Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-12
THE wEar.

fled bill in court charging fraud ant
asking for o new receiver.
The new Masonic Temple at Denver
COL, has been formally dedicated by the
grand lodge.
PRoF. SAMUEL BLACK. the eronaut
met frightful death at Beardstown,
ILL.,, on the 4th. BY some mischance his
parachute took fire. His mangled re-
mains were found two miles from where
he assembled.
THREE lives were lost at the burning
Of the steamer Iron King at Ashland.
Wis, on the 4th. While endeavoring to
subdue the flames an explosion occurred
in the coal bunkers, causing the fatali-
ties.
GEORGE r. PECK, OF Kansas, delivered
the grafton at the meeting Of the Loyal
Legion at Indianapolis. Ind, on the
4th.
LAKE MICHIGAN was visited by Sc
we're storm on the night OF the Sd and
morning OF the 4th. A schooner was
overturned Mt Chicago and the captain
drowned.
JOHN McMULF was killed at Cincin-
natl by the falling stick OF o sky rocket,
which penetrated his brain.
The steam barge Sea Gull was burned
recently at East Tawas, Mich. Maggie
Cornell, the cook, was burned to death.
THE Denver chemical paint works in
West Denver, COL, with 10 feet of the
Larimer viaduct city cable railway,
burned the other night Loss. $50, 900;
partly insured.
FRAUDS are charged in the San Fran
cisco census.
THE north-bound Northern Pacific
freight train was boarded near North
Yakima, Wash, by two men who COM
PEELED the conductor and brakeman to
hand over $3.50. A posse went in pur-
suit when the men fed and soon capt
ured them.
THE yardmen OF the Pennsylvania
railroad at Cincinnati have struck for
the Chicago scale.
EDWARD HANLAN defeated George
Hosmer by half length in the three
mile single scull race at Sioux City,
Iowa.
THE hearing Of the petition of the
railroads for an injunction against the
Iowa Railroad Commissioners to prevent
the PRONUNCIATION of the joint rate tariff
has commenced at Iowa City.
THE recent cloudburst in Richland
County, Wis. did $780, 600 damage.
HERIMANN's dry house at Evansville,
Ind, was burned recently. Loss, $780,
900.
A TERRIBLE storm from the northwest !
struck Fargo, n. d., at ESQ a. m. on the |
7th. Many buildings were blown down
and train derailed. A sad incident was
the killing of seven children of the late
Captain Mccarthy, who had sought
refuge in the coal bin when the house
fell on them.
IT is reported from Chicago that large
shipments of arms and ammunition are |
being made to the Central American Re-
publics in anticipation of fierce war
THERE was wreck on the Illinois
Central at Manteno on the eth. Several
were injured. The mishap
occurred to an excursion train going to
the biennial session of the knights of
Pythias at Milwaukee, Wis
THE biennial conclave Knights of
Pythias commenced at Milwaukee, Wis,
on the sth. About 10000 Knights were
in the parade.
p. D. WIGGINToN, candidate of the
American party for President in the
last campaign, died at Oakland, CAL,
recently.
The explosion Of lot OF giant pow
der in the freight house at Milford,
Utah, wrecked the building and caused
thousands of dollars damage.
The Illinois Central fast mail train
struck an empty freight car on its first
Trip the other night, near Monee, Ill.
No one was hurt and no great damage
lone.
A SHOCK Of earthquake was followed
by new geyser throwing up an i'm
nense column of steam, rock and water
1t Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo., on the
afternoon of the Sth.