Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-18

aid on the 18th from Wash ington said
that ratification of the Hawaiian an
nexation treaty by the United States
senate was assured. The administra-
tion has made poll of that body and
President Mckinley is satisfied that
more than two-thir1S of the senate
will vote for ratification.
A SPECIAL from Birming CHAM. Ala,
said that the rapist, Bud Beard, was
1ynched at Carrollton, Ala. The mob
succeeded in breaking into the Jail and
getting Beard out before the arrival of
the state troops from Tuscaloosa.
A SPECIAL freight train on the Bur
1ington. Cedar Rapids & Northern rail
way struck a three-wheeled railway
velocipede. carrying a man and two
women, at New Liberty, Ia. the other
evening. Fred Lausen, section boss,
and Matte Schulsen were instantly
killed. Annie Schulsen, the other wom-
an, was not seriously hurt.
THE two CARRIER boys at Guthrie,
Ok, played with a stick of dynamite,
which they had found, when it eX-
ploded and blew them to atoms and
wrecked their house.
A FAST freight on the Rock Island
struck COW at Renfrow. Ok. derail-
gineer Frank Berry, of Trenton. Mo-,
was killed.
JOHN BREWER apparently dropped
dead in front of a grocery store at
Henderson, KY, and was carried into
a back room and the coroner sum-
moned. While the inquest was in
progress Brewer sat up and suggested
that further proceedings be stopped.
Brewer said he had been seized with
an attack of heart disease.
A WEDDING party of 80 persons, re-
turning from church at Bielostok,
Russian Poland, in a huge wagon
drawn by eight horses, was struck by
train while crossing track and not
a member escaped death.
PRACTICALLY all of the lines between
Chicago, ST. Louis and the Utah state
line have entered into an agreement
not to carry passengers on freight
trains. This new rule was adopted at
the recent meeting in st. Louis. The
Kansas City Transportation bureau
has taken up the matter in behalf OF
the merchants and will make a hard
fight to induce the railroads to rescind
or modify their order.
A. G. GILLIAN, manager of the Jones
Nixon Publishing company of st.
Louis and democratic candidate for
state senator at the last election, shot
and killed himself. No reason was
known for the deed except that an in
jury received recently by Mr.. Gillian
in bicycle accident may have affect
ed his mind.
IT was rumored at ST. Louis that a
deal is on hand whereby the Wander
bilts will acquire the Toledo, ST. Louis
& Kansas City railroad, commonly
known as the Glover Leaf"
THE Meadow Lawn farm, near Mat
toon, ILL.,, consisting of $50 acres, which
has been in litigation for the last five
years, has been sold at auction to
Grand Chief P. M. Arthur, in trust for
the benefit of the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Engineers. It is the inten-
ton of the brotherhood to establish
on this farm home for dependent en-
gineers, their widows and orphans.
j. c. DARRAGH, former president OF
the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Say
ings bank, which failed on July II,
1898. was found guilty on the 18th OF
receiving deposits when he knew the
bank was insolvent and his punish
ment was fixed at two years in the
peniten tiary.
THEODORE DURRANT, instead of being
hanged on the 18th for the murder OF
Blanche Lamont at San Francisco, got
another respite through his lawyer on
legal techn:cality.
ALFRED n. PHILLIPS, an inmate OF
the Iowa insane asylum, threw himsel1
in front of train at Du buque.
A MEXICAN boy named Bernardo Sal
azar shot and probably fatally wound
| ed two old women and two little girls
| at Brownsville, Tex. There was nc
cause assigned for the deed.
Two men in their buggies, going in
| opposite directions at Wabash, Ind.
held their umbrellas before their faces
during a heavy thunderstorm an6
their horses collided, the shaft of each
horse. One animal dropped dead ant
| The other went half block and theI
expired.
| A STOCK breeder of Camden, o., re
.ently paid E. M. Metzgar, living neal
Fairfield, Ia, S6S3 for Poland Chin,
pig. At the same sale Al Poland Chin;
pigs brought an average price of $50. 40
A litter of five pigs born in Februar,
brought the owner 81, $50.
THE state lunatic asylum at Milledg
| Vile, Ga, was burned on the eth. TIL,
200 patients in the building were savet
by the heroic work of the citizens ant
| firemen.
THE announcement that ChinameI
would be placed in the mines of tn,
northern Illinois fields has causes
great excitement at Streator, Ill, ant
business men in that city looked upoI
| the situation as most serious. 1t mean
to Streator IIone the displacement 0
1000 men. A reign of riot and blood
shed is predicted.
JOHN G. KoERNER, under arrest a
Indianapolis, Ind. confessed that h
had stolen 1O9 horses from the street
of that city in one year. His plan wa
| to get into a buggy hitched at the cur