Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-04-07
NEWS NOTES.

A freight train on the Oregon Short
Line was wrecked near Reverse, Ida
no. The conductor and one brakeman
were badly injured. Another brake
man is missing and is supposed Il
have been killed. II Is reported thai
two tramps were also killed.
The boiler in Wales planng mill n
Dresden, Ont. exploded, killing Adam
Cornell, the engineer, AMI his thre,
children, who CHANGED tn he with
him at the time. The force of thu
explosion hurled the boiler 100 fe IT
Cornell's wife Is SO overcome will
grief that her life is deSpa'red OF.
The house committee on election Of
president and vie, president has
agreed to the joint resolution Of Chair
man Tucker Of Virginia. foran amend
ment to the constitution providing
that United States senators shall
hereafter be elected by direct vote
Of the people instead of by state legis'
latures.
The main building of the Sneatl
Glsss works in Tifiin. Oaio, giving EN-.
ployment to $50 people. was destroyed
by fire, only the walls remaining.
The adjoining warehouses wcr, saved
as was also n portion of the stock In
the main building.
The British army estimates for the
coming fiscal year show an Increase OF
Ea1S. 100. This increase is due To the
advance in the price of coal and the
augmentation of the militi an army
reserve.
Lieutenant lIraincrd has abandoned
the idea of going with the wrecking
party on the Orien to float the Kear-
sarge off Roncador reef, and his placs
will be taken by Lieutenant {. l..
Force. who has been ordered to Nor
folk to join the ship.
John Bracht. n young German farm
err of Ravenna. Neb.. sh 1t his bri lie OF
four months and committed suicide.
James II. Britton, cx-naror OF st.
Louis Is under arrest charged with
in IN cmbcA:lc II mt by his
son Alfred W. Br.ttoI. president OF
the First Nationa! ban'i of Vernon,
Tex.
A man named Stewart swinlled the
Wichita Nat'on bank out of $1,000
by means of forged drafts. lie has
He'd.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Editorial aS,ociat on ut
ha, been postponed to
April 10.
Figures show that in the same
length of time Postmaster General
IIissell has appointed twenty-five more
presidential postmasters than Wanna.
maker, who had beaten the records
in making removals.
James Howard, an American civil
engineer, fell from Mexican steamer
INTO the Gulf of California and was
drowned.
Andrew holland, prisoner charged
with larceny, jumped from a train at
south Omaha while his guard was
asleep and escaped.
President George Gould's report sub
nittcd to the stockholders shows the
earnings of the Missouri Pac tic sys.
.em for the year ending December 81,
500: Gross. S2i.Ols,3JS. decrease, ST.
'a6, 40: net. s5.76i.l'O. decrease ST.
AS. 400: total income. S3.3O4. ssl, de-
.rease. s50O.4.3: balance. ss..ls,5sa,
siOs,sO5.
A general convention of the physi-
'ians of Kansas has been ca He'd for
Topeka May /. to formulate plans for
securing medical Legislation.
United States District Judge Thayer
lecided Mt st. Louis that imported CO.
aine should pay duty of twenty-five
,ef cent nd valorem. The New York
customs appraisers held that it should
'ay fifty cents per pound.
A. j. Tangeman. wealthy and
prominent citizen of Blairstown. Iowa.
las been shot and killed by u negro
It Sebastian, Fla.
The executors of the late Chapman
.ightner of Chill.cothe, Mo-. have
ound $4,000 in buried gold and are
earching for more.
Mr.. Gladstone finished translation
4 Horace's 0des into English verse on
he same day that he resigned the
british premiership.
Hon. +. NJ. Kinman. n well-known
ttorney and former member of the
legislature from Jacksonville, ILL.,, is
nysttriously missing.
The Candee Rubber company OF
few Haven, Conn, has notified its
Employees that it will shut down its
works. on Saturday and will not re-
pen until April 90. An overstock OF
'oods is the cause assigned. Fifteen
hundred employees will be thrown out
4 work.
f. Il. Walters. chief clerk to Super
ntendent Brant of the Colorado Mid.
and railway in Denver, has been
rrested charged with embezzling
bout $1,000 Walters secured the
money by means of forged pay rolls.
Which he has successfully cashed
or over four years.
The Montreal express. north bound,
nd the Quebec express met in head
nd collision ut Capleton. near Sher-
rookie, Canada. The engineer of one oi
he trains and train hand. who was in
he cab with him. were killed. None
4 the passengers were seriously in
ured and none of the cars were
wrecked.
In Denver, Chief of Police Kellogg
esigned and the old board. which
Governor Waite Is attempting to GUST.
ppointrd Lieutenant John +. Stone
D his place and made promotions all
long the line. This novel is made TO
heckmate the new commissioners,
Tho are laying their plans to reinstate
x-Chief Farley.
The last of the long list of cotton
laims growing out of seizures during
he war has been decided by the court
4 claims against the government and
a favor of the executor of the estate
4 Ex-Governor Morehead of Kentucky,
eceased. The amount allowed Is
So, 104.
Edward Thompson. q railway
OF Han nibal, while steal.
az q ride into St Louis fell under
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