Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24
Two men entered Mcwilliams' bank

Two men entered Mcwilliams' bank
at Odell, Ill, on the goth and ordered
Cashier Van Buslirk TO hold up his
hands and pass over the cash, but he
grabbed his revolver and they bolted
out A posse pursued the would'be
robbers and they were finally captured
In n cornfield and Landed In Jail.
AFFORD GoINGs and Ramsey Crosby,
two Choctaw Indians, were convicted
of the murder Of old man Goings, an
uncle OF Afford Goings, ut the Sulphur
Springs, l. T., court and were both
sentenced to be shot on August 81.
DISPATCHES received ut Atlanta, Ga,
on the Goth confirmed the report OF the
lynching of DIR. Rider, who murdered
Miss Sailie Owen ut Talbotton year
ago. The action of the mob was as
cribed to the indignation Of the people
ut the case being continued.
A CIRCULAR was issued from Peoria,
ILL.,, on the Goth by Grand Master Sar-
gent and Grand Secretary Arnold. Of
the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fire
men, to all subordinate lodges denom-
mating the present coal miners strike
a contest between labor and corporate
capital and asking the fircmen to con-
tribute literally to the assistance OF
the strikers.
AT Columbia, La, Carey Townsend
and Elisha Wilmington had 4 friendly
boxing match for the amusement OF
their friends when Wilmington dealt
Townsend heavy blow over the re-
gion Of the heart and he dropped to
the ground dead. Wilmington was
arrested.
The old Cheyenne and Arapahoe
warriors in Oklahoma who have more
than one wife have been assured that
the anti-polygamy law passed by the
last legislature will not be enforced
against those Indians who were mar
ried according to the tribal custom,
but all marriages contracted hereafter
must be strictly in accordance with the
law. This conclusion was reached ut
a conference held at Darlington be-
tween the encouragement and the
chiefs and representative men of each
tribe.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 10th said that It was believed that
the leaders Of the strilsing coal miners
contemplated calling on the railway
organizations for assistance.
THE steamer BENTON, recently taken
to Sioux City, Ia, from St Louis to en-
gage in the upper river traffic. collided
with the combination bridge draw and
sank in shallow water.
A NEGRO preacher named Edmondson
who had assisted Anthony Williams,
the negro murderer who was recently
lynched, to escape for time-was
caught by 400 pursuers at Florence
Ala. beaten to death with clubs, his
body riddled with bullets and then
hanged.
The reports Of mortgage and loan
companies doing business in Nebraska
show q proportion OF Indebtedness
paid during the six months ended July
/ that is most extraordinary. A close
estimate of the aggregate places the
amount paid during that time at $685.
900, 900. -
A DISPATCH from Antlers, /. T., said
that the Observation-Disclosures union
party proposed to treat with the Dawes
commission, provided the United States
government would buy all OF their
land outright. They would then form
colony. go to Mexico, buy land and
have their own laws.
ALL unions affiliated with the Chica-
no Federation of Labor will contribute
to the striking coal miners relief fund.
CHARLES STEVENS, who had been i'm
prisoned in the mammoth mine near
Phoenix, Ariz., since July 4, was res
cued on the evening Of the 18th. A
shaft had to be drilled through solid
granite and men worked without ces-
sation. Stevens had been without food
and water all the time.
THERE was big bicycle parade al
Chicago on the 18th under the auspices
of the Chicago Evening Journal.
Fully 5000 wheelmen were in line and
Mayor Harrison led the parade, being
next to an advance guard OF 800 police
men mounted on wheels.
TROUBLE was expected in the Pitts
burgh coal mining district as 1000 hall
starved strikers had determined te
march on the Cannonsburg mines In
order to get the miners there to quit
work.
Mrs. NANCY j. KILLEN was nailed IN
her house near Breedon, W. Va, and
the house set on FIRE by fiends. She
was burned TO death.