Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-08-12

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Lake river near Grand Forks. n. ID.
Two were swimming race and both
went down. The third lost his life in
q brave attempt ut rescue.
AT Corydon. Ind, mob approached
the house of William and Edward Con-
rad with the intention of lynching him.
but they fred into the mob, killing and
fatally wounding several.
THE wreck on the Lake Shore at
Lindsey, o.. was terrible one, three
persons being instantly killed and n
number fatally and seriously injured.
SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada. has a
silver bill which he is prepared to in
troduce in the senate ut the first OPP
portunity.
THE gates of the worlds fair We're
open last Sunday, but the visitors were
few and there was little for them to
look Mt.
A HEAvILY-LoADED suburban train
on the Illinois Central was derailed at
Chicago by running into an open switch.
Three or four cars were badly damaged
but only one passenger, Miss Myra
Bradshaw, was seriously hurt.
HovEY defeated C. Il. Neel at Chi
cago for the tennis championship OF
America.
THE Decatur Banking Co., the Oldest
banking concern in southern Iowa, in
GLIDING branches at Davis City and
Garden Grove, suspended. Assets, SAIL
900: liabilities, s3l5,OO0.
THE Pioneer Pottery Co.. at Wells
vile. o.. has made an assignment.
About 200 men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
A THREE story brick building in Gin
ton, Ia, occupied by Ballar a. Seeber,
agricultural implements, and on the
second and third floors by the Bijou
opera house, fell with n tremendous
crash. Worlsmen were busy about the
building, but all escaped save one man,
slightly injured by falling brick.
THERE is prospect for more blood
shed in the Choctaw nation, as it is re-
ported that the Cedar county judge
who was removed by Gov. Jones has
been murdered.
CITIZENS of western Colorado were
alarmed over the actions Of the Ute
Indians and appealed to the governor
for protection.
Two men were killed outright and
two fatally injured by the explosion of
the Phoenix powder mill near Pittsbure
station, seven miles south of East st.
Louis, Ill.
TnE men who robbed the United
States express wagon at Wichita, Kan,
have been caught.
Gov. OSBORN, of Wyoming, has de.
cided not to appoint anyone to the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation
OF Senator Becliwith, until the senas,
settles the legality of appointments.
ZIMMERMAN won two more bicycle
races at Chicago on the sth.
4 DISASTROUS food has been raging
in the Canadian river valley owing to
heavy rains in the Panhandle country.
Two hundred and twenty feet of the
Santa Fe railroad bridge ut Purcell, l.
T., was washed away.
LAWSON y. GRAY. Il heavy cattle
owner, who has immense herds in Okla
homa, says the soldiers are burning the
grass on the Red Rock and Black Bear
Cherokee strip. Thousands OF acres
have been burned over.
RoBERT MOORE, of Christian county
H.. set fire to an old hay stack to burr
out Il skunk. and burned sixty acres o.
meadow and eighty tons of good hay.
4 BopY which has not been identified
was found buried in the water under
some shingles ut the scene OF the Big
Four wreck at Danville, III.
THERE is 100000 waiting to be dis
tributed among the suffering families
OF the firemen who were killed Il month
ago at the worlds fair fire.
BANDS OF Ute indians have entered
Colorado on their annual hunt ant
Gov. Waite has asked for military pro
lection for the western part of the
state.
GEN. MILES, acting under instruc
tions from Washington. has ordered al
the troops in the Indian territory to b'
in readiness for an invasion of thu
Cherokee strip on instant notice. II
view of this command it is believed il
army circles there that the strip viii
soon be thrown open to settlers, BE
fore this is done the troops will pa
troll the country and drive out al
''sooners.
THE Santa Fe has demanded revis
ion of G. A. X. rates by the Western
Passenger association.
CASHIER LEVI BUTLER, of the bank
ing house of C. NJ. Wright & Co., Alta
mont, Ill, is fugitive and the banl
has suspended.
THE SOUTH.
JOIN JACKSON shot and killed hi