Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-04-04

Four people were killed and two In
jured In q FIRE which started early on
the morning Of the Goth In the three
story business and tenement house, 37+
Hudson street, New York.
THE women OF north Texas have
signed a petition TO President Cleve-
land, Secretary lIoke Smith and con-
gress, calling attention TO the numer-
Gus robbcries and high crimes gener-
ally which have been committed by
outlaws In the Indian territory on the
citizons who live adjacent to the terri
tory. and appealing for protection and
relief from the outlaws, which, the
petition says, can only be done by the
settlement OF the Indian territory by
civilized people.
Two warehouses Of the Pleasure
Ridge Park Dlstillery Co., ut Louisville,
KY, were destroyed by fire recently
with all their contents, consisting Of
upwards OF 10000 barrels of whisky.
The total loss was about s425,ooo.
CONRAD BECKER, n wealthy farmer of
Arenzville, H., was shot dead by his
stepson, William Becker, the latter
committing suicide by firing bullet
through his brain. The tragedy was
the result OF family quarrel.
TIE clearing house returns for the
week ended March 81 for the following
cities were: New York, S502, ESQ, 1884;
Chicago, ST., 3O3, 7O3; st. Louis, s2o,sso,-
sl5; Kansas City, so, li9, 4l6; St. Joseph,
Si,O3s, 096; Topeka, sii7,267; Wichita,
s337, 7a5; Omaha, 81, 45s.O7i.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was to issue
proclamation on the 2sih opening the
Red Lake Indian reservation In Mime
sofa to settlement The date selected
is May l. The White Earth reservation
will be opened by proclamation to he
issued later. The two comprise about
LOCO, 600 acres and form portion OF
the old Chippewa lands.
THE inspection of the l06 colleges to
which regular army officers are Mt pres
eut detailed Us instructors will begin in
May and eight line officers have been
detailed to assist the officers OF the in
spector-generars department In the
work.
PIER OF the Erie railway Mt Jersey
City. n. j., was burned on the 3Oth, to-
gether with three barges Loss $4,000.
Peter Hogan, captain Of one OF the
bargcs, was burned so badly that he
will probably die, and his son, who
jumped into the river to escape death
by Are, was drowned.
Ar o funeral at Cedar church. ten
miles east OF Antlers, !. T., Isaac Reu-
ben shot and killed Sheriff Campson
Battiest, OF Cedar county. Both are
full blood Choc.aws. Reuben claims
that Battiest fred two shots ut him
with n pistol, that he then shot out
the sheriif's brains with his Winches.
ter. and then dismounted and kept on
firing and reloading till he had put 81
bullets into the corpse.
By collision between car on the
Evanston electrical line and heavy
express wagon near Homan avenue,
Chicago, on the 30th one man was in
stantly killed and five persons were in.
jured.
THE annual boat race between the
universities OF Oxford and Cambridge
took place over the usual course from
Putney to MortlalSe, AZ miles, on the
osth and was won by Oxford by quar-.
ter of length. Time. 2O:0l. Oxford
has now won 30 races and Cambridge %.
AT q late hour on the Goth masked
man entered the farm house OF Alvin
NJ. Stone. near Talmadge. O., and COM
mitted O horrible butchery. When he
took his departure Stone and his wife.
both aged people, were lying dead in
bed and Ira Stillson, the hired man,
and Emma Stone, the eldest Of three
were unconscious from
blows dealt by the murderer. Hattie,
with the blood streaming from wounds
in her head, managed to reach neigh
boris house. The crime was mystery.
AT Benton, Ark, q recent fire de-
stroyed dozen residences and nearly
all the business part Of town. Loss,
$4,000.
The failures for the week ended
March 81 (Dun's reporD were $50 in the
United States, against 234 last year,
and 80 in Canada, against 4o last year.
AN explosion OF chemicals in the
four-story building at 1913 to S44 Wa
bash avenue, Chicago, completely de-
stroyed the building together with its
contents Loss, sees, 600
The gold reserve, as officially re.
ported on the 30th, was SEES, 7il,0 56, tho
highest point reached during the pres
cnt administration.