punxsutawney, Pa. and set 1t on fire.
Eleven men were brought out, with
two dead, and there were an unknown
numb still said to DO in the mine.
FULLY 1900 sports witnessed the
fight ut Hot Springs, Ark, on the 23d
between Billy O'Donnell, OF Memphis,
and George Stout. Of Omaha Both
men received considerable punishment
At the end Of tho 18th round the ref
cree declared the bout draw.
A NEGRO, named Ike Pier, was
lynched by q mob near Emporia sta
ton, La, on the Shreveport & Houston
railway. The victim had insulted two
white ladies the previous day and q
posse searched for him all night until
his hiding place was discovered.
Gov. MoRToY, OF New York, signed
the Raines' liquor tax bill on the 23d
and II Is expected that the new law
will enormously reduce the number Of
saloons in the empire'state.
The Merrimac mills at Lowell, Mass,
closed down its cotton and print works
on the Esd. Tho mills employed 1900
operatives and had q weekly pay roll Of
$50, coo. The Lowell Manufacturing
Co. will also shut down It's carpet mill
and only operate IL every other week.
SUvA, the capital Of Fiji, was de-
stroyed by n hurricane recently. The
loss OF the ferry steamer Pearl In the
brisbane river, by which 81 people lost
their lives, was also reported.
FIFTY thousand people were report
ed suffering In Chicago on the 23d be-
cause Of the strike In the clothing
manufacturing trade. and there was
no prospect Of any settlement Of the
trouble.
THE Cuban insurgents burned os
houses ut Punta Brava, near Havana,
recently. Several other estates were
also reported as being burned by them
in the province of Piuar del Rio.
Mr. MALET-PRovosT, secretary OF the
Venezuelan commission, has denied
that the commission had reached q de-
cision with reference 10 tho boundary
question favorable to Venezuela
THE boxing bout between Kid Mccoy
and Joe Choynski ut New York on the
sist was farce, the police not allow
ing the boxers to fight on their merits
and the men boxed four one-minute
rounds amid derisive cheers, grosns
and cat.osllS
TIE british sohoonera Forrest Bell
and Zenith, both OF swansea, Wales,
game into the chbnnsl on the night Of
the 10Th aud the Zenith was sunk and
Ave Of her crew drowued.