Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-18

gave way beneath one. One Of the
others went 10 assist him and he, too,
fell In. They were both drowned.
Before they sank out Of sight they
asked their youngest brother to say
good-by to their father and mother for
them.
The committee on territories In
Washington on the 18th adopted q
schedule which operates unfavorably
TO Oklahoma. II fixed on Wednesdays
and Saturdays as It's days for meetings
and resolved to take up the statehood
bills In the order OF their Introduction,
thus: Arizona, New Mexico and Okla
homa. This puts Oklahoma at the foot
of the list.
The fishing schooner Fortuna, from
Boston for Georges Banks, was In col
lision with the British steamer Barn.
stable off Highland light The schooner
was cut almost In two and sank within
three minutes. Fourteen Of her crew
were saved by the steamer. but nine
men went down with the vessel. Those
drowned belonged to Gloucester, where
they leave families
THE steamer Royal was burned to
the waters edge ut Evansville, Ind.
She was valued at see, 900; partially in
sured.
THREE men were afioat on an Ice hoe
on Lake Erie, near Cleveland, o., on
tho 18th, and efforts to rescue them
failed, the life saving crew putting out
after them, but failing to find them.
THE mixing up Of hats caused Tom
Ross to shoot Frank Meade and John
Higgins in Carter county, KY, on the
I3th. Meade was killed aud Higgins
was fatally wounded.
NEAR Alachua, Fla, Harry Jordan,
q noted desperate, barricaded himself
in IN unoccupied house and vigorously
resisted arrest Finally the officers set
fire TO the building, hoping to drive
Jordan out, but he preferred death to
surrender and was incinerated.
TIE tug Tyce arrived ut Seattle,
WASH. recently, with IA members OF
the Inflated crew Of the English ship,
the Jeantee Cowan, which had been
wrecked on Vancouver island in the
Pacific ocean on December 81. The
captain and six Of the crew had died
from suffering and exposure and the
survivors were found In sad state by
the rescuing party.
A TERRIBLE fight between officers
and horse thieves occurred ut Inland,
40 miles west OF Perry, Ok, recently.
JEFF Coates, the leader, was shot dead
from his horse and three others OF the
band were so badly wounded that they
were captured. One man Of the sher-
IFS posse was seriously wounded. Six
of the horse thieves escaped.
PASSENGER train on the Louisville,
Evansville & St Louis railroad was de-
rallied at Goldthwaite. Ind, and the
fireman was fatally injured The in.
juries to others were slight
PATRICK NORRIS and his wife lived
in n flatboat near New Orleans On
account of their difference in color, rs
we'll as the charge that they kept dis
orderly place, there has been grow
ing sentiment against them. They
were sitting up in their boat, when n
body OF men came down aud set fire to
the hull. They sought refuge on shore,
and rs soon rs they made their APP
pearance they were riddlcd with bull
let's. The woman was killed outright,
but the man fell crippled, and the two
were burned to ashes with the boat.
POLICE OFFICER GIBBONS, OF Chicago,
received letter on the 18th from Peter
Houggard, of Englewood, informing
him that by the time It was received
the writer would he dead. An officer
was sent to Houggard's house, where
he found the dead bodies OF Houggard,
his wife and five children who had been
asphyxiated by gas No motive for the
crime was known.
THE police at Des Moincs, Ia, discov.
cred on the 10th In the medical depart
ment Of the Drake university the two
bodies of Mrs Rachel Townsend and
Alexander Bell. which had been buried
in the Saylorville cemetery within ten
days and taken from the graves by
ghouls.
FREEMAN COLLINS was hanged at
Tuskegee, Ala, on the 10th, for the
murder OF his wife last spring by cut
ting her throat rs she slept Jealousy
was the cause of the crime.
THE failures for the week ended
the 10th (Dun's report) were 49, in tho
United States, against 400 last year,
and 81 in Canada. against 81 last year.
TCHFQ.