Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-08-28
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boiler at the brick yard OF W. r. Holli.
day ut Cairo. H., on the Esd. All the
killed and injured were negroes, ex-
cept one.
JAMES r. QuIeLEY was kicked so
badly by John O'Donnell Mt ST. Louis
on the ED, in quarrel over n game OF
quoits, that he died soon after being
taken to the hospital.
THREE children OF William Psaast
were cremated at Anaconda, Mont, by
their house burning down during the
absence of their parents.
THE reports of the federal mine in
spectors for the Indian territory show
that the coal output was 1,302,37s tons
for the last fiscal year for that place.
The workers on fine coats, to the
number Of 1900, struck at New York
on the a2d for an increase In wages.
The strike closed 100 shops.
j. Il. Rich, shot and killed his wife
ut the home of her mother in Nash
Vile. Tenn, and then killed his broth
er-in.law. lie afterwards shot himself
twice, inhicting fatal wounds. Domes-
tic trouble was the cause.
ELcANY SULLIVAN, a negro convicted
of an assault on woman and sem
fenced to 20 years imprisonment at
Williamsburg, n.y., was taken from
Jail bya mob and hanged ut one o'clock
a. m. on the ed.
A TERRIBLE collision occurred Mt
Lima, O., on the Goth between a heav-
ily-loaded excursion train and n
freight. badly injuring large num-
Der OF passengers
MICHEL ANGIoLILI.0, the anarchist
who shot and killed Premier Canovas
del Castillo Mt the baths Of Santa Ague-
da, Spain, August s. was put to death
by the garrote on the Goth.
The body of man on whose coat
WINS tag on which was the name ''E.
W. Kirton, Wisner, Neb.," has been
found near the summit of Pixies peak.
Col, with bullet hole in the back of
his head All his valuables were gone
and it was thought he was murdered
for his money.
nouncemcnt will be made in short
time of radical change in the present
attitude Of the pension bureau towards
pension claimants who had n confeder-
ate war service. Commissioner of PEN
sions Evans believes that II claimant
served in any capacity in the confeder.
ate service, but later enlisted in the
union army. served there and was hon
orably discharged, it would be an in
justice to refuse him pension.
AT st. Louis on the Goth No. . red
wheat sold for 81 bushel.
TIE commissioner Of pensions re-
Gently stated that the pension list was
increased by old soldiers marrying
young wives and that he hoped con-
gress would pass law to prevent PEN
sions from being given to widows OF
soldiers Of the last war who married
the soldiers in the future.
AERONAUT ALLERD fell 500 feet from
his balloon at Electric park, Chicago
on the Goth, every bone in his body
being broken. He became entangled
in a guy-rope and was dragged from
his parachute.
SoLLY SMITH. of Los Angeles, Cal,
knocked out Johnny Griffin, of Bos-
ton, in the seventh round at San Fran
cisco.
An unknown tramp entered the
house of Mrs. Pauline Fcnske, wife of q
German farmer in Schiller park, a sub
urb of Chicago, and seeing only her
and the children round, struck her
over the head with revolver and at
tempted to assault her. The children
ran screaming out of the house and
gave an alarm and posse, with Mr..
Fenske, chased the rascal through
cornfelds and woods, both sides ex-
changing shots. Finally the man fell
and his pursuers then literally riddled
him with bullets.
TIE coal operators, at a meeting
held at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Goth,
issued n statement to the public in
which they accused President Ratch-
ford, of the miners union, OF trying
to dodge the issue and Of being insin-
cere in his efforts to settle the miners
strike.
THERE was report at Chelsea, /. T.,
on the 2ad that the Keetoowa society,
an organization among the Cherokee
full-bloods, had threatened violence to
the members Of the Cherokee commits
sion should they enter into an agree
ment with the Dawes commission look
ing to the destruction Of the tribal
government.