Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-12-22
BY the explosion of n boiler In Rus

sell Bros planning mill and bos
factory, ut West Bay City, Mich, five
youths were instantly killed and sew
eral others injured. The explosion oc
Cured while the mill was shut dowr
for noon and the boys were In the
engine room eating lunch. All the
bodies were terribly mntilated.
EUGENE v. DEBs, president OF the
American Railway union. and his col
leagues have decided to take the pen
atty imposed by Judge Woods and &c
to jail. The officials reached this de-
cision and II is positive. They said m
appeal would be probably Of no avail
The worry and expense were also con
siderations.
AT the meeting Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor on the 18th the re-
port Of the special committee on the
Dcbs conviction was agreed to. 1t ex'
tended to Debs and his associates in
their trouble the moral and financial
support OF the federation. The con-
vention adjourned sine die.
SEVERAL. thousand diamond cutters
stopped work at Amsterdam on the
18th and pnraded the streets and tried
to induce others to strike.
THREE thousand unemployed work
ingmcn invaded the city hall at Mont
real, Can. on the 18th and demanded
bread. The mayor and aldermen pres
ent promised to try and do something
r. sx,I nd
shouting, "If we don't get bread we'll
take IT,"
FIRE was discovered in Coates college
for women ut Tcrre Haute, Ind, on the
night of the 18th. Little damage was
done, but there was great excitement
among the young lady pupils. who
rushed out of the dormitory building
in their night robes.
JOHN CRoNIN was hanged carly on
the morning of the 18th Mt Hartford,
Conn, for the murder Of Albert Skin
ner on October o, 1893.
THE president has approved the acts
providing for the dedication OF the
Chickamauga and Chattanooga ma
tional park and to enable the secretary
of the treasury to remit or mitigate
fines, penalties and forfeiturcs.
SAMUEL c. SEELy, the former book
keeper of the Shoe and Leather ma
tional bank, of New York, charged
with aiding the late Frederick Baker
in robbing the bank of s354,OOO. was
arraigned in the United States circuit
court on the 18th, pleaded guilty and
was remanded for sentence.
The doll carnival was opened ut Chi
cago on the evening of the 18th.
THE Esterly Harvester Co.. Of Mime
appolis, Mimi. failed on the 18th. As
sets, s9iO.OOo. liabilities, S3s5.000.
IRA TERRILI, ex.speaker of the Okla
homa house of representatives. was
found guilty Of manslaughter ut Perry,
Ok, and sentenced to twelve years in
the penitentiary.
Z. Ii. MOSES. president. and j. l..
Bristow, secretary, Of the Interstate
Irrigation association, have issued an
invitation to the various states con-
cerned to general session of the us.
ISOLATION at Ell Reno, Ok, on January
IS and 90.
Two passenger trains collided at Red.
fern, n. s. W., and twelve persons
were killed and many others injured.
THE London Jewish Chronicle as
serted that the Rothchilds secured, Us
n condition precedent to their placing
the recent Russian loan, a promise
from that country that the Jews in that
country would be accorded better
treatment than they had heretofore re-
ceived.
The acknowledgement has declared
the American Mutual Benefit society,
of It. Louis, n fraud.
In Jasper, Tenn. John and General
Kennedy were hanged on the 18th.
Johns neck was broken. General was
strangled to death.
GEORGE LAviGyE and Andy Bowen
fought at New Orleans on the 18th.
In the eighteenth round Bowen was
knocked out and carried in serious
condition from the ring to the hospital.
Lavigne was detained by the police.
THE French line steamship In Cham
payne, which sailed from New York on
the 18th, carried ss,5sO,OOo in gold, the
second largest shipment that ever
crossed the Atlantic ocean.
A DUEL with pistols took place on
the street at Benton, Ala, recently be.
tween Tom Saint Clair and Reuben
Mauck. Saint Clair was killed. Mauck
slightly wounded and negro woman
seriously wounded.