Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25
MISCELLANEOUs.

MISCELLANEOUS.
JOHN BEATTY, a wealthy farmer near
Oklahoma City, Ok, was found dead
in his bed, having been choked to
death. The murder was supposed to
have been the result of feud engen-
dered over contest for homestead.
For the brutal murder of his para
mour, Venie Bell, George Western,
alias Devil Winston, colored, was
hanged at Paducah, KY, on the 10Th.
He met his death without a culver,
warning all people, black and white,
to beware of bad company and whisky.
A MOST disastrous confagration oc-
Cured in London on the 10th, 80 large
warehouses being Quilted, according to
the official report. The damage was
estimated at $50, 900. 600. Nearly all
the British insurance companies were
involved in the fire and fire insurance
shares were practically unstable on
the stock exchange on the 10Th.
A COMBINATION of enameled ware
plants has been formed with capital
of $25, ZOO, 900. F. G. Niedringhaus, of
st. Louis, will be president of the huge
concern.
THE conferences of the general Off
GERS of the national w. C. T. q. held at
note of the work for this year, it was
announced, is statutory prohibition
in the states.''
THE secret service bureau announces
the discovery of a new counterfeit $40
silver certificate and also a counterfeit
national bank note on the First ma
tional of Joplin, Mo-, series 1882.
THE boiler in Milton Artley's wood
working factory at Carleton, Mich,
exploded the other morning, killing
the fireman and injuring three other
men. The explosion wrecked the fac
tory and shook every building in town.
WHILE a travelling doctor named w.
S. Humiston was heating mixture Of
! alcohol, turpentine and rosin on a
stove at Burnt Hills, n. Y, it explod-
ed and a four-year-old daughter was
burned to death and another daughter
and Mrs. Brown received injuries
from which they cannot recover. Hum
iston was arrested.
MARTIN BARTHoLoMY and George
Roeh1 were fatally injured and Robert
Loren was severely beaten as the re-
suit of an attack of 20 masked men on
the night shift of six miners at the
Kolb coal pit near Mascoutah. III.
WHILE his wife lay asleep beside him
William Ortiz, at Burlington, Ia, shot
himself in the head. Death was in
Simultaneous. The reason assigned
for the suicide was dependency due
to inability to obtain work.
A DISPATCH from Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, on the 10Th said that so students at
Vassar college were seriously i'll, all
having been taken sick two days pre-
viously from eating improperly cooked
veal.
HENRY CLAY JOHNSON, colored, was
hanged at st. Louis on the 18th for the
murder of William Amend, a newsboy,
whom he shot on the night of August
1, 1895. The murder was the result
OF game of craps. Amend was not
playing, but Johnson, for some I'M
known reason, claimed he was cheat
ing and shot him.
A PASSENGER train on the Kansas
City, Fort Scott & Memphis railroad
was wrecked near Williford, Ark,
early on the morning of the 18th.
| Three cars were derailed and went
over the bank into the Spring river.
| j. L. Hoover. of Pleasant Hill, Mo-,
| was killed and % others were injured.
| some seriously.
| The Anchor line steamer Buff City.
which left St Louis for New Orleans
| with 40 passengers and 1000 tons of
| freight on board, was burned to the
waters edge at Chester, HI. All the
passengers and crew escaped to land
without injury, but nothing on board
| was saved. The loss will aggregate
$500, 900. A number of valuable race
horses were burned on board the boat.
Two brothers. George and Homer
Brewer, aged Il and IS, respectively.
We're drowned while skating on Big
Stone lake, near Horton, Mimi. One
broke through the ice and the other
| was dragged under while trying to
save him.
PASSENGERS on the westbound Texas
& Pacific train the other night report
ed a destructive fire in the big pine
forests in Van Zandt and Wood coun-
ties. Tex. Vast stretches of fine tim
Der were destroyed. as we'll as much
fencing, live stock and many dwell
ings-
A CONVENTION Of horse, sheep and
swine growers and breeders of fine
stock all over the United States has
been called to meet at Denver, Col, on
january 25-27, 1898. for the purpose o.
organizing national stock growers
association and to discuss measures fo1
the betterment of the stock Industry.