Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-12
THE WEST.

LYDIA THoRsELL, u Swedish girl, was
brutally assaulted on Prospect avenue
in Kansas City, Mo-, on the evening OF
the 9th. The brute escaped
IT Is alleged that DIR. A. NJ. Scudder,
the alleged murderer Of Mrs. Dunton,
OF Chicago, is q morphine maniac. 1t
Is also said that he gave evidence OF
guilt
Gov. BOYD, Of Nebraska, will not
call an extra session Of the Legislature.
PHILIP D. ARMOUR, the noted packer,
received bottle of wine on the 4th
nominally from Potter Palmer, but
really from unknown men. 1t Is be-
lieved to have been poisoned.
THE Iron Trade Review, Of Cleveland,
reports TIE iron business in q bad con-
dition.
AT Dubuque. Ia, Mrs. George Bans
worth accidentally put arsenic instead
of baking powder into the fritters and
died from the effects. Her husband
and child recovered
JOHN T. CLARKsoE, brother OF the
late Bishop GARRISON, and who had large
interests in Omaha died at Chicago.
He had been i'll with pneumonia sew
eral days
AT Sioux Falls, s. D., on the 7th the
Baroness De Steurs was granted de-
cree of divorce by Judge Aiken. The
custody Of the minor child, Margaret
Eugene Abel Victorine De Steurs, is
given to the mother. Immediately
after the filing OF the decree marriage
license was issued by the clerk of the
court permitting the marriage OF
Margaret De Steurs and Elliott ZJho-
rowski. The latter is New Yorker of
immense wealth.
A CHICAGO pool room was raided on
the 7th and $50 men, who were in the
establishment were placed under ar
rest
AT Covington, Ia, on the 9TH, five
hundred people witnessed pugilistic
encounter between Patsy Magner, of
Yankton, and Billy O'Donneil, St
Paul lightweight o'Donnell dealt
him twelve blows in the face in the
third round, finally sending him upon
the ropes While down, O'Donnell
struck him again and lost the fight on
o foul.
THERE was a disastrous conflagation
at West Superior, Wis, on the 9TH,
when the Allouez block, corner Of
Eighth and Tower, the finest apart
ment house in the city, was completely
wiped out and nineteen families rem
dered homeless The building was
valued at 5000 and insured for S40,-
900. The total insurance of tenants is
$4,000.
AN analysis OF the wine sent to 2. d.
Armour by some unknown person one
day last week shows that it contained
laudanum, but not in sufficient guam
titles to endanger life. Mr.. Armour
thinks it was plan to extort money
from him.
A PARTY Of prospectors, who were in
the new river region of the Colorado
desert at the time of the recent earth
quaSes, have returned and bring in
story of blazing volcano.
Cor. LOUIS QUESTION:, the largest
single holder of stock in the famous
Granite mountain silver mine, died in
st. Louis the other day. He ruptured
blood vessel of the heart in stepping
from street car.
THE Dexter stables ut Pueblo, COL,
burned the other day and twenty-three
horses persisted
e. E GRANGER, of Chicago, suicided
at Omaha on the Sth.
THE Iowa state senate has adopted
the Catch bill, which allows county
option, each county being allowed to
settle the liquor question for itself, by
elections to take place not oftener than
every five years
THE North Dakota state convention
of the national prohibition party for
electing delegates to the presidential
convention to be held in st. Louis June
81 met at Grand Forks on the sth. 1t
resulted in split in the party, the
members OF the Farmers Alliance
withdrawing.
A WRECK occurred on the Creole
branch of the Rio Grande the other day
at Del Norte. in which several passen-
0ers were injured,