Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-28

aicted probably fatal injuries on three
others
JOHN MCCREA. farmer near Prince
| ton, Ind. heard a noise at his chicken
house, and going out he saw figure
| moving about in the darkness. He
| raised his gun and fired and was hor-
rified to hear his 12-year-old son cry
out in agony. The boy was probably
fatally wounded.
The worlds w. C. I. q. convention
formally opened at Toronto. Ont, on
the night of the 2ad with banquet to
the delegates.
Four unknown men were run down
by an engine on the Pennsylvania rail-
| road near JohnStown, Pa, and ground
to pieces.
Mrs. CARRIE CoRBErT, aged 80, a
| widow, was awarded S54. 1888 damages
at Danville, Ill, for breach of promise,
John Gernand, aged II, retired CAPT
| talist, being the defendant
THE 151st birthday of Princeton On.
j. university was celebrated on the
22d, ex-President Cleveland making
the principal address on 1.-THE Self
Made Man"
The Iowa supreme court has decided
that contracts for grain, where the in
tention is merely speculation on the
ket and no delivery is intended, are
gambling contracts and void.
THERE were POS business failures in,
the United States for the week ended
the 22d, according to Bradstreet's re-
port, against 292 for the corresponding
week last year.
NEAR Saltilloville, Ind, Green
Slaughter shot and killed George
Slaughter, his uncle, and John Holsap-
pie during quarrel over lawsuit.
CHARLES j. PETERSON, an aeronaut
and high diver, jun ped from Brooklyn
! bridge the other day. He wore pair
Of parachute wings and he sailed away
for fully 1000 feet before the water
was struck. He was picked up by
waiting boat and said he could have
gone any distance.
THE Pittsburg & Gulf railway met
with its first serious accident to pas
senger train on the 21st, when the Port
| Arthur express, which left Kansas
| City the previous night, ran into a
north bound freight train which was
standing on a siding at Sulphur
| Springs, Ark. Both engines were
wrecked and the engineer, fireman and
mail clerk Slightly injured.
IN dark cellar at Chicago officers
| the largest liquor counterfeiting
schemes ever operated in this country
and $3.50 in labels representing all
of the leading brands of liquor, bottles
and cases were found. Five express
wagons were filed with the confiscated
| goods.
The twin sons Of the late George NJ.
| Pullman, the sleeping car magnate,
| have been diSinherited, it is said. The
story is to the effect that the strokes
| of Mr.. Pullman's pen that made bar
| rier between his sons and his money
were made only ten days before his
| death.
AT the national session of the Chris
tan church at indianapolis. Ind. re-
Gently the statistical report showed
| gains for the year as follows: Churches,
| 422; communicates, 47,4OT; Bible
schools. 627; scholars and teachers in
| Bible schools. 36,4,S; ministers. 400
The total number of commandments is
1.051, 079; the value of church property
| is SIG, $50, 677.
AT 1850 a. m on the 21st the Luet-
CERT jury at Chicago was called into
court and discharged, there being 10
| possibility of an agreement. The jury
| stood nine for conviction and three for
| acquittal. The jury was out over &C
| hours.
JACK MCAULIFFE was defeated by
| Jack Steiner in 15-round con test at
Los Angeles, Cal. on the 10Th.
FIRE broke out in the coal supply of
the Boston & Albany railroad in NNor-
cester, Mass. the other day. Their.
| were %, 600 tons of soft coal in the sup.
ply, valued at about 500, 900, and il
was thought that it would all be lost
FIRE on the Goth destroyed the bust.
ness portion of Osceola. Ark.
GEORGE YOUNG, a farmer residing
near Blue Earth, Mimi. shot and killed
his wife, his two boys, aged two and
four, and himself They were found
we1tering in blood by the hired man
| Business and domestic troubles form
the only explanation fo- the deed.
IN a head-end collision between a
freight train on the Cincinnati, Hamil.
ton & Dayton railroad near Dayton,
| O., on the Goth, two men were fatally
| hurt and five persons were more or less
injured.
| LORD SALISBURY on the Goth sent to
| Ambassador Hay at London the reply
IF the British government to the pro-
| posals of the American bimetallic spe-
| cial commission headed by Senator
Wolcott. His lordship regrets his in
ability to accede to the proposals of
the American commissioners and does
not see the desira bility of an interna-
tional monetary congress and showed
that the financial department of India
was against reopening the minis in
that country.
GRACE CLARK. 14-year-old school
girlSof New Brunswick. \. J., by the
death of her grand uncle, finds herself
heiress to the greater part of fortune
made in the gold mines of Australia