Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-06-20
NIIsCELLANEOUy.

quarreled ut Ilartzclle, Ala, and the
former drew knife aud the latter q
pistol. jackson was shot through the
body three times and Vest was cut in
several places. Both men finally fell
to the ground and died soon after
ward.
JERRY McKNEw, q hotel proprietor
at Washington, and his wife tried to
commit suicide by taking laudanum.
The husband may possibly recover
ST. VINcENT's sanitarium ut Santa
Fe, n. NJ, was burned recently. Loss,
slOa, 900. It was crowded, but no lives
were lost.
THE four-story warehouse Of the
White Mills Distilling Co. Mt Louis
vile. Ky, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently and @, GOO barrels OF whisky were
consumed. Loss, slas,OOo
THE stone bridges Of Cristina and
Concha and the aqueduct Of Fernando
Septimo, upon which Havana was de-
pendent for its water supply, were
blown up by agents Of the insurgents
Much fever and smallpox was existing
in Havana and altogether the city was
in q deplorable condition. A council
OF Spanish generals had decided TO sus-
pend operations against the insur-
gents owing 10 the rains Gen. Co
mcz's insurgent force Of 5000 was
said to have been defeated by Castal-
lano's troops.
SARAH ANN ANGEL, who alleges she
Is the widow of the late Jay Gould, has
begun suit in New York TO recover her
dover right In the Gould estate.
SHEP PALMER q negro, was executed
In the city Jail ut jackson, Miss, on
the i3th for the brutal murder In De.
cembcr last Of Charley Cordell and
wife. newly married colored couple.
THE attorney general Of Wisconsin
has brought suit to have the franchise
revoked and q receiver appointed to
wind up the affairs Of tho National
Manufacturing Co., Of hartford, rs 1t
is creating, he alleges, lumber trust
extending over Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, Missouri. Illinois, Ohio and Kan
sas.
BILL WEST, the notorious Indian ter.
ritory murderer who escaped from Jail
ut Topeka, Kan, while under sentence
OF death, was killed at Illinois, Ok,
while resisting arrest.
A DISPATCH from Bombay stated
that the British warship Bonavcnture,
while making a passage from Colombia,
Ceylon, to Pondicherry, capital Of the
French settlement in India, lost 70
men by sunstroke.
Two business blocks containing
half dozen stores In Lamar, Col,
were destroyed by fire. The total
loss was $50. 900
JOHN CRAIG was hanged In Folsom
(Cal prison on the 18th. he murdered
his wife, her father and mother and
nearly killed young Hunter, his
brother-in-lsw, ut Los Angeles about
two years ago. The crime had been
long promeditatcd.
Four miles north Of Courtuer Flat,
L T., Jasper Moore killed Dick Ora
ham. Moore Is q brother TO the girl
who was arrested recently charged
with killing her child. Moore accused
Graham Of rejecting on the character
Of his sister, which led TO tho killing.
MANY concerns were burned out by
fire at Hico, Tex, recently, iuclud-
ing the Hico Review. Loss, $4,000
JOHN s. TURNER shot and killed his
cousin. Greene Turner. ut the Half
Way house. near Middleboro, Ky, re-
Gently. Greene's brother, Sam Turner,
was killed at the Same place ten days
ago. All the parties are connected
with the Turner family Of the Paylin-
Turner feud. Fifteen of the family
have died Of violence.
RxPoBrs from peppermint growers IN
ell psr,A Of southwestern Michigan
said that grasshoppsH were doing
great injury 70 the ernpl IN some
localities the irssets bad eatsn the
entire foliage Of large neldA The
Yield Of oil wiil b considerably less
thap lest year,