Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-03-21

a BUILDING NJ CnicoRO OcCupieu ny
the Electric Light Pictorial Enlarging
Co. and Marshall Fields shirt factory
was destroyed recently BY Gre. Loss,
e75. 900
FIRE destroyed the post Office and
about dozen stores at Clinton, Wis,
the other night Loss, 100000. The
we'll Of the water works was being re-
paired, SO no water could be secured
and the FIRE was only checked when It
came to stone wall.
IN the MEMO hotel Mt New York
Robert Herman, q bartender, and
Lizzie Crater, q domestic, were found
dead. It was believed the man shot
the woman and then himself.
CRAWFORD GoDDsBY, alias "Chcrokce
Bill" was hanged ut Fort Smith, Ark,
on the 18th. He was only 20 years old,
but he was charged with ut least eight
murders and many daring robberies.
DURING recent snowstorm In the
Russian province OF Orel 1870 persons
were frozen to death In one night.
RECENTLY Cuban rebels attacked a
plantation west OF the city of Havana
and burned it. Spanish troops rushed
to the place md threw up entrench-
ments, expecting an attack from the
rebels A second lot Of Spanish troops
arrived on the scene and on being
challenged by the first Spaniards on
the scene answered, "Sau Quentin bat
TALON" which was mistaken for Quin.
tin Bandera, Cuban commander, and
the two bodies OF Spanish troops
opened fire on each other and a were
killed before the mistake was dis
covered.
THE joint resolution authorizing the
secretary OF agriculture to distribute
seeds, bulbs, ETC., has become a law
without President Cleveland's sigma.
ture.
DARLINGTON B0oTH ut New York fur.
nished description OF the standard OF
his new movement. 1t will consist OF
q white flag; in the center will be
large blue star; in the middle Of this
star white cross; in the corner Of the
flag, nearest the top of the staff, 4:
white stars in u field of blue, repre-.
senting the states OF the union, and
over the central large blue star will
read the motto: "The Lord My Ban.
ner" He has named his new organi.
zation Gods American Volunteers"
A MAD dog ran amuck ut Newkirk,
Ok, IS days ngo, and six horses belong.
ing 10 John Vance, which were bitten
by the animal, have since been seized
with hydrophobia A little son oil
Wanco's was also bitten. A mad stone
was applied and II adhered. Great ex.
element prevailed in the vicinity.
ALEXANDER NEMETTLy. butcher, oil
Yonkers, n. Y, murdered his step.
daughter, Mary Wittlows!sy, and then
killed himself. He tired OF his wife
and sought to win her daughter, who
was only 10 years old. The girl re-
pulsed his advances and this angered
him.
ABOUT 10 boys burned Spanish flag
at Smyrna. Del, on the 18th. A large
crowd Of citizens watched the crcma-
ton, but there was no attempt made
to stop 1t. The boys had previously
paraded the town with the foreign EN-.
blem, accompanied by two American
flags
AT the Central coal works, on the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, near
Charleston, W. Va, 10 miners boarded
a car at the pit mouth to ride down the
incline to their tipple. The rope broke
and the car rushed down to wreck at
the bottom. Seven men were killed,
three fatally and three badly hurt.
A DISPATCH from Greenville, Tex,
said that the northbound Katy was
boarded by q masked and armed man
who entered the sleeper and went
through the passengers. The amount
secured was small. As the train neared
the city he jumped of lie had con.
federntc.
GEORGE TopD, wife and family, in
Logan county, O., awoke and found
the house on FIRE. One child was
burned to death, girl will die and the
father and others were badly burned.
THIRTEEN thousand Chicago tailors
went on strike on the 14th, compris.
ing approximately the total strength
of the union organizations
DILL TAYLOR Robert Taylor and
wife, and another son and daughter OF
Dill Taylor living near Craig, ILL.,, were
poisoned from drinking coffee. Dill
Taylor died and the others were ex.
pected to die ut any time. The coffee
grounds were thrown into the slop and
seven hogs died from eating it.