Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-29


c. B., near Kansas City, Mo-, a pas
senger and freight train met in col
ision. Engineer Saeger was killed
Much loss was sustained.
A TERRIBLE threshing machine acct
dent occurred on the Grandin farm.
Mayville, N. d. The boiler burst and
six men were killed
FIERCE and destructive storms are
reported in Germany. Switzerland,
Spain and Great Britain.
ADELBERr COHEN was hanged a
midnight at Fergus Falls, Mimi, fos
the murder of Rosa Bray.
SECRETARY TRACY, himself q great
horse fancier, thinks trotters will yet
go a mile in two minutes u
SALroN lake, Arizona, about which
so much was said some time ago, is dis.
appearing.
THE United States grand jury at
Sioux Falls, S. D., has indicted the
managers Of the Louisiana lottery.
The government inspired the prosecu-
ton.
A RIOT was feared near Monongahela
City, Pa The coal operators were
flooding the district with Huns and
negroes, which greatly excited the
strikers
BUSINESS failures Dun's review) for
the seven days ended October % num-
bered 249, compared with $50 the
previous week and 225 the correspond
ing week Of last year.
THE arming of the Berlin police with
carbines, which virtually converts them
into a regular soldiery, is due to the
great apprehension felt by the authori-
ties that winter will be attended by
great suffering among the poor and
perhaps by consequent disturbances.
A BATTLE took place in southern
Manitoba recently between a band of
full blood Indians and the Canadian po-
lice. One policeman and two Indians
were killed. Several were wounded.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended October % showed an average
decrease of 81 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was So
THE national board of appraisers in
New York city has been hearing the
test case brought by the Wooden Manu-
facturers' association to force higher
duties on imported woolens-
In a collision on a curve between two
heavy freight trains on a branch of the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad, near
Lake City, Ia, both trains were
wrecked NJ. r. Haynen and George
Stein. both brakemen, were instantly
killed. Engineers Collins and Nc
Allister were probably fatally injured
THE annual report of Brig. Gen Du-
Barry, commissary-general of subsist-
ence in the army, is mainly statistical,
but it contains an interesting paragraph
in regard to the necessity of having bet
ter cooks.
MRS. MARY FOUNTAINE was killed
and several others injured by rum
away near Elk Point, S. d. Andrew
Wyman, the driver, was drunk at the
time.
HENRY BAssE, a farmer, was found
dead on the roadside near Grand Forks,
N. D. Investigation showed he had
drunk quantity of carbolic acid in
place of alcohol.
AT Bessemer, Ala, Postmaster Sam
uel Mullin jumped from his carriage
while the horse was running away.
His skull was fractured.
OF the A, 500 seal skins caught in
Behring sea this season 1000 were
taken by sixteen Nova Scotia schoon-
ers fishing in that water. The results
have been SO encouraging that Nova
Scotia capitalists are now fitting out a
fleet
AN epidemic of influenza in a severe
form is prevalent in Snesia. Five hum
dred cases of the affection and several
deaths are reported from Munsterberg
OFFICIAL notifications have been
given to the bureau of American re-
publics in Venezuela that the duties on
corn, beans, peas and rice, the free adj
mission of which had been permitted
since April 20, have been restored
THE new United States cruiser
Charleston created a. great sensation
on it's arrival in Japanese waters and
was visited the first day by over 90, 600
people.
The gin belonging to the Sherman
(Tex.) Oil & Cotton Co., together with
$50 bales of cotton, burned. Loss, $50,
600; fully insured. The electric light
plant was badly damaged.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
A TRAIN OF thirteen coal cars went
through bridge over a creek at Good
water, near Birmingham, Ala The
caboose caught fire and two men were
killed and their bodies burned.
A MIRAGE in the Caribbean sea caused
the loss of the American barkentine
Steadfast, bound from Port of Spain to
Philadelphia
THE Irish-American republican
league of Illinois met in Chicago recent
ly and was addressed by Gov. Fifer. Its
purpose was purely political
THE health authorities have been
notified of an extensive outbreak Of
pleuro-pneumonia in the south part OF
London. In one dairy fifty cows have
been killed.
LUCY JEwETr and Sarah Preate,
went to Terre Haute, Ind, from Paris
Ill. stopping at a hotel near the depot.
Next morning both were found dead in
bed. They had blown out the gas.
THERE was stock jobbing rumor Sc,
afioat in the United States on the cath
that Queen Victoria was dying. She
was in her usual health.
SECRETARY BLAINE returned te
Washington on the gath and called OF
the president. He declared that hi:
health was first class
MORE than a million citizens of this
country have signed the petition to the