Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-12
GENERAL REVIEW
Or the Worlds Happenings for
a Week, In Brief.
Foreign and Domestic Pointers About In.
dividuals-The General Course OF
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prices ranging from 10. 9460 20 0.9l95.
At Paris recently the factories, plant
and good will OF the Societe DIES Metaux
were sold ut auction for S., 800, 0JO.
At Madisonv.lle, Ky. burglars blew
open the safe OF the Hopkins County
bank and secured 1900 In cash.
The mystery surrounding the decom.
posed body OF the man recently found
In cornfeld near Bloomington, ILL.,, is
still unexplained.
The trial Of ex-City Treasurer Peake,
accused OF embezzling 81, 600 OF the
city's money, is progressing shovel ut
Kansas City.
James Moore and George Smith and
wife were arrested ut Houston for a
burglary committed In Sherman, Tex,
recently.
Castleton, VT, has organized vigi-
lance committee for the protection Of
the town from tirebugs, who have start
ed six fires in as many days.
News comes from the Navajo reserva.
ton of the killing OF Navajo SAM" q
trader on the reservation, by his clerk,
who got the drop on him during quar-
rel.
Marion Wood was landed in the Paoli,
Ind, Jail. on warrant sworn outby the
widow OF j. +. Webb. charging WoOd
with his murder on the 18th OF Novem-
Der.
David Ball, saloon keeper. Jim La.
rue and Jack Wright are in Jail at Co
lumbus, Ind.., charged with robblng
cars on the Jacksonville, Madison &
Indianapolis road.
Another married fool. Charles +.
Smith OF Johnstown, n. Y. attempted
to kill Miss Welsh OF that place, be-
cause she did not reciprocate his UNI
hallowed passion.
Will Adkins, alias big Foot Bill"
undertook to run colored dance at
Wharton. Tex, and the result is that
he is under medical treatment with his
body full OF lead.
The attempted enforcement OF an at
tachment on the cotton crop OF a man
named Cox, near Hemphill, Tex, re-
suited in the killing OF Cox and another
man named Travis.
Mrs. Elizabeth Simmons, widow liv-
ing near Tranquility. o., was robbed OF
81, 600 by three masked men. who bound
and gagged her, her son and her daugh-
ter.
A rumor is current in London that
the bank OF France has agreed TO loan
Russia e., 0O0,000 in silver at 81 per
cent. the loan being made payable in
gold at the end OF seven years.
Mrs. Tousley, who avenged the de-
bauching of her daughter by shooting
her second husband, Albert j. Touslev,
in the Austin, Tex, Jail. last May, has
been discharged from custody.
John Pryor. his brother George, the
Collins brothers, Ed. and George, are
under arrest for whipping Charles Gray
near Pennington, Ky. The prisoners
are white caps.
Henry T. johnson was shot and dan.
gerously wounded in the Buckingham
theatre, Louisville, KY, by d. P. Neg.
lev, whom johnson was abusing on &C.
count of gossip about his (Johnson'sl
wife.
Charles Bison, who narrowly escap'
ed lynching at indianapolis, Ind, Tor
q criminal assault on q young girl, has
been convicted OF the crime and SEN
fenced to 81 years imprisonment.
Labanon, Mo-, jail has the distinc-
ton Of holding Wills Howard, the re-
puted slayer OF fourteen men. The par
ticular crime charged against him this
time is the killing OF deaf mute named
McAiichael in Mqries county.
Frederick Mcclure and his reputed
mistress, Mrs. Sarah A. Brown, Charg-
ed with the murder OF Mrs. Amelia j.
Gregory at Middletown, N. Y, have
been arrested nsar Galeton, Pa, and
taken back to Mlddletown for trial.
Anthony Comstock, the suppressor OF
obscene publications. swooped down on
an antiquarian bookseller named Cas-
per at Milwaukee and conhscated 81, 900
worth OF books and photographs besides
landing the bookseller in jail.
W. S. Taylor, the real estate man,
who disappeared from Kansas City four
months ago with his 6-year-old son, was
found in Cleveland, o., by his vile, who
effected reconciliation and will remain
there with him.
John F. Gross, variety actor, was
fatally stabbed at the Phoenix tneatre'
Durango, COL, by Maggie Montgomery
his former mistress, who became jeal-
GUS by reports that Gross was about to
marry an actress.
The Marquette club Of ST. Louis gave
q notable reception in honor Of the gol-
den cubilee Of Archbishop Kenrick.
By an explosion Of dynamite at Hav-
erstraw, N. Y, four men were blown to
pieces and fifty instantly killed.
H. ]. Dean OF Dallas, Tex, was abdul
Gated Tuesday while driving with two
other men.
Five members OF q Detroit family
we're burned to death in their homo the
other night
Justice Woodman has fined the anar-
chists recently arrested by the Chicago
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