Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-02-11

In III OF desperation, after a quar-
rel with her husband, the wife of Rob
ert Cort, rancher near Big Timber
Mont, picked up her three small chill
dren and rushed to the Yellowstone
river and threw them in and then
jumped in herself. They were all
drowned.
A HEAD-END collision occurred be-
tween two freight trains on the Louis
Vile & Nashville railroad near Mont
gomery, Ala, on the 7th through a
mistake of the telegraph operator and
the engineer and brakeman were killed
and the fireman fatally hurt. The
operator has disappeared.
A LARGE portion of the business sec
ton of ShelloclS, Ia, including the
post office, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, estimated at S25, 900.
AT the balloting of the L. A. w. at
Boston on the 9Th it was decided that
the national meet shall be held at
Philadelphia, 223 votes being cast for
that city, 81 for Columbus, O., and 10
for Nashville, Tenn.
IN the ladies' six-day bicycle race at
Columbus, O., which closed on the
night of the 9th Anderson finished
first, CLAW second, Farnsworth third
and Allen fourth. Miss Anderson in
IL hours covered 226 miles and ~ laps.
A PASSENGER train ran into a tree
which had rolled on the track at Wood
house, Pa, and the engine was thrown
across the track and the rest of the
train rolled down an embankment into
a creek. The fireman was fatally
crushed and several others were badly
injured.
AN ice gorge Is feet high and 20 miles
long gave way at Louisville, KY, on
the 7th. Several New Orleans and
Memphis packets were caught in the
ice and heavy loss by damage was
feared.
THE ship yards of the Fairfield Ship
building Co. at Govan, near Glasgow,
were destroyed by fire. The damage
done is estimated at S25o,OcO. Four
thousand persons were thrown out of
employment.
Z. j. LEvAN, of Dubuque, Ia, has
discovered a lead-bearing crevasse in
the cellar of his house. 1t is six-inch
vein and promises big yield of mineral.
NICHOLAS SHAFFER, of Burlington,
N. J., shot his wife and then turned
the weapon on himself in the street on
the 5th. Mrs. Shaffer it was thought
would recover, while the husbands
wounds will prove fatal.
ANDERSON PARKER, a farmer of Rock
castle county, KY, in a drunken rage
fractured his wife's skull with club,
shot his son through the wrist and in
Hicted a scalp wound and killed his
father with a revolver. The rest of
the family escaped during the fight.
WALLACE HARRISON and Charles Lin
quist sl>ated into air holes on Lake
Michigan at Chicago on the 4th and
were drowned. Assistant Corporation
Counsel Burling made desperate eff
fort to save Harrison and came near
being drowned himself.
EXPERT accountants have found a
shortage of nearly $4,000 in the &C
counts of Cashier c. E. BREEDER, of the
First national bank of Bethlehem, Pa.
BREEDER has absconded. He had been
cashier for 20 years.
The police of Nebraska City, Neb.,
had a desperate fight with a gang of
IA drunken tramps, but the officers
finally arrested the principal offenders.
ROBERT MORTON, a negro, wrote an
Insulting note to Miss Tommie John
son, popular young white woman of
KY, and when it became
fA1OWh dIISSGcO Hill, OuG d h1OD
overpowered them and carried the
prisoner three miles from town and
hanged him.
THE breaking ice gorges of the Lick
ing river sunk 25 coal barges at Pom
eroy, O., and vicinity and damages
were reported at other points along
the Ohio river.
THE high school and the StCat man
ual training school at MenOmonie
Wis, were burned on the night of the
1st
The house of Seeley Wakely, near
Grayling, Mich, was destroyed by fire
and two children were burned to death.
They were in the house alone at the
time of the fire and its origin is I'M
known.
A WRECK occurred on the Northwest
ern railway at Arlington, S. D., in
which four persons were killed and a
large number of others were injured.
One train could not get on to a switch
on account of ice and the other ran in
to it.
JUDGE JOSEPH MCKENNA. of San
Francisco, has been selected secretary
of the interior, so President-elect Nc
Kinley told a delegation of Missouri
ans who went to Canton, O., on the I'd
to urge Maj. William Warner, of Kan
sas City, Mo-, for the place.
THE strike at the factory of Norton
Bros. at haywood, Ill, was settled by
a compromise reducing the cut in
wages to five per cent. and the 600 en-