Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-02


placed it in the coal car and attached
q slow fuse to it. Deputy Warden Mel
son and assistants were passing along
another entry to bring the convicts
out for the night, and when they ar
rived opposite the bomb it exploded
Nelson was instantly killed and Guards
Terrell and Thurman slightly wounded.
a negro convict named Pete Hamilton
was killed by volley from the other
guards. Escape was the object of the
mutineers.
j. T. BowDEN, who achieved motor
iety as the manager of the Duva1 Ath-
letic club, which organization pulled
off the Corbett-Mitchell fight last Feb
ruary, was horsewhipped to within an
inch of his life at Jacksonville, Fla,
on the 27th by the husband of a woman
whom it was alleged he had insulted.
FAILURES for the week ended July 81
Dun's reportl were 249 in the United
States, against 36s last year; in Canada
80, against % last year.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities of the United States for
the week ended July 81 showed an av
erage decrease as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 1870;
in New York the decrease was 2O.7;
outside, 81
THE Wel1man Arctic expedition was
reported safe on the 9th, Norwegian
sealer having spoken the Ragnvald
Jarl.
The steamer Decraitis collided with
ferryboat at Grodneau, on the river
Nieman, Russia. Fourteen people lost
their lives through the accident, and
eleven others were severely injured.
DUN's review of trade for the week
ended the 27th said the uncertainty
about the tariff bill overshadowed in
dustries. Wheat had sold below SIS
cents, making the monthly average
the lowest known in New York. Corn
was stronger on account of reports of
injury to the crop. Sales of wool were
greatly swelled by speculation in the
belief that it would advan ce sharply if
tariff changes failed.
THE steam yacht Alert, owned by S.
T. johnson, of Clayton, N. Y, was run
down and sunk by the steamer Islander
off Round island 1t was reported
that several persons were injured.
FIERCE forest fires were reported
raging in Wisconsin and several towns
were nearly wiped out of existence,
many people rendered homeless and
others compelled to fee for their lives.
| Forty million feet of timber was
burned at Mason alone. Several rail-
road bridges were also DESTROYED.
The Syrian Temple Shriners from
Cincinnati at Denver, Col, went on
thousand mile tour of Colorado in a
special train and the other visiting
shriners scattered to points of interest
or started homeward on the Goth. The
next annual session of the imperial
council will be held the first Monday
after the Knights Temp1ar conclave in
August, 1895, at place to be selected
| by a committee named for that pur-
| pose.
JOHN COLLINS, a market gardener of
| Birmingham, Ala, thought he heard
thieves in his garden on the night of
the oath and started to investigate.
He was followed by his daughter Mag
! gle. Mrs. Collins heard the two and
supposed them thieves. Arousing her
son William, he got his gun and shot
! both father and daughter. The former
is dead and the latter was reported dy-
ing.
THE first suit of the many that are
to be brought against the city of Chi
cago by the railroads for damages in
CURED during the strike was fled by
the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
railway on the goth. The suit will
serve as test lease and is for S. damage
to freight car.
JOE CRAIG, an expoliceman of Los
Angeles, Cal, killed his divorced wife,
her brother, George Hunter; his
father-in-law, William Hunter, and
then attempted to shoot himself, but
only succeeded in making a flesh
wound.
DEBs and his associates were ar
raigned for trial on the 23d in Chicago.
AT Carlisle, KY, mob broke down
the Jail doors, took out William Tyler,
colored, and hanged him to the cross
arm of telegraph pole. Tyler had
been put in jail to answer to the charge
of criminal assault upon a 13-year-old
girl, whom he had choled and beaten.