Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-15

A DECREE from Pope Leo condemns
ing the cremation of bodies is antici
pated In Catholic circles. II Is sale
that the church will forbid tho crema
ton on pain Of accommodation.
\ A FIRE Mt Quincy, ILL.,, destroyed the
J. r. Dayton Tablet Co.'S plant, the
valk-Joncs and the McMein job print
ing offices and the Brumbaugh book
store. Loss, $4,000.
THE fourth annual convention of the
National Association OF Chiefs of Po'
lice Of the United States and Canada
opened ut Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th
with about 200 delegates, representing
nearly every large city In the country.
WHILE playing in the kitchen the
three-year-old daughter of Nols Copen'
hnvcr, of Luton, H., fell foremost into
n tub of boiling water. Both eyes
were destroyed and she was so badly
injured that she died In n few hours.
THE tea importers ut New York have
not waited for the passage Of the tariff
bill, with its proposed duty Of ten
cents pound upon that commodity,
but have advanced all grades of tea
from three TO five cents pound.
THE ninth annual convention OF rail-
road commissioners was called TO Or
der at st. Louis ON the 18th, delegates
being present from nearly every state.
80 e.. 1x,,c In
associate was received in Dallas, Tex.
the other day in which Stuart says the
pictures Of the Carson City fight be-
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons taken
by the vcrascope are perfect. They
will be ready for exhibition in New
York city by June 10 or 10.
THREE children, Eduardo, Gabriel
and Manuel Padilla, were recently
burned to death Mt Fairbank, Ariz.
The parents had gone to dance near
by, locking the door on the sleeping
children. 1t is believed lighted lamp
exploded.
The United States supreme court has
denied the petition for n rehcaring in
the Transmissouri Freight association
case.
Mrs. JOSEPH GREEN, IN aged woman
in Haukcgan, ILL.,, fell asleep in chair
while smoking her pipe and spark set
her clothing on fire and she was burned
to death.
OSCAR WILLIAMS, a negro Baptist
preacher living near Elba, Ala, took
his young son, Isaac, into the woods
Some people hearing screams, rushed
into the thiclsct and they found the
boy strapped to n log and his father
standing over him with n bloody knife.
The boy died soon after, the old man
having cut the child's throat Will
liams said the Lord had commanded
the sacrifice.
FREEMAN c. GARDNER, q carpenter,
shot Ida Miller ut hotel in Chicago,
and then shot himself. Both will die.
jealousy was the cause of the tragedy.
BUFFALO JONES, of Oklahoma, ha
made the interior department propo-
sition to corral the remnant Of the
mighty herd of American bison In the
Yellowstone national park. Mr.. Jones
stated that the superintendent Of the
park has abandoned all hope of pre-
serving a single specimen.
INSTRUCTIONS have been issued by
the commissioner of the general land
office to registers and receivers of the
various United States land offices that
settlers on all ceded Indian
reservations are granted an extension
OF one year in which to make the pay
mcnts provided by law.
A NUMBER of girls ut Wellesley (NIass.)
college have been expelled by the au-
thorities for alcoholic and narcotic in
dulgenccs. The names were kept quiet.
The cabin of Lauren Tucker at
Laurens, S. c., was burned and four
children were cremated. The father
and mother had gone fishing.
Born houses of the Iowa Legislature
defeated the anti-Sunday baseball bill
on the 7th and the Western association |
Is safe for another year.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Mount Vernon, ILL.,, and IS cars ditched.
Most of them were broken into kind.
ling wood. Three cars were loaded
with whisky and one with poultry.
The whisky escaped and filed the gull
lies and the poultry imbibed freely and
In thunderstorm at San Antonio,
Tex, Robert Dannenberger and wife
we're killed while working in n field
md Wesley Dairs, a negro, was struck
lead under tree.
THE May returns of the department
If agriculture show decline from the
April condition of wheat Of LIZ points
The average in Missouri is 81; in Kan
ias. Is