Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-29

the accidental falling of safe in East
st. Louis, Ill, and Patrick Butler re-
ceived fatal injuries
WHILE Milton Bradbury, living near
CARRIER, Ok. was fighting prairie fire
on his farm his fve-year-old son was
caught in it and was burned to death.
FIVE thousand people saw Jimmy
Barry and Jimmy Anthony, bantam
weights, fight 20 rounds before the Ma
tional Athletic club at San Francisco
on the 23d. The fight was for 81, 600
purse, rs per cent. to the winner, at
115 pounds. Barry had the best of it
all through and after the Goth round
he was declared the bantam champion
of the world.
AT Williamson, Il miles east of Lam
sing, Mich, Mrs. Albert Hovey, aged
80 years, murdered her aged mother
head from the body and then poured
oil on the lifeless body and set it on
fire.
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's report
there were 216 business failures
throughout the United States for the
week ended the Esd, against 240 in the
corresponding week last year.
Two convicts in San Quentin Cali
prison, W. &. Kelley and Frank Wheel
oclx, fought with jute knives on the 22d
before the guards could interfere. Kel-
lev was killed and Wheelock was re-
ported dying.
LITTLE hope is entertained by west
ern railway managers that the United
States senate will pass the Foraker
pooling bill. They admit the senti-
ment of the people in the west is de-
cidedly hostile to a 1egalization of
railroad pools and most of the sena-
tors of the western states, therefore,
will refuse to vote for Foraker's bill.
THE extensive barn of w. C. Law
renee, located at Lexington, Ind, was
consumed by fire. Five hundred bush
els of grain and many farming imple-
ments were burned and IL head of
horses persisted.
A DESPERATE attempt by a political
| fanatic was made on the ed to assas-
| sinate King Humbert with knife,
| but the man was seized by the guards
before he had done any harm. The
king was on his way to the races.
EDITOR HINTON of the Abba Qa-) De-
| fender, was fatally assaulted by John
Jamison, coal miner, who had taken
| offense at an item in Hinton's paper.
| NANCY MCKINLEY, mother of the
| president, celebrated her SSth birth
| day anniversary at her home at Canton,
o., on the 22d. She was in excellent
>hea1th, barring slight attacks of rheu-
| matiSm.
A DISPATCH from Athens expressed
fear that should the Greeks suffer de-
feat and the Turks occupy Larissa a
revolution will break out at Athens.
THE Western Baseball league season
of '97 opened in indianapolis, Ind. on
the 21st with the Grand Rapids club.
| The score was 10 to lin favor of In
| dianapolis.
OVER 200 Greeks, at a mass meeting
at Chicago the other night, resolved
| to do all they could to aid their native
| country in the war with Turkey.
| Amid great enthusiasm, 400 of them
| signed the muster rolls, and promised
to be ready to start for New York with
| in few hours. From all sources came
help to pay the passage of the volun-
| teers.
AS the result of charges brought
against ex-Grain Inspector Dwight w.
| Andrews at Chicago the Investigate
ing committee of the legislature in
vestigated the affairs of the state grain
/ inspectors office. It is said that there
is shortage of $45, 900 in his accounts.
TELEGRAM from Tullahoma, Tenn.
| on the 22d said that fire started in the
operahouse block and was spreading
to the business portion through the
high wind and there was no hope OF
stopping it. Damage had been done
amounting to 100000.
A SPECIAL session of Sons of the Rev
olution was held at Philadelphia te
consider the proposed consolidation
with Sons OF the American Revolution
The vote stood 16 for consolidation anC
IA against, Virginia refusing to vote
Thirty-one states were represented.
ABOUT three years ago Jesse anG
Charles Hidden, cousins, and cool
left their homes in Pauls Valley, 1. [.
and went to Arkansas to buy cattle
They never returned, and Jones wa
arrested and convicted of the double
murder and hanged a year ago IL
the surprise of everyone Jesse Hibde1
!: has been located in territorial prison
where he is held for selling whisky tt
Indians.
; Provision rates from Kansas City t.
New York were said to be on tn
ragged edge on the 10Th and Httl
provocation was needed to cause
} great row. The rates were thought t.
be too high and some of the roads wer
, shading them down.
, A WRECK occurred nine miles nortl
: of Evergreen, Ala, to a passenge
train on the Louisville & Nashville
railroad. Engineer Adams, his fire
man and two negroes were fatally in
F., iured and two other negroes, believes
to be tramps, were severely hurt. L
was thought.that four negro tramps
i, who were seen in the neigh borhoot
i shortly before the accident occurred
2 removed the rails just south of tn
c trestle. The engine, caboose, baggag
and mail cars were completely wrecked