Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-11-30

FARRIs Cox, faro dealer. shot Al
Wagner, q well known sporting man,
In the Turf saloon IN Oklahoma City
ol., on the Goth. The shot took effect
II Wagncr's left shoulder. coming ots
Of his mouth. Wagner had been drink
Ing and threatened TO kill Cox and tho
epihion was that Tho latter acted Ia
self defense.
Thr Trunsmlssissippi commercial
Scrgfess began Mt Omaha on the 2jth
with 900 delegates present. George u
Cannon, OF Salt Lake City, wac In thB
chair. Only routine work-appointing
committees and examining creden tials
WAS done.
Az unknown nsgte Tramp was
lynched near Calvert City, KY, re.
Gently. lie was caught trying to
wreck q train and was pursued into
the woods, where he was hanged and
riddled with bullets. !,
THE New York World On tile 25th
published 4 raSlegram from Cuba,
signed by Gen. Martinez de Campos,
giving reasons why the United States
should not recognize the insurgents as
belligerents Gen. Campos said that
the insurgents held no seaport nor any
interior town and IL was for that very
| reason that Gen. Grant fefuscd 70
recognize them, which created prece-
dent, and therefore the Spanish gov
crnment did not anticipate any overt
nets of unfriendliness on the part Of
the United States
A New YORK Herald special from
Cuba said that the rebels were using
dynamite with murdcrors effect Id
every cngaeeiAent Great terror ex-
'sted among the Spanish troops and
the government was endcavoriny &c
suppress the news in order that the
new arrivals from Spain may not be
panic stricken IN advance.
TnR most outspoken expressions OF
sympathy for Ctba were heard at q
NEE ting at Philadelphia on the 2lst
The speakers were Gov. Matthews, of
Indiana; Gen. Gonzalio de Quesada,
secretary Of the revolutionary party in
the United States, and Capt w W.
Kerr, owner of the steamer Laurada.
Capt Reff said Vessels will leave
this country every day and land arms,
ammunition and mn on Cuba's shores
until size is free, aud II Spain vii! wait
ten days she will hear OF another ex.
rsdition being landed"
FIRE broke ont on the fifth floor OF
the Springer blocl, Nos. i,S to Isl Canal
street; Chicago, on the 2lst and II was
estimated that the loss was 100000
The building was occupied by tho
Charles Emcrich Feather Co. Tho fire
spread TO the adjoining building, oc.
rMpiet BY The Shohcr & Cnrqueville
Autograph Co., the Banner Waist Co.;
and other firms. Over 500 girls were
employed in this building and they
.led in panic, but all escaped with
their lives.s
AT meeting Of the executive hoard
Of the X, Of L. At Washington, General
Master Workman Sovereign was elect:
ed fraternal delegate to the National
Farmers alliance Sca.Ihtion.
TWr executive committee OF the Ma
tional Educational association met in
Chicago recently and decided to hold
the 1896 meeting of the association ut
Buffalo, n, Y,
iems BeArsiiAE, q we'll known char
aeler, walked into the Mississippi river
ut Memphis, Tenn. in the presence OF
hundred persons, who thought he
was intending to battle; Iit tep. His
head under the Water until he was I'M
e6rssi6ua When the body WAS taken
ont he was dead.
DAVID L. PEARSON, living near New
Buffalo, Ia, was driven insane rs the
result of his belief that the srccnt
earthquake hcralded the end OF tho
world, and is now eontiacd In an asy-
lum. HE Daughter, aged IS, has also
been adjudged OF unsound mind, her
fathers peculiar hallucination having
also affected her reason.
CHINESE papers rccciscd ht fancou'
ess, H. T., recently were bitter in their
attack on the Japanese authorities Id
Corea, whom they blame for the muir.
der OF the queen. They asserted that
the queen was hanged by her hair and
tied hand and foot, soaked in oil and
burned. According to Chinese -eports'
there wcrr fifteen women of title in
Tie court, the queen, her mother, and
1870 ladies In waiting. They were
nearly all soaked in oil and burned
while the mems throatt were cut.
TrE match game Of football between
the Pennsylvania and Harvard univer-
stiles Mt Cambridge, Mass, was won by
the PenEsylvanians Score, ~ to II.
.---.-.--......s--..------
IiinTrIOS.r nVsp TCHEQ