Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-01

| Va, and made towards him with
razor, when young Lovctt grabbed o
Ratchet and struck his uncle fatal
blow with 1t.
| JACK BRIGHAM, n farmer near Padu'
cab, KY, recently went insane and,
within short time after, three OF his
ten children also manifested similar
symptoms. The wife and mother was
reported gricf-strickeu.
| A LONDON dispatch on the 27th said
that it was feared that the French
steamer Henri, bound from Swansea
for Marseilles, had been lost with 90 OF
her crew.
An electric car was thrown from the
track Mt Portland, Ore, on the 27th,
after which 1t plunged into u slough
% feet below. Four persons were
drowned.
FIRE broke out on pier five ut New
port News, Va, on the 2Ith. Three
ocean steamers were entirely de-
stroycd. The total loss was placed Mt
g., 900, 900. Several persons were badly
injured while trying to escape from
their ships.
THREE boys, while fishing near Web
stcr City, H., gathered some wild pars-
nips and ate them. AS q result two
were reported dead and the other at
deaths door.
Bon PAYNE, n negro desperate, shot
and killed Mrs. Lula Tyres Mt lIirming-
ham, Ala. lie was wanted on some
charges and he thought some boarders
ut Mrs. Tyres house had informed on
him and entered the place and tried
to shoot them, but missed and killed
Mrs. Tyres.
WILHELM FISCHER, aged IS and very
infrm, was jailed Mt Nebraska City.
Neb., charged with horse stealing. He
confessed the theft of team ut Lin
coin, one mt Berlin and two in Kansas.
The big Iowa elevator at Peoria, ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire the other night,
cntniling loss of 100000. About lOO,-
900 bushels OF grain and 30 box cars
were burned.
FOUR young people were out skif
riding on the river at Parks Mills, near
Cumberland Falls, Ky., and got into
the current and were swept over the
dam and drowned.
TIE sewer pipe manufacturers re-
Gently completed national associa-
ton ut Cleveland, o., with n capital OF
81, 800, 900, a factories being included.
THERE was on file with the civil
service commission in Washington on
the a3d over 1900 applications for en-
animation, all of which applicants
will have their fitness to hold Office
tested during the coming spring. The
number OF applicants is far in excess
of the needs of the service and will
place upon the eligible lists thousands
OF men and women who will have their
hopes raised only to be disappointed.
THE paper mills Mt Ellsworth, Ind,
were totally destroyed by fire, entail
ing loss of $751; 900.
Mrs. PAGAN BoURLAND shot and
killed Maud Allen ut Fort Smith, Ark,
because she had alienated the affcc-
tions of Mr.. Bourland.
A FIRE ut Whitney's Point, near
Binghamton, n. Y, recently destroyed
property to the value of S250,000.
Tue Connecticut house on the cath
passed bill prohibiting all Sunday
labor or sport.
WHILE Milton Bradbury, living near
CARRIER, Ok, was fighting prairie fire
on his farm his five-ycar.old son was
caught in it and was burned to death.
FRANK KLoss was hanged Mt St
Quentin, CAL, on the sd for the muir
der of William Deadly.
As n result of the warning OF the
vigilance committee not n colorcd man
is left Mt the town Of Davis, ]. 7.
JOHN NOBLE was crushed to death by
the accidental falling of n safe in East
st. Louis, H., and Patrick Butler re-
ceivcd fatal injuries.
AN appeal has been sent to Clara
Barton TO come to the rescue Of starv-
ing pacificos in Cuba, whose condition
is daily growing more heartrending.
Children IRE dying in the streets OF
Matanzas and babies have been found
dead in the arms of exhausted mothers
Whole villages OF living skeletons in
bark huts are praying for death to re-
lease them from their suffering.
+ The managers of Peter Maher and
Tom Sharkcy on the Goth met repre-
sentatives OF sporting club and ac-
copied n proposition for fight be-
tween the principals for n $4,000 purse
to take place in the vicinity Of New
York between May % and June l0next.