Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
PERRY KAUFMAN, William Davis and

PERRY KAUFMAN, William Davis and
John Drabenstott stole some alcohol
from Yoos' drug store ut Huntington,
ILL.,, and short time after swallowing
the drug they all became violently III
and Kaufman and Davis died and ORA.
benscott was said to be Mt the point OF
death. The stuff was found to be
pyroxylic alcohol, q deadly poison.
WHITEcAPs went TO the house of
Walter Price, negro, in Greenville
county, s. c., and forcibly dragged him
out and Mary Rochester, white wo-
man, and gave them IN unmerciful
whipping.
TmE fight for the 1ao.pound cham
pionship ut Birmingham, Eng, be-
tween Larry Burns, Of New York, and
Harry Greenfield, the Englishman,
was won by Greenfield, who foorcd
Burns in the eighth round by blow
on the jaw.
THE annual convention of tho Ma
tional Association Of Railway Surgeons
began ut Chicago OIL the 4th. An I'D
dress was delivered by the president,
DR.. Lutz, of st. Louis
MAYOR STRONG has stored away in
the basement of the city hall ut New
York 1000 bricks from the old tomb of
Gen. Grant which he thinks Grand
Army posts will want rs souvenirs.
THE engine Of n G. & A. freight train
blew up Mt Kansas City, No., on the
4th and Engineer Roberts was killed
and Fireman Pardoner fatally injured.
ABOUT 1900 plumbers went on
strike ut Chicago on the Sd and nearly
every building in course Of construc-
ton in that city was Mt standstill.
II an attempt should be made to hire
non-union men to fill the places OF the
strikers general strike of all unions
affiliated with the building trades will
result.
THE treasury figures for April con-
firm Chairman Dingley's statement,
made short time ago, that there was
likely to be nearly years supply of
foreign goods in the country when the
new tariff bill goes into effect.
THE town Of Pulaski, Va, and vicin-
ity was shaken by an earthquake soon
after noon on the 3D.. No damage re-
suited, but the people were terribly
frightened.
JOHN NoLIN, his two little daughters
and another man whose name could
not be learned were drowned in the
river above Gallatin, Tenn, on the Sd.
The slsiff was overturned and the
father tried to take his children to
shore but the swift current swept all
four of them under.
THE Atlantic & Pacific railway was
sold at Gallup, N. NJ, on the Sd for
ST., 900, 900. The only bidder was Al
dncc F. Walker, chairman Of the board |
Of directors Of the Atchison, Topeka |
& Santa Fe railway.
NEWS from Hancock county Tenn,
stated that Mary, Lulu and John Hat
field were burned to death in n noun.
tain cabin about five miles from Snead-
Vile. Their mother, who is widow,
had gone to neighbours house, locking
the children in the house.
JOHN V. CRUM, the famous sprintcr,
lied ut Des Moines, H., on the Sd us
The result Of an operation for appcn-
iicitis.
WILLIAM Schultz was found dead in
, lumber yard ut the foot Of Sixth
street, New York, from starvation and
exposure. He kept the record of his
privations in an old Bible, which was
'ound ON him.
ATERRE HAUTE, Ind, dispatch stated
hat there was no truth in the report
hat the Debs cooperative common
wealth idea is to be put into practical
est by starting marching army to
Utah this year. II is true that Debs
lesires to establish cooperative COM
in some one of the western
tates and that he looks favorably on
Utah, but il is not the purpose to get
men there by Coxey sort OF move
nent
THE Tennessee Centennial exposition
vas formally opened at Nashville on
he LIST. There was n parade through
he city to the grounds, where, after q
raycr by Bishop Gailor and speeches
" President Thomas and Gov. Taylor,
I n given signal President Mckinley,
t Washington, touched an electric
luton, and Us the band played Hail
the machinery began to 4,
iove and the exposition was opened to
he world.
THERE were 2i4 business failures in
he United States, according to Brad
treet's report, for the week ended tho
9th, against 254 for the same week
lst year.