Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-06-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

n KAT nunt was recently lnuulEcu In
by about 80 sports ut Newman. ILL.,,
and a,22O rodents were slain Nothing
but clubs and pitchforks were used as
weapons.
WHILE four young ladies named Min
ME McGuire, Alpa Taylor, Fannie
White and Sarah Bohring, each about
10 years old. were walking home from
church at Jacobsburg, o., on the 18th
they were struck by lightning and the
three former were killed and the latter
was stunned.
FIRE destroyed the large livery stable
OF j. r. Dendingcr ut Dallas, Tex. re-
Gently. Fourteen horses were ere
mated and n large quantity Of feed.
harness, implements and vehicles were
burned.
The national W. c. 7. U. officers have
issued u report at Chicago regarding
the work of the various state legisla-
lures this year in the line of W. {. I.
L. work.
Two men were drowned on the llud
son river near Fort Lee, n. Y, by q
squall overturning their yacht.
A PANIC occurred in polish school
house Mt Buffalo, n. Y, by hanging
lamp falling while an entertainment
was being given on the 18th. Many
were bruised and otherwise injured in
the mad rush for the exits.
A DELIBERATE attempt was made to
wreck train on the Sea Beach rail
way in New York city which was
loaded with eXcursionists by placing
steel rails across the track, but no Sc
rious damage was done.
The management of the Reading
pa iron works has decided TO close
down its tube mill indefinitely, throw.
ing out over 1000 men.
Mrs. john CAMERON, prominent
society lady of Pueblo, Col, was
fatally burned by the explosion Of
can of benzine with which she was
cleaning furniture. Her son was also
badly burned in trying to save her.
JAMES FRENCH was hanged ut the
county Jail at Rockford, ILL.,, for the
cold-blooded murder of his wife last
July.
A FESTIVAL was in progress in tenn
pie at Tien Tsin, China, when the in
fiammable materials strung inside
caught fire and terrible panic ensued
Men and women struggled for the
exits and trampled the weaker ones
and the children under foot. Over 100
people lost their lives
THE American National Association
of Masters of Dancing, in session ut
New York, elected J. w. Hawkins, of
Mansfield, o., president. Three new
dances were selected, the figures of
which will be kept secret until the
opening of the season.
THE jury in the case Of John Powell,
the member of the Cleveland baseball
club, charged with playing baseball on
Sunday and exhibiting the same, re-
turned a verdict Of guilty in both
counts. This settles the fate of Sun
day baseball in Cleveland, o.
The fatality from famine and plague
in China was reported 10 be appalling.
In one large town near Szechuan half
the population had persisted from
starvation and the fever that follows
in its wake. Along the route TO smaller
towns, numbers Of bodies laid decom-
posed in the streets while the sky was
black with vultures. Smallpox was
prevalent also in Tochege.
An attempt TO blow up the residence
OF Gov. Smith, Of the Leavenworth.. u
Kan, soldiers home, by dynamite was
made soon after four o'clock on the |
morning of the 18th. One entire side |
of the room In which Mrs. Smith was
was blown out and her escape |
from death was miraculous. Gov.
Smith was uninjured. A dishonorably
discharged veteran has been arrested |
for the crime.
GEORGE SHARON and Ben Billings be-
came involved in an alteration In o
saloon at Alta, CAL, and had q fight
sharon struck Killings with his fist
md broke the lstteF's neck, killing
him instantly. ]