Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-08-07
nunNa A fieht between tramps and

DURING fght between tramps and
the crew OF Sioux City & Pacific
freight train between Sergeant Bluffs
and Sloan, H., Brakeman Harry Rob
ison was thrown from the top OF car
aud may die. The tramps were beat
en- off.
THE state department at Washington
has paid over to an Italian official
So, 900 rs indemnity for the lynching OF
three Italians at llahnville, La, by an
American mob.
TIE fast flyer on the Kansas Pacific
railway was wrecked about daylight
on the Sd about 40 miles east OF Dem
yer. COL. and two trainmen were killed
and ten passengers badly hurt
Heavy rains Of tho previous evening
had carried away n portion Of bridge
which spans Comanche creek between
Byers and Strasburg, and the engine
plunged into the abyss and was fol-
lowed by several cars.
FIRE broke out in L. T. Bells store
ut Lewisburg, W. Va, destroyed ho-
tel, two banks, two drug stores and
ten other buildings. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $1,000. The fire was incei.-
diary.
Mrs. PETER Kaufman, wife Of q
wholesale cigar merchant Mt St Louis,
had her throat cut from ear to ear with
II butcher knife by her insane daugh-
ter. The daughter was found upstairs,
chuckling over the terrible deed. 1t
was supposed the crazy woman's con-
dition had been made worse by the in
tense heat.
Ar Aberdeen, S. D.. over 100 tramps
took possession of freight train, but
were finally dislodged by the police.
At Groton, S. d., tramps tcrrorized the
town after big fight, but were jailed
ut last.
HARDEN JOHNSON. his wife and
daughter and Dan Lakewood, all coll
ored, were poisoned Mt Louisville, KY,
by laudanum being mixed in their
food, n neighbor being suspected OF
the crime. 1t was feared they all
would die.
JONI O'CoNSELI was found murdered
Mt his home near Redwood Falls, MINI.
Seven gashes in his scalp were made
by some blunt instrument and his
clothing had been saturated by oil and
his house set on fire. According to the
statement of three of his children.
Mrs. 0'Conncll was the perpetrator of
the deed. being driven crazy by the
man drinking and abusing his family
while under its influence.
Mrs. DARLINGTON BoOTH told OF the
work the Volunteer Salvation army
was doing in the penitcntiary at Joliet,
H., and at the end of her remarks 800
convicts were enrolled under the Vol
unteers' banner.
NOTlCE has been served by the super
intendcnt of the Pennington mines of
Grafton, W. Va, to every striking min
err occupying the company's houses
to vacatc the property Immediately or
their goods will be thrown into the
street. An attempt will be made to
operate the mines by non-union men.
Excitement was running high.
QuANAm PARKER, the noted chief of
the Comanchcs, was reported to have
been killed by an outlaw in Greer
county, Ok.
NEAR Alva. Ok, with an original
preparation, Sheriff McGrath so sue
cessfully treated cattle infected with
Texas fever that the ticks were all
killed and the quarantine raised.
A TORNADO passed through the farm
of A. c. Mcdowell near San Jose, ILL.,,
on the evening of the 3Oth and seven
persons were reported killed and sew
eral more injured.
HARRY LISTER. son of the purchasing |
agent for the Monon, was murdered
near Washington, Ind, the other night
by being pushed from train, it was
alleged. by John Williams, of Trenton,
Mo. Williams was jailed. An engineer
named George Welch claimed to have
seen the murder.
THE white people at Thorbneck,
Tex, objected to squad OF negroes
being set to work in a quarry at that
place and pitched battle occurred be-
tween the negroes and whites and two
negroes were mortally wounded and
several Others less seriously shot.
SAMUEL c. DuNmAM, n representative
Of the commissioner of labor, has left
for the Klondyke gold
fields to make an exhaustive report on
the business conditions there, the OPP
portunities for investment, the wages
mid cost ~ livin0 otto His rannrt Is
to reach Washington by spring, SO us
10 be of value to the large number of
people going there.