Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-10
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was obliterated by n cyclone on the
9th and several people were killed and
many others injured.
The strike order was obeyed by
from 10, 200 to $4,000 men in the Pitts.
burgh, Pa, district and the great
struggle for a uniform mining rate
was inaugurated.
Four people were fatally hurt and
Is or 20 others seriously injured in a
collision between street cars at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 9th.
By the explosion of the boiler of n
thrashing engine on the farm of W. A.
Allen, near Huntsville, Tenn, nine
people were instantly killed and five
badly injured.
CHRISTIAN MOLLY shot and killed
Nancy Hill near Hamburg, Ark, be-
cause Mrs. Hill would not desist from
whipping her child. The Molly wom-
an has killed three men, two of whom
were her husbands. She is under ar
rest.
THE other night party of men up.
piled the torch to Mormon church in
Fairfield county, S. c., and burned 1t
TO the ground, the feeling being high
against the Mormons.
BARNUM, Mimi, was recently de-
stroyed by tornado and food and
the village president sent telegram
to the governor of the state for aid to
rebuild the place, every bridge and
sidewalk being destroyed and many
houses damaged.
A DISASTROUS fire swept over the
principal business portion Of Bates
vile, Ark, entailing a loss of $4,000
Six men were also reported in critical
condition from the conflagration. Fire
crackers were supposed to be the cause.
WHILE Robert Moore, Charles Beatty
and James Carroll were digging well
at Winnipeg, Man., they struck vein
Of natural gas and were suffocated.
In Chicago on the 4th there were
over score OF prostration from the
heat and three persons lost their lives
IT was estimated that 100 persons
were overcome by the heat Mt Cincin-
natl on the 4th and 10 deaths were re-
ported.
There were five deaths from the in
tense heat ut Louisville, KY, on the
ith.
JOHN Cox was sentenced by Judge
Lunt Mt Colorado Springs, Col, TO
hang for killing James Daley. Cox
will probably be the last man TO re-
ceive q death sentence in Colorado, as
capital punishment has been abolished
In that state since the commission Of
his crime.
A NUMBER of boys were swimming In
the river Mt the foot Of Ferry street,
st. Louis, on the Cd. One boy sank
and man plunged after him. He got
hold OF the boy. but before they could
reach the shore both were drowned.
EMMA OcHsSER, ten-year-old girl
threw her hand across an electric light
guy wire while watching q funeral
processiod pass at Joliet, Ill, and was
instantly killed. Her father was hor-
ribly burned in an effort to rescue her.
A GENERAL strike of miners Of the
United Mine Workers Of America in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, West
Virginia and Illinois has been or
dered for July by the national ex-
ecutive board, whose headquarters are
in Columbus, o., and also by the
district presidents.
A FIRE occurred ut the lumber yard Of
the ]. w. Merrill Lumber Co. at Kansas
City. NO., on the night of the 9Th,
causing q loss Of about $4,000, COW
cred by insurance. It was caused
either by boys shooting firecrackers or
tsamps-
While revival was recently in pro-
gress Mt the church ut Grassy Plains,
". Y, Julius Whitehead, aged IL, and
other youthful unbelievers, attended
to make sport Julius began TO sneeze
artificially. and after pulpit rebuke
sneezed the harder. but when he tried
to stop he could not, and physiolsnu
said that he was liable % sneele him
self q death,