Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-08-21
MfsrEILANEOt1.

SIX hundred striking miners, eight
abreast, marched into Colleen, ILL.,, on
the 18th, despite the amazed deputies.
The guards were ordered not to shoot,
but they began to make arrests as fast
as possible. The invasion was for the
purpose of inducing the men at work
in the mines there to join the strikers.
MrCH damage was reported on the
18th as being done around Wilmot, $.
d., from snowstorm which had ragged
for several days and q terrific wind
which accompanied it, standing grain
and garden stuff being blown down.
Heating stoves were in full blast.
DR. j. NJ. BLEYER, New York ply
stefan, announced that he had discov-
cred a new cure for consumption by
electricity.
By the breaking of coupling pin on
a chain of cars in the mine of the
Wapello company at Hiteman, Ia, 20
men were more or less badly injured,
three of them fatally.
On account OF the low price Of silver
many operators will stop mining for
44sifverin Colc "a ,.s-saA-miu turn their
attention to the working of gold-bear-
ing lodcs.
THE town of Ostrow, in the province
of Seidloe, Russia, was destroyed by
fire, 400 houses being burned and 1000
people made homeless. Four persons
lost their lives and many children
were reported missing and thought to
have persisted in the flames.
AN explosion of fire damp in coal
mine near Pennington, ILL.,, on the
10th resulted in the killing of one
miner, Thomas Martin, and the serious
injury of two others.
The steamer Belgica left Antwerp on
the 10th with the Gerlache antarctic
expedition on board. The crew Of the
Belgica numbered 81 men and she had
on board provisions for two years.
A NORWEGIAN railroad laborer at
Omaha, Neb., has long been ailing
from q complaint which was supposed
to be eczema, but which Is now de-
clared to be leprosy.
THERE were 214 business failures In
the United States for the week ended
the 18th, according to Bradstreets re-
port, against 2Os for the corresponding
week of last year.
THE family Of George Rogers, Of Chi
cago, consisting OF eight persons, were
poisoned by eating bologna sausage.
The father and eldest son, II was
thought, would not recover.
FIRE on the 18th burned four build
ings at Ironwood, Mich. Henry Lensol
was suspected Of starting the fire and
crowd gathered and attempted to
throw him into the burning buildings,
but the fremen turned the hose on
them and they desisted and the pris-
oner was taken TO Jail. 1t was said
that he made full confession that he
wss hired by Charles Ross, who owned
he buildings, to set them on fire.
Ross has also been arrested.
A MOB from Russell Gulch broke into
the Jail at Central City, Col, at two q
m. on the 18th and fred through the
bars of the cage at four prisoners, held
ON suspicion Of being the murderers Of
Alex Goddard. n miner. The four pris-
oners escaped death BY hiding behind
the bedding in their cell and the mob.
-snpposing they had killed them, left
JAMES A. r. ELLIOTT, Of Kansas City,
Mo-, defeated Sim Glover, the Roches-
ter, N. Y. crack shot. at the Rochester
driving park on the 18th and won the
title Of champion wing shot and cap
tured the handsome trophy Of the Kan
sns City Star that goes with the cham
pio4ship. The score wssP3 % .