Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-02-25


and Mrs. Harrison at Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 21st.
| A sNowsLIDE at Pitkin, Col, killed
Martin Mentley and seriously injured
ii. W. Brigham while asleep in their
cabin near the Cleopatra mine.
A FIRE broke out in Beares' dry goods
store at Grand Forks, N. D., at two
o'clock on the morning of the 21st, with
the mercury 25 degrees below zero. and
did damage to the amount of 1928, 900.
| There were many narrow escapes OF
people in scanty clothing.
| A DISPATCH from Middlesboro, KY,
on the 21st stated that most disastrous
food had visited that valley, many
people being forced out of their homes.
Railroad bridges had been washed
| away and trains water-bound. Near
PowelTs river James Caldwell and his
family were drowned, the flood sweep
ing away his house.
| CHUNG SING, Chinaman, was hanged
at San Quentin, Cal, on the 18th for
three atrocious murders
| KID O'BRIEN, of Arkansas, knocked
out Chess Allen, of ST. Joseph, Mo-, in
the 14th round of contest for Is
rounds at Hot Springs, Ark.
JOHN CIRCLELEZ started to make a
| IRE dU I'VE o CLOCK Oh tI10 UOIAluR Ol
the 10Th and got the gasoline can in
stead of the coal oil can. In an instant
there was an explosion and the house
was set on fire. John Circlelez's family
and his brother Jacobs family were
seriously burned. At the hospital it
was thought that five out of the eight
persons injured would die.
DANIEL MCCARTHY was hanged at
| Chicago on the 10th for the murder of
| his wife on May IL, 1896. She had sep
| arated from him on account of his
| drunken habits and on her refusal to
| live with him, he shot her at her moth
ers house while he was in state of
| intoXication.
WHILE force of workmen were low
ering a boiler into a Spanish cruiser at
the naval yards in Cadiz on the 18th
the tackling gave way and the boiler
| fell on the men, killing six and Seri-
| ously injuring ten others.
THE residence of Thomas Brown
| owski at Iron River, Mich. was Quilted
by fire on the 18th and two young chill
| dren who were in the house at the
time were burned to death. The
mother had left the children locked in.
JAMES A. GARY, of Ellicott City, Md,
it was stated on alleged authoritative
information, will be McKinley's post
master-genera1.
THE woman suffrage amendment was
lost in the Nevada assembly on the 18th
by vote of Is to 5.
THE special reporter of the Asso-
ciated press, who has visited the
famine stricken districts of India,
states that children are deserted and
left to forage for themselves and that
the mortality, is awful at Banda, the
blacklist spot of the Bundelkund pro-
vince, where, out of population of
700, 900, 100000 are receiving relief and
the number is expected to reach 3O0,-
900.
THE motormen and conductors on the
street railways at Galveston, Tex,
struck on the 18th for an increase in
wages.
In Bombay alone 1885 deaths oc-
Cured during the week ended Febru-
airy IL, of which S13 were due to bu-
bonic plague.
AT the meeting of the executive
council of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union of America, recently held in Chi
cago, it was decided to hold the next
international union in Chattanooga,
Tenn, on July Is, 1897.
THE Michigan house committee on
state affairs, to whom had been re-
ferred a bill to make the apple blossom
the official state flower, recommended
a bill in which the ''Pingree Peach
blow potato" was substituted for the
apple blossom.
ELDRIDGE PRESTON, colored. went to
the home of C. A. Willis, also colored,
at Guthrie, Ok, called him to the door
and shot him. The men wer, supposed
to be friends and no cause was known
for the act
A LARGE expedition consisting of 500
thoroughly armed frontiersmen, mostly
from Colorado, Texas and New Mexico,
sailed from the Texas coast on the
night of the nth. They went to fight
for the Cuban insurgents.
AN engine and Ia cars, with contents,
were demolished on the Illinois Cen
trail railroad near Bosly Della, Ill, on
the 10Th by the breaking of an axle on
the engine.
A DISPATCH from Vienna on the 10th
reported that the powers had addressed
collective note to Greece demanding
the withdrawal of her naval and mill
tary forces from the island of Crete
within As hours, failing which the port
of Pireus in Greece would be block
AIDED and general hostilities would
commence.
A SPECIAL from st. Louis on the nth
stated that a trust was forming with