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


Ninth cavalry, from Fort Robinson,
were camped at Chadron. Neb.. one of
the negroes raided John Larkin's sa-
loon at one o'clock in the morning,
picked up a sack containing $500 in
silver and though pursued by crowd
he managed to escape.
WITH reputation gone, and made
desperate with shame, Miss Lula
| Cutchin, aged p. of Suffolk, Va. took
refuge in death. She belonged to a
| family of the highest responsibility,
| and was member of the NJ. E. church,
in whose choir she was the leading So
prano. She made a confession to her
father discriminating prominent citi-
| zen of the town.
AT least % persons were killed and
most of the bodies burned in a collision
shortly after midnight of the 9th "a
| miles west of Newcastle, Col, due to
/ the mistake of the conductor of an ex-
! ira stock train on the Colorado Mid
/ land railroad in reading the wrong
column of figures. The westbound
/ passenger and express train of the
| Denver & Rio Grande railroad was tel
escoped and all of the passenger cars
except the rear Pullmans were burned.
A number of passengers who were not
killed outright, but were pinned in
the wreckage and could not be extri-
Gated, persisted in the flames. There
were about 200 passengers. fully one
| fourth of whom were either killed or
injured.
a TERRIBLE crisis was reached in the
strike situation at Hazleton, Pa, on the
10th when a band of deputy sheriffs
| fired into a crowd of miners who We're
| marching to Latimer. The miners fell
| like so many sheep and the excitement
| was so intense that no accurate figures
| of dead and wounded could be OBJ
tanned. Reports run from 90 to 25
killed and so wounded. The men killed
were all Hungarians-
! FAILtEEs for the week ended the
10th were 215 in the United States,
against 315 last year; and 35 in Canada,
against AZ last year.
THIRTEEN fatalities have occurred in
| the Joplin (Mo.) mining district the
| past summer.
The Chicago Times-Herald said a ma
tional meeting of Methodist laymen
| would soon be called to lay plans to
secure equal representation with the
clergy in the great quadrennia1 legis-
lature of the church.
NEAR Churchville, o., burglars en-
| tered the home of George Smith and
overpowering him secured $1,36o. In
the scuffie Mrs. Smith was shot.
DOUBT has been thrown upon the ac-
| curacy of the survey of the boundary
between Georgia and Tennessee, and
if the theory of eminent legal author
tiles is confirmed, it will be found that
Chattanooga is on Georgia soil.
| DROUGHT and extreme heat have
off< a11 lot
souri, and Kansas. Pas lures have been
| trees have been killed during the
drought.
CoNsUL-GENERAL LEE arrived in New
York from Havana on the Sth. He alb
solutely refused to discuss the situa-
ton in Cuba, or the rumor that he
would not return to Havana.
AFTER much opposition the Creek
council at Okmu1gee passed a bill pro-
viding for a treaty with the Dawes
| commission and allotment of their
lands. This leaves only the Cherokees
and Sc minoles, of all the five tribes.
who have not entered into an agree
ment with the Dawes commission.
A HONOLULU dispatch on the Sth said
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in Hawaii would
make strong fight to influence Sena-
! tors Quay and Morgan, now on visit
| to that country.
DURING a big fire at 123 North Water
! street, Philadelphia. 20 firemen were
| Frustrated by the dense smoke. All
recovered.
ONLY one death had resulted from
| yellow fever at New Orleans up to the
9Th. Physicians declared the disease
| to be under control in that city and
| there was no exodus on account of the
plague. Rigid measures are being
adopted at all southern coast cities to
| stamp out the disease. Ocean Springs,
Miss, the most infected place, is abso-
| lutely cut off from the world except
by wire and mail.
REPORTS to the st. Louis Republic
on the nth from the principal corn-pro-
ducing states indicated a decrease in
this years corn yield of about ten per
cent. caused by the drought of the late
| summer.
| AT Denver, Col, on the Sth the Colo
RADIO Midland railroad was sold under
foreclosure to Chairman Olcott. of the
| reorganization committee, for 1895. OO0
NEAR Los Angeles. Cal, on the night
of the sth bandits piled ties on the
Southern Pacific track for the purpose
of 1ooting the express train. When
the train slowed up two deputy sher-
/ ifs began firing and the bandits hur.
riedly abandoned their plans
The report sent out from Elwood.
Ind, several days ago that negro resi-
| dents of the town had been notified to
| leave within a week has been declared
absolutely false by Mayor Finch, OF
| Elwood.
| AT Owassa. Mich, Mile Comstock,
music teacher, wrapped herself in a
| blanket saturated with kerosene and
| lighted it She died as the result of
| her burns.