Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-01-07

telegraph and telephone service and
great inconvenience to railroads from
snow and high winds.
THREE trainmen were killed and II
cars of freight were hurled into the
Missouri river in a wreck that took
place on the Missouri Pacific railroad
at New Haven, Ga miles west of St
Louis, on the Sd. The cause of the
wreck was a landslide
AT Benton, Ark, 20 houses were de-
molished by a tornado on the I'd. No
lives were reported lost
A TORNADO struck the little town of
Mooringsport, La, at $3.50 p. m. on the
I'd and ten people were killed and three
others fatally injured
GREAT damage was done by the re-
cent heavy rains in Illinois. Joliet
was threatened with one Of the worst
floods in it's history. Families were
moving out of their houses and the
low1ands were flooded.
A CHICAGO dispatch stated that near
~ every oatmeal and cereal mill in the
United States had entered into an
agreement that amounted to trust to
regulate the output and prices of oat-
meal, rolled oats and other breakfast
cereals.
A FIRE at Nashville, Tenn. destroyed
six business houses and badly damaged
ten other buildings. Loss, about $780,
600.
JOSEPH BErZ. his wife and child were
found dead in bed at Struthers, O.. on
the 1st and four boarders were in a
comatose condition when rescued, hav-
ing been asphyxiated by gas from a
stove.
A CORNING mill belonging to the
Miami Powder Co., near .Xenia, O., ex-
ploded on the list, killing Joseph
Kreitzer and fatally injuring Joseph
Happing.
WHILE a mum Der of boys were shoot
ing out the old year near Cimarron,
Ok, heavily loaded shotgun exploded
and Henry Albert was fatally injured
and George Wilson had part of his
hand torn off.
A PASSENGER train on the Keokuk &
Western railroad was wrecked near
Norwalk. Ia, and several passengers
were injured, one probably fatally. 1t
was a train loaded with teachers going
home from the state association and
the accident was due to spreading rails
caused by heavy rains.
THE Collinsville Qll.) zinc works were
partially destroyed by fire on the 1st-
Loss, $1,000
SANKEY CUNNINGHAM was hanged in
the jailyard at Albany, Ga. on the 1st
for an assault upon Miss Kate Camp.
Cunningham confessed his guilt in a
gallows speech. The hanging was wit
messed by an enormous crowd.
HENRY WRIGHT was hanged at Will
mington, Del, on the 1st for murder.
BRADsTREEr's agency gives the total
number of failures in the United
States for the calendar year 1896 as 49,
liz, which is the largest number ever
reported, except in the panic year Of
1893, and 16 per cent. over the failures
of 1895
A DISPATCH from New York stated
that the missionary society of the NJ.
E. church was going to ship to the
starving people of India car load of
corn to be given by the great corn
growing states of the west.
The officials of the British foreign
office have denied that the marquis of
Salisbury disapproved of any of the
features of the proposed general arbi-
tration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, as reported
from New York.
EUGENE v. DEBs. president of the A.
E. u, announced that he had become
a socialist
LOUIS W. JACKSON, who was sent to
the Joliet Qll.) -penitentiary for life
June 1, 1869, for murder, has been re-
leased. He had never been outside the
walls of his prison since he went in.
The members of church near
Perry, Ok, had social and a quarrel
ensued among the women over the
reputation of the old pastor and the
men took it up and a free fight fol-
lowed.
A DISPATCH from Havana on the 31st
stated that Gen. Ruis Rivera, who sue
ceeded Antonio Maceo at the head of
the insurgept forces in Pinar del Rio
was wounded and had subsequently
died of his wounds
j. A. R. ELLIOTT, Of Kansas City,
won the 100 live bird match from E. D.
Fulton, of Utica, at New York, by a
score of 81 to 90. The winner gets the
Star cup, emblematic of the American
championship.
AN explosion of dynamite took place
on board the British ship Delta in the
harbor at Plymouth. Mass, on the
Goth. The vessel sank and two men on
board of her were said to have per-
| isbed.
MATTHIAS SETTLER, of Decatur, Ind.
died on the 3Oth. Not a particle of
| food had entered his stomach for eight