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

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THE New York limited over the Van
dalia struck team and wagon at the
Union street crossing at Martinsville,
Ind, killing the driver, Oscar Neidigh,
and both horses. and making kindling
wood of the wagon.
HENRY GEORGE. the noted single tax
advocate and Jeffersonian democratic
nominee for mayor OF Greater New
York, died from an attack of apoplexy
in New York at AS o'clock on the
morning of the Goth.
THE Union Trust building ut Pitts
burgh, Pa, was destroyed by fire on
the Goth. One fireman was killed and
several had narrow escapes The loss
was estimated at from $3.50, 900 to $780,,
900; insurance about half.
THE directors of the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf railway decided at n
meeting to expend So. 500, 900 for per-
manent improvements at Port Arthur,
the Gulf of Mexico terminus of the
line.
MERTON ALLEN died at Sioux City.
Ia. from swallowing the composition
filing of a tooth. The stuff ontained
poisonous ingredients, for peritonitis
soon set in.
The decision of Amos II. Thayer,
United States circuit judge, in the
Kansas City stock yards case was read
by Judge Foster at Topeka, Kan, on
the 2sth. It sustains Judge Fosters
decision and is a sweeping victory for
Attorney General Boyle and the state
of Kansas on every single point at is
sue. Judge Thayer declares that the
state has right to legislate to con-
troll the stock yards company. The at
torney for the stock yards company
gave notice of an appeal to the SUI
preme court.
A DAUGHTER, aged three, and one
year-old girl belonging to ] ohm Kuhne,
of Miltona, Mimi, were left in the
house while the rest of the family were
working in field, when the house was
burned down and the two children
were cremated.
HENRY CAST, a capitalist and banker
of Nora Springs, Ia, was riding in 4
buggy when four masked men pulled
him out and numerically beat him.
The charge was that Cast ill-treated
his wife and children.
BOHEMIAN, Mont, was recently great
ly stirred up by the fatal poisoning of
a man named Garlock and an attempt
to destroy the lives of two other men
y
had camped close to the city with an
other man and. as the victims had
some money, it was thought to have
been plot to kill them off and get it.
The First national bank at New AL
bany, Ind. will go out of business be-
cause there is no profit in it, owing to
the glut of money. The banks de-
posits amounted to over 100000.
A{uc n oI II
the board of lady managers of the
worlds fair. was brought before JUS
tice Martin at Chicago the other day
on the charge of stealing some stenog-
raphers' purses. She is slave to CO.
caine and begged to be exiled from the
city. Judge Martin said he would hold
her to the grand jury.
DECEMBER wheat sold at S1.014 at ST.
Louis on the a7th, making the highest
record of the season.
THERE were seven new cases of vel
low fever reported in Memphis, Tenn,
on the Goth; SO new cases and seven
deaths at New Orleans, and ten new
cases and one death at Montgomery,
Ala. 1t was also officially announced
that the fever had broken out at New
Albany, Miss, and that the town was
almost depopu1ated by the people go
ing away.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco on
the 27th said that nearly all the whal.
ing vessels had been caught in the ice
and that wholesale disaster threatened
them. Fourteen vessels were known
to be in the pack and provisions on
board were short.
POLICEMAN FREDERICK SMITH was
shot and killed by a burglar who was
robbing the poor box in the Church of
the Holy Redeemer at New York on
the 10Th. A large crowd soon gath
cred who struck the prisoner with
stones and other missiles and 100 po-
licemen had all they could do to pre-
vent the mob from lynching the cul-
prit while he was being taken to Jail.
THE duchess of Teck, cousin of Queen
Victoria, sister of the duke of Cam
| bridge and mother-in-law of the duke
of York, died at Richmond, Eng, on
| the 27th from heart disease, two hours
| after an operation for hernia She was
born in 1888.
AT Chicago on the 26th, Chief of Po-
| lice Ripley issued an order discharg.
| ing from the force 434 policemen and
| appointing in their places like num-
| Der of democratic ex-policemen who
had been discharged under the pre-
| vious republican administration. 1t
| was the biggest so-called general
| order" issued since ex-Chief Badenoch
| (rep.) issued his famous order in 1895,
.discharging 5S7 men.
Two Great Northern freight trains
collided near Glasgow, Mont, and the
| engineer and fireman were killed and
| three other men badly injured. Twenty
| cars were also consumed by a fire
| which followed.
The grand jury at St Louis has re-
turned an Indictment against John C.
| Obert, formerly secretary of the North
End and the North st. Louis Building