Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-06-13

| The Newport ia spoke and handle
works were destroyed by an incendiary
fire on the 9th.
The steamboat City Of Portsmouth
collided with q lighter near Norfolk
Va, cutting the latter In two It wa,
not known how many men were or
board the lighter. One man wal
known to have been drowned. The
City OF Portsmouth had number oil
passengers on board and q panic was
narrowly sverted.
RALPH MATHEWS, aged II, was
drowned near Orient, To-, while bath.
ing. He was seized with cramps
Bill GAY was hanged Mt Helena,
Mont, on the sth for murder. lie was
SO weak that hypodermic injections
had to be administered 10 enable him
to walk to the scaffold.
HENRY ALLsBURa was run down by
an engine and killed at Ashland, KY,
recently while walking along the rail-
road track. Another man with him
was also seriously hurt
ALL Of the bicycle factories OF Toledo,
O., have shut down, throwing O, 900 per-
sons out of work.
FIFTEEN masked men recently took
Sins Rouse out OF his house near
Slaughterville, KY, and administered
4 severe castigation. They then gave
him q coat Of tar and feathers and
warned him to leave the neighbor-
hood. Rouse was accused of cruelty
TO his family.
A LETTER received at Key West, Fla,
said that In the recent attack made by
the insurgents on the trocha four COM
panies Of women took part and they
fought like furles, hacking the Span
iards with machetea Gen. Maceo tried
to stop the slaughter, but the women
were aroused and would not obey his
command. Nearly every one OF them
had suffered grievous wrongs from the
Spanish troops and they took the OPP
portunity for revenge.
ABLAsr exploded prematurely at the
Horton cement works at Denniwater.
N. Y, and three men were killed and
another one badly wounded.
MRs. HANNAH KocK walked into Mud
lake, Chicago, on the sth, leading her
two children by the hands She and
her two.ycar.old girl were drowned, but
the nine.ycar-old hoy managed to save
himself The woman was supposed to
be insane.
IIowARp & McDERMorT's leather
factory ut New York was burned re-
Gently. Loss, s15o,O00.
SIR WALTER won the Brooklyn
handicap on the 4th, 10000 people
witnessing the race. Clifford was only
q nose behind.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND sent n mes.
sage to the house on the 9th vetoing
the general deficiency bill, his principal
objection being to the French spolia-
ton claims and to the item appropriat.
ing si74,44a75 extra to Charles p.
Chouteau for constructing the iron.
clad steam battery Elijah.
THE president has signed the filed
cheese bill, the fertilization bill and
the bill granting right OF way through
The Grand canyon forest reservation.
THE Worcester, Mass, police located
, counterfeiting den on u farm near
there and arrested two Syrisns The
house ontained an elaborate outfit for
making counterfeit dimes, quarters
and half dollars.
The drought around Georgetown,
Tex, was reported rs becoming scri-
Gus on the 9th. Growing corn was in
ieplorable condition, grass was burn
ing up and live stock was suffering.
THE Boylston brewery, one Of the
largest In Boston, was destroyed by
Ore on the 5th In IS minutes. The loss
was fully 100000
THE farmers around Chillicothc, O.,
we're said to be panic stricken from n
plague OF grasshoppers Fruit, crops
md leaves on the trees have disap-
peared before the pests.
j. II. HILDEBRANT, Of johannesburg,
South Africa, on the 5th offered to
match Peter jackson against Corbett
Tor 10000, the loser to receive 1000,
The Fight 10 take place In London,
America or South Africa. Billy Brady |
the offer on Corbett's behalf,
but jackson refused, giving no reason
Tor so doing. Hildebrant then offered |
10 match Denver Ed Smith against |
Jackson for $1,000 This jackson also
refused.
In the country parishes Of Louisiana
not q sound money delegate to the
,tate democratic convention was elect
ID. A preference was expressed for
Doies for president