The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-07-23

CHARLES LIVERPOOL of Washington
one of the crew of the United state
survey steamer Endeavor, was drowned
In the harbor at Nantucket Mass
while bathing by the steamer He
became exhausted and before assist.
ance could reach him was dead.
HE wife of Hon. NJ Stuart vice
president of the Ohio bar association
killed herself with corrosive sublim at
recently.
SPECIAL to Denver, Col, from Fort
Collins says: A severe hailstorm has
visited this section, completely DESTROY
ing the wheat and other crops in a strip
OF country of six miles wide by twenty
long. The loss to the farmers will he
IN the neighborhood of $3.50, 600.
LYNN. Mass, was visited by a serious
hre on the night of the nth, breaking
OUT In the Blake block. The loss was
$500. OO0
The First National bank of Palatka-
Fla, has suspended.
HE city of Santiago, Chilli. has lust
been visited with the severest fire ever
known in South America. the loss beino
estimated at more than s.. 900. 600 Tho
British legation was completely con-
sumed
A TERRIBLE wreck was reported IN
the Chicago & Erie on the nth ne.r
kenton, 0. Swift's refrigerator train
ran into a work train, killing nine Ia
oorers and injuring many more.
CHIN HOP SING, leper, has been
Aouno In laundry in New York.
IHE Navajo trouble at Flagstaff
Ariz-, has ended. The Indian chief ar.
rested on charge of horse thievino
was discharged on insufficient evidence
HE postal subsidies bill is expected
to cost the government s., 795, 900 an.
nually.
GREAT damage has been done r.
crops IN three Minnesota counties nv
hail
SHANGHAI papers of June 80 an
nounce the murder of an English ems.
toms house officer. A. W. Green, and
Mr.. Argent, member of the Method
lst mission, by Chinese rioters at Wuh-
su. number of houses were burned
during the riot.
A WIDOW, Mrs Eliza Haiser, and her
little son and daughter, while driving !
across the Panhandle railroad tracks at |
Chicago were hurled into the air by |
north bound fast passenger train. !
Mother and daughter were killed and !
the boy probably fatally injured.
DURING a severe electric storm at !
Wis, the house of Henry
Pantz was struck by lightning and both
ne and his wife were killed.
NEARLY three miles of snow sheds on
the Central Pacific road burned recent
y. The fire is supposed to have origin
ated from sparks of locomotive.
HE people of Knoxville, Tenn, have
voted to issue $500, 900 bonds for sewers
and bridges
The miners at Girard, Ill. have struck
20 force the company to pay their wages
weekly according to law.
NEARLY the entire business portion of
Glasgow, KY, was destroyed by fire
he other morning. Woods saddlery
hop, the newspaper office, Moores &
JOS dry goods store, Jones' hall, the
post office, the Gauley house and other
houses and several residences were
burned. The loss will reach $3.50, OOO..
THE surface of No. mine of the
Kingston Coal Co., at Edwardsville,
"a, caved in and number of houses ,
we're wrecked. The cavern covers an
rea of two acres. The mine was dam
ged to the extent of $50, 900. This is
he third cavern at that mine.
DISPATCH from St Petersburg saws
hat the preparations for giving an of.
cial reception to the French fleet un- c
er the command of Adm Gervais. =
'hich is now on its way to Cronstadt
ave been completed. ,,