Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-12-14

Tnk murder OF German family
father, mother and three childrcn-has
been reported from the San Simeon
valley, In Arizona, by the renegade
band OF Indians from tho San Carlos
reservation.
HARRY HAYWARD was hanged on the
morning Of the 18th ut Minneapolis,
Mimi, for the murder OF Catherine
Cling. Tho murderer went to the gal
lows with a laugh on his lips and wen!
down with the trap just rs he uttered
the words lightly: Let her 60, Meg
ardcn," the command being directed
to the chief deputy.
FouR masked men entered the store
OF L. !. J. Bachar, ut Carey, O., re-
Gently, and while one held Mr.. Bachar
Mt the point OF two revolvers the other
three went through his safe and pro-
cured $1,000 In money and about $500
worth of watches aud rings and then
escaped.
MATTE GoATLEY, a colorcd girl IL
years OF age, attempted on the 10th to
poison the family with whom she had
been making her home ut Indianapo-
lis, Ind, by placing rough on rats in
the coffee. Elias Robinson, Eddie
Tcctus and Mrs, Miranda Teetus, oil
colorcd, drank of the coffee and were
immedi lately seized with cramps The
net was committed because the girl
was slapped by Mrs. Teetus for being
tardy In getting up.
AT the meeting Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Mt New York on the
9th the reports Of the president, secre-
tary and treasurer were read and re-
fcrrcd and John Swinton and Rev.
Father Ducey made speeches, the
priest being very emphatic in his re-
marks against certain capitalists who,
he said, "lived in luxury and piled up
fortunes with the blood money OF the
poor" There was mass meeting Mt
night Mt Cooper union, when President
John Mcbride spoke on trades unions.
THE British steamer Principal caught
fire in the forchold when about 40
miles north of Cape Wrath. on the
northwestern extremity OF Scotland,
struck rock and went down with
twenty.sevcn of her crew, only one be-
ing saved. He was taken from the
water after clinging to wreckagc for
eighteen hours. A passenger was also
drowned.
THE tug Pearl Campbell was re-
ported lost off Huron isle, in Lake SUI
perior. and all her crew drowned,
numbering seven men.
THE socialists on the sth arranged
for demonstrations against the Amcri-
can Federation of Labor, which began
its national meeting at New York on
the 9th. The socialist delegates to the
convention will demand the abandon
ment OF the trade union movement, an
end to strikes and boycotts and the in
dorsement of the socialist labor party
instead. The Federation OF Labor will
discuss, among other things, the car
rying out of a movement for general
eight.hour law on May /, 1896.
THREE men were killed and two
more were injured in railroad wreck
on the New York & New Haven rail-
way in Harlem. The engine and its
tender were proceeding with the usual
speed, when without any warning, 1t
left the track and went humping along
over the ties. The conductor and the
fireman leaped for their lives at the
moment the engine toppled over ana
the others of the crew were crushed
beneath the weight Of the boiler.
THE dynamite packing house OF ths
Ottawa (Ont) Powder Co. blew up an1
John REYNOLDS, OF Thoms Falls, N. j,
an employee. was fatally injured by
flying splinters.
AT Colgate, ]. T., three masked men
recently entered the cooperative store,
forced the clerks TO lie on the floor,
face downward, and made the manager
open the safe. The outlaws secured
about $500 and escaped.
ArroRyEY-GENERAL HARMON, in his
annual report, shows that the number
of criminal cases pending in the fed
eral courts July /, 1905, was IL, 495. lie
calls attention to the fact that toe
much Of the time of the supreme court
Is occupied by criminal appeals and
suggests that such appeals be disal
lowed, save in capital cases He also
calls attention to the growing abuse Of
the writ Of habcas corpus.
AT Chicago on the sth fire in the
notion house OF II. Wolf & Co. caused
loss of 500, 900; fully insured. John
Dorc, n hook and ladder man, was
severely burned. He was completely
covered with burning embcrs