Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-02-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

from the platform.
MISCELLANEOUS.
JOE LEWIS, q negro, attempted to MS
sault Mrs. Prence, q farmers wife, neai
Pell City, Ala, but she managed Il
beat him off. Friends Of Mrs. Prenc,
started after the negro and caugh
lin. The culprit was given o fail
trial, in which ne owned up to wha'
he had done. The constable ther
started to Asheville with the prisoner
hut was soon overtaken by crowd Of
masked men who lynched the culprit
FRANK TIMMs. a farmer Of Dunkirk
n. Y, was gored to death and his sor
had his leg broken by IN enraged bull
The hired man then put an end to the
animals life by hitting him on the head
with IN TX.
A DISPATCH from New York on the
10th stated that bishops Of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church in this country
have sent petitions to the archbishop
OF Canterbury and through the various
ministers Of foreign affairs to the car,
the president of France and the EN-.
pcrors of Germany and Austria declar-
ing that crusade, supported by Chris
tians the world over, would be war
ranted against the Turks, and pleading
that the great Church Of England,
through its episcopate, take decisive
action to stop the Armenian massacres.
THE schooner John W. Foster, with
q cargo of ium Der, was burned 100 miles
west Of Cedar Keys, Fla. The captain
and crew of seven men left the vessel
in IN open yawl and were afterwards
capsized. They managed to get on the
bottom of the boat, where they re-
manned for So hours before being
picked up.
The agricultural department returns
for January, 1906, show the total num-
Der of horses In the United States to be
Is, l24, O57; mules, 2,27s, 946; mich cows,
10, 137, $50; oxen and other cattle, 3s,-
0s5, 400; sheep, 3s, 29s, 7s3; swine, 42,s4e,-
759 The grand total OF all live stock
has fallen off 0l,52O, 900, or 8 per cent
from January, 1885.
TmRoUau the explosion Of n lamp at
Nashville, ILL.,, $4,000 worth Of bust
ness property was destroyed.
DPnTnERIA is reaping many victims
In tho Baltic provinces Of Russia. The
epidemic Is OF such virulent charac-
ter that Mt least 80 per cent of the
afflicted die.
GRANT ATrEnDURY was lynched by
q mob ut Sullivan, ILL.,, at middight on
the 18th, for assaulting woman.
BAT SHEA, the murderer Of Robert
Ross during an election riot in Troy,
n. Y, in March, 1894, was electricized
1t Dannemora prison on the 18th.
The queens speech was read ut the
opening Of parliament on the 18th. 1t
noticed that the United States had ex-
pressed wish to cooperate in termi-
mating the difficulty with Venezuela
and hoped that the trouble would be
settled. II also deplored the troubles
In Armenia and said the reforms sane.
toned by the Turkish sultan would be
pressed. Measures were to be laid be-
fore parliament dealing with the agri.
cultural depression and the regulation
Of alien pauper immigration. An Irish
land bill was also to be considered.
BURGLARS effected an entrance into
the Leesburg, O., bank on the night Of
the 18th by the use Of explosives The
vault door was first blown open and
then the burglar proof safe was liter
ally blown to pieces All the money,
amounting to about $4,000 was taken,
besides valuable notes
THE steam lighter Lester, during a
fierce storm on the 18th, sank of Rock.
away IN. W inlet A tug went to the
rescue OF her crew of nine. The life
savers at Coney Island said they saw
two men hanging to n yawl. Before
help could be given they sank. The
wind was blowing IS miles an hour.
A WATER main burst on Franklin
avenue hill at Cleveland, O., on the
18th and many small houses were
washed into the Cuyahoga river. Mrs
Ravey, who lived in one, was drowned.
The force of the water also carried sew
eral cars Of freight train, which was
passing at the time, into the river and
one train hand was badly injured.
Much damage was done and many mar
row escapes from death were made.
Ar the l. A. w, convention at Balti-
more, Nd, on the 10th, the good roads
meeting was addressed by Consul Isaac
Potter, Of New York, who illustrated
his remarks with the aid Of stereopti-
con views.
BENJAMIN RArcLIFF, the slayer of
the entire school board OF jefferson
district, Park county, Col, was hanged
at the penitentiary ut Canon City on
the night OF the 9Th.
JANIS HENDBY, II years old, stabbed
and killed his oldest sister, Sallie, at
Greenville, Tenn, on the 9th. The boy
became angry because she would not
prepare his supper quick enough and
plunged knife into her abdomen.
The clearing house returns for the
week ended February for the follow
ing cities were: New York, $500, So, 2os;
Chicago, ss4, Sc, l5l; St Louis, SEA, sos,-
zoe; Kansas City, 90, COATES; St joseph,
9, 262. COO; Topeka, s452,4 AS; Wichita,
s3se. 67o; Omaha, s4.417,4gA
An unknown man was decapitated by
the wheels Of Hannibal a St Joseph
train on the river bridge at Quincy,
Ill, on the 7th. So far Identification
has bean impossible on account Of the
fact that the head fell into the Mis-
sissippL
THI West Virginia state normal
building At West Liberty has been de-