Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-09-23

WHILE cooking dinner at Grandview.
KY, the dress of Mrs. Elizabeth Chap
man became ignited and she was IA
| tally burned.
a DISASTROUS wreck occurred on the
| Wisconsin Central railroad, near Chip
| pewa Falls, on the nth, resulting in
the death of five people and the serious
injury OF four others. Two freight
| trains. through a mistake in orders,
while going 10 miles an hour, met on a
| curve and came together with terrible
| force.
| TIE postmaster of Belmont, Neb..
was held up in his Office by masked
| men and compelled to deliver up some
| $500 of his funds. Two of the robbers
were afterwards apprehended after a
! fight in which one was mortally
wounded
MARIAN BILLINesLY, wild ov, went
| to prayer meeting the other nigh after
locking up her five children in the
house at Richmond, Ark. On return
ing home she found the house in ashes
and the children cremated.
The great Dismal swamp of Virginia
and North Carolina, covering an area
of perhaps 400 square miles, was afire
from one end to the other on the 18th,
| the result of an unprecedented drought.
| Forest fires were also raging in adioin-
| ing counties.
AT Denver, Col, the mails were said
to be loaded with counterfeit postal
cards and it was stated that the cards
were sold in large quantities to mer.
chants and others in that city and i'm
mense profits were being realized.
ARRAYo, the man who assaulted
President Diaz at the City of Mexico
on the 18th, was taken out of jail by a
| mob at night and lynched. About 30
of the lynchers were arrested.
EDDIE BALD was the champion of the
last day of the Springfield Oil. } Bicycle
clubs tournament. He went half a
mile in 1:02 1-5. the one-third mile, L.
A. w. championship. in AS 3-5 and the
one mile open professional record race
in 2:05 LIS. Jimmy Michael broke the
American record for ten miles, his
time being 1927 As. The former rec
ord was 1888 Is.
THE lifeless body of D. T. Watson, a
colored school-teacher, was found
hanging to a tree in Lonoke county,
Ark, the other morning with this
placard pinned on it: ga warning to
niger school-teachers. We want
none of this kind of people in this
country; others beware" Watson had
been teaching a school in the county
during the last three months.
A SPECIAL to the ST. Louis Post-Dis-
patch from the City of Mexico said
that an attempt to assassinate Presi-
dent Diaz was made on the 18th.
THE Dawes and Creek commissions
have begun negotiations at Muskogee,
1. T.. looking to the allotment of the
lands belonging to the Creek Indians,
| the dissolution of their tribal govern
ment and the establishment of town
sites in the nation. 1t is the general
opinion that a satisfactory treaty will
be arranged.
The executive board of the National
Anti-Spiritualistic association, at q
| meeting at Andersonville Ind, agreed
on the publication of an official week
ly paper at once. II. ]. Becker, of Day
ton, O., will be editor-in-chief. Michi-
gan, Ohio, California, New York, Penn
sylvania and Missouri were stated to
be ready to organize.
WHILE Robert Creek, a ranchman
living near Denver, Col, with his WIFE,
was out driving on Broadway his team
ran away. dashing into buggy driven
by 81. w. Hildebrand, a prin ter. All
three were thrown out and suffered
fractures of the skull. The two men
will die and the woman has very little
chance of recovery.
THE ambassadors of the powers at
Constantinople have arrived at an I'M
Outstanding in regard to the terms of
peace between Turkey and Greece upon
the basis of Lord Salisbury's proposals,
which are substantially that an inter
national commission of one from each
of the powers is to control the Greek
revenues, in order to meet the indem-
nifty. and the Turkish troops are to
evacuate Thessaly.
A CALM pervaded Hazleton, Pa, on
the 18th and the striking miners main
tanned silence and good order. Mai.
Whitney issued an order to his soldiers
however, not to accept food or drink
from any one outside the camp as it
was feared an attempt would be made
to poison the troops.
E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS has with
drawn his resignation as president of
Brown university at Providence, R. l.
THROUGH gasoline explosion Red
field, s. D., experienced a $50, 900 fire
and man was probably fatally burned.
WILLIS b. STANLEY, ex-treaSurer of
Beaver county, Ok, was acquitted of
the charge of embezzling $4,000 of
county funds.
AN agitation has been started at
Puget sound with the object of moving
the American and Canadian govern
ments to take speedy action toward
relieving the prospective famine situa-
ton at mining camps in Alaska What
is proposed is nothing less than a great
military expedition to be sent over
land, carrying provisions, which can
be sold for more than enough to cover
actual expenses incurred
The convention of the Illinois Fed
Grafton of