Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-10
GENERAL NEWS.
The Happenings Of a Week
DOMESTIC.


general strike on Kansas City street
Car lines.
Several schemes to limit the owner
ship OF land are being adopted among
the Cherokees.
Rev. Frank Talmage lectured at the
Ottumwa coal palace on''The best place
to live in."
Henrietta Miller. colored, was hanged
ct Smithville, Va, for the murder oil
her child.
Two women were killed and third
fatally injured in q runaway accident at
Marietta, Ga
A verdict OF not guilty was rendered
In the Buck Donaldson murder case ut
Denton, Tex.
A former Siberian exile Is to bear dis
patches from Boston to Nihilist head
quarters In RUSSIA.
Prisoners In the Gadsden (Ala. jail
almost succeeded in hanging q deputy
sheriff inside the prison.
A dime museum freak, known as"the
living man with the broken neck" at
tempted suicide in Milwaukee.
A small subteranean lake near Wa
verify, ILL.,, disappeared Immediately az
ter the recent earthquake.
John w. Maclxay rode from San
Francisco TO New York In 4 days, l.
hours and % minutes, the fastest on
record.
There was another sensation in the
famous Juvenal case when that individ-
ual appeared in court with his divorced
wife.
Mrs Catharine Heath burned herself
to death in Salem, Mass, because some
one dilled her pug dog and sent Its col
lar to her.
Ralph Ray. who murdered his mother
In Durango, Colo, has confessed, Civ
ing details with no show OF remOrse.
New York detectives have succeeded
In locating the underground ONE OF a
gang OF thieves. 1t was located In the
rear OF q West Thirty-ninth street
house.
Objection is raised to the statue OF
Jefferson Davis designed to be placed in
the confederate monument ut Jackson,
Miss, that 1t Is not good likeness.
Marion Gadd committed suicide at
Cotner university, Neb., because he did
not win first prize in an oratorical con-
test and thereby lost the hand OF the
girl he loved.
A West Virginia baby a month old
weighs only two and a quarter pounds
and goes into quart cup.
President Fitzgerald and Secretary
Sutton will sever their official connect
ion with the Irish land league.
All efforts to extinguish the fire in
the Delaware and Hudson colliery ut
Wilkesbarre, Pa. has proved fruitless.
The decision OF his bondsmen TO give
up ex-Dashier Ritter, the Evansville
(lnd. defaulter caused him to become
very i'll.
A party OF Burlington and Missouri
surveyors are supposed to have perlshed
in the mountains in the Sinking Water
country.
Special dispatches show that the re-
cent earthquake was felt in the states
Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa.
At Henderson, KY, Mrs. Emma Her
kins was shot dead by Charles johnson.
former boaIder. who had been sent
away for Objectionable conduct.
Henry Walters OF East Orange, N.
J., q married man, wanted to elope with
Gertrude Beck OF Newark, but she
found his wife and hrd him arrested.
The steamer Circassian, outward
bound from New York. collided with o
schooner and was SO badly damaged
that sho was compelled to return to
port
A California ranchmau named Will
son, who found himself surrounded by
flames was saved by the pluck OF q mus
tang pony. which carried him through
the flames to safety.
james X. Cunningham was shot dead
in the streets of Montgomery, Ala, BY
Colonel Bradfore Durham, superintend-
ent of the Midland railroad, for having
insulted Mrs. Durham and boosted OF
1t.
Miss Cora Calm. daughter OF Q New
York Hebrew millionaire, having de-
Judaism, will marry Herr Os-
car Won Calm, aide-de-camp to the he
redltary successor OF Emperor Francis
Joseph.
The product of the coal mines in the
census year amounted, In ealue, to $780,
327, 1923.
william Dyne goes to the Indiana
penitentiary for five years for attempted
train wrecking.
Granville G. Thompson was found
dead on his poarch ut Macon, Mo-, with
q bullet hole Ia his head.
David Roe was stabbed and probably
fatally wounded in sturges county, Miss
ouri. by s. p. Hopper.
Chris Buckley, who for twelve years
has been the democratic boss OF Cali
iornia Is q fugitive from justice.
The trial OF james Brennan for the
murder OF Sam Wood will take place at
Hugoton. Kas., November 4.
A committee OF the national civil
service reform league will criticise the
taking OF the census In New York.
Tw nty-one deaths from malignant
typhoid fever occurred In the neigh
borhood Of Columbus, Ind, In eighteen
days.
A mob OF fifty white caps beat wo-
man nearly to death in Dubois county,
Ind. Her morals were offensive to