Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-02-01

Ina dispute ut masquerade ball at
hotel In Sacr amento. CAL, one of the
revalers discharged his revolver and 4
bullet struck Hugo Klaas, q boarder,
who was coming down stairs TO break
fast, INJECTING wound from which he
soon died. Klaas was to have been
married on the Goth to Miss May I'm.
derwood, of Kansas City, who was said
to be en- route TO Sacramento and igno-
rant Of her lovers tragic fate.
As 4 result of n desperate fight ut
Jefferson, Ia, on the eth two men are
dead, two men desperately wounded
and young woman seriously hurt
The trouble started over an old feud.
Neighbors attracted TO the scene put
IN end to the battle.
AN entire family of four was drowned
In the Prairie Dog fork Of the Red river
In Randall county, Tex. Joseph Wick
er and his wife and two children ut
tempted to ford the stream In COW
cred wagon. The waters swept the
wagon and team down. The father
attempted to swim ashore with one
child on his back, but he sank and both
he and the child werc drowned. Tho
mother and second child remained In
the wagon and were also drowned.
A LATE London dispatch said that
the outlook there in regard to the
speedy settlement OF the dispute be-
tween Great Britain and Venezuela
was now looked upon as being much
more hopeful and nobody anticipated
any further serious trouble In connec.
ton with the dispute.
THE new American line steamship
st. Paul went ashore Mt Long Branch,
N. j., on the 25th during n dense fog.
All of the 700 passengers were landed
II was expected that the vessel would
be floated in n few days
AS the result OF charges preferred
against him United States Marshal
Nix, of Oklahoma, has been removed
and Patrick L. Maggie, q lawyer of
Kingfisher, has been appointed in his
place.
ED KIRsEBoM, county treasurer of
Plymouth county, Ia. was reported
A hurried examination OF
his books indicated shortage Of slO,-
BOO
THE ice gorge in the Maumcc river
about eight miles above Toledo, O.,
broke and in running out carried away
two spans Of the new bridge in course
,f construction. Loss, estimated at
$50. 900.
GEORGE W. BAXTER. aged 80, killed
MS wife, Celia, with hammer and
hen cut his own throat with q razor.
The double tragedy occurred ut Minne-
ipolis, Mimi, and was caused by jeal.
,usy.
A MOB at Sullivan, Ind, on the Goth
'ndeavored to lynch Grant Atterbury,
Irrcsted on q charge of nssaulting his
The door OF the jail was
,rokcn down and an entrance forced,
nut the sheriff confronted the mob and
TO kill the first man who |
vent upstairs toward the cell room.
rhe mob halted and finally withdrew,
nut threatened to return within "a
tours.
SHERIFF CHILDERs went to the house
4 man named Hurst at Powhattan,
lrk., to ascertain the cause of some
rouble ut q populist meeting when
hurst ran at the sheriff. with knife.
'harlcs, the sheriff's son, rushed to his
ather's assistance and shot Hurst in
he stomach. Tom Hurst, seeing that
is father was shot, attempted to kill
but was fatally shot.
KATE M. NELLIs, wife Of Peter Mel
Is, owner Of the Avenue house ut
iirard. Pa, and Edgar Gardner, bar
ender ut the same hotel, her para
lour, were arrested, charged with the
tempted murder OF Nellis 1t was
LEGGED that for months Mrs Nellis
nd Gardner had been slowly poison.
az Nellis to death by putting tartar
metic in his coffee.
A SPECIAL from Washington on the
9TH said that experts had found
srger deficiency than expected in the
counts OF Librarian Spofford. The
efficiency so far reported, II was said,
I'LL aggregate s6l,000 with the in
estigation yet In progress.
AN excursion train going south over
he Shenandoah valley branch of the
'orfolk & Western railroad was
'reckcd near Riverton. Va, and q
'ullman CIR porter was killed aud the
nginecr and fireman injured. None
tho passengers wcrc hurt. The en-
inc struck rock which dcrailed It
nd three cars were wrecked and after.
ards caught fire and were consumed.