Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

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ashore at. E6rek Cal, was = tota1 loss
neer. Vas the only pelSon drowned. The
vessel and cargo were valued ut So, 600.
CREAM puffs poisoned Mrs. R. Sorenson,
ker three children and her father, Nels
Marcus, recently at Chicago, three proba-
bly, fatally. The puffs were poisoned by
the tin dish in which they were made.
JOHN FRAME and Nicholas Hammond.
nineteen years old, were drowned while
skating on the Calumet river, near Ham
mond. Ind, recently.
Two men were crushed to death under
six hundred tons Of hard coal at Cleve-
land, O., recently by the breaking OF
bin.
BECAUSE her husband danced with an
other woman at q ball in Duluth, Mimi,
the other night, Mrs. Zeus, aged twenty,
took strychnine.
BAUEREIsEN, the alleged 80" dynamiter,
was convicted at Geneva, ILL.,. on the 18th
and sentenced to two years. imprison-
ment.
In the live bird shooting match at
Cincinnati the other day, between Captain
Bogardus and AL Bandle, the score re-
suited: Bandle, 100; Bogardus, So.
THE overland eastbound Central Pa
cific train was held up by robbers near
Clipper Gap, in the Sierras, on the 18th
and robbed of a large amount of money,
said to be $50, 900.
hurt by the falling of earth in an excava-
ton at Denver, Col, on the 26th. The ac-
cident was due to carelessness on the part
of the gas company in laying a pipe.
A BROKEN switch at Helene, Mont, on
the Goth, caused the death of q fireman
named Moore and serious injury of pas
senger. The engine and one coach were
overturned.
WILLIAM WEsTERNBERGER died Of hy-
drophobia at Logan, O.. recently. The
night prior to his death the physicians put
tore to pieces. It took four or five strong
men to hold him when attacked by con-
vulsion.
Ex-JUDGE ROBERT A. JOHNSON commit
ted suicide at Avondale, near Cincinnati,
recently. About two months ago Mrs.
Johnston died. and the Judge was unable
to withstand his grief.
A GROCERY store on South State street,
Chicago, was destroyed by an incendiary
fire early the other morning, and an UNI
known man, supposed to have been burg
lar, was burned to death. A barrel of oil
exploded during the fire and Frank Polo,
who was standing outside the store, was
fatally burned.
NEAR Terpp, Oak. the other morning a
number of Russian settlers got into q
quarrel with American settlers over the
possession of goose. The result was
that several Russians were stabbed, but
not fatally, while one of the Americans
was fatally injured.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY's daughter, Olive,
was married recently to Chester Allen
Snider, Of Kansas City, at st. Paul's Epis-
copal Church, Sprin gfeld, Ill.
E. L. HARPER, the Cincinnati bank
wrecker who be came insane recently, has
recovered so far that he has been again
placed at work in the Ohio penitentiary.
EARLY the other morning the town of
Auburn north of Grand Forks, OAK, was
almost wiped out by fire. the business por-
ton of the place being destroyed. A
scarcity of water and fire apparatus made
the buildings an easy prey to the flames.
INCENDIARIEs destroyed the big sawmill
at Norrie, Wis, during the recent storm,
causing $65, 900 loss.
The lamp of a sleeping pumpman in the
NOrrie mine near Ironwood, Mich, caused
81 900 damage the other night.
Two men were overcome by foul gas in
a we'll at Saline, Mich, recently and died
before they could be rescued.
MICHAEL KELLY, the noted Chicago
brewer, died the other morning, aged
fifty mine.
xAE SOOVAs
BY the burning of the Katie Adams forty
miles south of Memphis. Tenn. on the
Mississippi river on the morning of the
23d, thirty five lives were lost, mostly by
drowning.
A SERIOUS fire destroyed the Western
Union telegraph Office and other buildings
at Marion, Ala, recently. Loss not stated
THE through passenger train to Nash
vile and the South, on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad ran into the Knoxville
branch passenger train at Bardstown
junction. twenty five miles south of Louis
vile, KY, the other morning. Two pas
sengers were killed outright and clever
in ured.
BAXTER COURT, the handsomest build.
ing in Nashville Tenn, burned the o he,
night. Loss. $780, 600; insurance, $50, 900.
AT jackson. Miss, the other day, Lem.
| uel Roseman stabbed and killed Franz
Hughes, colored, barber, in a dispute
about % cents.
Miss MARY KENsARD, one of the injured
| in the railway collision at Bardstown
| KY, has died in Louisville from the effects
| Of her injuries.
By an explosion in an iron mill at Wheel.
w. Va, the other day William Miles bad
both eyes burned out and was otherwise
disfigured. Two other men were badly in.
| jured.
FARMER CHAMBERS was shot and killed
recently at Alma, Ark, by George Keyes
who was carelessly handling pistol.
| THE other night house near Harrison.
burg, Va, in which a number of colored
people were holding party, was blown w
| with dynamite and some Of the inmates, il
is said, were seriously injured.
The Commercial of Chattanooga, Tenn.
a Republican campaign paper, has sus.
pended. Lack of support was the cause.
The Richmond (Va.) Wing has sus.
pended. Its goodwill was purchased by
| the Richmond Times.
The report of race war at Lamar
| Miss. was denied.
The louisville (Ky.) Trotting Associa.
ton, John e. Green, president. has ceased
| to exist. s
MICHAEL O,MARA. aped two,tr-+h.o,