Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-04-11

In powder explosion In the Pawnee
coal mines at Danville, ILL.,, Allen Jor-
den was instantly killed and two or
three other miners were slightly In
jured.
AN explosion occurred In the engine
room OF tho Murphy varnish works at
Chicago and several men were seriously
hurt, two Of whom will die.
THK preliminary programme OF the
18th international Christian Endeavor
convention at Washington In July has
been given out
A FINE occurred ut Yonkers, N. Y,
ON tho 9th which did damage to the
amount OF sl0o, 1000 An explosion
caused o wall to fall on which five
firemen were standing, but they
escaped without serious injury.
A. j. HARDWOOD, an elderly farmer OF
Tower Hill township, ILL.,, In attempt
ing to lead COW from burning barn
was overcome by the heat and before
no could be rescued was fatally burned.
JACOB BoLLIo, aged o3, has died
through hav wing both feet cut of by an
engine near Creston, In. He was born
In Germany and was tho Oldest resi-
dent In the county.
THE Big Four Michigan division
roundhouse in Anderson, lnd., was
burned recently and Eve engines were
damaged.
REGULATORS Mt Stockholm, KY, 70.
Gently administered 4 terrible whipping
to Mrs. Blair and her daughter, Mrs.
Dugger, for causing q married man to
neglect his family for their society.
THE boiler In Watson Bros hoop
and stave mills at Ridgetown, Ont, ex-
plodcd on the 9th, wrecking the build
ing and causing the death Of two mon
at least and the injury Of several others
THE New York World said on the 9th
that q cash offer OF $4,000 had been
made by banking house representing
foreign syndicate for the privilege OF
running boats on the Erie canal by
electric traction, and that the deal was
potent for good or evil to the freight
shippers OF both east and west
THREE Italian guests ut q hotel at
Pittsburgh, Pa, were found dead In
their room shortly after noon on the
9th. They had been suffocated by gas.
GROVER E STATES, three-year-old
boy, was kicked by horse on the head
and killed at Marshall, Ok.
SISTER PATRICIA, Of the St. Francis
academy. ut Council Bluffs, Ia, was
fatally burned by the explosion OF
some turpentine and sweet oil. She
was oiling the floor. and the mixture
becoming hardened she placed the YES
sci containing the fluid on a range
when IL exploded and the flames en-
veloped her.
IT was charged that nearly every
resident OF the town OF Lucas, Ia, was
guilty Of Bookkeeping whisky.
NEAR McLeansboro. ILL.,, Ben Boeh-
mer, q we'll to do farmer, cut his wife's
throat and hanged his six year-old son
to q rafter In his stable. He after
wards covered the bodies with fodder
to hide his crime. and made his escape
to the woods Boehmer and his wife
had been having trouble over religious
differences, he being non-believer In
Catholicism, while she was a firm
Catholic. The murderer was after
wards captured near Carmi, III. A
good deal Of excitement existed in the
neirhborhood and lynching was freely
talked of.
A TERRIFIC explosion OF gas took
place In the No. Q shaft OF the Lehigh
& willsesbarre Co., at Sugar Notch,
Pa, killing one person, fatally injur-
ing another, and wounding five more.
II. H. HOLMES the convicted muir
derer OF Philadelphia, has made con-
fession In which he tells how and why
he put to death no less than 20 men,
women and children. Iic writes as
calmly and remorsclessly as he muir
dered, neglecting no detail. 1t was
we'll knowa that Holmes put II per-
sons out of the world.
AT Clinton, ILL.,, on the ID Ed Pollen,
formerly employed at the Illinois Cen.
trail railroad, murdered his wife and
mother-in-law and then attempted sui
eide by throwing himself in front OF an
eastbound freight train. Jealousy was
given as his reason for committing the
horrible deed. At night q great crowd
OF excited citizens assembled in front
Of the Jail, but Mayor McGill addressed
them and said Pollen would die OF his
injuries and the crowd finally dis
pcrsed.
A TERRIBLE fire has occurred at
Manila, the capital OF the Philippine
islands, by which 1000 houses wcre de-
troyed and $4,000 people left homeless
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