Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-06-20

time tho entire city was threatened
with destruction.
RoBERr THOMAS, ten years old, an'
son Of ex.Sheriff Thomas, was drownet
In Flint lake, few miles north o
Valparaiso, Ind, while bathing will
n party OF older boys He got bcyon'
his depth, was takcn with cramps an'
sank to the bottom.
THE Baroness do Valley was foun'
strangled ut Paris She had beer
gagged and robbery was tho motive
The baroness was SO years old and sale
to be q miser
The Dixon Flaherty fight mt Bostoi
on tho 10th for the feathcrweigh
championship OF the world was do
clared q draw after 20 rounds Boil
men put up scientific fght and neither
received n scratch.
MORE than O hundred delegates Mt
tended the opening Of the cath stated
meeting of the supreme lodge A. o. U
w. on the 10th ut Buffalo, N. Y. Su'
prone Master Workman Joseph E
Riggs, of Lawrence, Kan, occupied
the chair.
RUFUS hartley, . saddlcr o
Weightsburg, KY, severed the mail
artery Of his arm while In bed and blee
to death. Disappointment In love wa
tho cause.
THE reported bursting Of the banks
OF Congress lake, near Canton, O., and
the destruction Of two villages, recent
ly telegraphcd over the country, wal
without foundation.
SHERMAN WESTON, while stealing {
ride from Staunton to Edwardsville
Ill, on freight train, jumped oil ant
was horribly mangled.
A LITTLE daughter Of Mrs A. Hat
field, of Roodhouse, Ill, was burned Il
death through playing with matches.
Mrs MoLLrE GAINES went to the
house OF Mrs. Robert Gresham, 4
widow, ut Clermont, Fla, and found
her husband there. Tho wife Their
sprang Mt the womau's throat with q
razor and, after desperate conflict
the widow had her jugular vein severed
and the wife was rendered unconscious
BY having her skull fractured.
THE steamer Bertha was sunk of
Southwold, Eng, by colliding with
the steamer Clavelcr and six OF hei
crew were drowned, the remainder be
ing rescued.
UNKNOWN persons poisoned the WE'LL
on the places Of Henry Weaver and hi!
son ut Wcaverstown, Pa, and one
child has died and another was very
sick through drinking the water.
The Taylorville, Ill, coal mining
works were destroyed by fire on the
morning OF tho 1oth and IS men were
cntom bed. After hours OF suffocation
nll but three were rescued alive. The
fire, which was caused by an explosion
Of gasoline. spread rapidly through the
mine, cutting off the men Mt work In
the lower levels. Twenty mules also
persisted. The loss by FIRE will be s75,'
600, fully insured.
CHARLES HILDEBRASDT, the we'll
known sport of johannesburg, South
Africa, has arrived ut New York to try
and make n match between Corbett
and Fitzsimmona He Is ready to put
up 5000 Should he fail to mako q
match between the above mentioned
pugilists he will try and get up a
fight between Corbett and Denver Ed
Smith.
THE railway brotherhood OF engi
neers, frcmen, trainmen and tele'
graph operators, which recently moved
their headquarters TO Peoria, ILL.,,
asked the republican committee on
resolutions Mt St. Louis for IN nrbitra'
ton plank in the platform.
THOMAS WHITE. after brief quarrel
Mt Chillicothe, O., with Miss Edith Nc
Kelvey, his sweetheart, shot her fatally
and then killed himself.
TIE failures for the week ended
June IL (Dun's reporD were 2l6 In the
United States, against PAL last year,
and 81 In Canada, against "a last year
1T was reported on the lsth that the
Turks had pillagcd and burned &c
hamlets in the interior OF the island
of Crete.
ABARREI. of oil In the basement oi
Garische's bakery ut Allegheny, Pa,
exploded carly on the morning Of the
10th and envcloped the structure In
flames. Mrs Garische, aged "a, jumped
out OF n window and was instantly
killed. The firemen found q child
dead In his crib and q 12.ycar-old girl
was SO badly burned that she will die