Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-09-16


few days ago.
AT Topeka. Kan. Mrs Mary Chris
tian and little son accidentally fell
from the Rock Island bridge into the
Kaw river and went down before they
were rescued.
The British steamer Cheang Hyo
Tong foundered during a typhoon
while on voyage from Penang to
Shanghai and 81 of the crew were lost
A RECENT examination of the 40 ter
ritorial banks in Oklahoma shows
them to be in splendid condition.
IN the United States court at Mus
kogee, 1. T., Gyms A. Brown, who was
convicted of first degree murder for
killing Daniel Cutbert, was granted
a new trial.
THE Society of the Army of West
Virginia, in annual convention at Co
lumbus, o., elected w. Fl. Powell, of
Belleville, Ill, president.
THERE was killing frost at Willis
ton, N. D., on the 9th.
AT New York on the 10th 1, 200 men
at work in the new underground troll
ley line went out on strike because
they had received no pay for three
wee ks.
KELLOGG o. GOULD, publisher of the
Little Rock (Ark.) Tribune, a sensa-
tional sheet, was driven out of Little
Rock by Infatuated citizens who took
exceptions to Gould's manner of con-
Quoting the paper.
THE Nebraska republican state COM
mittee organized by electing Congress
man D. III. Mercer for state chairman.
A DARING attempt was made on
the night of the 9th to hold up a
katy" train near Bond, /. L. Engi-
neer Ragland slowed up the train in
response to the signal, but when he
saw eight men standing by the tracks
he opened the throttle and sped by
them.
AT Atlanta, Ga, on the 9th, Gen.
James Longstreet, a hero of the Next
can war and an ex-major-general in
the confederate army, was married to
Miss Ellen Dortsch, assistant state
librarian. The bride is but %.
Miss Lutte A. LYTTEL, a 23-year-old
negress, passed the required examina-
ton and was admitted to practice law
at Memphis, Tenn. She is the first
representative of her sex of any color
to be admitted to the bar of Tennessee.
She is the only colored woman in the
south licensed to practice law, and it
is said she is the only colored woman
in the United States that is member
of the bar.
IT has been definitely settled that
Henry Wall, young white man who
was lynched near Richmond, Va, for
an alleged assault upon Sadie Cook.
was innocent, and there is great indig-
nation against the leaders of the mob.
A REVISED list of the victims of the
terrible wreck on the Santa Fee near
Emporia. Kan. on the night of the Sth
places the number dead at II. The
coroner's jury will meet and try to place
the blame for the catastrophe. The
loss to the Santa Fe railroad will eN-
ceed 500, 900.
AT Hun tington, Ind, Timothy Sulli-
van and two other members of his
household were dangerously poisoned
by eating fried chicken which the
hired girl had accidentlly arolled in
arsenic instead of -four.
SIX young men were drowned in
Lake st. Clair, near Detroit. Mich, by
the capsizing of a yacht from which
they were fishing. The men were
drunk and rocked the boat over.
THE situation in the infected yellow
fever districts of the south on the Sth
was decidedly improved. There had
been in all 74s cases of the fever, nine
deaths and 81 were sick. A further
spread of the plague was deemed i'm
possible.
AN alleged incendiary fire put a stop
to an investigation of the office of the
county treasurer at Mason City, Ia.
Tom SPENCE, who has been driving a
delivery wagon at Gatesville, Tex, at
$50 per month, has just fallen heir to
1900 acres of land near Austin. Tex,
and $500 in bank, left him by his
father.
CHARLES Cross, a mail carrier of
Huntsville, Ala, is a Seventh-day Adj
ventist and resigned his position rather
than deliver mail on Saturdays.
REPORTS from Chelsea, l. T., say
Mexican lions are numerous along the
Illinois river near there and are kill
ing much live stock.
LAWRENCE LEDwIETT, a teamster,
died in a Philadelphia hospital after
he had slept 10S hours continuously.
IT was announced from Providence,
r. l., on the eth that DIR. Andrews
would refuse to withdraw his resigna-
ton as president of Brown university.
BY unanimous vote the Puget
SOUND (VaSh-) M. Il. conference eX-
PEELED Rev. w. 7. Ford, charged with
intimacy with his servant girl.
A RICH deposit of silver and copper
ore was struck on the farm of Dr.
Wood, near Mt Vernon, III.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND, of Prince
ton, n. j., made his return of taxable
property as follows: Real estate, S20,-
900; personal property, $50, 900.
A FIRE at Magog, o.. on the 18th
practically wiped out the town, caus-
ing loss of 500, 600.
THE annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers
gathered at San Francisco on the 9Th