Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-03-27

Francisco, lowered the worlds record
10 4:s4 In the two-mile professional
race and defeated Mcfarland, Eaton
and Jones.
TWENTY-FIVE freight cars were on
the Esd piled In q mass on the Ohio
Southern track at Springfield, O., by
thc breaking of q coupling between
two Of the cars. Four tramps were
badly injured and four others were
supposed to be buried in the wreck.
JAMES CoLvILLN of Bcstob; Who WIS
Corbett's umekcepcf Ia the recent con-
test NJ Carson City, New, Is one of the
eastern syndicate who wants to back
John L. Sullivan against Bob Fitzsim-
mons for the championship. Colville
said X the champion would fight Sulli.
van he can have a chance for c large
stake, that sullivan had begun to get
himself Into shape and that his friends
meant business and have posted for
felt.
CYSTmANA, Ind, was recently visit
ed by tornado, which did much dam
age. The opera house, one brick build
ing and one dwelling were demolished
Barns, chimncys, fences, orchards and
other property went down before the
gale.
RECENTLY two men entered the home
of d. Jones near Wymore. Neh,. and
frightfully tortured him by burning
him 10 make him tell where his money
was. Jones crawled the next morning
to n neighbours house, where he died il
horrible agony.
AT Andrews. Ind, two grocety stores
meat market, b Warehouse and resi-
dence were destroyed by fire on the ed
One man was fatally burned. The fir,
was supposed to have been incendiary
AN epizootic of glossitis reeehtly
broke ont AMONG the horses of st.
Louis. Thousands of horses were af-
aicted and the veterinarians rcapcd u
rich harvest in consequence.
THE supreme court of the United
States on the ed announced its deci-
sion that the agreement in the Trans
missouri Freight association ID main.
tnin rates within its territory was a
violation of the antitrust law of 1890
contracts or combinations
in restraint of trade and must be aban-
doned. This reversed the decision of
the court below,
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over sec
ton of Georgia and Alabama on the
I'D. The town of Blakeley, Ca, was
almost lifted out of existence and many
people were injured by falling timbers.
The academy at Arlington, Ga, was
wrecked and eight children were taken
out dead and five other persons were
wounded. The scenes around
the school We're heart-rcnding. A
family Of five was also reported killed
near Geneva, Ala.
THE senate committee on Indian af-
fairs has under consideration bill ap-
priating $4,000 "for improving the
ground of the battle field ut Lexing-
ton, Mo-, providing that the ground
itself shall be purchased and paid for
by the citizens of Missouri"
A SEVERE windstorm struck jackson,
Miss, on the 10th. Heavy trees were
nprooted. outbuildings destroyed and
much other damage done.
THE American dramatists and man.
ayers celebrated the passage of the
amendment to the copy
right law by banquet at Delmonico's.
New York, on the Goth to the members
IF congress who helped to pass the
bill. Senator Platt, OF Connecticut,
was one OF the principal speakers.
A MOB tried to break into the Jail ut
Ala, to lynch negro min
ster named John Smith. who was con-
ined there for an assault on woman.
All the efforts Of the mob to get in,
however, were fruitless, but the negro
vas espied fearfully watching them
rom his cell window and several men
opened fire on him and killed him.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Ottum-
va, Ia, on the 2lst in business block
IN Main street which destroyed prop
,rty valued ut sls0,000.
THROUGHOUT Arkansas, Tennessee
md Mississippi many lives were re-
,orted lost on the 10th through the
loods and the railroads were heavy
ufferers. 1t was reported also that
he levee ut Hill House, Miss, had
,rolsen, flooding the farms in that To-
ality.
RICHARD MANSFIELD, his wife and
TX children were drowned in Henry
ounty, Ala. They lived on the river
,ank and the water rushed into their
abin and oil were lost.