Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-04

A LARGE quantity of giant powder
exploded in the Grand Central mine at
Minas Priestas. Mex, and Is men were
killed outright and three sustained
proba bly, fatal injuries
REV. GILLIAN, of the Christian church
at Mintonville, KY. preached SER
men in which he affirmed there is no
devil. The congregation took offense
and the reverend gentleman was eject
ed from the house and about 20 pistol
shots fired after him.
DR.. JACOBS and man named Smith.
bridge builders of the Chesapeake &
Ohio railway, were struck by train
just below Russell, KY, and instantly
killed. They were on a railroad veloc-
ipede. and were run down before they
could jump from the trestle.
A POSTAL clerk named Walter R.
Houghton has been arrested at Chey-
enne, Wyo., for stealing a registered
package containing $4,000 mailed by
Chicago bank. Houghton confessed
and offered to return the money il the
prosecution was dropped, but threat
ened that if the officers would not agree
to that the money would be burned
a COURIER arrived at Steamboat
Springs, Col. from Game Warden Will
cox to Sheriff Nieman asking for helE
against the Indians in Routt county,
who were threatening to pillage and
murder the settlers.
The number of business failures in
the United States reported by Brad
streets commercial agency for the
week ended the Goth were 21S, against
246 in the corresponding week of last
year.
THE grand jury at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
&C
Martin and his deputies for the shoot
ing of striking miners at Lattimer.
The true bills included 10 for murder,
one for each man killed and one for the
victims considered collectively. Thirty
six true bills were found in the same
way for felonious wounding against
the same defendants.
A FLYwHEEL in the Alabama rolling
mills, at Gate City, Ala, burst while
going at the rate of 100 revolutions
minute and piece flew out into the
yard over 100 feet away, where Lind
say Dorkins and George Washington,
colored, were unloading iron from a
truck. Both men were hOrri bly,
bruised, Dorkins dying two hours later.
A BOY named Adolph Johnson, while
digging fish bait near Clinton, Ia.
dug up an iron box containing $50, 900.
No clew to the owner.
Mrs. CLEVELAND, wife of the ex-
president, gave birth to a son at
Princeton, \. j., on the 2Sth.
EDDIE MCDUFFIE. at Philadelphia,
tablished a new worlds record for
one mile, paced. covering the distance
in lbs 2-5. three-ifths of second low
err than the record made by Jimmy
Michael on the same track several
| weeks ago.
A DIPHTHERIA panic was reported at
Shubert, Neb.. and all the city and
country schools have been closed.
A MEXICAN named Juan Madra was
arrested and locked up at Morenzi,
| mining camp near Clifton, Ariz., on
suspicion of numbering two other Mex
| leans, when several hundred Mexicans
| stormed the place and riddled Madra
| with bullets.
ELLA BARNES and Bessie Thomas,
| two 16-year-old cotton factory opera
| tives, met at a friends house at Bir-
| mingham, Ala, the other night and
! quarreled over their mutual re gard for
the same youth. The Thomas girl ad-
vanced on the Barnes girl with a pair
| of scissors. Miss Barnes threw
| lighted lamp at her adversary. The
| lamp exploded and Miss Thomas was
| burned to death before rescue came.
THE Congregational council at Chi
cago has completely exonerated DIR. G.
o. Brown from the charge of immoral
| ity found against him by the San Fran
| cisco council.
BEULAH PRESTON, an eight-year-old
| daughter of Charles Preston, a farmer
living 20 miles northwest of Enid, Ok,
was returning on horse back from
school when the horse threw her and
her foot caught in the stirrup. The
horse dragged her to her home, run
ming through several barbed wire
fences. When the parents found the
| child she was simply a mass of LAGER
ated flesh and broken bones
AN attempt was made the other
night to hold up the northbound Chi
cago, Rock Island & Texas passenger
train near Boyd, Wise county, Tex.
| Ties were placed on the track, but the
engine pushed them off and proceeded.
The engineer noticed two men at the
| point with Winchesters and two sticks
| of dynamite were afterwards found at
the spot
| A LIGHTED cigarette dropped by
clerk was supposed to have caused
fire which Quilted the building at St
| Louis occupied by the general offices
| of the Wabash railroad. Every record
in the chief engineers Office was de-
| stroyed. An officer of the Wabash COM
pany estimated their loss at $500, O0O
and real estate men placed the valua-
ton of the building at $500, 600.
/ MAYOR JONES has signed the ordi-
| nance creating a Greater Kansas City
| and the measure now awaits only the
sanction of the people to become oper-
| alive. By the extension of its limits
| to the boundaries fixed by the annex