Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-01-07

rotary Francis contemplated opening
the Kiowa and Comanche lands in ad.
dition to the Wichita reservation. The
secretary will only assign allotting
agents for the Wichita reservation at
present.
| A DIsP ATcH from the Philippine is
lands to Madrid on the Sd stated that
| 3, 200 of the insurgents were killed by
the Spanish troops and only % Span
iards lost their lives and 6S were
wounded in battle on the river Bu-
lacan.
! TWENTY houses were blown down by
a windstorm at Benton, Ark, on the ID
| In a boarding house at Atlanta, Ga.
Theodore Flanagan went into the dim
ing room and, drawing his revolver,
killed Mr.. Allen, his wife, Ruth Slack,
who had just arrived on visit, and
| badly wounded two other boarders
| The murderer was saved from mob
| by an officer. No motive could be as
| signed for the deed.
| FRANK S. BLACK was inaugurated
governor of New York at Albany on
the 1st before a large assem- blage.
| Levi p. Morton, the retiring governor,
made a long address, in which he re.
viewed his administration, and Gov.
Black responded briefly.
COUNTY TREASURER JERNIGAN, at
Austin. Tex, committed suicide be-
cause he had lost $40, 500 of the coun-
tvs money specializing.
BURGLARS blew open the safe the
other night in the general merchandise
store of j. 81. Hanev at Apple Grove,
o., and secured about 81, 900 in money,
besides stamps and valuable papers.
AN explosion occurred at the Moni-
tor coal mine near Bay City, Mich. on
the 31st and one man was killed and
another overcome by gas
ONE fireman was killed and thres
were injured by the breaking of .
ladder at fire at the four-story build
ing at Strawberry street, Phila-
delphia, on the 31st
FIRE destroyed dwelling and bust
ness house at Bradford, Pa, and Mrs.
Mary Hendricks was burned to death.
GEORGE B. WILKINS committed sui
eide in the Episcopal church at Selma.
Ark, at four o'clock on the morning of
the 31st. He was vice president and
cashier of the Selma bank which re-
Gently failed and had been treasurer of
the church for 80 years.
| The French coasting steamer Deux
Freres. from Fecamp for Calais, foun-
dered in the English channel and is of
her crew were drowned.
THE factory of the Jacksonville (O.)
Sewer Pipe Co. burned recently, throw
ing $50 men out of employment for the
winter. Loss, fully S1OO,OOO; partly
covered by insurance.
| FIRE at Defiance, O., on the 3Oth
damaged property aggregating $780,
600.
The Van Nortwick bank. of Batavia,
ILL.,. failed on the goth. The liabilities
were estimated at So. 100000
THE Farmers Trust Co., of Sioux
City, Ia, has failed. Liabilities, $780,
900; assets, S25s, 900.
| AL COCHRAN, the cattle rustler, has
been sentenced at Greeley, Col, to 80
years in prison for cattle stealing.
JOSEPH B. MCCULLAGH, editor of the
| St Louis Globe Democrat, was found
dead on the pavement in the rear of
his residence at $3.50 a. M. on the 31st.
He was attired in his night cloth ing
and had evidently committed suicide
by jumping from the window of his
| bedroom. He had been confined to his
room for some time with acute asthma,
complicated with nervous depression,
as a result of his arduOuS la bOrS in the
recent campaign. He was "a years old.
| NEARLY 400 Italians-men, women
and children-arrived at New York on
the Goth. They were all ticketed to
Austin Corbin's agricultural colony
near Helena, Ark.
| A REPORT was current in Havana re-
Gently that Maceo, the insurgent chief,
was not killed as previously stated,
but only badly wounded, and is now
slowly recuperating in the Siguena
hospital, whence his followers had
carried him. A representative of the
Cuban junta at New York. however,
stated that he placed no credence in
| the rumor that Maceo is alive.
THE officials of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad and the Southern
Railway Co. have offered a reward of
$40, 900 for the arrest and conviction of
the persons implicated in the recent
Cahaba river bridge disaster near
Brockton. Ala.
| A FREIGHT train was wrecked on the
both near Austin, Tex, presumably by
train robbers laying for a passenger
train.
FIRE swept through the dynamo
building of the Newark. n. J. Electric
Light, Heat and Power Co., on the Pas.
sale river, and the city was plunged in
total darkness. The power house was
totally destroyed, and if. as was feared,
none Of the machinery can be repaired,
the loss will reach s1s5. 600.