Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-08-22

n DRUNKEN row OCCURRED NJ DditOu-
vile, o.. between Hungarian and
French miners and one man has died
md three others are likely 10 succumb
TO their injuries. Six Of the rioters
were arrested.
FIRE ut Lancaster, KY, on the 18th
destroyed all the buildings on the east
side of the public square, including
the post Office.
THE Newbanks oil we'll at Sisters.
vile, w. Va, took fire and burned the
derrick and several thousand barrels
Of oil. There is no way to put out the
fire and the loss to the owners will be
enormous, as the well was doing 200
barrels day.
TIE hard times have caused no fall
ing Off in tho number Of passports Is
sued by the state department ut WASH
ington to Americans to go abroad.
In Clark county, Ky, the boiler OF n
thresher exploded and killed four
boys. The engineer had gone 10 din
ner and the water got too low.
THREE men were killed and over q
dozen injured, several fatally, by the
collapse OF q four-story building Mt
Eau Claire, Wis, on the 18th. The
men were engaged In pulling II down.
OSCAR REED. n love- icl, boy. II years
old, shot himself at Fort Worth, Tex,
becluso his parents told him he was
too young to get married.
A PARTY OF men In the employ Of the
Pennsylvania Telephone Co. were start
ing out TO work in the borough Of New
Holland, Pa, and had placed 100 pounds
OF dynamite in wagon in the yard OF
Miller's hotel when 1t exploded, killing
three men, fatally injuring three 9th.
ers and seriously injuring score more.
The loss to property in the borough
was large.
TIE Great Falls IN. ~ Milling Co.
has shut down mills and for short
time, throwing 1000 hands out OF
work.
In the country near Charlottesville,
Ind, hogs and cattle were reported dy.
ing by the hundreds from the poison.
Gus bites OF flies.
THE big general maps of the United
States have just been issued by the gen.
eral land office for this year. The fea-
turc is the division of the country into
sections, marking various cessions and
purchases from other governments.
THoUeM the gravediggcrs worked
night and day Mt New York the supply
OF graves could not I'LL the demand on
the 10th. There was also n shortage
OF hearses and il was necessary TO Dor.
row 90 from New Jersey and IL from
Philadelphia. There were 400 funcr-
ais in New York during the day and
200 IN brooklyn, being mostly heat
victims.
In n fit OF jealousy Charles Nelson
shot and killed his wife in their home
Mt Chicago on the 18th. After sending |
TWO bullets into the woman's breast
the murderer fired q shot ut his three
year-old daughter, inilicting a slight |
wound. The murderer was arrested.
FIRE Quilted the Woodruff block at
ILL.,, on the 10th, causing n
loss Of over 100000 4. L. Goldman,
who conducted department store,
was the principal loser. Half dozen
other smaller firms were also losers,
md many poor families living in the
second story of the block lost every
hing they possessed, barely escaping
with their lives in their night clothes
TIE failures for the week ended the
18th (puns review were a9s in the
United States. against 1876 last year,
Ind 80 in Canada. against 3s last year.
AN immense meteor was reported to
rave fallen near the Ripsey mines,
lbout 60 miles north Of Tucson, Ariz.
4 hcrder, his wife and three children,
ogether with about 200 sheep, went
lown under the mighty mass. The
meteor covered about two acres of
rround and formed great mound in
he desert.
TnE +. f. V. train on the Chesapeake
Ohio railroad, which left Washing
on, ran into an open switch at Ra-
Va, about 1915 n. m. on
he 18th and four Of the six passenger
coaches were lady wrecked. Several
ives were reported lost and Is or 20
'assengers injured.
Two men were shot and killed and
mother mortally wounded ut the an
Iual convention of the national party
n the Cherokee nation, ten miles north
4 Tahlequab, on the 18th. The killed
we're Eli wofford, chief Of police o:
and Charley Proctor, e
equity sheriff Leonard Williams,
heriff, was wounded fatally.