Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-09-28

feated the Philadelphia team "ey .
dose score. V
ApvrcEs from Sault ste. Marie, Mica..
sssted that the barge a. W. Comstock,
Of Algona, Mich, foundered of Stan
aartls rock, Lake Superior, In a storm
and her crew was supposed to be lost.
The barge was new and was valued Mt
ssi, 900 She had cargo Of $1,000
bushels OF wheat from Duluth.
The New York Central again broke
the record for fast time on the cath.
A special, consisting OF three coaches
and drawn by locomotive No. 9o9, left
Albany Mt 0 o'clock and arrived "
Syracuse at s:ie, thus making the run
OF iis miles in l33 minutes. This beat.
the worlds record for this distance.
Az immense forest fire was repor ted
raging around Santa Cruz, CAL, on the
cad, covering over 10 miles square.
Men were fighting It, but 1t was be-
yond control. 1t was spreading to the
powder works, where 500 tons OF
powder were stored and grave feara
were entertained that the works would
explode. The damage that had bcca
done was enormous
Mrs LAyGrRY was robbed OF her
jewel box, valued ut 100000, b. L
forged order on her bankers.
THE colossal arena ut Dallas, Tex,
for the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight, the
supervising architect states, will be
finished between October Is and 20.
All the city and county officers will
stand by Judge Hurts decision that
there is no law in Texas to prohibit
pugilistic exhibitions, the sheriff
stating that the judiciary must be re-
spected. and that he will suffer no at
tempt TO override the civil authorities.
business men were so sure OF the fight
coming off that they were laying
wagers of 10 to l that I; will take place
with no takers.
CLEARING house returns for the prin.
cipal cities in the United States for
the week ended September 20 showed
an average increase rs compared with
the corresponding week last year OF
90 3; in New York the increase was
2s.4; outside New York the increase
was 1914.
NJ. L. STINsoN, formerly agent for
the Rock Island railroad Mt Fairfield,
H., shot and killed Miss Arta Moore,
of Panora. and then committed suicide.
The girl has for some time past been n
student ut the Iowa college. She went
there from Grinnell on the night OF the
aist and was met by Stinson. The
couple took rooms at the Aston house,
ut Oskaloosa, Ia, where the tragedy oc-
Cured The reasons for the killing
were unknown.
THE baseball games on the aed closed
the Western league season, and the re-
suit made indianapolis the pennant
winner by a pronounced majority, her
per centage being $3.50, st. Paul is Sec
ond with 500, Kansas City third with
$50, Minneapolis fourth with set,
Milwaukee fifth with .4sO, Detroit
sixth with .<5l, Terre Haute seventh
with .43O, and Grand Rapids eighth
with 1903.
FRANK NEvIys sent his two sons into
the gulch mile from their home near
Rawlins, Wyo., to drive cows, and
twenty horsemen who went 10 search
for them returned without finding any
trace OF them They have undoubted.
ly persisted In the snow, which was
feet deep on the 2ad.
OS the third day OF the dedication OF
the battlefield of Chickamauga there
was grand civic and military parade
in which the visiting governors and
their stats aud other notables took
part. Senator Bate, Congressman
Grosvcnor, and Cows Morton, Wood.
bury, Matthews and Turney made
talks. the latter creating n sensation
by saying that he could never be con-
vinced that the south was wrong dur
ing the war.
A SPECIAL cable from Shanghai on
the Goth reported that four British
cruisers were ascending the river
Yang.tse- Kiang in consequence OF in
formation that foreigners were being
threatened with violence in the inte-
rior of China.
THE Army Of the Tennessee had n
grand reunion on the 10th Mt Chatta-
noogn, Tenn. Gen. Granville NJ. Dodge
presided. Gen. o. O. Howard, OF the
United States army, was the first
speaker. lie was followed by Gen.
Joseph Wheeler, Of Alabama. and Gen.
Willard Warner, OF Tennessee. Rev.
Father Sherman, son Of the famous
general. closing.