Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-10-26
MISCELLANEOUS,

MISCELLANEOUS.
ABOUT forty buildings, chiefly bust.
ness houses, were burned at Madison,
Mimi, on the 22d. The loss was $780,
O00; insurance about s45, 1000. Only two
brick buildings saved the rest Of the
town.
THIS crusade instituted by the Cuban
insurgents against railroad traffic In
the island was accumulated recently
by terrible catastrophe. A dynamite
bomb thrown at passenger train ex
ploded with such disastrous effects
that many passengers were so badly
mutilated that the number Of killed
could not be ascertained from the re.
mains.
Miss FRANCES WILLARD was re-elcct
ed president of the national W. C. I. U,
THERE was sudden squirt Of activ'
ity at the Mare Island navy yard nj
San Francisco on the 2lst. between
seventy-fivc and hundred men being
put to work all night to finish up the
armament Of the battleship now lying
there. This was the first time that q
night force had been worked ut that
yard for years and II was considered
somewhat remarkable.
A DISPATCH from Dirschau, Polish
Prussia, said that ten children were
recently burned to death in one house
at Preussich Stargard.
AT conference Mt Hot Springs
Ark. on the aist between the man
ayers and the representatives OF Cor
bett and Fitzsimmons the Florida Ath
letic club asked that the contest be
postponed until November II. Brady
acquiesced, but Julian would not Then
the contest was declared off. Brady
then said that Corbett would meet
any man in the world, Fitzsimmons
preferred, November IL, the man to be
named within twenty-four hours. Ven
dig announced that he would match
Maher against Corbett and find some
one to take his place against o'Donuell,
the contest between Maher and Cor
bett to be for $685. side.
CARROLL d. WRIGHT. federal commits
sioner OF labor, computes in his annual
report just completed, that the loss to
employees in establishments in which
lockouts and strikes occurred during
the thirteen and half years ended
June 80, 1894, amounted to 500, 493, 2s2
and to employers to s9l, s25, s37.
by nh explosion Of gas ut the Knick
erbocker colliery, operated by the
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron
Co., near Shenandoah. Pa, three per-
sons were fatally and six others Sc
riously injured.
THE mining village OF Stockton, Pa
has been practically wiped out by fire.
There was high wind blowing Mt the
time, and before the fire was under
control, twelve dwellings had been de-
stroyed.
FIRE broke out on the Goth In Algiers
La, and before the flames were finally
subdued, destroyed about 100 small
buildings and about twenty more pre-
tcntious structures, including the
courthouse and number OF handsome
residences All the records of the
Fifth district (Algicrs) were burned.
The loss will probably exceed $50, 600
insurance light
On the night OF the 18th, Mt Dough
erty, !. r., three masked men entered
drug store and looted the safe and
cash tills The robbers then went Ia
the store OF Hugh Hardy and the
money drawer was rifled and articles
from the store taken. After inform
ing the residents of the little town
that when there was money enough In
sight they would call again, they
mounted their horses and rode away.
THE boiler in n. X. billiards. mill or
Slough creek, 90 miles northeast Of
Paris, Tex, exploded, killing the engi
neer and seriously injuring five or 81,
others.
FREDERICK AWE, JR, went down ints
well at Milwaukee on the 18th and
was overcome by gas. His father and
Charles Smith, his brother-in-law, tried
TO rescue the young man and also sue
cumbcd to the gas. The three bodie'
were recovered. Each Of the men hae
large families
THOMAS SLIMHIR and Hans Hanser
were hanged at St Quentin, CAL, OF
the 18th for the murder OF the secone
mate of the American bark Hesper OF
the high seas They were going q
kill all the officers and seize the vessel
but were only able to carry out q par
Of their programme.
CLEARING house returns for the prin
cipal cities In the United States for tn,
week ended October 10 showed an aver
are increase rs compared with tn
corresponding week last year OF els
In New York the increase was 1913
outside New York the increase wa
14o.
Ar Ceylou, Ind, the pay car on tn
Grand Rapids & Indiana road wa
wrecked and three men killed and sew
eral badly injured through IN opeI
switch.
AT Eakle's mills, near Locust, Nd.
Herman Lands shot his wife In . Q
Of jealousy and then committed sui
eide.
JOHN HAKsnRo. Of Bryan, Ok, CAV
his two children, 10 and II years Q
age, what he thought was sulphur an
molasses, but got lead salts instead
sulphur. The little girl died afterwart
The boy was sent after . doctor. bu
fell n eoayulsiQas On the wSy and car
not live.