Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-17

A FIRE broke out on the 18th In the
bakery Of Edward Manner ut Jersey
City, N. j., and spread SO quickly to a
tenement that w. A. Zeigler, his wife
and three children were overcome be-
fore they knew their danger. The fire.
men rescued them, but two of the
younger children were dead when re-
moved from their cots.
A TRAIN killed Oscar and Florence
Starkey, two small children, while
playing on the track near Alvan, Ill.
Three other playmates narrowly cs-
capped.
TIE stage coach, en- route from Colo
RADIO Springs to Cripple Creek, COL,
and containing II passengers was over
turned on Cheyenne mountain. Sew
cral persons were injured, including j.
c. Walsh, of warrensburg, Mo-, whose
back was seriously hurt.
AS the result of runaway accident
near Oslialoesa, H., Miss Ncvins, girl
of Is, was instantly killed and Miss
Youhc SO badly injured that she can
not recover. The horse got frightened
and the girls escort jumped out to
quiet 1t, but II got away.
w. d. JOHNSON and Sam Paxton had
few words Mt Tcneha, Tex, when
johnson fred the contents of n shot
gun into Paxton's face, completely
tearing the top of his head off and
scattering his brains over the wall and
floor.
A DISPATCH from New York on the
18th said that the poor in many sec
lions Of the city were complaining bit
terly against an advance Of two cents
n pound in the price of meat.
BY reason of the breaking of the con-
Meeting rod attached to the governor,
the acton fly wheel Of pair of Corliss
compound engines went to pieces and
wrecked the plant and building of the
street railway company at Tacoma.
Wash. It meant a stoppage OF the
lines operated for perhaps week and
10 electric light.
The Santa Fc Railroad Co. has put
IN 1000 new cars to help take care of
Dklahoma's wheat and many towns
can hardly get enough cars to remove
shc crop. 1t was estimated the crop
yield will not fall less than $1,000, 900
bushels.
THERE was wreck on the Frisco
railroad at Underwood, near st. Louis,
which smashed in the front end of
locomotive, completely demolished
caboose, broke two cars into kindling
wood and scattered the wreckagc for u
distance of 800 feet along the track.
Only brakeman was slightly injured.
The wreck was caused by the train
breaking in two.
The government statistician reports
the potato acreage this year s.4 per
cent. less than last year, and the con-
dition Of the crop SIS, against 90 n
year ago.
Two men near Lacinta, n. NJ, took
an old woman, whom they thought had
bewitched belle of the neighborhood.
and fastened lasso to her and then
started their horses and she was
dragged TO death and horribly man.
gled.
FIRE destroyed part of the Viles &
Robbins packing establishment at Chi
cago the other night. Loss, $4,000.
Miss TITLE LARSEN tried to commit
suicide ut Omaha, Neb., on the Sth by
tearing open the arteries of her left
wrist with hairpin. She was uncon-
scious when found from the loss OF
blood, and only prompt action on the
part Of those who discovered her saved I
her life. ~ wanted to go to Heaven,
and that is why ! did II" she said The
authorities cannot understand her case.
The commissioner OF pensions has
before him the cases of about 100 veter-
ans dismissed from the pension Office
during the last administration and
who seek reinstatement They arc be-
ing carefully considered, and where
possible and circumstances warrant 1t |
will be made.
On unlocking his combined meat
shop and grocery the other morning
Gustav Stab, of Tomkinsville, L. l.,
saw man packing articles. At Staib's
the thief stepped into large
refrigerator. Stab locked him in and
notified the police. 1t was n hot day,
and after the man had been in q small
cell for an hour he asked to be put
back in the ice box.
DURING severe storm the house of
S. Z. North. near Larmore, n. D., was
struck by lightning and North, his
wife and three-year-old child were
killed. The only member of the fam
lily that escaped was 15-months-old
child.