Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-01-09

; In the southern part OF the state IN
along the Pacific coast At Acapulc
the shock destroyed several houses 40
three persons were injured by fallin
walls.
Two colored murderers, william
Downing and Charles Williams, pal
the penalty Of their crimes on tho seal
fold Mt Norfolk, Va, on the 5,h.
LAWRENCE BARRETT, Of baltimore
Nd, who was recently bitten by ma
dog, died Of hydrophobia on the 9Th
lie was the fourth boy to die from tn
effects Of the dogs bite, all OF the boy
having been sent TO the Pasteur insti
tute In New York.
TnE wife Of George Suttera returned
to her home at York, Pa, after shor
absence to find II burning. Rushing
In she rescued, rs she thought, be
three living. children, but when sh,
brought out the. last one she found
they were nil dead.
A BOY threw SNOWFALL against the
door Of George Neff's house ut Sykes
willie, Pa, and Neff ran after the lad.
He had gone but half square when
he fell dead In front Of church door,
Doctors said his anger and eAcrtion
caused heart failure.
The passenger train on the Burling.
ton jumped the trestle entering the
city Of Carson, H., on the 5th. Five
persons were badly injured, one Of
them fatally.
SECRETARY FRANCIS has inauguratcd
n policy Of giving full qualifications
for homestead rights to those indi.
viduals who In good faith entered
the Cherokee outlet from Indian re.
servations on the east side, thus re-
versing the policy Of his predecessor in
Office.
AN explosion took place In the Ali.
son mines ut South McAlester, /. T.,
on the ith and five men lost their lives.
In IN alteration over q game OF
cards n Odessa, Ia. William Foster
shot and killed j. C. Whitworth. Both
men were section foremen on the Kan
sas City 4 Piitsburg railroad.
SANKEY CUNNINGHAM was hanged In
the Jail yard at Albany. Ca. on the LIST
for ali assault upon Miss Kate Camp.
Cunningham confessed his guilt In n
gallows speech. The hanging was wit
messed by an enormous crowd.
A TORNADO struck, the little town OF
Mooringsport. La. at $3.50 p. m. on the
ed and len people We're killed and
three others fatally injured.
AT Carthage Landing, n. Y, VIII
liam Catskill, colorcd, and Daniel
Flanagan, white. had prize fight In
the ninth round Flanagan was knocked
senseless and was reported to be dying.
TOBACCO and manufactures thereof.
being schedule + OF the existing tariff
law, was the subject of the hearing be.
fore the house committee on ways and
means on the 4th.
The City bank OF Nora Springs, Ia,
on the 4th.
L. HART, the Chicago colored athlete,
won the six.day heel.and-toe waking
match ut st. Louis The score stood:
Hart, 900 miles Z laps; Hoaglnnd, 1903
miles; Stephens, zoe miles; Oddly, a7s
miles; Smith. 30 miles
liza boarding house at Atlanta, Ca,
Theodore Flanagan went into the din.
ing room and. drawing his revolver.
killed Mr.. Allen, his wife, Ruth Slack,
who had just arrived on q visit. and
badly. wounded two other boarders
The murderer was saved from mob |
by an officer. No motive could be as
signed for the deed.
Al COCHRAN, the cattle rustler, has
been sentenced ut Greeley, Col, TO 80
years in prison for cattle stealing.
GREAT damage was done by the
recent heavy rains in Illinois Joliet
was threatened with one OF the worst
hoods in its history. Families were
moving out Of their houses and the
ow lands were flooded.
THE filibustcring steamer Commo.
lore, which recently left Jacksonville,
Fla, for Cuba, foundered off New
smyrna on the morning Of the Cd.
rwenty.eight men were on board and
20 far as known on the night OF the 81
Z were saved. The steamer struck the
,ar at the mouth of the river on going
nut and was soon found to be leaking,
,ut the pumps refused to work.
GEor!GE DUFFY, who recently col.
apsed after fighting ten rounds with
George Justice in the broadway Ath-
etic club, Of New York, died on the
tn from blood vessel In his brain
Iaving been ruptured by the concus-
ion Of blows on his head.