Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-02-11

Two frelghb trains cOlllQed on the
Illinois Central railroad, near Tolono,
ILL.,, during a dense fog on the 9th.
Both engines, five car loads of mer-
chandise and three box cars were de-
molished. In one car were so head of
horses and they were all killed. The
trainmen jumped in time to save them
selves.
Two sections of a freight train col
lided on the B. & o., near Davisville,
W. Va, and Engineer Richardson was
killed, Fireman Hughill fatally injured
and two brakemen badly hurt.
TEMPLE Houston, of Woodward, Ok,
son of Col. Sam Houston, has been in
liver the centennial address at the
opening of the exposition at Nashville
on May 1.
AT the worlds skating championship
races at Montreal Can, on the 9Th the
result showed that J. Ni1lssen, of Min
neapolis, Mimi, is the professional
champion skater of the world and j. K.
McCulloch, of Winnipeg, Man., is the
amateur champion.
THE 1OO-mile bicycle race at Cleve-
land, O., between Louis Gimm and
Teddy Hale was won by Gimm by
about Is feet, the time being 5 hours
and Is seconds.
Gov. BRADLEY recently ordered out
SO members of the state militia to pre-
vent the lynching of a negro prisoner
named Black at Lebanon, KY.
w. A. LICHTENwALTER, a wealthy
farmer near Mason City, Ia, committed
suicide by hanging. He was a stock
holder in the City bank, of Nora Springs,
which recently failed and hearing that
he would be financially ruined he pre-
ferred to meet death in this way.
A RELIEF committee which has just
inspected some parishes near Shreve-
port, La, reported that $4,000 people
were starving to death and would have
to be sustained during the unfruitful
season. The state has already ex-
pended $4,000 for provisions for the
sufferers.
THE Northwestern national bank of
Great Falls, Mont, on the 5th posted a
notice announcing its suspension.
The board of directors and officers
charge that the trouble is due to a
defalcation on the part of the cashier,
Benton D. Hatcher, of $1sO,0O0.
A REPORT was received at Vienna on
the 5th of the massacre Of 1,5Oo Chris
tians in the villages of the islands of
Crete by Turkish troops.
The number of failures in the United
States for the week ended the 5th were
sos, according to Bradstreet's report,
as compared with $50 the previous
week and 33s in the corresponding
week of last year.
THE Connecticut legislature voted
down a resolution calling upon con-
gress to recognize the independence of
the Cuban republic.
AN unconfrmed report reached Guth-
RE, Ok, on the 4th that the Sac and
Fox Indian agency had been raided by
outlaws, resulting in the killing of
three men and the wounding of the
agent, Gen. Thomas. The telephone
wires were cut. A payment of $26, 900
was in progress at the agency.
CHARGES have been preferred against
Agent Pearson, who has charge of the
Pottawatomie Indians in Kansas. tits
said that he has been remarkably de-
relict and that the law has been fire.
quently violated on the reservation I'M
der his charge.
The Oklahoma house passed the
marriage contract bill. It prohibits
the intermarriage of whites and ne
groes or Indians, and especially pro-
11D1VS C1dC no man SHALL marry his
own mother-in-law.
REV. DIR. JOHN A. BROOKS, we'll
known divine of the Christian church
and prohibitionist candidate for the
vice presidency in 1888, died at Mem
phis, Tenn, on the Sd of heart failure
superinduced by paralysis.
The British steamer Jason, which
arrived at New York from Jamaica,
picked up the crew of ten men of the
sinking schooner Mary Sprague near
Crooked island passage and brought
them to New York.
WHILE exercising on the rings in the
gymnasium of the Twelfth regiment
armory at New York Robert Marmont
fell to the floor and was killed instant
ly. The distance was only six feet, but
his neck was broken.
THE recent wreck of the Great North
ern passenger train near Wenatchee,
Wash, came near being one of the
most disastrous of railroad casualties.
A tourist car containing 80 persons, in
Guiding II babes, caught fire. The car
was hurled into an embankment of
snow. 1t was only after the greatest
exertions that the inmates liberated
themselves by breaking the windows.
JOSEPH L. RAwLINs was elected at
Salt Lake City on the Sd on the SD
ballot as United States Senator for
Utah.
THE First national bank of Griswold,