Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-04-10
CHARLES RICHARDS, who kept bar at

CHARLES RICHARDS, who kept bar Of
"Rhoten's Rest" roadhousc at II
Paso, Tex, was murdered the other
morning by white tramp and two
Mexicans, who then set fire to the
house, burning It down on the dead
man. The charred remains, with q
crushed skull, were recovered from
the ruins. The rangers went in pur'
suit OF the murderers.
NEARLY 1000 unemployed Germans
and Bohemians held meeting recently
at Chicago under the auspices Of the
American Railway union. Priests and
preachers were bitterly denounced rs
hirelings of men who are expressing
the masses.
The Globe savings bank at Chicago
suspended on the 18th.
JAMES II. ALDRIcm, for IS years cash.
Ter and paymaster of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Memphis railway, was
arrested on the 5th Mt Kansas City,
Mo-, on the charge of cmbczzling saO,-
coo of the company's funds.
FRED AcocK, an cx-soldier in the
regular army, will start from Topeka,
Kan, June Is to carry Old Glory
around the world. lie will go to
Europe first and return by the way Of
the Pacific.
A FIRE in George +. Cites carpet
store in Cincinnati did damage to the
amount of over 100000.
TIE steamer Fuerst bismarck
brought nearly 1000 Italian immi-
grants to New York ON the 4th.
A FIRE broke out the other morning
in the Phillips house, n hotel in Day
ton. o.; and the west wing was com
plctely Quilted and the other sections
badly damaged by water and smoke.
There were many narrow and thrill
ing escapes of the guests and several
persons were seriously injured. There
was strike among the chambermaids
and IL was said that one of them
started the fire in n spirit of revenge.
A NEGRO named Alexander Terrell
was legally hanged Mt Houston, Tex,
on the I'd for an assault on n white
woman.
Miss MINNIE LrTH was probably IA
tally injured and her five-ycar-old
niece. Anna Schniedermcyer, was scri-
ously hurt by train nj st. Louis.
They were walking on the railroad
tracks viewing the food when the nc
cidrnt occurred.
A. FREIGHT train, consisting of an en-
CINE and IL cars loaded with coal and
iron, broke through trestle in lower
Allegheny City. Pa. and fell TO the
street below. The fireman was taken
out dead and the engineer was fatally
hurt. About $50 feet of the trcstle was
destroyed.
THE six-day bicycle race ended at
Washington ut 10 p. M. on the Sd, all
the men being in an exhausted condi-
ton. Five of them made over 1900
miles and will get part of the prize
money, the score standing as follows:
Shock, 1870; Albert, l.Gl5; Golden, l.
go; Lawson, Loss: Cassidy, l,55+.
CATTLE men in Oklahoma and the
Indian territory have commenced ship
mcnt went via Galveston. Tex.
AT the Fifth Avenue Athletic club at
New York on the LIST Oscar Gardner,
of Kansas City, knocked out Jack
Grant, of New York. in the ninth round.
FIVE hundred employees of clothing
manufacturers in st. Louis struck on
the I'd. Last fall the price paid for
coat was reduced from 65 to
80 cents. 1t was promised that the old
rate would be restored in the spring,
but us this has not been done the
workers struck.
A BATCH of II convicts was working
in n field at Wayncsboro, Gu, when
storm came up and the keeper strung
the convicts on chain and secured them
to tree. Lightning struck the tree
and shocked the convicts, killing one
named Dent, who was the eleventh and
end man.
THE four members of the "Button
gang" named Francisco Gonzales Y
Horrego, Antonio Gonzales Y l'orrego,
Alarid and Patricio Talencia,
condemned to death for the murder of
ex-Sheriff Frank Chavez, were hanged
together on one scatfold Mt Santa Fe,
\. NJ. on the I'd.
THE forest fires in the mountains
near Dcllcfont, Pa, We're spreading Mt
nm alarming rate on the 4th and many
thousands of acres of valuable timber
land were going up in smoke.
A CLEVELAND, o., dispatch stated
that the Goebic iron producers had
formed pool to oppose the Carnegie
interests.