Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-31
THOSE on board the flibusterins

United States government had ordered
an investigation into the matter and If
it is found to be reported Spain may
make a requisition upon this govern
ment for their delivery as pirates and
/ this government would have no alter.
native but to turn them over to the
Spaniards-
A TERRIFIC explosion of fire damp oc-
Cured in the mine of the Maule Coal
Co. at Princeton. Ind, on the goth and
six miners were killed, one was re ported
missing and eight others were rescued
almost lifeless- The scenes around the
mine were most pathetic, wives, moth.
ers and children stood weeping bitterly
and with blanched faces. waiting for
the bodies to be brought up
A LITTLE band of Is Texans, fighting
for the insurgents in Cuba. were
driven into a hole by the Spanish troops
and were entirely wiped out, but the
Texans sold their lives dearly, refusing
to surrender under flag of truce and
went down one by one crying ''Viva
Cuba Librer'
A PASSENGER train on the Rirming.
ham Mineral railroad went through a
bridge 81 miles from Birmingham,
Ala, and 20 people were killed, five
fatally injured and two badly wounded.
The entire wreck then took fire and
most of those killed were burned be-
yond recognition. The accident was
thought to have been caused by the re.
moval of rail on the bridge. relief
train sent to the scene was run into by
a construction train and one man was
crushed to death and several others
were more or less hurt
CHARLES H HOFFMAN, librarian OF
the United States supreme court since
1878, died at his home in Frederick, Md,
on the 27th of pneumonia. aged CT.
The decompoSed bodies of Charles
Bectler, his wife and three children,
were found by hunters in their house
near Hewitt, Mimi. Murder was sus.
pected.
A FIRE at New York on the a5th
partially destroyed the Polytechnic hos.
pital and compelled the removal of its
patients and drove score of families
from their homes in adjoining build
ings The damage done was S5UO, 600.
CHRISTIAN CHRISTENSEN has been
convicted of wife murder at Clarke, S.
D., and sentenced to the penitentiary
for life.
GEORGE E. DENMARK. seven years
DID, was killed by a trolley car at Chi.
cago on Christmas day and a mob tried
to lynch the motorman. A riot call
was sent to the police and they locked
up the motorman and conductor
THE crown prince of Corea made an
unsuccessful attempt at suicide re-
Gently. Poverty and political troubles
were the cause.
GEORGE WHITToN, the marshal OF
Stamping Ground, Ky, was shot and
fatally wounded by Tom Drummer
Whisky was the cause.
RAwLING & HAYNES department
store and the Colurn uia club at Ander
son, Ind. were destroyed by fire on the
GATH. Loss, 500, 600; one-third insured
A MooNsHINE distillery was located
about II miles from Corsicana. Tex,
and United States Marshal Warden ar
rested John Reese and his three sons
and took them to Dallas, where they
will be tried by the federal court. The
officers captured 500 gallons of moon
shine whisky and the en- tire apparatus.
WHITECAPPERs burned a negro
church and exploded a stick of dyna.
mite under residence on the Burrow
place in Perry county, Ark, the other
night. The trou bic was on account OF
the election of two negroes and one
white man as directors of the school
district. The negroes had been warned
to leave. The trou BILE is not vet ended.
ABOUT half of the 1000 men employed
in the coal mines of ST. Clair county,
Ill. have gone on strike for higher
wages. The men claimed that, al.
though there had been a material ad.
vance in prices OF coal in the market,
there had been no advance in wages.
They also claimed that they were now
working at starvation wages and would
force new and higher scale.
AT Burnet, Ok, the charred body OF
an unknown man was found in a burn
ing log heap. The man had evidently
been shot through the head and the
body then piled over with brush and
logs, which were set on fire in hopes OF
destroying all traces of the crime.
MRS II. EsTBY and her daughter
Clara. 19years old. the transcontinental
pedestrians, completed their journey
from Spokane, Wash. to New York
city on the 23d. They left the western
city May on wager with a New
York woman that they could cross the
continent in less than seven months.
SUCcI, the Italian faster, who has
given exhibitions of his endurance in
the United States, became insane after
a performance at Paris and was taken
to a hospital.
CHARLES HERNDoN. Of Williams burg,
KY, shot and killed his wife because