Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-09


eastern Indiana and northeastern Ken
lucky report phenomenal waterspouts
there on the 5th. Portions of the
country We're completely inundated,
causing great loss of property and
damage to crops.
THE village of ST. Charles, Ill. was
visited by cyclone recently and a
building was blown down and five
persons were killed. Fears were en-
tertained that some more were in the
ruins.
AT Durant, !. t., an officer tried to
arrest James Taylor when general
fight ensued and pistols were freely
used. Taylor, Dave Echols and Ed
Bohannon were killed.
A PASSENGER train on the St Louis.
Iron Mountain & Southern road col
lided with a wild engine recently near
GAINESVILLE, Ark, and was wrecked,
thirteen passengers being injured,
none fatally. however.
AT Chicago Receiver McNulta, of the
whisky trust, announced that owing
to the advance in the price of corn he
has decided to increase the price OF
spirits cents per proof gallon
THE bank at Orion, Ill, was robbed
early on the 5th. AS nearly as can be
ascertained three men were concerned
in the affair. About 5000 was Sc
cured.
The corrected list of the killed in the
cyclone around Sioux Center, Ia, on
the Sd numbered ten and SO, 600, it
was stated, would cover the property
damaged.
THE failures for the week ended
May Dun's report) were 231 in
the United States. against 233 last
year, and "a in Canada, against 35 last
year.
THE coroner's jury at Lowestoft,
Eng, which has been Investigating the
sinking of the North German Lloyd
steamship Elbe, after a collision which
occurred early in the morning of jan
nary 3d. returned a verdict on the 1st
of gross negligence upon the part of
the first mate and lookout man of the
British steamer Crathie, which ran
into and sank the Elbe.
The Galveston, Tex, jetties were
said to be success the Spanish steam
ship Vivana, laden with cotton and
drawing II feet inches, passing safely
over the bar During the shipping sea-
son, from September 1 to April 80, 242
foreign vessels laden with cotton, cot
ton meal and oil cake had left the port,
carrying tonnage nearly double that of
last season.
The movement in opposition to the
sound money convention to be held in
Memphis, Tenn, May %, assumed def
mite shape in that city on the I'd. The
Central Bimetallic league of Tennessee
was organized. A silver convention,
to be composed of delegates from the
south and west was called to meet at
Memphis June il and IL, and extensive
plans were outlined for the propaga-
ton of the doctrine of free coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
A MOVEMENT was on foot among the
prohibitionists of the east to support
Hon. John G. Wool1ey, of Minnesota,
as the presidential candidate of the
prohibition party in the campaign of
1896. It was announced that Mr.. Wool
ley had the support of Miss Frances E.
Willard and other leaders of the w. G.
T. o., who would strongly support his
nomination.
BRUCE MILLER, one of the best known
ranchmen of the Creek nation, was
killed at ingalls,, Ok, recently. He
had been very prominent in trying to
run down the Daltons and they had
made many threats to kill him. Two
men slipped to window where he was
drinking with some friends and shot
| him. The men mounted their horses,
which were tied near by, and made
| their escape without their Identity be-
| ing found out.
Two Chicago policemen attempted to
arrest three negroes, suspected of bur-
glary, when they opened fire on the of
ficers, who returned it. One negro
was shot dead and an officer badly
wounded.
| Mrs. ELLEN SULLIVAN, 81 years old,
while in the j efferson Market court at
New York for the purpose of having
ual drunkard, with his consent, looked
| toward him and cried: 81 can't do it,
Johnnie. l can't do it. It's breaking
my heart to send you away" She
stopped, fell and was carried out to a
rear room, where she died immedi-
ately.
THE Autorite of Paris on the 1st said
that seven teen soldiers had died in the
military hospital at Vitre from eating
American timed meat. It was added
that thirty-four others were i'll, suffer
ing from the effects of having partaken
of the meat.
THE night express on the Chicago &
| Alton railroad, northbound, was at
tackled near Carlin vile, ILL.,, by three
masked men who climbed over the ten
der and ordered Engineer Frank
Holmes to stop the train and immedi-