Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
MfSCELLANEOCy,

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the 25th and the waters rushed
through the streets, flooding the
houses of hundreds of families Not
less than 100 houses were swept away
entirely. The ringing of the fire bell
saved the lives of many people who
were asleep and ignorant of their dan
ger.
MAY CAMPBELL, a variety actress of
st. Louis, overheard her husband and
a woman planning to elopc together.
She then emerged from the clothes
closet in which she had hidden and
shot both her husband and the woman.
The man was fatally wounded, but the
woman was only slightly hurt.
PERRY NEALE, aged IL, quarreled
with his brother, aged IL, over pet
bird at Mingo, Ia, and got n gun and
shot him. He then got cloth and
wiped up the blood and went on the
street and played. No clew could be
obtained TO the matter for some time
after, when Perry confessed his crime.
WHILE returning home from fishing
near Smithland, KY, James, Edward
and Park Ghcnes were drowned by the
overturning of their skiff.
THE Thompson house and two bust
ness buildings Mt Marseilles, ILL.,, were
destroyed early the other morning by
an incendiary fire.
Four police officers and the driver of
q patrol wagon were seriously injured
at Chicago by a collision between the
wagon and an electric car. No blame
was attached to either side.
HIRAM WARREN and wife were killed
and James Warren badly injured by
being struck by Union Pacific train
near Kersey, Col. They were crossing
the track in wagon.
The expected decision OF the United
States supreme court in what is known
as the Nebraska maximum freight case
was not rendered on the cath, and, as
the court adjourned for the term, de-
cision cannot be announced before
next autumn.
THE man Crawford, who killed Dick
Whitsell near Pleasanton, Tex, q few
weeks ago, committed suicide in Jail
here by swallowing broken glass and
phosphorus.
ONE thousand miners at the Milford,
Fraser & Lehigh coal camps near
Boone, Ia, struck on the cath because
Of an attempt to give them IS cents q
ton for mine run coal instead of so |
cents for screened coal, as has been the |
rule.
THE federal grand jury at Des
Moines, Ia, has returned indictments
against the trustees and commandment
Of the soldiers home at Marshalltown
for making the inmates turn over their
pension money in excess Of SO month
TO the institution.
The Southern hotel at Meridian,
Miss. was damaged $4,000 by fire on
the Goth. The hotel was well filed
with guests and q panic ensued, but
50 far as known no lives were lost
The fire was miserably managed by
the volunteer fremen.
THE veriscope exhibition Of the Cor
tt-Fitzsimmons fight attracted an
immense audience to the Academy of
Music at New York on the 2ad. On the
whole the pictures must be counted
. success, the sixth and the 14th
rounds being exceptionally clear. The
among the audience wasas
intense as though the actual fight was
In progress.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 21st were
AS, according TO Bradstreets report,
against 2i6 for the corresponding week
last year.
Mons LEE, an aeronautemployed with
! show which was exhibiting ct Nc
Keesport, Pa, fell from his balloon,
he wind being too strong. and was
latally injured.
Two children Of Ed Driscot, who
ives on . branch Of State creek, near
Pike Hill, KY, were bitten by q cop |
,erhead snake. Their cries attracted
ira DriscoA and in attempting to kill |
he reptile she, too, was bitten, Al /
Ihroe died within 80 hour