Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-11-03
NEWS sRRvIriRs.

0fhiu COnpouyb oitNatot Wus uo-
stroyed by Ore Wednesday morning.
Loss about $4,000.
The British steamer Tong ships,
which arrived NJ New York from the
Dutch East Indies. had q cargo OF
100000 pounds Of sugar.
The long deferred trial Of Major
Wham, paymaster In the United
States army, has been resumed at
Vancouver, Wash, after an interval
Of nearly month.
Charles T. Cowden. one of the party
Of cavalry which captured Jefferson
Davis, disguised In female attire In
1865, died OF heart disease at Seattle,
Wash, aged Sc years. He was New
ada pioneer and former city coun-
Gilman Of Seattle and owned consid-
errble property.
A singular accident occurred In
East Nashville, Tenn Page. motor
man fell over the front guard OF the
electric chr he was running and
caught under 1t. dragging for long
distance before his absence was dis
covered. When picked up he was I'M
conscious and lived only half an hour.
How he happened to fall In front OF
the chr Is not known.
A rock drilling contest for the
championship of the world and q
purse of s325 Is in progress ut Lead.
vile, Col. Seven teams arc entered.
Leadvillc, Telluride, Cripple Creek
and Red Cliff being represented.
Driver and McGilvray, n Leadville
team, have already beaten the worlds
record Of thirty and tive-sixteenths
inches by drilling th,rty.onc and one
half inches in fifteen minutes.
by the explosion of the boiler Of the
saw-mill Of A. r. Kreps in South
Parkersburg, John kreps, son of the
owner, and David Jon,s were killed
instantly, and Benja min Mounts was
severely injured.
In Lorraine, Ohio, while number
of men were digging deep trench ut
the new johnson Steel works. the
earth cavel in. A man nim.I Griffin
was instantly killed aal cbinpanion,
whose name could not be learned J.,
was fatally injured.
Martin Palaja. a l3.ycar.old boy re-
siding near Grand Rap d., Mich, Is
charged with shooting Annie Kaman-
towislsy, girl q years OF age. The
boy got angty " lille playin with the
girl and her brother aad shot the
CHI Id in the head W tn n charge OF
buckshot She is not expected to re-
cover.
In Chicago haGcas corpus proceed
ings begun N august 10y Mrs. Anna
ii. Byers against DIR. Tai man. John
Davis, Henry H. Shields and Peter L.
Kimberly, to recover her husband.
Ebeuezer NJ. I!yers. the Pittsburg
millionaire, have ben dismissed on
motion of her attorney.
In Detroit, Mich, eighty employees
of the cutting department of the
Standard Pearl Button company have
struck in re mon trance against the
employment of John Bell as foreman
to succeed William Stevenson. Bell,
IL is said, was formerly foreman in
u prison shop at Chester, Ill.
Under instruction from Superin-
tendent Byrnes of New York police
captains went befors the granI jury
TO submint evi enc, in 40 cases of
ileged registration. The superin-
tendent has many NOR, similar cases
which are not yet ready for prcsenta-
ton.
Perry Brown, one OF the Cook gang
of outlaws, for whom til, government
offers a reward Of $3.50, was captured
several miles west of Tahlcquah Inl.
Ter. Brown had tasen sh liter in n
small log cabin for the night and was
surprised and captured before any
resistance coull be made.
Alfred Merritt ex-prcsident Of the
Duluth. Messabee and Northern road,
has brought suit against John ID.
Rockefeller and +. L. G,t.s of New
York, charging them with frau ami
misrepresentation in securing con-
soiiiation OF the Mcssabee range iron
mines. lie asks ju Igment against
the defendants for Sl.a.6. 100.
DIR. Peterson. OF PHILADELPHIA who
has been ut Asbury Park, \. j.. dur
ing the summer, died from upopleyy.
lie was So years old. DIR. Peterson
was at one time associated with the
late George W. Childs under the firm
name OF Peterson & Childs. Ills only
daughter is Mrs George w. Childs.
Mary Louise Howard, colored
womgn. sued the Louisville aud Nash
Vile railway, in the United States CIR.
cult court ut Cincinnati, for $4,000
damages, alleging refusal OF the rail-
road company, on June 10, 1894, to
allow her to ride in u first class car
from Cincinnati to Lexington Ky.
The case again William e. Woodruff,
ex-state treasurer of Arkansas, for
false pretences and misapplicLtion of
funds, has been set for trial In the
Pulaski circuit for Nouem Der ie.
In Chicago the board of election
commissioners rul ed that neither OF
the rival Populist city and county
tickets was entitled to place on the
official ticket The Populists were
informed that they must put the
names OF their candidates before the
people on petition.
Hon. Wash Mayes. high sheriff OF
the Cherokee nation Is dead His
death was due toa stroke OF paralysis
caused from an injury received from
u fall from hors, last winter. High
Sheriff Mayes was very prominent
Cherokee, being q brother OF Chief
Maves, who died several years ago
Another OF his brothers, +. II. Mayes,
is now candidate for reelection to
the chieftaincy.
The government report places tho
cotton crop at 7,47s. 900 bales raised
on 9.525. 900 acres of ground.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
contemplates the establish
ment ola new steamship lin, to the
Orient
The steamship Falcon is still un-
heard from aud hope for her safety
has been abandoned.
In Chicago one Of the large ware
houses of the William Dser.ng Reaper
uorlrs has hurnad IOss 500 600: in