Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-10-17

The Chickasaw and Choctaw legis-
latures have enacted q law that no
person shall 90 to the nation and kill
game and carry It out OF the bound
nries. The law poes into effect ut once.
Miss MABEL TAYLOR was driving
across the railroad track near Jackson
vile, ILL.,, In q buggy when she was
run down by train and killed.
Mrs. MARTHA WoMAcu. an old set
tier OF Marshall, Tex, stepped on
parlor match and was burned so badly
that she died soon after.
The two-year-old son OF Dan o Brien.
OF brazil, Ind, was fatally burned
by the explosion OF coal oil lamp
with which he was playing.
SEVERAL persons were more or less
injured by street car ut Burlington,
H.. getting beyond the control OF the
motorman on u steep grade
The last day of the Christian ALI.
ance convention Mt New York developed
into n Thanksgiving meeting for the
generous response 10 the appeal for
missionary funds, the sum OF sl35,0OO
being collected.
FIRE ut Great harrington, Mass,
burned the Kennedy hotel and did
damage TO the amount OF 100000.
SOME one recently poisoned 40 jack
rabbits ut the state fair grounds ut
Dallas, Tex. They were located there
to run races rs n fair attraction.
AGENT WISDOM. OF the five civilized
tribes in the Indian territory, began
the payment to the Shawnees and Del
awares on the 18th of the Cherokee strip
money. each member Of the tribe re-
ceiving S265.
A CALL has been issued for meeting
of the National Educational associa.
ton to be held ut Milwaukee during
the first week In July, 1897
BuFoRD OvERroN was hanged ut Har'
Ian, Ky, on the l2th for the murder
on June 81, 1895, OF Gustave and Julia
Loeb, Jewish peddlers. A great crowd
from all the surrounding country gath
cred TO see the hanging.
A HURRICANE swept along the At
lantic coast on the 1ath ami did much
damage. At Coney Island, N. Y, the
beach was swept clean and bathing
houses and board walks were carried
out to sea.
ALBERT BRAY, aged 80, q prosperous
farmer and very religious man, living
near Noblesville, Ind, cut the throats
of his wife, his nine-year-old son Carl,
his two.year-old daughter Edna and
himself Bray, owing to sickness in
his family and some financial embar'
rassment, had lost his reason.
JOE WALcoTT, OF Boston, whipped
"Scaldy" Bill Quinn, of Pennsylvania,
knocking him out in the 18th round at
Maspeth, L. l., on the l2th.
"PHpLAR" PALMER, of England, the
champion bantam.weight pugilist OF
tho world, defeated Johnny Murphy,
Of Boston, in o0-round 20 at London.
The affair was voted very tame.
AT the final day of the Christian Al
lance convention In Carnegie hall,
New York on the 18th the subscrip
tions secured for missionary work
amounted to $4,000
A DOUBLE execution took place on
the 18th at Wewoka, capital Of the
Seminole nation, Charles Hadworth
and Henry Welsh. half.breed Indians
being shot to death by four Indian po'
lice, standing 20 feet distant. Both
murderers fell back into their collins
dead. Two days before a full-blood
Indian was legally shot for murde,
committed six months ago.
]. d. SAII, one Of the men who
robbed the bank OF Shcrburne, Mimi.
and shot the cashier and O bystander
was surrounded in farmhouse by Q
posse, when he jumped through q win
dow and fatally shot Marshal Gallon
and got into cornfeld. Then seeing
that there was no chance OF escape the
rob er shot his own brains out Al
most the entire amount Of money
stolen was found on the dead man.
THE Jasper county jail burned at
Paulding, Miss, during the night o.
the 9th, and two prisoners, Z. A
Strickland, charged with forgery, anc
Mollie Daniels, a crazy negress. wers
cremated. Strickland had stated that
unless opium was brought to him hi
would burn the Jail.
REPORTS stated that 100 women arr
engaged in selling whisky to the Usage
Otoe, Ponca aud Creek Indians on the
border of Oklahoma and that 1t wal
dangerous for deputy marshal TO ap
pear in that country alone. A party
of deputies brought to Guthrie, ok.
on the 10th dozen whisky sellers
mostly Indians