Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
A scHooLBoY named Oscar Lamb

stopped to play In the Iron Mountain
railroad yard ut St. Louis. He board.
ed n freight train and when It began
to move he ran down the ladder, but
was knocked off by switch engine
and fcarfully mutilated.
A MAN while walking around the
corridor on the 18th floor of the cham.
Der Of commerce ut Chicago on the
25th suddenly drew revolver, shot
himself and then jumped over the rail-
ing into the court $50 feet below. A
letter in the mans pocket showed him
to be W. +. Mittman, q dancing
teacher.
CAswELLs mill ut Lowelltown, Me-,
was blown up on the 25th. Four men
were killed and several injured. The
mill was totally wrecked and the loss
was heavy.
NEGRO women of Tecumsch, Ok,
have appealed to Gov. Renfrow for pro-
lection. They claimed that the me-
groes in that town had been warned
to leave the country by whitecaps.
WILLIAM DONALDSON and his wife, n
young couple living at Carlyle, ILL.,,
have been indicted by the grand jury
under the statute which. provides that
first cousins shall not marry.
ELMER C. SArTLEY, the former cash
Ter of the wrecked Kansas City Safe
Deposit and Savings bank, was par
doned by Gov. Stephens on the Esd,
having served about two years Of his
four years sentence. He will make
his permanent home In Chicago.
The Chicago Times-Herald said on
the aIth that steps looking to the for
nation Of powerful alliance in oppo-
sition to the Bell Telephone Co. were
to be taken in Chicago.
AN explosion occurred at Armour &
Co.'S pepsin factory at Chicago on the
gath and the blaze which followed con-
sumed the building and contents Loss,
ST., 1000.
BY the bursting of still in NECTAR
rity's distillery at Hazelton, Pa, the
proprietor and laborcr were scalded
to death and Mrs. McGarrity was bad
ly burned in trying to save her hus'
band.
AT the six-day intercity relay bicy-
Gle race Mt Chicago between Chicago
and New York representatives Chicago
won, the score being Chicago, 2,oas
miles and laps; New York, 1910 miles
and o laps. Schinneer hung up new
record for an hours riding. making 90
miles and 8 laps; MacCarthy broke the
four-hour competitive record with SO
miles and 9 laps and John Lawson in
turn eclipsed the mark with SO miles
and . laps.
LYING helplessly i'll, with her three
year-old child asleep at her side, Mrs.
Nellie Dawson was shot and killed by
her husband, John Dawson. at Chicago
on the Esd. The shooting followed
quarrel.
THE big Rosena furnace ut New
castle, Pa, exploded on the esd, send
ing volume of coke, iron ore and
coal crashing through the roof and
burying about 30 men under the debris,
many of them being seriously injured.
LUCRETIA BoRGIA, brown colt, four |
years old, now holds the worlds record |
Tor four miles. She covered the dis
lance in the wonderful time of I'll at |
San Francisco on the Goth and that, |
900, in the face of u strong wind blow
ng down the back stretch. The record |
Ior four miles against time has stood
or 81 years, having been made by Ten
Brock, the celebrated distance horse,
IN September ~, 1876, at Louisville,
Ky.
An explosion of gasoline ut st. Louis
'esulted in the deaths of Mrs. Adama
dohr, her ls-months-old baby, Mrs.
3essic Howard and Hugo Howard, her
child, William Howard,
! five-year-old son, being also fatally
burned. Several other persons were
burned in attempting to res
ue the unfortunate victims.
A FARMER named Thomas Riddle, his
wife and three children were cremated
n their house in Tennessee, across the
inc from Monticello, Ky. Some tramps
lad asked permission to make n fire in
lis barn during the night and Mr.. Rid
lie had refused their request. Some
lours afterwards Riddles house burned
own and the family were roasted. 1t
vas supposed the tramps applied the
orch out of revenge.
THE four sons of George Bearden, n
armer in Caldwell county, KY, and
'arrie Woods were bitten by mad,
og and were said to be in serious
The dog died soon after
'iting them