Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-05-14


GREAT damage has been done In the
vicinity Of Braidwood, Ill, by heavy
rains.
HEAVY rains caused n rise in the Illi-
nois and Fox rivers, which overlooked
their banks and much damage to prop
erty was the result
A SMALL cyclone accompanied the
rain north of Guthrie, Ok, and did con-
siderable damage. The houses OF John
Davis, Henry Smith and John Crockett
were carried some distance by the wind
and badly injured. Many barns and
other buildings were also destroyed.
RELIGIOUS circles of Mason City, H.,
are agitated over the actions OF Rev.
Charles Lutz, rector of St Johns Guild
Episcopal church in that city. He noti-
fed his people of his resignation and
announced that henceforth his allegi-
snce would DO with the Roman Catholic
church. He has gone to Montreal to
enter the order Of st. Sulpice to study
for the priesthood. He is highly edu-
Gated and says that his mind haa been
leading him TO take this step for some
time.
AT Los Ojos, n. NJ, Isabella Mariana
was to be married to Jose Pedro He,
however, proved faithlcss, marrying in
stead Angelica Monizan. The Tilted
girl recently, entering the apartments
Of Pedro and his wife, found them both
asleep. She cut their tongues out and
fed only to be captured by the city mar
shall after desperate struggle in which
the latter was wounded by the mad
dcned woman. Pedro and his vito will
live. but never be able to speak again.
Mrs. VICTORIA WOoDHULL-MARTIN
and Lady Tennie clafiin Cook, her sis
ter, have begun suit for 800, 900 against
the Chicago Mail on account of articles
slandering them in connection with
their lives in Chicago and Cincinnati.
Mrs. Martin denies all of the stories.
JAMES CRouDTE. SR., well known
citizen of Chicago, is dead. With his
death ends the career of the man who
built the first boat to cross the Atlantic
by steam power alone. She was the
Royal William. the boat which made
the trip from Pictou, n. s., to Graves
end in 1885. His wife is still living, is
so years old and they were married
nearly sixty years ago.
Gov. BARRIER, of Wyoming, after
hearing the railway people and south
crn Wyoming cattlemen, refused to III
ter his quarantine proclamation to al
low the unloading of Texas steers at
or in Junction. The regulation pre-
vents the trailing of 100000 head OF
grasscrs across this state. A dozen
Union Pacific men were ut Cheyenne
trying to effect compromise and left
very much disappointed. Unless low
joint rate for delivery ut Brennan, 5.
d., can be made the Union Pacific will
suffer heavy traffic loss.
Hon. JOHN W. BRECKISRIDGE, son OF
Vice President breckenridge under Blu
chanan. died at MERGED, Cal, recently.
A STRANGE thing happened the other
day at the site OF the old FoeilSler brew
cry in West Dubuque, la. A rustling
sound like an earthquake was heard
and the next morning it was discovered
that nearly an acre of ground had
dropped into subterranean lake which
covers vast body of mineral
DEPUTY POSTMASTER WooD. OF La
Porte, Ind. has been arrested for en-
bezzlement of post Office money amount
ing to about 81 900. He was soon to be
married to the only granddaughter of
Buffalo Miller. president of the whisky
trust and treasurer, of Cook county, Ill.
By an explosion in mine No. . OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad Co. at Ros-
lyn. Wash. forty-two miners We're
killed. The exact nature of the cxplo-
sion or circumstances that led to it will
probably never be known.