Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-17

WO Su1C1OCS OCCuI1OO III Niagara 1dllS
on the 10th The first was an unknown
young woman who threw herself into
the water above the falls and resisted
a brave attempt at rescue. Two hours
later a young man said to be Albert
Heinrich, of New York, did the same.
MISS VERA AVA, q wealthy and prob
ported mysteriously missing in Chicago.
She was last seen at a Jesuit church
THE expert examination of the Key
stone bank books has been discontin-
ned, the %. 600 appropriated by congress
for making special examinations Of ma
tional banks throughout the country
having been used up
ANDREW j. CARoTHERs, for years at
The head of the colored alliance in the
south, is out in an open letter to his
people warning them against Hum
phrey's scheme of demanding exorbit-
ant prices for cotton picking.
The captain, several Of the crew and
forty cabin passengers of the Italian
steamer Taormina were drowned by
the sinking of the steamer. which was
in collision in the Egean sea with the
Greek steamer Thessalia.
A STEAM launch conveying non-union
laborers from Dublin to Londonderry
was sunk recently by collision with a
steamer in Tough Foyle, Ireland. Fiji
teen persons were drowned.
CORNELIUS REGAIN, an iron worker of
Bethlehem, Pa, has hiccoughed him
self to death He began hiccoughing
six weeks ago and tasted ever since
for relief. The attack was caused by
hernia
The prize fight at Hobolken, N. j.,
between McAuliffe and Gibbons, was
given to McAuliffe after the police had
interfered.
M. B. CURTIS, we'll known some time
ago as the chief actor in ''Saml of Po-
SEN" was arrested in San Francisco re-
Gently charged with the murder of a
policeman. Curtis was drunk and quar-
relsome and suddenly shot the officer
on nearing the station and fed Curtis
denied shooting. but it looked black
for him as he had the officers hand
cuffs on his wrists when captured
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended Septem Der 9
numbered 214, compared with 217 the
previous week and 1913 the correspond
ing week of last year.
HON All TAM has been assassinated
in his San Francisco laundry. Eight
Cinnamon have been arrested on sus-
picion.
A SCHOONER from Yarmouth, N. s.,
capsized in Halifax harbor. Sixteen
persons we're drowned.
The night express on the Central
railroad was held up near Savannah,
Ga, and the express car robbed. The
amount taken was not stated.
The county council at Plymouth,
England, has decided to erect a mem
orial tablet on the Barbican pier, to
commemorate the departure of the
Maydower, and also to erect pedestal
of freedom in the field near Plymouth,
in memory of the battle fought there
between the roundheads and the cava.
Tiers.
JACOB III. SHAFFER and two daugh.
tiers, Ella and Ida. attempted to cross a
railroad track in buggy ahead of q
passenger train at Warren, o. The
buggy was struck and Shaffer and Ida
instantly killed and the other daughter
seriously hurt
A TRAIN from Montezuma left the
track near Grinnell, Ia. Two coaches
were upset and about twenty persons
were injured, some seriously.
ONE man was killed and two fatally
injured by the fall of a trestle nea,
Lebanon, Pa
GEORGE WHITE, of Chicago, was
drowned at New York recently. He
was performing with balloon when il
suddenly descended into the Hudson
river.
WILLIAM EVERETT. member of the
legislature of Georgia, was terribly
beaten by Fred Cooper, grandson OF
ex-President Tyler:
ESQUIRE JOHNSON, living near Goshen.
Ind, is a physical wreck, a druggist
having given him a dose of saltpeter in
stead of salts.
PREMIER MERCER, of Quebec, i.
among those accused of implication in
the Bale des Chaleurs railway subsidy
steal.
JACOB ANMUND, a child aged 80. is
under arrest in New York for killing
his baby brother by pushing him off q
dock in New York.