Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-07
THE WEST.

AAhE w n1As
MRs. O. j. STONE, her two children
and Mrs. WINNER were killed in a
buggy near Marion, Ind, recently while
crossing the Panhandle track us train
came along.
THERE was cloudburst at Arcadia,
Wis, on the 30th. One person was
drowned and two mill dams and mill
were swept away.
A TERRIBLE hailstorm visited the Red
river valley, Northern Minnesota, on
the Goth. In places the hail was four
feet deep.
THE May festival at st. Paul, Mimi,
collapsed because Of the poor attend
ance. The sheriff captured the receipts.
THREE laborers were crushed to death
in cavern near Curry & 0'Brien's rock
quarry near Castle Rock. Col.
Two brothers named Raymond living
at Attica, Mich, were found dead be-
side the Chicogo & Grand Trunk track
at that place the other morning. Both
were terribly mutilated. Itwas thought
they had jumped of the train.
G. C. BROwN, q millionaire banker OF
Marinette, Wis. committed suicide re-
Gently by shooting himself. He had
been i'll.
SYLVESTER PIERCE, of Washington,
Ind, father OF United States Senator
Pierce, of North Dakota, died recently
aged lightweight
IT is stated that Governor Fifer Of
Illinois, will convene the Legislature Of
that State in extra session to consider
Worlds Fair measures.
CINCINNATI carpenters have struck.
MRs. RoBERr MORROW cremated her.
self and two children recently ut Du-
range, Col, using the kerosene can to
light the fire.
THE village of Loveland, Iowa, was
swept away recently by waterspout.
One life was lost
THE Clover Leaf Manufacturing Com
pany Of Marion, Ind, has been burned
out. Loss, S2j, 900.
THE Interstate competitive militia
drill commenced at Kansas City, Mo-, on
the I'd. Twenty-seven companies were
encamped.
THE wheat crop of Manitoba and the
Northwest Territory is officially reported
to be in the best condition ever known.
There are $40, OOC acres of wheat grow
ing now.
PHILIP LYON. q graduate of Cornell
last year and son of Judge Lyon, of
Ithaca, N. V, was fatally injured by
cable car in Chicago the other day. He
tried to pass from one car to another and
fell.
LIGHTNING exploded Tracy & Avery's
powder mill at Mansfield, O., recently.
A woman and two children were in q
house which was blown to atoms. One
child was killed, one was fatally hurt
and the woman was rendered uncon-
scious.
AT Glenwood, Iowa, during the recent
storm, the chimney Of the asylum for
feeble-minded children was blown down,
causing two deaths and the injury of
several.
THE annual convention of the Catho-
lie Order of Foresters began in Chicago
on the I'd.
By washout near Hay, Wis, the
other night, an engine and twenty
freight cars of ST. Paul e. Kansas City
train were ditched and fireman and a
brakeman killed.
Mrs. LABocK, Of Starksville, Iowa, was
trampled to death by a runaway team.
A child in her arms was not fatally
hurt.
TIE hearing in the suit of the United
States to settle the ownership of the
Des Moincs river lands began before
Judge Shiras at Fort Dodge, Iowa, on
the Sd.
PENNoYEI. Democrat, was elected
Governor in the recent Oregon election.
The rest was taken by the Republicans.
HoS. JoHH c. TARsNEY, of Kansas
City, has been renominated for Con-
gress by the Democrats OF the Fifth Mis-
souri, district.
THE verdict of the coroner's jury on
the disaster at the drawbridge at Ash
land, Cal, on Decoration day was that
Engineer Dunn, Of the Inflated train,
was guilty of manslaughter.