Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-10-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE special examiners under the
civil service commission have begun
their general tour OF the United States
to give opportunity for candidates for
positions in the departmental, mail
and Indian service to undergo the
usual examinations.
Two women were killed by train
while crossing the railroad track near
Monmouth Junction, n. j.
THE Edward McGee college for girls
at Woodville, Miss, was destroyed by
Ere. No lives were lost.
PROMINENT railroad officials in Mex
leo were working to get the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight in that country
should II not come off at Dallas, Tex.
by securing the consent of the author
tiles.
JOHN A. DAVENPORT, n farmer 80
years old and the father OF ten chill
iren, was burned to death in Jail at
Perry, Ok, while attempting TO escape
The acting comptroller of the cur
rency has called for report Of the
condition OF national banks Mt the
close OF business on September rs.
with the amount OF taxes Of all kinds
paid by them during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1895, for incorporation
in his annual report.
THE steam barge Kershaw went
ashore near Marquette. Mich, on the
10Th in storm and broke in two. The
crew were rescued By the life-saving
crew, who had narrow escape from
Heath, their boat capsizing. Two
schooners were also driven ashore near
the-Same place.
THE Farmers and Citizens bank ut
Parnell, Ok. C. L. Berry president and
cashier, failed for $4,000. Depositors
ran attachments on the bank for $50.
BOO. There was only SIS in cash in the
bank when the safe was opened by
officers. Cashier Berry was compelled
to leave town, and an angry mob went
in pursuit Of him to lynch him. The
bank was depository for three tribes of
Indians, viz, Pawnecs, 0toes and
0sages.
THE Eclipse stables burned at Great
Falls, Mont, on the Goth and Marshall
Nevins, a hostler, sleeping in the
building, was burned to crisp. Twen-
ty-two horses, large amount
Of hay and n number OF car
riages were destroyed as was
also the next building, owned by the
Interstate Saving & Loan association
Of Minneapolis. Total loss about si2,-
900; insurance, s+,400.
A SPECIAL to the st. Louis Chronicle
from Guthrie, Ok, stated that Mt
Talala, l. T., an unknown man and
two little girls attempted to ford the
Verdigris river and were all washed
away In the current and drowned.
They were from western Missouri and
bound for southern Oklahoma.
A DISASTROUS prairie fire ragged In
the western half of the Cherokee strip
and swept everything before II on the
eth. The fire started south of Kiowa
and 1. was thought II would end at the
Southern Kansas railway, but 1t
jumped the track and got n clean
sweep for distance OF 100 miles with
out anything to stop It. Many cattle
and goat ranches suffered. Three
homesteaders' houses north OF Alva
caught fire and burned TO the ground
with their contents.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa Nelson Miller,
two other colored men and two col
ored women were found guilty Of the
murder Of four Hungarians on the
!7th. Miller and his associates in Oc-
tober last, with the use OF dynamite,
blew up Hungarian boarding house
on the mountain side with the object
of robbing The victims Sixty persons
were in the mouse at the time and four
Of them were killed.
GEN. JoHS e BLACK. United States
district attorney ut Chicago has re-
ceived instructions to investigate
the alleged combination Of Chicago
packers TO control the price Of beef.
The order came from Attorney-Gen-
eral Harmon, who Enclosed q state
ment of the suspicious regarding
the alleged trust prepared by Sec
uetary Of Agriculture Morton.
FIRE damaged the Omaha & Grant
smelter in Durango. Col, 10 the extent
Of $50. 900. The FIRE caught from the
boiler room and for two hours the en-
tire plant was In danger. The three
story SIMPLER was ruined, together
with much improved machinery.