Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-07-15

81, .NHANDLE TRAIN Struck buggy
WIN three people in it ut Richs cross
II" 4, near Richmond, Ind, and killed
III three occupants.
FIRE at Oroville, Cal, destroyed eight
brick stores and about thirty smaller
buildings, mostly in the Chinese quar-
ter. Total loss, $4,000.
NEAR Wauseon, o., Frank Bayes muir
dered his wife and committed suicide.
He is supposed to have been insane.
REPRESENTATIVE SIMPSON denies that
there is any truth in the story that he
is to be made the populists' next candi-
date for governor of Kansas.
EX-PREsIDENr SAcAzA, of Nicaragua,
has arrived ut San Diego, Cal He
claims to be president yet of the dis
tracted country.
THE convicts ut Iona, Mich, made a
desperate attempt to escape, seventy
! five of them attacking the guards. One
convict was killed and two fatally
wounded before the outbreak was sup
pressed.
THE employees of the Milburn wagon
works at Toledo, o.. struck against u
reduction of % per cent in wages.
THERE was a terrible loss of life by
the destruction of the cold storage
warehouse at the worlds fair. About
twenty-five firemen were on the cupola
fighting the flames when the fire broke
out beneath them. They all persisted
except two or three who were badly
injured.
THE Choctaw murderers will not be
executed rs the United States has de-
cided to have the courts inquire into
the legality of their trial and convic-
ton.
AT the works of the Home Powder
| Co.. near Denver, Col, two tons of
dynamite exploded, injuring two men
perhaps fatally.
The question has arisen rs to why
the negro Miller, who was lynched at
Bardwell, KY, was taken from Skies
ton, Mo-, without rcquisition from the
governor of Missouri
THE body of Michael p. Kelley, the
missing Big -Four agent. st. Louis, was
found in the Mississippi river at
O'Brien's Landing, near Cairo. Suicide
because of financial trouble was the
theory.
THE Holden Smelling Co., Leadville,
Col, is in trouble over an attachment
for sl7,579. The assets are 1881, 900 and
the liabilities are Sl02, 900.
A DYNAMITE bomb was found by Gin
cinnati policemen near patrol box.
and it is believed there was deliberate
plot to kill the officers who suppressed
the riot of two weeks ago.
THE Chamberlin Investment Co., of
Denver. Col. has made an assignment.
This action was precipitated by the ac.
ton of the Denver savings bank. which
attached the property for an indebted
ness of g.. 669. 80.
TIE week of September Twill witness
the gathering of the Catholic congress
at Chicago. 1t will also be Catholic
week. at the worlds fair. High church
dignitaries from all parts of the world
will bc present.
TWENTY-FIVE families sick and sew
eral persons ut the point of death was
the result of eating cheese made by n
local concern at Mansfield. o.
THERE have been three more convic-
tons ut Alpena. Mich, of members of n
mob concerned in the murder of Mer-
chant Molitcr nineteen gears ago.
THE total number of deaths from the
cyclone at Pomcroy. Ia, is siXty-three.
1t is thought that Of the many injured
not more than five will die.
Gov. JONES says he is determined on
having his Choctaw prisoners shot.
THE feature OF the silver convention
at Denver, Col. on the 18th was the eX-
IRENE language of Gov Waite, who
talked revolution.
TIE Kansas City Safe Deposit Saw
ings bank has assigned. 1t was the
largest institution Of the kind in Mis-
souri,. Liabilities and assets balance
ut about s2.OOO,OOO each.
EVELYN POLLOCK has retired from
the stage, having married son of IL.
Donnelly Kirkover, the wealthy Chi
cago turfman.
NEAR Hartshorn, |. T., James Town
send, cattle buyer, was bound ana
robbed of large sum by two notorious
desperadoes.
JUDGE JENKINS in the United States
circuit court ut Chicago handed down
a decision in the suit brought by Wanna
maker Il Brown to restrain the worlds
Columbian exposition directors from
opening the fair gates on Sunday. The
decision held that the compliments
had no standing in a court of equity.
THE Kingan packing house concern
at Kansas City has been changed to
Reid Bros.
TEN SOUTH.
AT Bardwell, Ky, the murderer of
the two Ray girls was hanged and his
body afterwards burned.