Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-22

By the explosion of an imperfect
blast in the Monarch mine near Mad
isonville. KY, two men, named Robert
Charlton and Theodore Stone, lost
| their lives.
| IN a drunken fight on shanty boat
at Bellaire, O., Jim Williams. the own
! er, killed his wife and Charles Horner
with a club and then fioated down the
river with the dead bodies. The story
was told by one OF the combatants who
escaped.
CASHIER STICKNEY, of the Great Falls
national bank at Somersworth. N H.,
was brutally murdered by two desper-
ADDE'S, who robbed the bank and es-
capped with nearly all the cash.
| JOHN RANDALL, a tramp, was run
Island. Ill, and had both legs cut off,
He died from the injuries at the hos.
| pital.
HARRISON DAWSON, a big colored min
lister. has astonished his brethren at
Mayfield, KY, by DESERVING his wife
and 10 children. He e1oped with a
| buxom colored sister.
MRS ELIZABETH r. Triton. the wife
of Henry Ward Beecher's accuser. died
recently at her home in Brooklyn.
| Since the famous Beecher trial she had
! lived in strict retirement. Theodore
| Tilton. her husband, is in Paris, where
| he has lived ever since the Beecher
trial.
A FIRE at Lindsey, a village eight
miles west of Fremont, o., on the 18th
destroyed the post office, drug store,
! a grocery, meat market, the new
| produce exchange building, town hall
and G.. A. r. hall. The villagers fought
the fire heroically with hand engines.
THE recent report of the viceroy of
India on the famine situation showed
that 2, S53, 600 persons We're employed
on the relief works, against 3, 141. 1928
persons so employed month previous.
| The condition of the people in the
affected districts was pronounced to be
| from fair to good.
THE big sawmill plant of the Can
field Lumber Co. at Garfield. Ark. was
completely destroyed by fire on the
| 18th. Estimated loss. $50, 600; insur-
ance, $40, 900.
WHILE tapping a blast at the Repub
lican iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa.
the other morning, the molten metal
boiled over into pit of water causing
an explosion. Five men were badly
burned, two of whom will probably die.
| BECAUSE he could not write William
Mitchell was arrested in East St Louis
and taken to the Chester. Ill, peniten-
tiary. Mitchell was paroled convict
under the new Illinois law and prison
ers taking advantage of the law must
report by mail once a month to the
| warden. Mitchell relied upon a friend
to write to the warden, but the friend
forgot his promise.
The hill Immediately over the mouth
| of the Yorkville mines. near Bellaire,
| O., gave way the other morning and
1000 tons of dirt and rock crashed
down completely closing up the en-
| trance and breaking the archway LOG
| feet. A driver named Jeffrey was en-
| tOmbed and was not rescued until sew
| eral hours afterward.
THE 21st and decisive game of the
| Pillsbury-Showalter chess match at
New York was won by P1llsbury. The
| final score was: Pillsbury, 10; Sho-
walter, s; drawn, 3.
DAN A. STUART at Chicago on the
18th denied the story that the pictures
of the Carson fight had proved worth
| less. They were, he said, entirely sat
| isfactory.
THREE London papers-the Globe,
| the St James Gazette and the Pail
Mall Gazette-ridicule the idea of the
1 United States bimetallic commission
having any practical result
WHILE a train was passing out OF
Johnson burg, Pa, the trainmen were
Mortified to see a man on a burning
| pile of ties on the track. The train
| was stopped and the man rescued. He
was badly burned and said he was
| bound and put on the pile by some
| tramps-
AN explosion of gasoline set fire tc
the Bradley block at Cleveland, o., and
| the occupants were panic-Stricken.
Three men were badly burned.
WHILE seated at the breakfast table
at Chicago ON the 14th Matthias Custer.
% years old. was shot and killed by his
stepfather. John Formiller. Formille1
then blew out his own brains Family
! quarrels caused the tragedy.
JESSE EVANS. a negro. charged with
accosting two little white girls. was
riddled with bullets by posse at Ed
wards. Miss. and the body left in the
| public street. The evidence against
the negro was conclusive
A CHICAGO dispatch stated that natu-
| raj gas had been struck in unlimited
| quantities within the city limits a
market gardener of Rosehi1l. while
boring for water, stumbling upon the
/ flow of gas.
TEN persons were killed by am explo-
sion of fire damp in the Oberhausen
pit at Ruhr.
| JAMES CIRCUIT, 16 years old, living al
St Louis. jumped off of freight train
in the Illinois Central yards and had
| both his feet cut off.
! GEORGE W. GUNTER, 70 years old. shot
his 15-year-old sweetheart. Alberta
Stanford, in a jealous rage at Hot
Springs, Ark. The girl died instantly.