Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-06-12

An elevator In the building ut o.
; Dearborn street, Chicago, fell and tn
four occupants were considerably In
jured.
A MORTGAGE for $50, OOO, 900 was giver
; by the Lake Shore & Michigan South
, ern railway and placed on record II
; Cook county, Ill.
STRIKING coal miners at Minonk, Ill.
attacked the superintendent and I
boss. who were escorting a scab e
work, and fight ensued, in which ont
striker was killed and another wounded
and the two officials were seriously In
jurcd by clubs and stones.
A MATCH dropped by workman n
the fireworks factory Of NJ. Shurc al
Chicago caused a terrific explosion the
other evening. Many people were
badly hurt on the street by flying
rockets, but fortunately most Of the
workmcn had gone home and there
were no lives lost The building and
contents were entirely destroyed.
Loss, $4,000.
TIE supreme lodge A. O. U. W. met
Mt Milwaukee on the sth with 100 dele
gates present. The session will con-
tinue for week or ten days.
Rev. SAM JONES recently began a
three weeks crusade against the evils
of Des Moines, In. Audiences of 5000
to 5000 crowd his tent at night.
An explosion Of gas in the Black Dia-
mond mine ut Monongahela, Pa, oc.
CARED ut seven n. IN. on the 9TH. A
rescuing party Immediately went into
the mine and the men were got out,
but only after they had been overcome
by the deadly after damp. The gas
was said to have been ignited by an
open lamp and the escape of the 300
miners was remarkable.
Mrs. HOLcoMB, living on farm near
West Franklin, Ind, beheaded her
four-year-old daughter while laboring
under the delusion that God required
1t of her. The woman was suffering
from cancer of the brain.
AT Saunemin, ILL.,. grain elevator
containing $4,000 bushels OF oats was
burned to the ground.
A BOILER exploded recently in the
print works of Noriega Bros. in Pucbla,
Mex, which caused the death of over
20 persons
FIVE two-story frame dwellings were
badly damaged and nine families made
homeless by fire which started at POI
jefferson street, Chicago, on the even
ing of the eth.
THE Shannon bill to prevent ''long-
continued and brutal bicycle racing"
was passed in the Illinois senate on
the 4tb. The bill had previously gone
through the house. The new law
makes IL hours continuous riding the
limit allowed.
The tug Andrew II. Green was blown
to atoms ut 1:i5 a. m. on the 9Th Mt
Chicago by the explosion Of her boiler
and no trace of her crew could be
found and there seemed to be no doubt
that the five men known to have been
on board had persisted.
JAMES LEWIS, colored, was hanged in
the Jail yard Mt Fairfax, Va. on the
4th for an assault on white woman.
An earthquake shock was expert
enced ut DEBORAH, Ia, soon after day
light on the 9th.
DAVID WILSON, colored, was hanged
at Morristown, \. j., for chopping his
wife to death with an ax.
Ton CLARK, u negro eX-convict shot
and killed at Kansas City, NO., on the
night of the 4th Mrs. Elizabeth Hatch,
MORALLY wounded her daughter, Eliza
beth Williamson, and slightly wound
ed another woman. The Williamson
girl had refused to live with Clark any
longer and had gone home TO her
mother. All the parties were colored.
The town of Foyil, !. T., was said TO
have been ruined by recent tornado
and one person was killed. A number
of houses were also blown down ut
David, l. T., killing one person and
wounding several.
MILE. BURNETT fell headlong from
trapeze the other night at the How
ard Atheneum ut Boston and landed
upon the heads Of the audience, seri-
ously injuring several and probably
fatally hurting herself.
In n family quarrel at Shelby, Miss,
the other afternoon, Martin Pascoe, q
negro, killed Sandy and Fannie Donald
and then attempted suicide, but will
recover.
FIVE men were killed and four badly
injured by collision on the Omaha
railroad near Hudson junction, Wis,
on the 18th. The accident was caused
by the engineer and conductor of one
train disobeying orders.