Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-25

An explosion Of natural gas at Rel
Key, Ind, on the slst killed ono mar
and injured four others fatally.
THE Venezuelan boundary commits
sion has got down to business and ha,
selected s. Malet Provost, a New Y0rl
lawyer, rs Its secretary. Tho commits
sion has invited both England ant
Venezuela to submit their evidence IL
the boundary dispute SO rs to saw,
time.
DANIEL SHEETS, q farmer living near
Grecnsburg, Pa, was instantly killed.
his two little children aged Eve and
seven years, with Harry Baker, q
neighbor, were fatally hurt; John
Rhodes seriously injured, and Mrs
Sheets badly bruised by large tree
falling across the sled in which they
were out riding.
JOE CHoYNsKI, Of California, knocked
out Jim Hall, Of Australia, in the 18th
round ut Maspeth, L. l., on the Goth.
II was smuggling match up to the 18th
round and Hall seemed to have the
best Of 1t, when Choynski seemed 70
improve wonderfully.
ALMOST the entire population OF
Cuba, village In tho western part OF
Putnam county, O., was engaged on
the Goth dragging blanchard river for
the bodies of FIVE children, q girl and
four boys, drowned the previous after
noon. They were playing on the ice,
when it broke and they disappeared.
MGR CRosELII has been selected to
succeed Mgr. Satolli as the pope's rep
resentative in America. Satolli has
not yet decided when no will go to
Rome.
SECRETARY SMITH has sent to the
house committee on public lands n
strong adverse report against the free
homestead bill, absolving all persons
completing five years residence on the
lands taken and occupied under the
homestead laws from making further
payment to secure their title other
than the fees incident to fling and OBJ
tanning proof. Land officials estimate
that It's passage would cost the govern
ment $4,000, OO0-sls, 900, 900 in Okla.
homa alone.
CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw made an address
before the New York bar association
at Albany on the elst His speech was
devoted to the Monroe doctrine and he
strongly favored an international court
of arbitration and hoped one would re.
suit from the present differences be.
tween the United States and Great
Britain.
The subcommittee to secure options
for national park on the 1000 acres
Of land surrounding vicksburg, occu-
cupied by Gen. Grant and Gen. Penn.
berton during the siege, have complet-
ed their work and returned to Wash.
ington. They will recommend the
purchase of the 1000 acres Mt $4,000
Gov RENFRow, OF Oklahoma, has Of
fered n reward Of 5000 for the arrest OF
the assassin who shot down William
Wyancke in his own yard at Guthrie.
SHARON FULLER and George Holt,
colored, were fatally shot, and Frank
Stewart, white, dangerously injured in
quarrel over cards ut Dingess, w.
Va.
A SPECIAL from Philadelphia on the
Goth said that James ]. Corbett had
stated his willingness to sign articles
Of agreement to fight Fitzsimmous IS
rounds provided he put up 100000 to
guarantee that he would appear in the
ring Mt the time fixed upon.
THREE men were killed and four
seriously injured on the 2ist by the ex-
plosion Of acetylene gas in building
Mt New Haven, Conn, occupied by Eng.
gsh & Mersick and +. Pfeglar & Co.,
hardware manufacturers. The explo-
sion set tho building on fire. and 1t was
destroyed, with its contents, the loss
to 100000 There were 40
people In the building at the time OF
the accident, and for time the report
was current that fully half Of these
had persisted.
by the explosion Of gasoline tank
1t Cincinnati on the Goth, Jacob Bruhl,
q barber, his wife Rosa, and 12-year-
old SON were probably fatally burned.
The house in which they lived was en-
tirely consumed, entailing loss Of
BIO, 600.
THE Lehigh Valley passenger train
from Wilkesbarre, was precipitated
into the depths Of coal mine near
Pa, on the Goth. The en-
yinecr was wedged In between the
baggage car and the ground and was
crushed to death. The fireman es-
capped with n lacerated scalp. but will
probably die. Several passengers were
also more or less injured.