Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-12-22
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ANTHONY MARTIN, OF tinclnnutl, u
butcher whose brutal habits compelled
his wife to get n divorce six months
ago, recently entered the house and be-
gan firing ut the family. Mrs. Martin
received three wounds. Martin then
shot himself dead. Mrs. Martin may
recover.
THE business portion Of Stone Noun
tain, Ga, was almost entirely destroyed
by fire recently. Loss, $4,000; very
little insurance.
THE Lions Retreat" saloon ri
Madison, Ind, burned on the morning
Of the 18th. After the fire trouble
arose between Policeman Whitaker
on the one side and Ed Collins, electric
light engineer, and Jacob Klinen on
the other. Both Collins and Klinen
were shot by the policeman. Collins
was fatally wounded.
MORE than dozen students OF Bow.
doin college, at Brunswick, Me-, were
under the doctors care rs result OF
having eaten food supposed to have
contained poison Mt recent banquet.
LABOR COMMISSIONER WRIGHT has
drafted bill for the national arbitra.
ton of strikes. II Is modelled after the
interstate commerce act.
DURING q dense fog on the 10th two
freight trains crashed into each other
on the long bridge Of the Southern Pa
cific near Houston, Tex, and Fireman
Clement and Conductor Heard were
badly cut and bruised, the former
fatally. Just after the wreck Peter
Carroll. foreman of the bridge and
building department, fell from the
bridge and was fatally injured.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the conductors,
engineers and firemen of the Southern
railway system were in secret confer
ence Mt Washington, their grievance
being that the Southern refused to en-
ter into the same contracts which they
had with the Richmond & Dnnville be-
fore it was consolidated with the
Southern. Grave fears were enter
tanned of q strike which would tie up
the whole system and seriously affect
every business interest in the eastern
states of the south.
The Sioux City & Pacific road recent
" ran into herd Of twenty-five cattle
on the track near Salix, Ia, and plowed
its way through them, killing twenty
two and not a wheel left the track.
The train was q heavy one, and there
were over 600 passengers on board.
PRESIDENT EUGENE v. DEBs and all
Of the directors Of the American Rail
way union. accused Of contempt OF
court In violating the strike injunction
last summer, were found guilty as
charged and Debs was sentenced to six
months In jail and the others TO three
months.
A GANG of whitecaps visited the
home Of Charles Berry. Of Acidalla, n.
j., dragged him out in the snow and
tarrcd and feathered him. The men
then re-entered the house and applied
similar treatment TO Mrs. Berry while
she lay In bod. A recent death In the
family under mysterious circumstances
and the indifference Of the Berrys led
10 the outrage.
CLEANING house returns for the prin'
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended December II showed an
average decrease rs compared with the
corresponding week last year of 1915
In New York the increase was i2.o; out
side New York the decrease was l2.5.
AT Freiburg. Saxony, $50 persons
were poisoned by arsenic being put In
some bakers rolls One child had died
from the effects
SECRETARY Mo1Tox has detsrmined
this year TO devote hla quota Of free
seeds. amounting to nns-third Of the
Wholu. 70 the iarmW7 IN thosa' western
etaina ihst baIs a4nePoa a seYersly
lkl11Eh lee, Il1lsni drought