Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-18

from poison. 1t was thought that Mrs
Horton poisoned her husband and then
herself while temporarily deranged.
GEORGE MATTHEWS was hanged in the
Jail yard at La Plata, Nd, on the 18th
for the murder of James J. Irwin.
A DISPATCH from Trenton, n. J., on
the 18th stated that Vice Chancellor
Reed had dismissed the case against
the American Tobacco Co. and the trust
was victorious in the big fight to de-
stroy it.
THE Wabash river dyke in Sullivan
county, Ind. broke on the 18th and
over $1,000 acres of farming land were
flooded, together with two big coal
mines.
THE plant of the Jenney Electric Co.,
at Indianapolis, Ind, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Loss, Ss5, 900; insur-
ance, $35, 900. About IS employees were
thrown out of work.
ARTHUR MAYHEM, a negro, was sue
cessful1y electrocuted at Sing Sing, n.
Y, on the 18th for the murder of
Stephen Powell. He died proclaiming
his innocence.
CAPT. III. D. BAKER, for many years a
power in Kansas politics, died at Guth-
RE, Ok, on the 18th. During the In
dian hostilities of 1s6S-1s69 he COM
manded company of Col. Crawford's
Nineteenth Kansas volunteer infantry.
In 1889 he removed to Oklahoma, where
he served in the territorial council.
THE rivers south of Greensburg, Ind,
were reported on the rampage on the
18th. Six miles of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad were washed out, two
large bridges going down.
MGR. MARTINELLI, the papa1 dele
gate to the United States, recently had
to leave New Orleans in a hurried man
ner because he had stirred up the Ital-
ian Malta and they howled for his life.
structures on the Italian immigrants
who come to this country.
THE safe of the Lexington savings
bank, a colored institution at Balti-
more, Nd, was opened and found to
contain s2s.92. The net liabilities
were said to be about SIG, 900. Everett
j. Warning, the colored president and
cashier, was reported missing.
SIX Mormon elders were recently
corralled by incensed woodmen near
McClenny, Fla, and tarred and feath-
cred. The elders were then marched
to the county line and told to go. Fiji
teen women converts were found in
the elders camp by the woodmen and
sent to their homes.
ERNEST MASTERS and a stranger were
drinking and throwing dice at Lince-
cum, La, when a quarrel arose and
Masters shot the stranger and the
stranger killed Masters with knife
and then staggered little way and
dropped dead.
EARLY on the morning of the 10th
the cannonbaI1 express train from Chi
cago was wrecked on the Evansville &
Terre Haute railroad near Hazleton,
Ind, and the engine, baggage car and
smoker went into the White river and
seven were known to be killed. The re-
cent rains had weakened the roadbed.
ONE hundred and five bodies We're re-
covered up to the 9th from the San
Francisco mine near Sombrerete, Mex.
and IS miners were said to be still
missing. Nearly all the bodies recov-
cred were so burned as to be unrecog-
nizable.
SEVERAL hundred miners employed
in the Citizens Coal & Coke Co.'S mines
at Baldwin, Gunnison county, Col,
struck on the 18th for higher wages.
The total number of cases of bubonic
plague in Bombay up to the 10th was
9,O32, of which 1916 had proved fatal
In the whole presidency there had
been Il, $50 cases of the plague and 12,
204 deaths recorded.
A MEXICAN woman, named Luz San
tos Rodriguez, and her three daugh-
tiers were drowned in a lagoon about
20 miles from Brownsville, Tex. One
of the girls went in to battle and got
beyond her depth and the others tried
to save her and all were drowned.
MOsT of the big business places in
Mapleton, Pa, were destroyed by fire
on the night of the Sth, entai1ing &
loss of 500, 900.
The northbound express train on the
Louisville & Nashville railroad was
held up by six masked men near Calera
| Ala, and a number of money packages
| were taken from the express car. The
amount was said to be large.
FINANCIAL distress is said to be most
acute throughout Cuba. Famine i:
ravaging the small towns of the prov
inces of Pinar del Rio, Havana ano
Matanzas and smallpox is also increas
| ing at an alarming rate and most o.
the victims die.
THREE floors of fve-story fat build
ing at Brooklyn were Quilted by fire or
| the 9th. One man was burned to
death and woman and child killed
| LESLIE COMBS, the most noted moon
! sinner in the mountains, was found
| dead naar Hazard Nv on tho 9th