Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-05


the 2sth and was wrecked. The en-
CINE turned over down an embank-
ment. Engineer Boisclair escaped by
jumping, but was badly injured. Fire
man Jack Hale was caught under the
locomotive and was scalded and crushed
to death. Another brakeman, who
jumped, was badly injured. Several
cars were wrecked and much damage
done.
BY the explosion of some fireworks
on the rear platform of the special train
bringing home from the Illinois state
convention the marching club of the
Cook county democracy, eight of them
were burned. The accident occurred
at Bloomington. The report was
started that an attempt had been made
to blow up the train. Great excite
ment ensued.
YALE won the annual boat race from
Harvard with ease on the 2sth.
THE triangular freshmen's race be-
tween Yale, Harvard and Columbia
was rowed on the 2sth and resulted in
the triumph of Yale, Columbia second
and Harvard third.
THE colonization movement among
the strikers of the coke region of Penn
sylvania was getting into shape on the
2sth. Several agents of the Canadian
government mingled among the strik-
ers at the great Connellsville meeting
and distributed circulars in lavish
language showing the great benefits to
be derived from removing to Manitoba.
THREE female experts, Drs. Sarah
,HaclSett Stevenson, Harriet Alexander
and Florence w. Hunt, were witnesses
in the Prendergast insanity hearing at
Chicago on the 2sth. They testified
that the assassin was an imbecile and
that his brain was not developed.
Other witnesses were examined, among
them Mrs. Prendergast, the mother of
the prisoner. She testified that there
had been insanity in the family.
A DANISH official at Godthaad in
Greenland, writes under date of May
80 that whaler had reported that
Boring and Kallstenius, the young
Swedish botanists, who set out in 1892
on voyage of discovery toward the
north pole in a forty-five-ton vessel,
the crew of which only mum bered five
men all told, had started in small
open boat in an attempt to reach Lab
rador.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities of the United States for the
age decrease as compared with the cor
responding week of last year of 2O.5; in
New York the decrease was 3O.3; out
side, 60.
FAILURES for the week ended June %
were PA in the United States, against
BOZ last year; in Canada 35, against 81
last year.
DUN's review of trade for the week
ended June % said that the demand
for products was smaller than was
expected. Textile fabrics were embar-
raised by probable changes in the
tariff. Wheat had declined 2 cents.
Corn had also declined, receipts being
larger than of wheat and a heavy crop
expected. Pork products were a shade
lower.
THE members of the A. R. q. struck
on the Goth at Terre Haute, Ind, be-
cause Pullman cars were being used.
The Rock Island road, it was said at
Chicago, would be tied up on the both.
All the trainmen at the Chicago Union
stock yards struck at night on the Goth.
The officials of the Santa Fe believe
the strike had spent its force so far as
their lines were concerned. At EN-
poria, Kama the yards were filed with
| loaded freight cars, the regular pas
senger trains, however, passing. All
the Santa Fe employees were out at
| Florence, Kan. Santa Fe trains We're
unable to get away from Denver, Col.
| The Southern Pacific west of Ell Paso
and Deming was paralyzed.
IN Denver, Col, fire destroyed the
public tramway and ore bins together
with bins of the Veteran, Enterprise
and Aspen mining and smelling com
panies' mines. The loss amounts tc
$50, 900, with no insurance.
| COMMISSION houses at the stock yards
! Chicago, have notified clients in Iowa
Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Texas and
other states not to ship stock unless
railways agree to deliver shipme nts
and be responsible for long delays.
| ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES
THE Chesapeake & Ohio express
bound for Cincinnati. which left Wash
ington over the Richmond & Danville
tracks. ran into the rear end of q
freight train at the siding near Rapi
dan, Va. Both trains were badly dam
aged and several severely injured.
A wINDsToRM of unusual severity
swept over eastern Arkansas and west
ern Tennessee on the 1st. Telegraph
CelepIlOnS anu urOlley wires were pros
trated in Memphis and street car traffic
seriously injured. Steamboats, were
blown from their mornings on the river
and drifted helplessly before the gale
THE remains of the murdered Carnot
late president of the French republic
were laid to rest in the Pantheon a
Paris, an immense assemblage witness
ing the procession.
The strike situation on the 1sI seemed
to be getting darker. The Illinois Cen
trail was completely blockaded. Thu
war department has ordered two com
panies of infantry to Trinidad, Col, t.
aid the Santa Fe in moving its trains
At Indianapolis everything pointed t.
a general tie-up. At st. Paul, MINI.
, the freight business was completed,
; stopped. At Kansas City the Rock Isl
and was tied up.
THE Allan line steamer Scandinavia
, Capt. Gunsen, which has arrived a
, Greenock. Scotland, from Boston, re
ports having been in collision with a
, iceberg in midocean. a large hole wa
. knocked in the steamer 4 feet abov
the water line and her bowsprit an