Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-31

Frank Hill was acquitted ut Fort
Worth, Tex, OF completely In the muir
der OF q man named Batson, near Wag-
oner. I. T. last January.
John Rush, young white man, was
lynched ut Columbia. La. for the wan
ton murder OF an old colored woman
named HagBr Sterling.
The grand jury Of Monroe county.
Indiana. Is Ia session and investigating
the white cap outrages In that county,
making the midnight ruifians feel very
uneasy.
The prohibition alliance OF Arkansas
propose TO put two lecturers In the field
10 advance the cause OF temperance.
There are temperance people even In
Arkansas.
The Afro-Americen league Of Ne.
hraska at O meeting in Omaha Tues
day, passed resolutions denounclng the
recent lynching OF the negro rapist In
that city.
An attempt was made Monaav night
20 wreck train on the Pittsburg&Lake
Eric road, between McMahon and Char-
leroi, Pa. Detectives are hunting the
perpetrators.
Brave l4-year-old Miss Wilmington o!
Kenney, Tex, drives lecherous negro
from her room ut the muzz'e Of re-
volver. He is captured and will proba-
bly, be lynched.
The socialists OF Massachusetts have
challenged Russell, the democratic can
didate for governor, TO q joint debate
with their candidate on the political is
sues OF the day.
William Ballard, a Wabash railroad
detective, attempted TO bully lS.year-
old Fred Moecker in Quincy, Ill. He
pulled revolver and got beautifully
whipped.
Mrs. Hooker. white woman OF Seda-
liza, Mo-, had negro corn doctor named
Dink Love arrested for making fnde-
cent proposals and kissing her. sho
claims she negro hoodooed her.
Robert Maher Of Bayou City, Texas,
for sending notice on postal card to
r. p. Smith that II he didn't pay him
sum OF money which he owed he
Maher would whip him, Is now in
Jail.
Detectives were in Pittsburg Tues
day, looking for Livesy, the missing ex-
cashier OF the state treasury, who Is
wanted in Harrisburg as witness In
the investigation OF the Pennsylvania
treasury.
Mary Neidman, white woman, in
jail at Lexington, Mo-, was indicted by
the grand jury Tuesday, for furnishing
weapons to the prisoners who attempted
jail delivery Sunday, but were trust
rated.
The little 4-year.old son OF Captain
Vuen OF Aurora, ILL.,, was carelessly al
lowed to take lamp 10 his room Mon.
day night, which he overturned, set hire
to his night clothes and was burned to
death.
Black diphtheria is spreading with
alarming rapidity in the Norwegian set
Element 10 Soldiers Valley, Harrison
county. Ia. Fourteen persons have al-
ready died. One family OF ten has lost
six members.
The Tall Sycamore OF the Wabash, I"
Senator Voorhees,, was relieved OF fat
pocketbook while participating in the
demonstration in honor OF Governor
Hill at Richmond, Va.
\ dispatch from Philadelphia says
Claus Spreckles, the independent sugar
iefiner, has reduced the price Of grnu.
lated sugar TO cents per pound. The
trust met the reduction to II and 4 Id,
but when the price dropped to 4 cents
it began TO buy.
A couple of drunken Mexicans at
tackled John Moulton, an American Off
cial of the San Pablo mine, near Bena
Ventura the Mexicans using hatchets
and moulton bowie. He killed one
Mexican, fatally wounded thcother and
will probably die himself.
The reDorled suicide OF Mrs. Clara
Wagner at Newark, Ind, about two
weeks ago. is now discredited. The
woman had considerable money, and q
relative is suspected OF having chlcro,
formed her and placed her body in the
cirtern, where 1t was found. An inVes-
LEGATION is being made.