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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1901
Page
7
A Baxter Springs page prints a verse piece by Eunice W. Lucky, titled in Bacifle Monthly. It laments lost love and searches for spiritual solace beneath a sky of memory and faith, blending garden imagery with urban observation.
Rose Brewster faces a staged death plot by her rival Pennington Brush learns of her late husband Henry Brewster's return body and a dramatic coffin incident ends with betrayal and a courtroom twist. Rose uses a pistol to thwart the ruse as Pennington enters with passion and fury.
A tall stranger with a white beard visits a Chicago State street jeweler and slips away with a $250 ring by concealing it in a half eaten apple. Police reveal he is an old hotel thief who exploits his appearance to distract clerks. An associate retrieves the apple and the ring is gone.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt presents a lawyer questioning a client about grounds for divorce. The client insists the ground is exertion, mispronounced as desertion, claiming the wife did not leave him, but exertion is denied as a valid ground. The humorous exchange highlights linguistic miscommunication in legal proceedings.
Kansas City jurors convict Lulu Prince Kennedy of murder in the Ridge building corridor on January 10. Ten years in the state penitentiary, verdict delivered after a near 12 hour deliberation with ten jurors affirming sanity and second degree murder as the charge.
Buffalo New York June 17 a striking group arrives through Ellis Island from equatorial Africa as part of the Pan-American exposition. Sixty two natives from Ashanti Dahomey Loango Gboon Senegal Quita and Congo travel under head Ogowe tribe chief Lo Oben daga with three wives while forty more are due aboard a later ship. The chief boasts forty two more wives awaiting his return and his tribe is known for fierce victories in regional conflicts.
The Modern Woodmen of America head camp adopted resolutions favoring a fraternal societies building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis and changing Woodmen Memorial Day to the first Sunday in June. The law committee report was taken up again, and New York's insurance commissioner ruling against fraternal sick benefits led to that provision being stricken from bylaws.
Manila June 16 The Philippine commission named supreme court judges Cayetano Arellano Florentino Torres ex attorney general J F r of Texan Gen Jomenx F Smith formerly collector of customs Charles A Willard Victorina Mapa Fletcher Ladle and L R Wilfley appointed to be attorney general The assistant and solicitor will be natives.
Washington reports a 840 515 increase in Philippine custom duties for Q1 1901 over 1900, with total revenues reaching 2 190 004 dollars. A tornado near Dorchester Nebraska on June 17 damaged buildings and uprooted trees but caused no injuries.
Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston returns to London with tales of Uganda describing a depopulated region rich in game and rubber trees, proposing a national park and noting ape-men photographs and phonograph records. Washington reports regiments nearing completion under the reorganization law, with Thirteenth cavalry and Twenty-eighth Infantry behind schedule but enlists rising.
The cases of C W Prince Will Prince and Bert Prince brothers of Lulu Prince Kennedy were called before Judge Wofford. By agreement they were continued to the September term and will be called again in early October.
Rains across Nebraska and western Iowa reached a peak with a nearly two inch downpour yesterday and last night. The weekly state precipitation averaged about 4.5 inches, while the Elkhorn valley recorded over five inches.
June 16 orders from the secretary of war reached Fort Sill directing Capt. Sayers to move sufficient cavalry with two weeks rations to expel every soomer and miner from the Kiowa Comanche and Wichita reservations and to issue strict stay out orders for lands to be opened. Braell Pays America for Mob's Work follows. a June 18 cable from Minister Bryan says Brazil paid indemnity for a Baptist chapel destroyed by a mob in Nictheroy province.
Senator Allison of Iowa says he will not enter the presidential race despite Gov. Shaw's telegram urging him to run. He declares his mind is unchanged and he is not a candidate. Other briefs note Kearney Nebraska to close its cotton mill after sustained losses, and a record sugar cargo aboard the Hawaiian brings 8600 tons valued at 750000.
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