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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1901
Page
6
The note recalls a reduced city attorney salary deemed unappealing to lawyers and mentions James Ryan, a saloonkeeper, elected to the position, possibly the only saloonist serving at two bars. The piece then shifts through quips on weather, royalty, lynchings, and oddities from early 20th headline humor.
London reports Ex-Gov. Hazen Senter Pingree of Michigan died after a cancer diagnosis. He served as Detroit mayor and Michigan governor, known for municipal reforms, a potato patch home for the poor, and tax law advances. His death comes during a South Africa trip begun last March.
Capt A C Kissee owner of Kisere Mills in Toney county faces divorce and $25000 alimony suit from wife No 4 who left him four months after the birth of the twenty third child. The elderly 70 year old man reportedly awaits custody of the infant. The Kansas City dispatch notes the suit follows headlines amid his sensational marriage history.
Judge Hallett, U S district court, allows county claims on forfeited criminal bonds alongside creditors and rules bankruptcy discharge does not erase the lien. E C Crow, attorney general, says Washburn not eligible for Kansas City election board. governor to appoint replacement. New steamer lines across the Pacific proposed by navy department are 30 miles wide with no navigation menace within tracks.
A Socorro county Mexican farmer was convicted of inhuman treatment to his wife and sent to the Santa Fe penitentiary for two years. He reportedly used her as a plow horse and struck her with a lash when she did not respond to his orders.
Washington reports Dr. John McKinley is convalescing and it is expected that the president and Mrs. McKinley will depart for Canton by July 1. The brief note places the anticipated travel in early July as they recover.
St Petersburg reports the birth of a fourth daughter to the czar and czarina, Anastasia, joining Olga Tatiana and Marie. The article notes the potential impact on succession and recounts the czar's hopes for a male heir, the succession line through Grand Duke Michael and Grand Duke Vladimir, and the czarina's age and marriage date in 1804.
Oklahoma City June 19 The Kiowa Comanche and Apache reservation is set to be opened by presidential proclamation for public settlement. It spans about 3,000,000 acres bounded by Red River to the south and Washita and Red rivers to the north and west. The Wichita mountains lie on the western edge. The land is rolling well watered and well drained, with creeks and rivers feeding Red River and Washita.
George Phillips, called the "corn king," spoke at the New York produce exchange predicting September corn at 50 cents and October at 32 cents. He claimed to have earned over 1,000,000 dollars for customers in May corn, with 250 participants and farmers making millions by prices set by the group. He said he did not risk his own money, often posting 700,000 dollars daily as margins, and claimed profits of about 250,000 dollars, all as commissions.
In Eldorado Kansas on June 19 the state’s case against Jessie Morrison gains strength as faded wrinkled papers written by Clara Wiley Castle are admitted. The dying woman, whose windpipe was severed, communicated by writing nods and motions, and the sheets support both that she did not expect to live and corroborate her dying statement to be introduced later.
Secretary of the Treasury Gage forecast in December that receipts would exceed ordinary expenditures by 90 million dollars. The surplus for the year ending June 30 may fall to about 73 million, barring unexpected demands.
A June report to the War Department details 11 Philippine cases tried by military commissioners for murder rape kidnapping assault burglary and war rule violations. It highlights the oath-bound society called the Sanda thans with leaders an executioner and grave diggers who lure victims to a beach grave. Ten members, including two chiefs, were sentenced to hang.
Porto Rico executive council members Dr Jose C Barbosa and Dr Jose E Gomez Brioso are summoned to a July 4 special legislature session. They expect talk on abolishing tariff duties with the United States and note Hollander’s report on island revenues after July 1 to support suspending the Foraker law.
London reports 40,229 confronts in concentration camps across Transvaal and Orange River colony. May deaths reach 98 adults and 318 children amid Irish parliamentary outcry over conditions. Government to release some women and children with relatives but not to feed those in isolated areas.
New York June 18 at a special meeting of Missouri Pacific directors a semi annual dividend of 2 percent was declared marking the first dividend since 1801.
Molten Cape Colony June 19 Boer commanders Kritzinger and Fouche placard Cape Colony with a proclamation. Anyone reporting Boer whereabouts will be fined £50 or forced to march with the command for three months. About 2,100 armed Boers in the colony continue to recruit. London June 19 The Sun reports Kru ger cabled to Gen Botha declining concede anything and Botha and his commandants plan to repudiate Kruger authority and arrange further consultation with Lord Kitchener next week.
In Kansas City on June 19 a conference of populist state committee members, Lee Meriwether public ownership adherents, and free silver Republicans began organizing a new third party to unite Missouri and serve as a national nucleus. The movement has sympathy from William J. Bryan and Meriwether, with 22 St. Louis leaders meeting Bryan after a day with him at Lincoln.
Captain Andrews Rowan of the Nineteenth Infantry is under investigation for destroying a town to renew the insurrection in Rohol Island. A native who killed a corporal was captured and killed. Rowan burned a town, provoking insurgent reaction led by Sanson. Cailles' forces rendezvous at Pogeajan Laguna province to march toward Santa Cruz to surrender. Americans evacuate Pagsajin at Cailles request. Laguna saloons closed.
An unprecedented avalanche struck Popeville in Grant county, 38 miles from Keyser, destroying vast forest and rocks along the Potomac river. The Ours family home was wrecked, the 22 year old daughter of Mrs. Andrew Ours was killed, and Mrs. Ours lies dying.
Jefferson City Mo June 19 The Missouri supreme court sitting in banc issued ten opinions among them the key ruling overturning the third constitutional amendment known as the mortgage tax amendment St Joseph Mo June 19 Missouri Dick the canary that can whistle Yankee Doodle will be returned to his old home after owner C T Donovan bought him back from L M Hedges of Chicago for 1300 Mr Hedges Donovan said he aimed to secure McKinley in her sick room Christian nudists flocking to Boston June 10 Christhen Usta from around the world in this city join church work and aid in communion service on July 9
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