Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-31

ton to operate their cars. The troops
were also being withdrawn.
THE tug Sea King reported at New
London, Conn, that she had lost a tow
of five barges off Point Judith in a re-
cent gale. Ten men and three women
were drowned.
Two men were fatally and five other
persons seriously injured in a collision
between two electric cars near Wilkes
barre, Pa. The collision occurred on
sharp curve and the motormen did not
see each other until the cars were close
together.
Two children of Thomas Williams,
who lives near Lima, O., were fatally
burned. The father was away from
home and the mother was at the sta bic.
She rescued one child and was fright
fully burned herself, but the other
child was dead before she reached it.
Mrs. Williams will recover, but the
other child will die.
JOHN BALDEs fell 275 feet down a
coal shaft at Springfield, ILL.,, and al
most every bone in his body was
broken.
THE Santa Fe railway has notified
its conductors to be on their guard
against forged annual passes which
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JOHN SNYDER and Bridget Murphy
were run over and killed at Coulter
vile, Pa, by Baltimore e. Ohio train.
The couple were walking along the
track on their way to church and, step
ping from one track to escape the west
Newton accommodation, got in front
of the limited, which was going toward
Pittsburgh at terrific speed. Their
bodies were thrown SO feet and were
horribly mangled.
THE Mckinley Coal Co., of Pitts
burgh. Pa, reported the loss at Hicl1-
man. Ky, of tow Of eighteen coal
hunks containing 432, 900 bushels of
coal, valued at 100000.
ALL. the collieries of the Lehigh &
WilkesbarFe Coal Co. were to be idle
during the week commencing the 2sth.
Eight thousand men would be without
employment. Superintendent Lowell
said the coal trade was never known
to be SO dull
NEAR Natchez, Miss, a 1latboat con-
tanning two men, a woman and child
was capsized in whirlpool and all on
board We're drowned. The occupants
of the boat were unknown.
SEVERE storms recently prevailed all
over the coasts of Great Britain. In
SCOGlduo Ol1t Idll OI SHOW was
larly heavy. fishing boat belonging
to Dunbar, with crew of seven on
board, was lost, and off Cornwall
vessel with a crew of fourteen men had
gone down.
Mrs. MARGARET MCVERNEY drowned
two of her children at her home at
Boston and after laying them out for
burial, went to the police station and
told the police. The woman was in
sane.
The treasurer of the South Carolina
& Georgia railway, accompanied by an
employee, was bearing a bag of money
to the railway Office at Charleston, S.
c., when they were attacked by two
men, who fred a pistol at them and
seized the bag of money and escaped.
The street was crowded at the time.
AN official dispatch announced that
the Japanese captured Yuen Chang
Shen on January 20 and that on jan
uary % force of 10000 Chinese again
attacked the Japanese positions. but
were repulsed with heavy loss, leaving
1 LOO dead on the field. The casualties
on the Japanese side were twenty
eight men wounded.
Two 15-year-old boys, Dock Duke and
Lee Day, of Ogden, ILL.,, while return
ing from school at that place the other
evening, engaged in a fight, when
Duke stabbed Day dead.
ADVICEs received from Wei-Hai-Wei
report that the Japanese had been re-
pulsed with considerable loss. The
Chinese took nine Japanese prisoners.
Foreigners were leaving and a panic
prevailed. The telegraph station on
Chin Chen islands between Chez Foo
and Wei-Hai-Wei had been abandoned.
Traffic between the two towns was in
terrupted.
FIRE broke out in the kitchen on the
top floor of the Hotel Vendome, New
York, and gained considerab BILE head
way before the fremen got to work.
There was no panic. The damage,
which was mostly by water, was esti-
mated at $4,000.
AT the annual meeting OF California
pioneers at Chicago on the oath, $50
members were present representing all
parts of the country. The following
officers were elected: President, Addi-
son Ballard; vice presidents, George w.
HOtchkiss and Camden Knight; secre-
tary, Fl. III. Eastman; treasurer, George
G. Pope.
AT the town of Manitou, Man, the
Hudson Bay Co.'S store, the Stewart
hotel and several other buildings were
destroyed. The losses will aggregate
$50. 900 to $4,000
THREE children of William Rebeck
were alone at home at Mil1dale, XIV,
two bows and a girl under 10 wears old