Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-06-26
MisCELLASEOrs.

Two dead bodies have been taken
nut of the ruins of the Mulhol-
land building Mt Watertown, S. D.,
which collapsed the other night, and
four other persons were rescued, one
Of whom will die from his injuries.
FUNERAL services were being held
over the body of Miss Clarisse Purk-
ing, near Denbigh, Va, the sermon
having been preached the prayer said
and the last hymn was being sung,
when one of the female singers gave n
Shrek and fell to the floor in faint.
II was then noticed that the supposed
corpse was alive.
A NOR of 800 Infatuated peasants
seized and lynched one Dudnik. charged
with 10 murders. who was being con-
Keyed by the police from Kovibourg to
Khcrson in Russia. The police have
arrested So of the mob leaders.
SECRETARY LONG is planning to man
the United States navy with native
born Americans, as many of the sea.
men now enlisted on American battle
ships are of foreign birth.
IN n head-end collision on the Inter
national & Great Northern railway
near Conroe, Tex, three white and
three negro men, tramps, were killed.
Several other persons were more or less
injured. The engine, mail car and six
freight cars were demolished.
ONE man was killed and three others
were fatally injured by an express
train near Mansfield, o. They were
waiting for freight and laid down to
sleep and then rolled on to the track.
SECRETARY WILSON, of the agricul-
tural department, has issued to the
railroads and transportation COM
panies, stockmcn and others, circular
notifying them that the disease known
as scab exists among sheep in the
United States, and that IL Is viola
ton of the law to transport any stock
affected with disease from one state or
territory to another.
A TORNADO swept over the country
near Paris on the 18th. Twenty per-
sons were said to be killed and 90 in
jurcd. Property was also damaged to
an immense amount.
THE recent experiment made by the
agricultural department in shipping
butter TO England was not entirely sat
isfactory. The report said 1t was evil
dent that, unless the retailers could be
reached without much extra expense
in transportation, so that better rela-
tive prices could be realized, eastern
creameries could not afford TO consider
the question of exporting their prod
ucts.
STEVE 0'DoNNELL, the Australian
heavyweight, knocked out Alex Greg
gains, Of San Francisco, In the eight
round ut San Francisco on the 18th.
DISPATCHES from the west to Winni-
peg, Man., on the 18th reported serious
floods and cloudburst west Of Calgary
In the Rocky mountains, many families
being made homeless.
THERE were 2a6 business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 18th, according to Bradstreets re-
port, against 965 for the corresponding
week last year.
MICHAEL DoNSELLoS, IS yearsof age,
q flagman for the Terminal Railroad
association at st. Louis, was struck.by
an engine, receiving injuries which re-
suited in his death q few hours later.
JACOB GRINER. Of Ayresville, o., was
killed by lightning while in his barn
and Peter Tabler was killed by the
same means while In his house, which
was consumed by fire.
DURING an electrical storm lightning
struck and set FIRE 70 the natural his
tory building ON the ground Of the
University Of Illinois 1t Champaign.
Ill, end before the flames were got
under control damage estimated -
90. 900 70 SO, 600 resulted.