Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-05

THE crops in a strip five miles wide
and 80 long in Rock county, MINI,
were entirely destroyed by hail the
other night.
A DELIBERATE attempt was made to
| wreck the fast train on the c., c.. C. &
st. L. railway ION the morning of the
3oth by driving a coupling pin into the
switch so as to hold the switch open.
The engine and tender, mail, express
and baggage cars were thrown
from the track and wrecked and the
! engineer, fireman and two tramps were
killed and several other persons in
jured.
A DAM at Middleton, Conn, contain
ing water from which three factories
! got power, burst, letting down a ire
mendous volume of water. Forty work
men were compelled to flee for their
lives and much damage was done.
| JOHN JOHNSON, colored, was hanged
! at Livingston. Ala, for the murder of
| a white man.
THE rain fall has been so heavy
throughout northern New York for a
number eff days that great damage has
/ been done to crops. All lakes and
streams are swollen to an unprece-
| denied height for this season of the
! year.
THE senatorial deadlock was broken
at Webster City. Ia, Joseph Wallace. of
EldOradO. receiving the nomination
/ after 3,46S ballots had been taken.
AT New York $500 garment workers
went on a strike on the Goth. 125 shops
! in that city and Brooklyn being af-
| fected.
DOMINO, the famous race horse, died
at the farm of James r. keene at Lex
! ington, KY. the other morning. He
| was taken i'll and six veterinaries could
not save him. Domino was foaled in
! 1891 and won about 500, 900 in stakes
and purses
FIRE at Yonkers. n. Y, DESTROYED
| two large factory buildings. occupied
! by w. A. Reed & Co., hat manufacture
ers: Rowland Bros, hat manufacturers;
+! Pass Bros, silk manufacturers and the
| Yonkers Silk Co. The loss reached
! $500, 900. Eight hundred people were
thrown out of employment.
THE steamer Cambria, with passen-
| gers from Detroit to Saulte Ste. Marie,
was wrecked on Lake Huron, three
miles north of. Sarnia, on the 2Sth
The vessel ran into drift of logs and
| disabled her paddles and machinery.
The passengers were wild with excite
vessel commenced to go to pieces be-
fore the last passenger was taken off.
Mrs. NORA L. BRYAN, postmistress of
| Middlefeld, Mass, was arrested by
United States marshal upon a warrant
charging her with opening letters.
| The unfortunate 'postmarm'' is bride
of only three months and it was said
| that she opened letters to know what
her neigh bors were saying about her.
THE Alaska papers are calling in
dOu ble-leaded editorials upon the gold
hunters, who are rushing helter-skel-
ter from all parts of the country for
the Klondyke, to bring a sufficient sup
ply of food to nourish them for six
months. or else come prepared to face
starvation and death from the intense
cold or scurvy which is worse than
death
Two rival lines of steamboats, plying
between Chicago and Mania ttan beach,
not only carried passengers free over
the 1S-mile round-trip course, but gave
them beer, cigars and sandwiches
without limit, furnished bathing suits
at the beach and provided rooms in
which the bathers could make their
toilets. More interesting developments
were promised, when, it was asserted,
WOu1U DE OHer6u passengers
who had not made up their minds
which line they would favor.
EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR DOLIT-
TIE, of Wisconsin, died of Bright's dis
ease at his daughters home at Edge
wood, r. l., on the 27th.
NEAR Reno, New, a bad wreck oc-
Cured on the Central Pacific railroad,
the baggage, express and mail cars of
train being reduced to kindling wood.
Six Indians were killed and nine 9TH
ers were more or less injured. The
wreck was caused by the spreading of
the rails.
PASUELLE DADARIO was hanged in
the county jail at Philadelphia ON the
a7th for the brutal murder of Modes
| tino MOTTO, three-year-old child.
FORECLOSURE proceedings have been
begun against the Central division of
! the Atlantic & Pacific railroad, which
extends from Seneca, Mo-, to Sapulpa,
| l. T., 112 miles.
j. c. JAMESON, acknowledgement of
| the Oklahoma national guard during
| the administrator of Gov. Renfrow
attempted to commit suicide at Guth-
RE, Ok, by taking poison, but anti
| dotes We're given and he was brought
round. He was respondent over the
| fact that he had grown old without
amassing means to maintain himself
and family as he desired.
The plan of sending soldiers to
Alaska has been postponed for the
present, as it was discovered that many
| supplies We're necessary for such an
undertaking and that part of Alaska
mapped out to be visited was rapidly
| freezing up.
CoLoRED Odd Fellows held an ice
cream festival in a church at Ridge
| Springs, S. c.. the other night. While
the frolic was at its height Alex Quat-
/ tlebaum and Tom Graham began firing