Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-20


The fugitive Walton. who stole $685.
600 from the Pacific Express Company
at Dallas, Tex. has been traced to To-
ronto, Ont.
A STREET car was smashed by Pam
handle train at Newark, O., recently,
A man and . woman were fatally In
jured.
THE fourteen-gun British steel and
iron corvette Conquest has gone ON the
rocks of the island of Pemba, above
Zanzibar, and viii probably prove a
total loss.
moving locomotive on the McKeesport
were killed and three badly hurt
THE long overdue steamship Domira,
from Glasgow, December 81, for Balti-
more, has reached port after q terrible
experience. One seaman was lost
A MRS. DANA, of Tennessee, is the
latest claimant to the millions left by
Thomas L. Bean, the mysterious Texas
cattle magnate. She claims that he
was her brother and his real name was
Sanders.
The European holders of Peruvian
bonds have decided to accept the Grace
contract recently made by Peru.
An awful story is reported from Craw-
louisville, Ark. A young man named
Corvett outraged and murdered a young
lady relative and was seized by an in
furiated mob, who chopped him up and
burned the remains.
SAM JONES, the evangelist it is said,
will locate on the valuable ranch he has
bought for himself in Kentucky, near
Emiuouca ssz.,t. ~
w. r. SAUNDERS, q deputy United
States marshal, has been assassinated in
Gadsden County, Fla.
THE Sixth annual convention Of the
Electric Light Association ended at
Kansas City, No., on the 14th. M. j.
Perry was elected president
THE great university at Toronto. Ont I.
has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, $164, 900.
BROWN BROTHERS & Co, perfumers of
Baltimore, have failed, with 500, 900
liabilities
AN unknown lumber laden ship went
to pieces on Vancouver island, B. c., re-
Gently and all the crew were lost.
MILTON E. PAGE, manufacturers of
CONNECTIONS, of Chicago, has failed for
$3.50, 600.
APPLICATION has been made by the
Farmers Loan & Trust Company of
New York for the appointment of a re-
ceiver for the Missouri Central Railroad
Company.
THE Denver (Col.) police have arrested
two men charged with conspiring to
kidnap ex-senator Tabor and hold him
for $50, 900 ransom.
ROBERT GARRETT, late of the B. & O.,
~ tod 10 ,fyxy
seat in charge of two doctors Relatives
are ignorant of his whereabouts.
The decision of the Interstate Com
merce Commission in the celebrated
cattle case of the Rock Island VS.. the
Chicago & Alton was in favor of the
Alton.
passenger train were both killed at
18th. The mail agent was fatally in
| jured. Six or seven others were serious
| ly hurt.
| the seven days ended February 13 num-
| bered 302, compared with 321 the pre-
vious week and $50 the corresponding
week of last year.
AT Pontivy, France, the other day the
SOAACAO conveying q OIAUC dAu STOOH
| and a number of their friends was upset
and the whole party were precipitated
into the river. The bride and BRIDE
groom and ten others of the party were
drowned.
A YOUNG man named Tom James, for
merly of Kansas City, was killed by an
other young man named Bazina in a
pugilistic encounter of four rounds
| while the Muldoon-Kilrains show was at
Dallas, Tex, recently. James had re-
ceived terrific undercut blow and was
knocked senseless until his death.
A CYCLONE swept over the parish east
| of Carroll, La, on the 14th, injuring
property and livestock and hurting a
number of people, but fortunately csus-
ing no loss of life.
EUGENE CALLAHAN, eighteen years
old, at Cheyenne, Wyo., recently un.
successfully attempted the life of his
sixteen-year-old sweetheart and then
shot and killed himself.