Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-01-23
MISrELLANEOUs.

at Magazine Point, Ala, on the 10th
wrecked every house within radius
Of quarter Of q mile. No one was
killed, but several were hurt.
IT was reported that a syndicate,
backed by ]. Picrpont Morgan and the
vandcrbilts, had made proposition to
the government, which had been nc
,epted by Attorney-General Harmon,
that II the government would foreclose
On the Union Pacific railroad the syndi-
cate guaranteed to bid on the property
sum to net the government s45,oOo.ooO
plus the sinking fund. Under the
proposition the government would lose
So, 0O0, 900 Of its debt.
ONE man was killed and two injured,
one fatally, by tail-end collision be-
tween two sections Of southbound
freight train at Sinking Creek water
tank in Kentucky. The second section
crashed into the first section while 1t
was taking water at the tank.
The supreme court Of the United
States formally ratified the report OF
the special commission on the boun-
lary line between Missouri and Iowa
Mercer county. Mo-, gains about 1000
acres Of land formerly supposed to be-
long to Decatur county, In.
SAM PALATKA, an ill-looking negro,
was arrested in Putnam county, Ca,
and confessed that he was the fend
who perpetrated the recent great Ca
haba bridge disaster in Alabama,
whereby s5 persons lost their lives and
many Others were MANNED and wound
ed by the wrecliing of a passenger train.
A GANG Of q dozen highwaymen held
up an emigrant train going south from
Missouri in the Creek nation in the In
dian territory on the 18th and robbed
them Of everything they had. Some OF
the emigrants identified the leader OF
the desperadoes as being George Tay-
lor. the escaped murderer Of the Meeks
family. Posses were organized at Guth-
rie, Ok, to locate the gang.
Two children and niece Of John ID.
REYNOLDS were discovered dead In q
tenement house ut Roxbury, Mass,
shortly after he arose on the morning
of the nth. the three having been suf-
located by gas, carelessness or igno-
rance in using the fixture being the
cause.
PAYMENT has been stopped by Illinois
on nearly everything except the ex-
penscs of the legislature, the state
treasury being empty.
LOT GRIMsLEY, q 14-year-old son OF q
farmer living near Guthrie, Ok, was re-
Gently killed by n two-ton stone falling
on him.
ATE Paso, Tex, United States quar-
antine inspectors directed the killing
of 5000 ''scabby" sheep that had been
brought across the line from Mexico:
FIVE children broke through the Ice
at North Leominster, Mass, on the
10th and were drowned.
BRADsrREET's agency reports 4's bust
ness failures in the United States Tor
the week ended the 18th against AZ
for the corresponding week Of last year
The immense mills of the Fox Paper
Co., ut Crescentville, O., were destroyed
by fire on the night Of the 14th. Loss
estimated at $4,000.
TWENTY men, disguised as whitecaps,
took ]. j. Brooks, who has wife and
family in another place, out OF q house
In Stapleton, Pa, where he was living
with another mans wife, and cowhidec
him till he begged for mercy and then
marched him out of town.
A TRAIN was wrecked near sciota'
Ill, through broken rail. 1t left the
track and plunged down m embanlx
ment. The engineer was probably
fatally hurt Several other persons
were also more or less injured. The
wreck then took fire, but was soon ex
tinguished.
THE boys wing Of Buclxner's orphans
| home, near Dallas, Tex, was destroyed
by fire on the nightof the 18th and i've
boys perished in the flames, three O
j them being the matron's sons.
4 JIM Hall and Steve 0'Donnen hnv'
been matched to box 20 rounds befor
the Greater New fork Athletie elnh
j FebruaFyl