Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-11-09

The annual session Of the national
non-partisan w. G. T. U. opened at
0berlin, O, on the 9th.
A MO FIRE started In Keeps shirt fac.
tory at New York on the 9Th, and be-
fore II was controlled damage was
done TO the amount Of si,o00,000
About twenty-five frcmen were In
jured, but none seriously.
The strike on the Great Northern
railroad has gone into effect At
DEVILS Lake, N. D., no trims were
moving, the men refusing to obey
calls The business men were dis.
gustcd with the state Of affairs, all the
elevators being full Of wheat and no
cars TO move IT,
The 5th was q great day Mt Pitts
burgh, Pa, the city not only receiving
the magnificent gift OF million dol
lar library, music hall and art gallery
from Andrew Carnegie, but the pleas
ing announcement was made that MIR.
Carnegie would cndow the art gallery
with 81 200, 600 and also proposed erect
ing for the greater Pittsburgh free
libraries ut Duquesnc, Carnegie and
Homestead.
CAPT. FREDERICK LANG and his wife
were found dead in bed ut their homo
In Gardncrville, a suburb OF Baltimore,
Nd, on the 5th. Their skulls had been
crushed and the house ransackcd. 1t
was supposed that robbery was the In
-.a.-, r., th, Inuh la ty,nriar
In Lincoln county, Ok, thieves en-
tered district schoolhouse and stole
the stove, chairs and the window sash
from the windows, and even took up
the floor and hauled 1t away, leaving
desks and books piled In heap out
side.
A MISSOURI, Kansas & Texas passcn.
ger train was wrecked near Denison,
Tex, on the Sd. The engineer was
killed outright and thirty-two pas
sengers were injured. The mail, bag
gage and express cars and three coaches
were injured. The derailment was
caused by an open switch.
THE Pittsburgh Cincinnati express on
the Il. & O., commonly known as the
cannon ball. jumped the track on
bridge over creek near Wheeling, w.
Va, on the 81, owing to n broken
flangc on wheel OF tho smoking car.
The mail car, smoker and Pullman
parlor were completely demolished.
So far only two deaths have happened.
The exact number OF injured was hard
to get reliably. Nine were taken to
the city hospital aud three to the
Wheeling hospital, while number were
ut houses near the scene of the acct
dent OF those who were hurt several
will die.
The Massachusetts, horseman, Col.
John Z. Thayer. has bought the trot.
ting stallion Baron Wilkes, 2:ls. by
George Wilkes, dam by Belle Patchen,
by Mambrino Patchen. Price, S25,
THEODORE DURRASr was convicted
ut San Francisco on the LIST OF the muir
der of blanche Lamont in Emanuel
Baptist church. The jury was only
out twenty minutes and arrived ut the
verdict on the first ballot When the
foreman OF the jury announced the
verdict men cheered and women wept
and the tumult continued for some
time before order could be restored.
As there was no recommendation to
mercy, Durrant will be sentenced to
death. Notice of appeal has been given
by his attorneys.
A New YORK dispatch said that a
large increase in the rates for trans
porting money by express order went
into effect on the list. This increase
was said to average 25 per cent. be-
tween points east of Chicago, and even
more to points west of that place. This
increase OF rates is regarded as another
blow in the warfare waged for some
time past between express companies
and the state and national banks
throughout the country, and which
will be carried to congress by the
banks.
REPRESENTATIVES OF the American
Railway union failed to reach IN agree
ment with President Hill, Of the Great
Northern railroad, and tic-up OF that
great system was expected from st.
Paul, Mimi, to the coast.
W. NJ. HAGERroY, living near Alden,
Ia, was fatally stabbed by the father
of Miss Smiscr. to whom he had been
paying attentions, and whom he had
ruined.
TIE steamer Joe Peters was reported
sunk 90 miles below Memphis, Tenn,
near Robinsonville, Miss.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued
proclamation designating Thursday.
November %, MS Thanksgiving day.