Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-08-08
ArAsr freight train on the Philadel.

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AFAsr freight train on the Philadel'
phia & Reading railroad, seven miles
from Shamokin, Pa, struck door
that had been dropped from chr and
lodged across the track. The locomo'
tive was derailed and dozen cars
piled in heap, and one car, loaded
with explosives, set fire to the train
and oil the cars were destroyed. The
engineer and conductor were killed
and the fireman seriously scalded.
The secretary Of the interior has
/ approved the swamp land list No. "a,
consisting Of 40 acres In the Spring
field (Mo.) district.
The main building OF the phosphate
and fertilizer works OF Baugh & Sons
at Phila iclphia was destroyed by fire
on the 4th. Loss, 100000; partly in
surcd. A huge vat of grease boiling
over into fire started the flames.
by mn explosion Of fircdamp on the
18th in the Bryancoach collicry mt
Meath, Wales, 40 miners were impris.
onei. It was uncertain whether they
were alive or dead.
The extra session OF the Cherokee
council began Mt Tahlequah. ]. T., on
the 81. It, action will set tie the claims
of hundreds to citizenship in that M
tion. The number OF claimants for
citizenship before the Dawes commits
sion will run up in tho thousands, and
II all the names fled by the attorneys
are allowed, there will not be five
acres for each.
THREE ears were dcrailed by a
burned tree which had fallen across
the track near Rockland, Tex, and q
man was instantly killed.
ALBERT MINER. ut one time an inmate
OF the soldiers home ut Lcavenworth.
Kan, was run over by u street car and
killed ut Marion, Ind.
TIE new government lock Mt sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, was informally
opened on the Sd when the government
boats Hancock and Andy johnson.
which were crowded with invited
que It's, entered the channel.
JOSIAH GARDINER, tramp, was
caught between q box car and n fiat
car loaded with lumber Mt Lennox,
Mich, OH the ID and badly crushed
about the chest. lie will probably die
from his injuries
THREE men were killed and another
man was fatally injured by the pre-
mature discharge Of dynamite near
Whitney, Ont. on the Ord. They
were employed on the Ottawa & Parry
Sound railway.
A FREIGHT train on the Oxford Il
GAINESVILLE railroad went through q
bridge near Durham, n. c., and then
took fire. The engineer and fireman
were fatally injured.
EMIL GRUBER shot his wife and then
committed suicide ut Galveston. Tex.
THE speculative deal in Diamond
Match and Now York Biscuit stock has
come to an end ut Chicago by the fail
ure OF the Moore brothers. The Chi
cago stock exchange decided 10 ad-
journ for an indefinite period so as to
prevent panic, IL possible.
THERE were four suicides in Chicago
on the 3lst.
ARDMorE, Ok, received its FIRST bale
of cotton on the SOth and II sold for
seven cents A premium OF $50 was
paid the owner for his enterprise.
OS rinch near Canyon City. Ore,
sheepmcn and cattlcmcn engaged in a
bloody fight, resulting in the death OF
five men.
Two passenger trains collided on the
Illinois Central road Mt Birkbeck. near
Clinton, H.. on the LIST and two per-
sons were killed and ten injured.
PLANS have been perfected for an Ice
trust in Chicago. II will ultimately
take in the dealers OF all the large
cities of the country.
ii. j. WHIGuAM, OF Chicago. won the
amateur golf championship OF America
at Southampton. L. l., defeating Cham
pion Mcdonald, of Chicago.
THE Columbus Buggy Co., Of Column
bus, O., made an assignment on the
LIST. The firm had branch houses in n
dozen leading cities OF the country.
The cause of the failure was said to be
the general business depression.
A WRECK occurred on the Big Four
road Mt indianapolis, Ind, on the Sd
and number OF race horses belonging
to ]. L. lush. Of Louisville, KY, were
so much injured that it was thought
none would ever race again.
Two Choctaw Indians became in
volved in a quarrel Mt Krebs, !. T., and
they stabbed each other to death, lit
orally cutting each other TO shreds.
The killing occurred in beer joint