Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

A STRIKE OF printers took place In
Davenport, Ia, on the Sd. Three
aftern Don and two morning papers
were affected.
In the United States supreme court q
decree was entered on the 81 to relo'
cate the boundary line between the
states Of Iowa and Missouri.
THE First Unitarian church ut Meet
inghouse hill, Boston, was burned on
the 81 through an ovcrheated furnace.
A SLIGHT earthquake shock was felt
at Sioux City, Ia, on the 4th. Similar
disturbances we're reported in South
Dakota and Nebraska
W. W. HAYES, treasurer OF Anderson
county, Tenn, has been found to be
over SIS, 900 short in his accounts.
LIZZIE HICKMAN, n notorious woman
who recently died Mt Knoxville. Tenn,
has left n confession that Lee Sellers,
who was lynched at Knoxville II years
ago for the robbery and murder Of q
drummer, was innocent, and that she
lured the drummer to an isolated spot
and Ike Wright, IN outlaw, committed
the deed.
A FREIGHT train on the Norfolk a
Western railroad ran into big land.
slide on the Sd near Radford siding,
W. Va, and was badly wrecked. The
engineer was fatally hurt and the fire.
man dangerously injured.
A PATENT has been granted to
Thomas II. Royce, Of Brooklyn, for in
venting boomers and hereafter the
NEW woman" will have to pay roy
atty on such garments.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND wrote letter
to congress- on the 3D. transmitting
the Italian correspondence in regard
to the lawless killing of Italians in
Colorado and advising that some
money be appropriated for the fami-
lies OF the victims.
Two boys, aged five and eight years,
children OF Charles Spcndcr, of Dam
vile, Il. J., were drowned while ut play
on the ice back OF their fathers yard.
THE we'll known Weber Piano Co.
made application for receiver Mt New
York on the Sd. Dull trade was given
as the cause of the failure.
The Central Lumber Co. began bust.
ness ut Port Towscnd, Wash, with n
cnpital of $40, 900. OOo Its membership
includes every timber mill on the west
crn coast
Two large iron compressed air tanks
for furnishing power to drills ex-
ploded ut Lawrence, Mass, on the Sd.
The engineer and fireman were killed
and the shock was felt for ten miles
around doing much damage to window
glass.
The big seven-story building OF
Charles II. Ilazeltine, l4i0 and l4is
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and the
adjoining five-story structure OF the
Baptist Publication society and the
American Baptist Historical society
were destroyed by fire on the cd. The
Hotel Lafayette wns also damaged.
Tho loss was estimated at fully Sc, coo,
600 Many valuable paintings were
destroyed, the loss on them being esti-
mated at between $500. 600 and 500, 600
The Baptist Historical society lost TO-
900 volumes.
TnE Reading pa. collieries have been
shut down for an indefinite period,
throwing 49, 900 persons out Of work.
MARTIN LYNN, his wife, two infant
children and his sister were poisoned
ut Rochester, N. Y. Miss Lynn was
dead, two others cannot recover and
the children were reported out of dan.
ger. The Case was very mysterious
A DISPATCH from Eagle Pass, Tex,
stated that $50 boilermalxers and ma
chinists OF the Mexican international
Railway Co. were ont on strike. They
demanded IS per cent increase In
wages and the reinstatement of sew
cral men.
BErwEES 1000 and 5000 persons at'
tended the boxing exhibition ut New
York on the Both between George Dix.
on and "Peddler" Palmer. At the end
of the sixth round the referee declared
the bout q draw. The majority OF
those present, however, did not agree
with the referee, and said that Palmer
should have had the decision on points
The boiler In the stave mill on VIII
liam Morrison's farm, near Freeport
O. exploded. killing three persons and
injuring two The clothing ofths three
dead men was stripped from thai
bodies by tho explosion and lodged ia
the uslghbnring hushes and treeA Thi
all was Wrecked.