Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-26

| THE State Farmers alliance OF Texas.
| which was in session at Dallas for
| three days, seeded from the national
i organization by an overwhelming ma
| iority. The State alliance also adopted
| ;he proposition to tablish eo-opera-
tive branches among the members
A TERRIBLE collision occurred at
Lima. o., on the Goth between a heav-
ily-loaded excursion train and a
freight, badly injuring a large mum
Der of passengers.
AERoNAUr ALLERD fell 800 feet from
his balloon at Electric park, Chicago,
on the Goth, every bone in his body be-
ing broken. He became entangled in
guy-rope and was dragged from hi S
parachute.
MAMIE KEIFER, for many years
well-knoVn balloonist of Peoria, Ill.
was drowned recently as the result of
drunken spree. She crossed the river
in company with another woman and
two men. and when in midstream the
boat was capsized and all thrown into
the water. Three were rescued, but
the ba1loonist was drowned.
PORTER PARKS, aged 10 years, COM
mitted suicide at Quincy, Ill. His
punish him she sent him to his bed
room shortly before moon. Soon after
a younger brother entered the room
and found his brothers body hanging
to the closet door. Life was extinct
when the Mortified mother reached the
scene and took down the body.
JAMES JEFFRE Us, of Camden, Tenn,
and r oss Guffin, of Kansas City, Mo-,
have been appointed commissioners to
allot lands in severalty to the Indians
of the Uncom paghre reservation in
Utah.
REV. PERRY HOPKI Ms, a bishop in the
A. NJ E. church, died in New York on
the Goth, aged IS. He was slave be-
fore the war, but purchased his free
dom.
SoLLY SMITH, of Los Angeles, Cal,
knocked out Johnny Griffin, of Bos-
ton, in the seventh round at San Fran
cisco.
THE elevator of the Davenport Qa.)
glucose works was the scene of two
terrific dust explosions on the 10Th. as
a result of which four lives were lost
and two persons seriously injured.
REV. ii. II. BURGERINE, aged so,
highly respected Methodist minister
of Hulings, w. Va, was stoned to
death because he was unable to pay a
bill due to Coleman Pitzer, day
| laborer. Pitzer and his brother Lewis
| were jailed, charged with the crime.
ABOUT 10000 people lined the broad
boulevards over which the great flower
| parade of the Colorado Springs, Col,
| carnival passed on the 10Th. The pa
rade, in which 300 took part. was 219
miles long, and the turnouts were par
ticularly gorgeous.
ST. LOUIS spectators in wheat re-
Gently cleared upward of So, 900, 600 on
| September options during. the recent
bulge. Ex-Secretary of the Interior
| d. r. Francis was said to have Melted
| $500, 900.
A PETITION has been presented to
Gov. Bradley at Frankfort, KY, ask
| ing the pardon of Morgan johnson,
who has been confined in the peniten-
| tiary for II years, having been convict
| ed of the murder of Pompey Bell, a
guard in the penitent iary, in 1881, and
given life sentence. Capt. Hide, who
presented the petition for pardon, also
presented a confession of Henry Smith,
convict, who confessed to the crime
| for which johnson was convicted.
| HARVEY De BERRY, colored, was
hanged in the Jail at Memphis, Tenn,
On the 10th for attempting to rape a
seven-year-old girl on October 8, 1896.
THE Pittsburg & Gulf railway will
have its own rails into Port Arthur,
Tex. by September TO-
FIRE destroyed the Gerry Lumber
Co.'s yard at Eagle River, Wis, with
| 10, 200, 900 feet of lumber. Loss, $780,
900.
RECENT dispatches from London
seem to indicate that England will not
even make a pretense of joining with
the United States and other countries
in rehabilitating silver.
JESSE GOBLIN, aged nine years, cut
his ten-year-old sisters throat as she
lay asleep at her home near Hender-
son, KY, because she had informed on
him for robbing his mother of IS cents.
On the Louisville & Nashville rail-
road, = miles north of Dahlgren, H.,
two freight trains, headed in opposite
directions at full speed, collided, kill
ing six employees of the company and
aemolishing the engines and a large
| number of cars of both trains.
A NEGRO boy, aged about 10, was dis
covered in the room of Mamie Stone,
the 17-year- old daughter of R. o. Stone,
at Ricoes Bluff. Fla. The girls screams
brought in her brother and father and
the negro attempted to jump through
a window, but a shotgun stopped him.
Soon after mob took the negro to the
| river and threw him in. after binding
him securely.
COMMERCIAL travellers in the terri
tory west of Chicago are likely to soon
secure a long-fought-for concession
from the western roads in the form OF
a 1,O00-mile interchangeable ticket
good over IS different railroad systems.
SOME .miscreant threw a switch OF
| the Texas & Pacific at Dallas, Tex,