Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-01-05

mencing in the rear of the continental
block, Douglas avenue and Fifteenth
street. The damage footed up $780,
0OO
A DECISION of the courts in the Car
bon case insures Wyoming to the demo-
Gratis
TEAMS are crossing the river on the
ice at Davenport. La
THE Lane Theological seminary will
stand by Prof Henry P. Smith, convict
ed of heresy.
A DISASTROUS dynamite explosion oc-
CURED at the entrance of tunnel az
Long Island City, l.. 1. Buildings for a
considerable distance were DESTROYED
and many persons lost their Ives. The
explosion was caused y swerkmers
thawing dynamite.
ANOTHER disastrous fire occurred at
Milwaukee on the 2Sth, the south side
plant of the street railway company be-
ing destroyed at loss of $4,000. 1t
was evidently incendiarv as a miscreant
was seen to throw something, which ex-
ploded into a mass of flames Immediate
ly afterward
JACOB YoEs, United States marshal
for western Arkansas. denies that he
has appointed Bill Dalton a deputy.
been sentenced to be strangled and
many to long terms of imprisonment
PILLsBURY academy, Owatonna, Mimi,
has been destroyed by fire.
THE sixteen Indians brought in by
Mexican troops for massacre in Chi
huahua two months ago will be shot
YELLOW fever has appeared at Bahia,
South America
STURNBURG's three story brick at San
Antonio, Tex, burned recently. Loss,
about $50, 900.
A TERRIBLE explosion of giant powder
occurred in the Eclipse tunnel near
Monarch, Col, in which Frank Lander
and William Shaw were fatally injured
and several others seriously injured,
CARNEGIE's steel works at Home
stead. Pa, have shut down for repairs
THE city hospital at Baltimore, Md,
has a patient whose body is swelling
out like balloon.
Bob SLAvIN, the famous minstrel, was
found dead in bed at Toledo, o. He
was with Crawford Bros minstrels.
For some time he was a principal in Nc
Nish, johnson & Slavin's troupe.
AT Des Moines, Ia, Peter Suffer in fit
of jealousy murdered his wife with a
hammer, crushing in her skull. Suffer
was one of the wealthiest citizens of
Des Moines.
CAPT. MYERS, Eleventh infantry, had
a brush with kid" the Apache, but
the renegade escaped in the darkness.
A TRAIN run into street car at Forty
seventh street and Stewart avenue, Chi
cago. Four passengers in the street
car were killed and eight seriously in
jured. The accident was due to gross
care1essnesS and several arrests were
made.
ANOTHER bomb was exploded in Paris
on the 29th, this time at the office of
the project of police. No one was
killed.
JUSTICE JOHN r. SHARPsTEIN, of the
supreme court of California, died at
San Francisco recently. He was born
at Richmond, N. Y, May %, 1928.
AN attempt was made to rob the
bank at Gillian, Mo-, by a country boy.
who turned bandit. He was outwitted
and captured by the brave cashier. The
robbers brother was arrested as an ac-
complete.
Two gamblers committed suicide at
Monte Carlo One was an unknown
American, aged %, who lost e3, 500 be-
longing to his mother and intrusted to
his care.
The high school building in Mar
shalltown, Ia, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, 500, 900; insurance, $4,000. The
building was one of the finest educa-
tional institutions in the state.
The first and final account of the es-
tate of the late Congressman Samuel j.
Randall shows that he left property
valued at S7s9.74. while the fees of I'M
dertakers and physicians who attended
him were 81, 1914. Is.
WILLIAM MCEwAN, of Glasgow, Scot
land, who coaxed to his home one night
last October an unfortunate woman,
and murdered and horribly mutilated
her, has been sentenced to death.
The pugilistic encounter at the Coney
Island Athletic club between Plimmer,
of England, and McGrath, of Ireland,
was won by Plimmer.