Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-02-06
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OF Chimay from the princess, who clopc'
from Paris with a Hungarian gyps,
fiddler
IT was currently reported ut Canton
O., on the I'd that there were over 10
cases Of fever Ia That city due to tn
bad water supply
A LETTER received In Boston iron
London stated that Charley Mitchell
the pugilist, was coming to this coun
try with the intention to challenge tn
winner In the Corbctt-Fitzsimmon
fight.
Tom YEARaAS, 4 negro In Lama
county, Tex, In a quarrel, knocked hi
father down with an iron wedge ant
afterwards cut tile old mans throa
and then covered the body with hay
setting fire to II and burning the hous'
down.
The state huusc A. Harrisburg, Pa.
was destroyed by fire on the I'd while
the Legislature was In session. Thou
sands of dollars worth of records were
lost which can never be rep'aesd' I'll,
loss was placed ut 81. ZOO, 900, with in
sirance of 100000. The fire was sup
posed to have been caused by IN elec
tric light wire.
GEORGE L. BurLrR wns arrested or
the shir SwaLhllda which arrived Al
Sa0 Francisco on the I'd by officers
from Australia. He Is credited by the
Australian police with hdvihg MUIR
dered u iien by enticing them one Mt q
time into the interior to examine
mining claim.
The boilers Of the large sawmills ri
lIroguc Chitto. Miss, exploded in the
I'd aud three ncn were killed and four
men and wumdh We're terribly
scalded.
The safe of Dradlcy's bank ut Eldon,
To-, was blown open on the list with
nitro-glycerine and all the funds stolen
IIp"at iiAtGn was found in the
ruins OF the Hotel Switzerland at
Nashota, Wis, with q revolver with
two empty chambers by his side. lie
had previously written to his wife,
frcm wh"b lie was separated, that he
intended TO burn the hotel and perish
In the flames.
THE residence Of Charles Russell at
North baltimore. a., caught f!e lind
Russ,l, was burned to crisp and his
wife was so badly burned that she can
not recover.
Miss OLLIE SULLIVAN was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Frank
Lauer al one a. m. On the lst DIT Chica-
go, tauer then fed from the house
and his dead body was afterwards
found in the street. The shooting was
the result of jealous quarrel.
THE Underwood betting flctory and
Jour tenement houses Mt Tolland, Coan.,
were burned. Loss, S50.000.
TIE Tomboy mine in Colorado was
bought on the Goth by the Rothschilds.
of London. Within tie past two years
they have invested $3.50, 900, 900 in Amer
lean mining property.
ALvA AMEs, u carpenter, jailed mt
Rockford, ILL.,. for an assault on his
daughter, hanged himself because he
unprecedented mob would storm the
Jail and lynch him,
Tfs federal treasury figures for the
month of January show a deficiency in
revenues. the receipts for the month
having fallen S5,922, 1895 below the
expenditures
In pike county, hear jackson, o., a
gang of ten men were telling trees for
railroad tics and left tree nearly
chopped through while they went into u
shanty to dinner The tree fell on the
shanty and killed three men, fatally in
jured two more, and seriously injured
the five others.
WILLARD COTTON, of Cleveland, O.,
came home at three o'clock on the
morning of the Goth, quarreled with
his wife. shot her dead and then shot
himself through the head.
GEORGE TAYLOR, the murderer Of the
Meeks family, who escaped from the
Carrollton, Mo-, Jail on April 10 while
under sentence of death. has been cap
tured and lodged in the Hanford. Cal,
Jail and the Missouri authorities
notified. b. +. Lane, Missourinn,
was the man who identified the pris-
oner.
ALBERT CUNNING. q coachman, shot
and instantly killed Mrs. Benning at
Chicago and then attempted to shoot
her two boys, but failed. He after
wards shot himself in the breast. Cum
ming had an undue liking for Mrs.
Benning and she had forced him 70
leave her house.