Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-11-02

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TEE negro who assaulted and MUIR
dered Mrs. Bell at Tyler, Tex, was
captured on the 2oth aud II was de-
creed by the mob that no SHOULD be
burned alive ut the stake on the public
square, which was accordingly done,
the whole town witnessing the pro.
ceedings and the match being applied
by the murdered woman's husband.
Two men, George II. Smith, who
murdered old Philip Richmeyer ut AL.
bany, and Charles N. Davis, who rs.
saultcd and killed 6-year-old Maggie
Shannon ut Cohocs, were killed In the
electric chair ut Clinton prison ut Dan.
nemora, N. Y, on the Goth.
A WARRANT was recently issued foi
the arrest of George W. Boggs, ex-city
treasurer of Tacoma, WASH, from 1896
to 1894, for the alleged ENLIGHTENMENT
Of 500. 000 He was reported rs being
in Jacksonville, Ore.
| FIRE occurred in the paint shop Of
Charles Walter at Pittsburgh, Pa and
for time threatened the destruction
OF half n block. Two buildings were
Quilted. Loss, s25, 900; insurance. SEQ. :
600.
THE storage battery patents Of this
country have passed into the control
of n trust, the official name Of which
Is the Electric Storage Battery Co II
is capitalized ut SIC. 900, 900, with head
quarters at Philadelphia.
In Jasper and Porter counties, Ind,
immense damage has been done by fire
started through the sparks of loco.
motive. Several lives were reported
lost and bridges over the river were
burned like paper. Over $4,000 acres
had been burned over on the esth and
the fire was reported still spreading.
Farmers for 10 miles around Koutz
were forming parties to protect their
homes No estimate Of the damage
could be made.
ANOTHER terrible massacre OF Armen-
inns was reported near Baiburt, mum.
Der Of men and women being burned
alive and others horribly mutilated by
Mussulmans and Lazes About $50 were
said to have been killed.
THE University Of Virginia had fire
on the eth which destroyed the lecture
rooms and geological laboratory of
great value. The loss was estimated
ut not less than $500, 900.
A Rock ISLAND passenger train
crashed into an outgoing freight train
on the Cotton Belt railroad near Fort
Worth, Tex, recently and the Rock
Island engine went over an embank-
ment, while thirteen cars were totally
demolished.
MRs. j. w. GREENwALD, OF Youngs-
town, o., seated her 3-year-old child ut
the breakfast table and stepped out
side to do some work. When she re-
turned in fifteen minutes she found
her boy dead on the gasoline stove and
horribly burned.
A THREATENING letter was found In
the palace addressed to the sultan re-
Gently Mt Constantinople. An inquiry
incriminated fourteen members OF the
imperial household. All Of them were
executed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has pardoned
Grant Shurtleff, convicted In Kansas
of counterfeiting, in order to restore
him to citizenship, his sentence having
been completed.
An explosion in the mills OF the Pa
cific Coast Lumber Co., Mt Fair Haven.
Wash, destroyed much property and
killed three men outright.
AT New York on the cath Henry Of
Navarro easily defeated Clifford and
Santa Anita in n great handicap race.
ZEKE and Dick Crittenden, two
Cherokees, got drunk ut Wagner, ].
T., and became so wild that they were
both shot by deputy marshal
THE twenty-five round glove contest
at the Olympic club, New Orleans, be-
tween Jack Everhardt, OF that city,
and Owen II. Zeigler, OF Pennsylvania,
was declared draw. Both men were
said to have displayed much science.
NOTORIOUS Dick Pine, member OF
the Ryan gang Of outlaws, was killed
by federal officers near Cushing, Ok.
FRANCIS J. KIEcKHoEFER, chief In the
bureau OF accounts in the state depart
ment at Washington, has been found
short in his accounts and Secretary
Olney has compelled him to resign.
The chief bookkeeper has also resigned.
BAMBERGER, BLOOM & Co., the larg.
est dry goods firm in Louisville. KY,
has failed, with liabilities of 81, 200, 900,
and assets about equal.
HARVARD university defeated Cor
nell at Cambridge, Mass, on the Goth
In the football game by . score stand
ing IS TO a.