Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-11-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

In the face OF high wind at Denver
Coll, ON the 23d Swanbrough rode fvt
miles, flying start, unpnced, on tan
dem, lowering the professional record
16 seconds to i0:37.
THE Dakota national bank at Sioux
Falls, S. D., failed to open It's doors on
the esd, owing to heavy withdrawal Of
deposits on the 2ist.
REPRESENTATIVE TIMBERLAKE has In
PRODUCED a bill into the Alabama gen
eral assembly TO make 1t unlawful for
any woman to wear any article OF mons
clothing or boomers, tights, divided
skirts and shirt waists.
THE extensive plant of the Chesa'
peale Guano Co. ut Baltimore, Nd,
was burned on the 9lst. 1t covered ~
acres.
The steamer City OF 0sceola struck
an obstruction and sank 60 miles above
Memphis, Tenn, on the night Of the
22d. All on board were saved.
Mrs. ELIZABETH JOINS, OF Waukesha,
Wis, committed suicide by taking car
bolic acid, after having unsucccssfully
tried to kill her two small children by
the same means She had recently
been arrested for shoplifting and II
was supposed that the disgrace caused
her to commit the crime.
RECENT floods have completely de-
vastated the town Of Hamilton, Wash.
No lives were lost
DURING q football game Mt Chicago
on the 2ist David NJ. Wright was
thrown TO the ground and received
fatal injuries. The ligaments Of his
neck were snapped and he received q
conclusion OF the brain.
Az attempt was made to burn the
Travellers home, q hotel Mt Cripple
Creek, Col, but the FIRE was soon dis
covered. There were between Is and
90 people asleep in the hotel at the
time.
BANKER JOHN L. FARwEIL has
wrecked the Sullivan County IN. H.
Institution for Savings by bad finan'
ciering, and the poor people OF the
place have lost nearly 100000 oil
their deposits
NEAR McLoud, Ok, James Turner, q
farmer, was shot and killed In his
door yard by Chauncey Huskey, the IS
year-old son OF the postmaster OF
Sweeneyville. Huskey was arrested,
aud narrowly escaped lynching at the
hands Of the neighbors.
COMMANDER MELVILLE, chief engineer
Of the navy, has made report as &c
the condition of all warships Of the
United States so far rs their machinery
and mechanical apparatus are con
cerncd. He urgently recommends m
increase In the number Of naval On
gineerS
THREE men entered q saloon at Har
rison street and Fifth avenue, Chicago
ut 6:30a. m. on the Goth and held uI
the bartender. The saloon Is only q
block from o police station.
The steamer Olympia brought thu
news that the plague was spreading
In Bombay, India, and that over o,oo'
people had fed from the city since the
outbreak.
INDIAN AGENT DoANE, OF the ouapav
agency, !. T., has notified the whit
renters In the Quapaw reserve TO leave
the reservation. There are about so
of these renters aud the order OF thu
agent will work great hardship
Nearly all Of them have large crops o.
corn un0nthered. besides hay aud othel
cropG The order is Imperative, and y
they obey they viii be obliged to ieav'
their crops behind =.
Arr DorY locked her six-year-old
daughter and little four-year-old com
panion in her room at Tampa Fla.
whlle she attended . minstrel sho "
The children cot the carpet on Ore ans
1nothercd 10 death,