Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-01-28


trestle near Clarion, Pa, killing the
engineer, fireman and a mail clerk and
injuring about Is others.
AT French Lick Springs, Ind, Sam
uel Kirby and his wife were discovered
murdered in their house. They had
evidently been killed with an ak and
there were signs of an awful struggle.
B1oodhounds were put on two tell-tale
tracks in the snow and the dogs struck
a trail with a posse of men following
them.
GEN. GEORGE Fl. THOMAS died at Ok
1ahoma City, Ok, on the Esd of car
buncle, aged go years. He served with
President-e1ect Mckinley during the
war and had large interests in the ter
ritory.
THE big stable of Tracy & Williams,
the famous horsemen's headquarters at
Lexington, KY, was burned on the
night of the Esd. There were 100 thor
oughbred trotters and runners in the
stable, but all were rescued.
A PASSENGER train was wrecked
on the Cincinnati Southern railway
near Lemo, Tenn. A rock had fallen
on the track, which caused the engine
to crash down an embankment. The
mail car was demolished and the ex-
press and baggage cars badly damaged.
The engineer and fremen were dan
gerously hurt and several passengers
more or less in ured.
MAYOR SWIFT, of Chicago, has signed
the ordinance prohibiting women from
wearing high hats in theaters.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the Santa Fe rail
road co1lided with hand car at Sealy,
Tex, and two men were killed and an
other fatally injured.
GEORGE DIXON, champion feather
weight pugilist of the world, defeated
Australian Billy Murphy, of Cincin
natl, in six rounds at the Broadway
Athletic club at New York on the 22d
THE white intruders in the territory
of the five civilized tribes must go, Sec
rotary Francis having officially signed
an order on the 22d that all persons
who are not on the citizen rolls of the
five tribes will be unceremoniously
OuSted.
THE deaths from the bubonic plague
at Bombay for the week ended the 21st
numbered 40.
A REAR-END collision occurred on the
22d between two freight trains at
Benchley on the Texas Central, wreck
ing ten cars, a caboose and a locomo
tive, and seriously injuring Engineer
Higgins, Fireman Stuart and Brake
man J. T.. Robinson.
A FAMINE exists in Rhodesia, Africa.
and the natives were reported digging
up and eating cattle which had been
buried six months ago because they
had died from the rinderpest. AS a
consequence terrible mortality prevails
among the natives.
h11c 70 IN ho I'M cd
States for the week ended the 22d, &C.
cording to Bradstreet's report, were
429, being SO more than in the CORE
spending week last year.
The Bradshaw block at Waxahachie,
Tex, was destroyed by fire. The block
and stocks were insured for $50, 900.
The loss will reach $65, 900.
GEN. WYMAN recently received a tel
egram from Havana stating that there
were 1000 cases of smallpox among
the residents of that city.
Ross SHERMAN and two companions,
all three drunk, became noisy on
Chicago cable car the other night and,
when requested to subside, Sherman
drew big knife and began slashing at
the passengers indiscriminately. Three
women tainted and Edward Nugent,
who grappled with Sherman, was bad
ly cut in the hand.
RUSSIA fears that the bubonic plague
now raging in India will reach her
country and the newspapers are call
ing for every precauticn to be taken to
prevent it. One newspaper said that
the world should unite to form a cor
don around the devastated plague dis
tricts.
THE trial of Edward J. Ivory, the al
legged dynamite conspirator, came to
a sudden conclusion in London, the
government withdrawing from the
prosecution. Ivory was discharged.
A MOB of 200 men broke into the Jail
at Amite City, La, early on the morn
ing of the Goth and took out three ne
gro murderers- johnson, Archie
Joiner and Gus Williams. The mob
took them to the woods and hanged
them and riddled the bodies with bull
lets. 1t was at first proposed to burn
Johnson at the stake, but this was pre-
vented by the leaders.
ENGINEER G. w. LAME, of Keokulz,
and Brakeman Frank Lafferty, of
Eddyville, quarre1ed while their train
was at Ottumwa, Ia, on the Goth, and
Lafferty gave Lamb probably fatal
blow with coupling pin. Lafferty
escaped. The two were members of a
Rock Island passenger crew.
RIcHFELD CENTER, little village
near Toledo, O., was in the midst of a