Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-02-04

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gang of ten men were telling trees for
railroad ties and left a tree nearly
chopped through while they went into a
shanty to dinner. The tree fell on the
shanty and killed three men, fatally in
jured two more, and seriously injured
the five others.
GEORGE TAYLOR, the murderer of the
Meeks family, who escaped from the
Carrollton. Mo-, Jail on April 10 while
under sentence of death, has been cap
tured and lodged in the Hanford, Cal,
Jail and the Missouri authorities
notified. B. F. Lane, a Missourian,
was the man who identified the pris-
0ner.
GEN. A. J. SMITH died at ST. Louis on
the 30th. He was famous as a COM
mander who was never defeated. He
drove Gen. Price out of Missouri and
was instrumental in destroying Hoods
army and encompassed the surrender
of Mobile.
WILLARD Cotton, of Cleveland, O.,
came home at three o'clock on the
morning of the Goth, quarreled with
his wife, shot her dead and then shot
himself through the head.
A POWDER magazine at the Crystal
Ridge collery, near Hazleton, Pa, ex-
ploded about midnight of the 2sth, do
ing considerable damage. The night
Waterman was the only person injured.
The heat from a stove was thought to
have caused the explosion. Hazleton
was considerably shaken up.
FIRE destroyed Olson sc Co.'S furni-
ture factory at Chicago on the goth.
Loss, S35, 900; partially insured.
ALBERT CUNNING, a coachman, shot
and instantly killed Mrs. Benning at
Chicago and then attempted to shoot
her two boys, but failed. He after
wards shot himself in the breast. Cum
ming had an undue liking for Mrs.
Benning and she had forced him to
leave her house.
To keep out the cold Mandilla Hunt
made big fire in her house near Spar
tanburg, 5. c., and went to bed with
her two children. The house burned
down and the three were cremated.
JIM JACKSON, a negro farm laborer,
assaulted a girl at Six-Mile, Ala. Two
hours later posse went after Jackson.
who had in the meantime got hold of a
mule, and the chase was kept up for 90
miles, when Jackson was picked off the
mule by shot and the mob caught
him, strung him up by horses bride
and riddled him with bullets.
JOHN BoHANNoN and G.. Robinson
were waylaid by George and Burgess
Lee, brothers, and murdered in Haber-
sham county, Pa.
Two colored servants at the residence
of Henry Daspit, at New Orleans, made
a charcoal fire in their room to keep
warm and one was found dead and the
other dying from the fumes.
THE National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation had a heated debate at their
convention in Des MoineS, Ia, on the
2Sth about proposition for a plan of
work. At the afternoon session the
following officers were reelected: Pres
ident, Susan B. Anthony; vice presi-
dent-at-large, Rev. Anna Howard Shaw,
Philadelphia; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. Rachael Foster Avery, Philadel-
phia.
HATTIE FLETCHER and Addie Foster,
schoolgirls, both colored, fought with
pocketkpives while returning home
from school at Lexington, KY. on the
27th. Hattie, who was badly gashed,
laid open the jugular vein in Adde'S
neck, causing death soon afterward.
A SHEDDING party of about 20 persons
from Tyrone, Pa, was precipitated over
a stone wall about six miles from that
place. The party was mostly made up
of young people. A special train con-
veyed to the scene of the catastrophe
all the doctors in Tyrone. Several
persons were found to be seriously in
jured, having their arms and legs
broken and bleeding from wounds.
THE National Woman's Suffrage con-
vention at Des Moines, Ia, on the 27th
showed Is states represented. The re-
port of Annie L. Diggs, of Kansas, on
utilization with political parties was
rejected because it favored denouncing
all political parties, and favored drop
ping the Kansas work, owing to the OPP
position of the populists. Memorial
addresses were made in honor of the
distinguished dead of the past year.
GEN. RUSSELL A. ALGER, of Michigan,
visited President-elect Mckinley at
Canton, o., on the Goth and was for
mally offered the secretaryship of war
in the incoming administration and he
accepted it.
AN early morning fire on the 27th de-
stroyed Goepper's big malt house at
Cincinnati. Overman & Schrader's
cordage building adjoining was also
badly damaged. The loss was nearly
$4,000
WHILE the crew of a 1ifeboat was
trying to rescue some fishermen in the
North sea, off Marlboro, Jutland, the
ifeboat was capsized and all hands, IL
in number, were drowned.