Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-17


hanged on the 18th of this month for
murder. sawed his way out of the Jail
at Solomonvilie, Ariz., and escaped.
MRS. JOHN CAMERON. a prominent
society lady of Pueblo, Col, was
fatally burned by the explosion of a
can of benzine with which she was
cleaning furniture. Her son was also
badly burned in trying to save her.
THOMAS NEAL, living in Chester
county, s. c., drove his wife away
from home in a jealous fit and she
went to live with her grandmother.
Neal afterward went to the place and
broke in the door. split his wife's skull
with an ak, killed the grandmother
with the same weapon and shot an
other woman who was present He
then poured oil on the bodies, burned
the house down and escaped.
GEORGE SHARON and Ben Billings be-
came involved in an alteration in a
saloon at Alta, Cal, and had a fight.
Sharon struck Billings with his fist
and broke the latter's neck, killing
him instantly.
AT-the session of the national credit
men at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 10th
James G. Cannon, of New York. was
elected president and III. F. Chilean, of
New Orleans, vice president. Resolu-
tions were adopted urging congress to
pass a law empowering the president
to appoint monetary commission.
A NIGHT freight ran into washout
at Fernald's culvert, near Exeter, n.
FL. The locomotive and seven cars
were demolished and three men killed.
CHARLES CHADWICK, a railroad en-
gineer, and Frank Sparks. young
man about town, charged with running
young girls, were taken to the out
skirts of the city by the citizens of
Missoula, Mont, the other night and
given a coat of tar and feathers and
warned not to return to the city.
Two freight trains collided near
Bradford. Tenn, and two trainmen
were fatally hurt and several others
| badly injured.
A DESPERATE battle took place at
Whiting, Ind, the other day between
eight tramps, who had taken posses
sion of Michigan Southern freight
house, and two police officers, during
| which two of the tramps were wound
ed. The tramps had refused to vacate
the building when requested.
AN elevator in the building at 95
Dearborn street, Chicago, fell and the
| four occupants were considerably in
jured.
A MORTGAGE for $50, 600, 600 was given
by the Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern railway and placed on record in
Cook county, III.
| THE fatality from famine and plague
| in China was reported to. be appalling.
In one large town near Szechuan half
the population had persisted from
~ ~ E.
in its wake. Along the route to small
er towns, numbers of bodies laid decom-
posed in the streets while the sky was
| black with vultures. Smallpox was
prevalent also in Tochege.
BECAUSE his sweetheart, Mrs. Willie
Smith, would not marry him, Thomas
Hays shot and instantly killed her and
then blew out his own brains at Kan
sas City, Mo. Both were colored.
| THE hotel at Montrose, Col, and a
block of stores We're burned early on
the 9th and Robert III. Mead, a guest,
was burned to death. The other guests
escaped. The fire was believed to be
incendiary.
Two men named Henry Foster and
John Shootman quarreled at Albany,
KY, and Foster stabbed Shootman. A
man named Redell went to Shootman's
assistance and shot Foster. Both men
were fatally wounded. The men had
| long been at outs.
| The supreme lodge A. o. O. w. met
| at Milwaukee on the sth with 100 dele
| gates present. The session will con-
| tinue for a week or ten days.
A MATCH dropped by workman at
the fireworks factory of NJ. Shure at
Chicago caused a terrific explosion the
other evening. Many people were bad
ly hurt on the street by flying rockets,
but fortunately most of the workmen
had gone home and there were no lives
| lost. The building and contents were
entirely destroyed. Loss, $50, 1000.
PETER MAHER and Tom Sharkey
fought at New York on the night OF
the 9th for SIS, 900 purse, and at the
end of the seventh round the police in
terfered and the contest resulted in a
most unsatisfactory draw, the relative
merits of the men being as much a puz-
| Zle as ever.
THIRTY-TwO states were represented
at the meeting of the provisional com
mittee of the national silver republican
party at Chicago on the sth. plan OF
organization was mapped out. The
resolutions declared that the restora.
ton of silver as money was the para.
| mount ISSUE CnarIeS n. IOWne, OF
Minnesota, was elected chairman OF
the national committee.
News was brought by the steame,
Empress of Japan to Vancouver, r.. C.
of disaster to fishermen of the Chu
san archipelago in which 500 men lost
their lives by a sudden saual springins
up while they were out in their boats
off the coast of China.
Two women and one man committed
suicide at Chicago before six a. m. OF
the 9th. Marie Nora, an italian
stabbed herself; Charles E. Shaw sho
| himself through iealoiaSu of his mi 70