Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-24
GENERAL REVIEW
0: the Worlds Happenings for
a Week, in Brief.
dividunis-Thc General Course OF
Evcnts-The Condition OF FL
nances and Crops.

nretown, ILL.,, Tuesday night. Loss
$40. 600.
, Mrs. Emma Gaines is on trial ut Vim
cennes, Ind. for the alleged murder o
her 2.year-old child.
From Beatrice. Neb.. comes the rec
ord OF the murder OF & 4-year.old chil(
by Christian science healers.
Natural gas has been discovered or
the river bank near Cairo. ILL.,, and |,
causing great excitement.
Sir Edward Arnold, X. c. I. +. c. S
l.. the great English poet. sailed from
Liverpool yesterday for New York.
Valuable silver deposits are reported
to have been discovered within sever
miles OF West Superior, Wis.
Arrangements are being made to or
ganize the First regiment OF Illinois
Sons OF Veterans at Springfield.
Elmer E. Carpenter has been arrested
at Mulhall, o. T., charged with rapinS
O l3-year-old girl, named Matte John
son.
Mrs. Nina Mcbride has obtained di-
vorce from Robert H. Mcbride, a we'll
known newspaper man OF South Dakota.
Samuel W. Mennelly, travelling for u
Rochester, N. Y, shoe house. was as
phyxiated by gas in Omaha hotel.
Cass Hite was placed in Jail at Provo,
Utah, Tuesday, charged with murder
ing Adolph Kohler at Green river, Sep
tcmber q.
Farmer Smith of Wynnewood, l. T..
was called 70 his door Monday night by
two strangers and shot dead. No clue
TO the assassins.
Ella Martin was awarded $1,000 dam.
ages against Charles Collins OF Evans
vile, Ind, for promising to marry her
and not doing so.
Three colored men were killed and
two white men seriously injured by the
falling OF the cage at shaft No. =, Mag
ara Falls tunnel. Tuesday.
Edmund Landers, a retired merchant
OF Brockton, Mass, was strangled and
robbed on the grave OF his only daugL-
ter in daylight.
DR.. Massie OF Owenton. KY, suspect
ed farmer named Jesse Hanover of IT,
Ing about him, went after him with a
gun. shot him dead in his tracks and
then fled.
Fireman Ed Clark was fatally injured
by the ditching of q freight truin on
the Atlantic and Pacific road near Nav
ajo Springs. N. NJ.
James Sullivan died at Council Bluffs,
Ia, from the effects OF injuries received
during fight with A. X. Belgium. the
proprietor OF low joint, about two
weeks ago.
Miss Mary Mclaughlin, while in a
state OF somnambulisin, walked off the
rear end OF sleeper on the New York
Central, near West Batavia, n. Y, and
was killed.
Levi NJ Bates, who was drowned
while boating in New York bay, had
over 800, coo insurance on his life, and
had recently applied for $50, 900 more.
A gambling house at Sebrees City.
KY, was raided by white caps Tuesday
night, and three men, accompanied by
three frail females. taken to the woods
and switched into Inconsistencies.
Mrs. Clara Wagner OF Newark, Ind,
disappeared from her residence several
days since, and no trace OF her could be
found. but on Tuesday her body was
found in the cistern of her dwelling,
bearing marks OF strangulation.
Fine, foreign made dresses to the val
lie OF $40, 900 were seized for duties by
the customs officers at New York.
Actor Curtis was held to the superior
court at San Francisco, Cal, for the
shooting OF Policeman Grant several
weeks ago.
BY the bursting OF o mammoth steel
valve at Park Bros. steel works, Pitts
burg, Pa, +. c. Ehling was crushed to
death.
There are only five murder cases be-
fore the criminal court at Lexington,
KY, and yet dram shops are licensed.
Frank Peaskonisky, brutal Pole, is
in Jail ut Brooklyn, \. j., for kicking
woman in the stomach and causing the
death OF her unborn child.
At GAINESVILLE, o.. Mrs. Charles Har-
ris publicly horsewhipped VIM. Owings
for leading her husband into bad com
pany.
A couple OF affectionaSe Slavs got
drunk at Leith, Pa, and while kissing
each other one OF them bit of about an
inch off the others tongue.
Joe Anderson wis arrested in Arkan-
sas City, Kan, charged with the muir
der OF three men in Bell county, KY.
He is p years old.
Governor Francis refuses TO commute
the death sentence of Thomas A. Will
hanson, convicted of murder at Soda
liza. Mo-, and he will hang on the 3lst
inst.
The president of the national republic
can league has appointed the sub-exec-
utive committees. E. G. Little OF Kan
sas, Is among the members appointed.
Jules Flores, suspected Mexican
revolutionist, was found swinging from
a tree, his body filled with lead, on the
Mexican side OF the Rio Grande.
The Holy Coat is still attracting Wis
itors TO Treves, large number OF
French pilgrims being on their way
now to pay homage 10 the gum pre-
served garment.
Playing tie races has separated Dave
FcSei. a Young New York postOffice
clerk, from his wife and three children,
and plac d him behind the bars for rob-