Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-06-05

THERE were e57 business failures In
the United States for the week ended
the ssth, according to Bradstreet's re.
port, against 227 for the corresponding
week last year.
THE Yale university team won the
two-mile boat race with the Wisconsin
university team on Lake Saltonsts!l In
Connecticut on the Goth, winning by
about three lengths and being ten sec.
onds ahead. Time, 1854.
REPRESENTATIVES of independent
telephone companies throughout the
central and western states met In Chi
cago recently for the purpose of effect
ing national organization Of all the
independent telephone companies in
the United States to combat the Bell
Telephone Co., and to protect the
smaller exchanges against any action
that might be taken in the courts by
the Bell company in reference to the
recent Berlincr decision by the United
States supreme court.
SEVEN hundred convicts, comprising
the jute mill force, in the prison ut
San Quentin, Cal, recently rebelled ut
the prison fare and refused TO work
unless an improvement in the menu
was promised. The prisoners were or
dercd placed in solitary confinement
on bread and water until they agreed
to conform to prison rules.
TIE pope has just completed n Latin
poem of so stanzas, pointing out the
duties of frugality and the evil Of
gluttony.
DECORATION day was observed in
Kansas City, Mo-, and surrounding
cities in an appropriate manner, the
graves of the dead veterans in the
different cemeteries being decorated
with flowers and the day given up to
parades by the q. A. II. posts.
An earthquake was felt ut Zanes-
vile. o., about one o'clock in the after.
noon of the Sist. Employees in the
Courier building rushed downstairs,
the vibrations being so decided. Shocks
were also felt in towns in the Virginias,
Pennsylvania. North Carolina, Georgia
and other places.
MEMORIAL day was generally OBJ
served Mt Washington. There was n
parade of the &. A. X. and imposing
ceremonies were held Mt the national
cemetery ut Arlington. President Nc
Kinley was present.
THE Cheyenne Indians ut the Lame
Deer agency in Montana were said to
be making threatening demonstrations
against the white settlers and the
ranchmcn were anxious to avcnge the
murder of sheep herder by the In
dians Trouble was expected.
FIVE young people We're killed and a
number of others injured at Valley
Springs, l.. l., by the tally-ho in which
they were out for an excursion being
struck by train at crossing.
DURING n service in the cathedral at
Pisa, Italy. upon the unwilling OF an
image to the Virgin candle fell, set
ting fire to the building and causing a
panic. During the rush for the doors
nine persons were killed and 81 others
seriously injured. The fire was soon
cxtinguishcd. without causing much
damage.
THE athletes of the Pennsylvania
university are the intercollegiate cham
pions for this year rs they won the
intercollegiate associations champion
ship cup ut New York on the Goth.
The score by points was as follows:
Pennsylvania, "a; Yale, a4is; Harvard,
1884; Princeton. 1873; Georgetown, z;
Boston, 3; Syracuse, /; Cornell, l; Trim.
ity, q; Wesleyan, y.
WILL LEWIS and Wit Bosworth met
at Salem church ut Sweet Hole, Tex,
to observe decoration day when they
walked q short distance away from the
crowd and began emptying their re-
volvers ut one another. BY the time
their friends got to them both men
were dead. Bad blood had existed be-
tween them.
An earthquake shock occurred at
Whitehall and other places in New
York about 1918 on the night Of the
27th. Dispatches from jefferson and
st. Lawrence counties stated that the
inhabitants were greatly frightened
and rushed out of their houses in their
night clothes. Windows were shaken,
sashes broken and lamps overturned.
WHILE Grand Army post was de-
corating the graves in the cemetery
adjoining st. Peters Episcopal church
ut Philadelphia a wall upon which
number of children were climbing to
get view of the ceremonies fell down
and ten Of the little ones were severely
injured.