Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-08-21
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commissioner OF education for the year
ended July 1, 1896, has just been COM
pleted. 1t shows total enrolment In
that year In the schools and colleges,
both public and private, OF 1897, 1877
pupils. The number In public institu.
tions was IA. 465,37i and in private in
situations 1851, s26. In addition to
these there were 4ls.0OO pupils In va
rious special schools, making the
grand total enrolment for the whole
country l6,4l5, 49,.
THE excitement over the Klondikc
gold discoveries, which for time
ragged ut Memphis, Tenn, has been al
together eclipsed and superseded there
abouts by the remarkable finds OF
pearls in apparently inexhaustible
numbers in the lakes and bayous OF
western Arkansas. The extent Of
these pearl deposits cannot be csti-
| mated.
THE department Of agriculture,
through its bureau of animal industry,
has prepared vaccine for the cattle
disease known us "blackleg" and has
issued circular containing directions
for using II.
A DISPATCH from Berlin stated that
ferry steamer at Dresden was cap
sized by the wash Of a large steamer
and so persons were thrown into the
water and it was feared the loss Of life
would turn out to be heavy.
THIRTY.FTvE houses on the main
street Of Jellico. Tenn, were swept
away in q destructive confagration,
and over 100 people were made home
less. A lamp overturned in u gam
bling den started the fire. The dam
age aggregated 100000.
MICHEL ANGIoLILLo, alias "Golli,"
the anarchist who assassinated the
Spanish premier, Canovas del Castillo,
was tried by court-martial at Vergara,
found guilty and sentenced to death.
lie will be garroted within the prison.
The headless body q d IiaK- HEinru-
c. Picken was found In clump OF
bushes near the roadside in Stone
county, Ark, where there was evidence
of desperate struggle. A close search
failed TO reveal the whereabouts of the
murdered mans head
THE demand for stockers and feeders
in Nebraska has become so heavy since
the new corn crop was assured that
unheard Of prices have been reached
for that class of cattle and for the first
time in the states history train load
of cattle was shipped west from Buff
falo, n. Y, for the Nebraska market.
A PASSENGER train was held up be-
tween Edmond and Oklahoma City,
Ok, at 1915 n. m. on the 18th by six or
eight masked men and the express car
looted. The passengers were not mo.
Tested.
A FARMER near Greeley, Neb., named
John ID. Nav, attacked his married
daughter with hammer and inflicted
fatal injuries. He then drove the rest
of his family from the house and set
fire to il and then fred the wheat
stacks and barn. He was mentally I'M
balanced and was put in Jail.
HEAVY hailstorms around Pueblo,
Col, on the 18th damaged the rail-
roads and stopped the trains from run
ming.
A NEW YORK telegram said leading
bicycle manufacturers Of England and
the United States were forming trust
to control prices.
A SWEEPING and far reaching injunc-
ton was issued on the lath in the coal
miners strike in the Pittsburgh, Pa,
district which tended to make the sit
uation strained one. Judge Collier
granted preliminary injunction re-
straining the defendants from encamp-
ing in proximity to the mines and
houses of the miners for the purpose, by
intimation and opprobrious words. OF
preventing the miners of the plaintiff
from working. 1t further restrained
the defendants from inducing or COM
polling any miner to quit work.
OFFICERS went to arrest Harrison
Korr, n negro, charged with murder,
at Palarm station, near Little Rock,
Ark, when Korr and half a dozen
other negroes opened fire and there
was q pitched battle, which resulted
in two negroes and one Of the officers
being killed and two other officers
seriously wounded. A posse started
after the other negroes in order to
lynch them.
A RECENT fire at Cleveland, Ok, de
stroyed half the business portion, SUIT
tons bank building being burned, be-
sides six dry goods stores, several
grocery stores and other places. The
FIRE was said to be incendiary.