Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-25
LETTER to the London Daily Mail

| from madness.
| SCOTT JACKSON and Alonzo Walling,
dental students, convicted of the muir
| der of Pearl Bryan, were hanged to-
| gether on double trap in the jail
yard at Newport, KY, on the Goth.
| GEN. j. Z. FULLERTON, of St. Louis.
was killed in the wreck of the express
train near Oakland, Md, on the Goth.
He was an officer in the confederate
! army and was member of the Chicxa-
manga park commission.
! AN awful tragedy was enacted on
! the night of the Goth near Orriclz, Ray
county, Mo. Bee Rainwater shot his
wife, his mother-in-1aw, his step
daughter and his brother-in-law and
then blew the top of his own head off.
ALI the five are dead. The murderer
was said to be OF morose disposition
and did not live happily with his wife,
! frequent separations taking place.
A DISPATCH from Memphis, Tenn, on
the 21st stated that many breaks in the
levees along the Mississippi river had
occurred between that city and Osceola,
Ark, and that the rush of the waters
at Sans Souci could be heard for miles.
| In Marion, Ark, all the houses were
surrounded by water.
The boiler of the locomotive which
was hauling the Chicago and Boston
train on the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad blew up at Chicago
on the 21st, killing the engineer and
fireman and completely demolishing
! the engine.
THE river at Des Moines, Ia, was still
rising on the 21st and over 800 houses
had been abandoned on account of the
overflow.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Ottum-
wa, Ia, on the 21st in a business block
on Main street which destroyed prop
erty valued at $3.50. 600.
| The failures for the week ended the
18th in the United States were ZIG,
according to Dun's report, against 261
last year.
| DAVE PENNINGTON, of Odebolt, Ia,
started out to kill number of persons
who had incurred his enmity. He killed
Luther Traver and dangerously shot
Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Stolt, and after
daring a policeman who had cornered
him to shoot he committed suicide by
blowing the top of his head off.
! THOMAS J. SHARKEY issued a def at
San Francisco on the 10th. The sailor
pug1list claimed that he was the
champion of the world and he intended
| W A1O1Ot G1O uAUl1 LIS
colors were lowered. He said he had
deposited forfeit for bet of $40, O0O
and would fight Fitzsimmons, Maher,
Goddard or any one else. Sharkey said
that he had whipped Corbett and had
| got the decision over Fitzsimmons and
nobody had any better right to the
worlds championship than he had.
RECENTLY two men entered the home
of d. Jones near Wymore, Neb., and
frightfully tortured him by burning
him to make him tell where his money
| was. Jones crawled the next morning
| to neighbours house, where he died in
| horrible agony.
! A YOUNG woman, who was descend
| ing from a window of a hotel at New
| York by means of a patent fire escape,
| lost control Of the apparatus and fell
to the ground, suffering internal in
| juries. The inventor of the fire escape
| was arrested to await the result OF
the girls injuries.
NEAR Marion, Ark, Eta Liz and her
four children were trying to make
their way to Marion for shelter, and
while attempting to cross railroad
trestle the strong current caused by
the great flood overwhelmed the party
and all persisted. The Oldest child was
a girl aged 16 and the youngest an in
FAINT of eight months
| The interstate commerce committee
had meeting at New York to investi-
gate charges preferred against A rail
roads, forming the Joint Traffic asso-
citation, for alleged discrimination
against New York.
| The schooner Hilda came into New
York on the nth bearing four surviv-
ors of the steamer Vile de st. Nazaire,
! which sailed from New York for Port
au Prince, Hayti, on the 9th. The men
were picked up in boat and were the
only ones living out of 81 souls which
had abandoned the Nazaire and taken
to the boat. The others had starved.
frozen or gone mad and jumped into
the sea.
THE big fight between Corbett and
| Fitzsimmons came off at Carson, New,
on the 18th. The contest was fierce
and lasted for Ii rounds, when Fitz-
simmons got in blow over the heart
on Corbett and knocked him down.
Corbett was unable to rise on time on
account of the pain and Referee Siler
| counted him out and decided that Fitz-
simmons had won the fight.
A DISPATCH from Canea on the 18th
| announced that the blockade of the
island of Crete by the fleets of the pow
ers would begin on the 21st, and that a