Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-07-21
TIE condition of affairs in the Vim

THE condition of affairs in the Vim
cennes, Ind, national bank is serious
JENNIE COLEMAN was on trial at New
York for keeping disorderly house
Some Christian Endeavor women were
present in court and their sympathy
led to general flow of tears, in conse-
quence of which the woman got SEN
tence of ten days instead of six months
AT Elkhart, Ind. Theodore Thomp-
son, conductor on the Michigan divis-
ion of the Big Four, while assisting a
brakeman was instantly killed His
body was cut in two
JOHNNY MATHEWS, aged IL, was IA
tally injured at Shenandoah, Pa, while
pulling his brother, aged 9. from under
train.
THE Sunday school picnic at Aurora,
Ill, drew out nearly 10000 persons
AMERICAN flint glass makers were re-
Gently in convention at Corning, n. Y.
JOHN DYER, while blowing near Bon
ham, Tex, dropped his pistol. The bull
let passed through his body. coming
out near the spinal column. His case
was hopeless
THE Capitol hotel at Marshall, Tex,
has been destroyed by fire.
ALEXANDER MAaEE, aged %, dived
from a boat above Keolxuk, Ia, and
hurt himself in some way so that he
shortly sank and his body was not
found.
WORK has commenced on the Henne-
pin canal at Davenport. Ia, to connect
the Mississippi river with the lakes.
CHOLERA has appeared at Alexandria,
Egypt.
Mrs. CARR and a child were killed on
the West Shore tracks at West Haver-
straw, N. Y.
EDWARD MAcHEN was dragged to
death by mule at Hopkinsville, Ky.
A YOUNG daughter of Joseph Trunk,
a wealthy farmer of Kratzville, Ind. +,
was recently stamped to death by a
horse.
THE Dalton gang are credited with
another train robbery. The NJ, K &
7. train was held up at Adair station,
L T. Capt Kinney and three other
persons were wounded while attempt
ing to protect the company's property.
The safe was blown open and $40, 600
distracted.
GEN. SCHOFIELD received a telegram
on the 14th stating that the Ceur
d'Alene mining troubles We're over.
The non-union men had been dispersed
Though number of men had been
killed, there was not that destruction
of life and property which at one time
was feared.
THE steamer Nevada has been de-
tanned at quarantine at New Y orl with
suspicious case of sickness on board.
THE scale at the Coving ton, KY, roll
ing mills has been signed.
THE boiler at Baird S mill, near Gaines
vile, Fla, exploded Two men were
killed and several others seriously and
perhaps fatally injured.
w. H. WILSON, of Cynthiana, Ky, a
leading horseman, is dead.
DEPUTY sheriffs were mobbed by
strikers at the Hicksvil1e q. l. pearl
button works
DWIGHT E. CARROLL, an instructor in
the Lehigh university at Bethlehem,
Pa, desperately attempted suicide at
his home in Yalesville, Conn. He had
been delivering an address and was
guyed for fun by the audience SO that
he went delirious and took poison.
1T is probable that the senate COM
mittee on interstate commerce will re-
port favorably substitute for the bill
which passed the house requiring rail
roads 20 equip their rolling stock with
automatic couplers and power brakes.
The house bill is regarded as too dras-
tic.
CINCINNATI and southern Ohio were
visited by a severe storm on the 18th.
Many persons were injured and many
buildings were destroyed.
THERE was a wreck on the Louisville,
Evansville & ST. Louis near Evansville,
Ind. Ten persons were seriously hurt,
two fatally. 1t was caused by the pre-
mature turning of a switch.
THERE was wreck at the gravel pit,
Fort Worth, Tex A work car was
crushed and seven men were frightfully
mangled, three fatally.
THE department of agriculture claims
that meat inspection has added one
! cent pound to the price of hogs
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended July Is showed an increase of
1873. In New York the increase was
1914. Business generally was reported
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