Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-04-18

THE farm residence Of Peter Glauber
ct Greensburg. Iud.. caught on hre
while the family were asleep and two
children were fatally burned.
FIRE OF incendiary origin destroyed
the large barn on the Job Holloway
farm, near Lincolnville, Ind, together
with four head Of horses, many Inn
plements and vehicles and much grain.
MRS DYER. who kept baby farm at
Reading near London, and was recently
arrested charged with wholesale muir
der, attempted to strangle herself In
prison with shoe laccs. II was sus-
pected that she had murdered 80 or 20
infants
JosEPH ZLAMEL, the murderer OF
Tessa Kamorata, was elcctrocuted at
Dnnnemora, N. Y, on tho l4th.
A LETTER received by Rev. c w.
Smith, editor OF the Pittsburgh Chris
tian Advocate, from Rev. D. S. Mon
roe, of Altoona, Pa, the secretary OF
tho Methodist general conference,
stated that the constitutional amend.
ment for the admission Of women rs
delegates to the general conference
had received moro than the requisite
thrce-fourths votes OF the annual con-
ferences.
An explosion occurred In the Brance-
peth coal mine near Durham, Eng,
the other evening and eight bodies
were taken out dead and It was feared
that ten others would lose their lives.
There were also 20 others cntombed,
but there was q possibility Of saving
them.
JOHN LEHMAN, Of Chicago, shot and
killed his three children and then sent
q bullet through his own heart on the
18th. The cause OF the terrible deed
was dependency caused by possible
poverty. The mans family lived COM
fortably and he had bank account OF
81, 800.
Mrs BARNEY MCPHERSON, Of Lo-
rain, O.. gave birth to a freak Of nature
that will rival the famous Siamese
twins. Her two babies nre joined to-
gether just above the hips. There are
two distinct heads, four arms and four
legs The faces look In opposite d.
rections.
THREE children Of Sheridan Moore,
living near Huntington, w. Va, were
burned to death In barn which they
had set on fire through playing with
matches.
A HAVANA dispatch Of tho 18th
stated that the price Of beef was ad.
vancing and there was meat famine
In all parts Of Cuba, and each day II
was becoming worse.
AT San Francisco Robert W. Edgrcn
threw q l6.pound hammer from the
regulation scvcn-foot ring the aston.
ishing distance OF l4s feet inches.
A SINGULAR phenomenon was a
shower in Lander, Wyo., on the 18th.
First red and then yellow clay fell,
followed little later by almost black
mud. People who were out in the
storm looked rs though they had been
churued In tub Of mud.
A blizzard visited Cripple Creek,
COL, on the l2th, doing great damage,
q score or moro of buildings being
blown down. At Gillett and other
places many houses were also demol-
ished. Rumors Of loss Of life in the
outlying districts were In general cir
culation.
AT Klang Gin two regiments Of Chi
nese soldiers rcvolted and, at signal
from their leader, seized the guns Of
the forts and proceeded to kill all OF
the officers and new regiment OF SOL
diers recently arrived. In the midst
of the massacre magazine exploded
and oil were blown TO pieces Two
battalions must have been wiped out
of existence, as not soldier lived to
tell whether the magazine went of by
accident or designedly. Besides an
immense quantity OF shells, 10000
pounds of powder were stored In the
powder room.
MAuERand Slaven have been matched
ut Pittsburgh, Pa, to fight before the
Eureka club, Long Island, on May 90,
for purse Of SO, 900, 81, 600 to 60 to the
loser. The match Is TO be for 20
rounds.
A TELEGRAM from Oaxaca City, Mex,
on the 18th stated that the rebel In
dams al the town Of Juquela killed oil
the town councillors, school-teachers,
local priests, chief of police and the
telegraph OF erator-in fact every one
holding n government place-and the
people were In terror. Tho Indians
were incensed against the officials on
account of certain taxes which they
thought were unjust