Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS.


GEORGE FRIEND has been arrested
and imprisoned at Springfield, Mo-, on
the charge of having killed Deputy
Sheriff Williams, of fancy county. His
brother-in-law, Milton Everett, has con-
fessed that he committed the deed.
DEFINING, the condemned wife MUIR
derer, in a confession to a clergyman
has declared that he was confined in
insane asylums when 10 and 16 years of
age. He made four attempts to murder
Emily Mather, his last wife, the first in
London and the others at Windsor. He
declared that he did not bury the body
himself and knew nothing of the ce-
rnent.
THE London grand jury returned
Vile Nugent, who is charged with hav-
ing assaulted Miss Marion Lymetta
Price in the compartment of carriage
on the London, Brighton &eSouth Coast
railway on the night of April Is.
Gov. SEAY, who recently returned
from the Arapahoe and Cheyenne reser-
walton, says the Indian trouble there
originated in dispute between Indians
and some white men over claim al
lotted to an Indian, which had ac-
cidentally been omitted from the gov
eminent list of allotments.
| THE secretary of the navy has ordered
| the Yorktown, Mohican, Adams and
| Rush to sail from Port Townsend for
Behring sea.
| The exact cause of the terrible eX-
p1osion in the coal mine at Roslyn,
Wash, in which forty-eight men per-
ished, will probably never be known, as
it is now certain that every man in the
mine was killed. The most reasonable
conclusion is that miner struck gas
pocket or feeder which suddenly filed
the slope and became ignited by the
miners lamps
| A TERRIFIC tornado passed two miles
northwest of Collinsville, Tenn, recent
ly, doing great damage to houses, live
| stock and fences The storm first struck
the farm of j. B. Cartwright, blowing
away several outhouses and destroying
a large amount of timber. The farm of
Chester Biggs, colored, was next visited.
His house was completely demolished.
Biggs was seriously hurt and several of
his family more or less injured by fall
ing timbers, chimneys, etc. Every tree
in his yard was twisted or torn up by
the roots, and the place was Uttered
with dead hogs, cows and fowls.
AUGUSTA and Towanda, Kan, were
visited by a cyclone the other day.
| Much damage was done to property,
but no lives were lost.
THE Union printers home at Colorado
Springs, Col, was dedicated the other
day. Addresses were delivered by Gov.
Routt, Mayor Sprague, Hon. George w.
Childs, August Donath, of Washington,
d. C.; Senator Gallinger, of New Hamp-
shire, and others. The National Ed.
itorial association in large numbers were
present.
THE Memphis bridge has been formal
ly opened and accepted by the govern
ment and tfae bridge company. Senator
Voorhees, delivered the grafton.
TwENTY-sEvEN houses were burned
in the residence portion of Savan
nah, Ga Loss about 100000. The
fire is thought to have been of incendiary
: origin.
THE town of Cheyenne in county F
Oklahoma, was visited by tornado ane
every tent and many buildings in the
) town We're blown down. The Arrow
was about to go to press when its build
ing was wrecked and the type scattered
: over the prairie.
New MEXIco's capital building a
Santa Fe was destroyed by fire. Loss
estimated at $3.50, 900, is total one, a
there was no insurance upon it
AT the session of the general confer
! ence of the a. NJ. E. 4. church at Pitts
burgh, Pa, Rev. DIR. Albert Walters, o
( New York. and Rev. Dr. J. c. Clinton
e OF North Carolina. were elected bishops
4 The will of the late William Asto
has been offered for probate in New
York The estate is valued at fron
d sSo.oo0,0oo to $50, 200, 900. Mrs Asto
receives the Newport and New Yorl
S houses and an annuity of $50, 900 De
S year. The daughters, Mrs Roosevelt
e and Mrs Wilson, each receive trus
e estates for life of $3.50, 600 and simila
q estate is divided among the four chi
i dren of Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton Cha,
Il ity receives $780, 200. The rest~is give
e in trust for life to John Jacob Asto,
the son9