Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-01-04

THE United States cruiser Charles
ton went into service at San Francisco
on the 18th.
TEN cars of a Wabash freight train
went down an embankment at Delphi,
Ind. Three tramps were slightly hurt.
THE four stamp clerks in the Chicago
post-ofIice are very much worried over
the unaccountable disappearance of
stamps since last July. Every effOrtt to
solve the mystery has been a failure.
In the Western College fire at TOle-
do. Iowa, the collection Of curios of
the late s. II. Thomson, Of Chicago,
was totally destroyed. 1t cost in cash
over Sl25, 600 and was the property of
hi brother-in-law, Charles Mason, OF
Toledo, to whose wife it was be-
queathed. Not single relic Of the
valuable collection was saved.
NANHIzE, an Apache Indian, who
murdered Lieutenant Seward Mott, of
the Tenth cavalry, on the San Carlos
reservation March 10, 1887, has been
hanged at Globe, Ariz.
JOSEPH NEWMAN and Ernest Lom-
berg stepped from Chicago street car
i'll front of freight train the other
evening. Newman died in two hours
and Lomberg's case was critical.
THREE new Bishops of the Roman
Catholic Church were consecrated at
st. Paul, Mimi, ON the 9TH. They
were Rev. John Stanley. of St Paul;
Rev. James McGolrick, of Minneapolis,
and Rev. Joseph r. Cotter, of Winona.
BY an explosion of sawdust in
Schmitt & Co.'S show case factory,
Cincinnati, three men were badly
burned. Little damage was done.
In a frenzied fit a farmer named Ma
jOr, living two miles north of Mount
Vernon, Mich, recently killed his wife,
his daughter and granddaughter. He
wound up by hanging himself.
ONLY fifteen of the one hundred So
called lumpy-jawed cattle at Chicago
were found affected.
By a disaster OH the Chesapeake &
Ohio, near White Sulphur Springs, on
the 18th, ten or eleven persons were
killed and many injured. The accident
was due to a broken axle.
JOHN CLARK, an old, paralyZed
farmer, met horrible fate ut Tykle's
bath house, Kokomo, Ind, recently.
Tykle put the old man in bath, leav-
ing the gas jet burning underneath, and
went off on a spree. The old man was
boiled to death before Tykle returned.
MRS. JANE ERWIN and her two daugh-
tiers were asphyxiated at Oakland, Cal,
recently. They were on their way to
join their husband and father, who
had a ranch in Ventura County, and
were from Benton County, Mo.
THEODORE GROSS, his wife, eight
children and a visiting friend were
burned to death in their home at
Hurontown, Mich, early on the morn
ing of the Goth. 1t was thought the
awful affair was due to the intOxica-
ton of the parents, who had been to
dance the previous night.
OFFICER HALLIHAN, of Chicago, ar
rived at the home of James LEM, a
peddler just in time the other evening
to prevent LEM hanging his wife. The
rope was around the woman's neck.
By the falling of a tree across a
wagon near Muncie, Ind, the other
day Allen Sanderson and one of his
children were killed.
S. Z. STEPHENSON, son of Congress
man S. NJ. Stephenson, of Menominee,
Wis, died the other night.
The Academy of Music, in course of
erection at st. Louis, fell recently.
Fifty workmen had narrow escape,
only one being hurt.
A BANQUET was given Associate
Justice Brewer at Leavenworth, Kan,
OH the 30th. The Justice spoke glow
ingly of the future of Kansas.
MRS. ADDIE MARQUIS. wife of
Lieutenant-G evernor-elect Marquis, of
Ohio, died at Bellefontaine on the 30th.
Mrs. Marquis was formerly a resident
of Cincinnati.
JOHN LOVES, aged thirty-four years,
has been arrested near Schell City,
No., for abducting thirteen-year-old
Mary Lockhart on Christmas day. The
couple went to the Indian Territory
Christmas night and were married
there.
THE SOUTH.
The Governor of Texas had informa-