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

W bpcuu u part OF MS VACATION nee
summer on tho Pacific coast.
, MIsCELLANEOUs.
I LOUIS MAeNUs, aged 70 years, VIII
was recently divorced from his wife
. was found frozen to death In his roor
at Quincy, Ill. lie owned considerable
property.
AT Chicago Katie Kathie, recent
from Kansas City, Mo-, committed sui
eide because she was Tilted by Len
) Stone, n gambler, who also made ava.
with sl,50O Of her money.
THE large gold-holding banks, II wa
intimated in New York city, intende,
to sustain the federal treasury gold re
serve pending the bond issue.
THE mills of the Illinois Steel Co.
at South Chicago, resumed on tho 2stl
after being idle four weeks. Six thou
sand men werc given work.
ALEXANDER JONES, n drunken negro
boarded train Mt keystone, W. Va.
and was quarrelsome. On being nd
vised to keep quiet he became inccnset
and shot off his revolver and wounded
the conductor and another man. He
was incarcerated In the Elkhorn Jail
and then taken on n train to 60 tc
Huntington for safe keeping. but q
mob compelled the officers to give him
up and he was taken to o tree and
hanged and his body riddled with bull.
lets.
CRICK ATMoRE and wills Mason quar-.
relied over section of school land and
came to blows after which both went
home, got Winchesters and went on q
hunt for each other. They met on the
banks Of Shooters lake, in Andrews
county, Tex, simultaneously fred and
both shots took effect, the men being
killed.
THE abject misery of the people at
St Johns, n. F., cannot be expressed,
II was reported. Hundreds were starv.
ing and without fuel and the authori-
ties seemed powerless to afford relief
PROMINENT clergymen and noted
statesmen Of London have started Pc
tition which will be circulated through
out Great Britain and the United
States, urging permanent tribunal of
arbitration for all English speaking
nations, in accordance with the reso-
lutions on this subject in congress in
1899 and the house OF commons in 1893
GEORGE WARD, q Cherokee Indian,
was hanged ut Van Buren,, Ark, on the
e4th for numbering Henry Bacon in
July last year
AT Sewell, w. w., Stewart Props,
Layton Jacobs and George Higgins,
railroad men, were drowned while
crossing New river in boat.
The treasury department has re-
ceivcd 90, $50 Columbian worlds cxposi-
ton bronze medals to be awarded to
exhibitors The distribution of them
rests with the worlds fair commission.
MIS- Edmund TUCKER was choked TO
death by burglar Mt her homo in
Yonkcrs, N. Y, on the night of the
eth. Her little boy was also found to
be suffering from severe cut across
the face.
THE Weihe business block, ut Con.
nellsvillc, Pa, was burned. Several
families who lived in the block had
narrow escapes from the flames Loss,
between $40, 900 and $4,000; partly In
surcd.
DAN STUART has added another event
to his fistic carnival by offering a purse
OF $1,000 for the Smith Burns fight.
Billy Smith is portegc Of Jimmy Car.
roll and Peter Burns Is Peter Mahcr's
trainer. The fight will be doubled up
on tho bantam fight, the last day OF
the carnival.
The chess tournament was ended ut
St Petersburg on the eth. Lasker
took tho first; Stcinitz, the second;
Pillsbury, third, and Tschigorin the
fourth prize. The total score was:
Emanuel Lasker won liz, lost or;
II. N. Fillsbury won 8. lost 10; w.
Stcinitz won OF, lost sji;M. Tsch igorin
won :, lost IL.
AN explosion occurred in colliery
at Taylorstown, Wales, on the 27th.
The shafts were shattered and the
whole town was shaken by the trsmen-
dous conclusion. lightweight min
ers were below when the explosion oc-
cured. Some reached the surface, but
AZ dead bodies were taken out and
more men were reported missing.
THE Cherokee delegation Mt WASH
ington has presented 70 congress a
strong memorial protesting against
the adoption of the radical changes
recommended by the Dawes commits.
sion, appointed TO treat with the Eve
civilized tribes The Cherolsees make
a plea for m indefinite continuance of
their present form OF government
AT Muncie, ILL.,, Blaine Lynch, lad
10 years OF are, committed suicide by
jumping into the coal shaft, which IL
l9s feet deep. He was instantly killed
and horribly mangled. Recently his
fathers store was robbed and upon
being questioned he acknowledged the
deed.
IT was reported on the cath that the
western and southern populist leaders
had centcred upon Judge Henry c.
of Little Rock, Ark, as the
man whom they viii nominate for the
ut the convention TO be
held In ST. Louis July %
DEsPIrE oficial deniAls the report
spread at Havana that Maceo had cap
tured the city Of Pinar del Rio A
Spanish warship left Havana hurried
y on the esd, carrying . battalion of re-
Inducements and several light Geld
pieces. for the scene.
COUNTY TRgAsuER TuLLEY. at Dam
Eilis, Ind. was said TO DO short In his
accounts $4,000 10 -tfr