Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-01-21

Beauya1S was waylaid and robbed by a
negro at Whitecastle, La. Before mid
night the highwayman was arrested,
identified by his victim and jailed and
the next morning the Negroes body
was found dangling from tree, the
coroner's verdict being death by hang
ing, at the hands of some unknown
parties"
FIVE children broke through the ice
at North Leominster, Mass, on the 18th
and were drowned.
A GANG of a dozen highwaymen held
up an emigrant train going south from
Missouri in the Creek nation in the In
dian territory on the nth and robbed
them of everything they had. Some of
the eunigrants identified the leader of
the desperadoes as being George Tay-
Tor, the escaped murderer of the Meeks
family. Posses were organized at Guth-
RE, Ok, to locate the gang.
Two children and niece of John D.
Reynolds were discovered dead in a
tenement house at Roxbury, Mass,
shortly after he arose on the morning
of the 18th, the three having been suf-
located by gas, carelessness or igno-
rance in using the fixture being the
cause.
A NEW YORK dispatch said that
movement had been started by the
managers of Lillian Russell to have
her crowned queen of comic opera, in
emulation of Sarah Bernhardt, who
was recently crowned queen of the
drama in Paris.
A RECENT special to the Chicago News
stated that Perry S. Heath was to be
private secretary to President-eleci
Mckinley. Present Private Secretary
James Boyle, it was understood, is to
be sent abroad.
LOT GRIMSLEY, a 14-year-Old son of a
farmer living near Guthrie, Ok, was re-
Gently killed by two-ton stone falling
on him.
ONE man was killed and two injured,
one fatally, by a tail-end collision be-
tween two sections of southbound
freight train at Sinking creek water
tank in Kentucky. The second section
crashed into the first section while it
was taking water at the tank.
CRATHER & HAvERHILL's heavy dry
goods warehouses at Montreal, Can,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $500, 900;
insurance, $685. 600.
j. L. MCCLEARY met death in horri-
BILE manner at Corning, o., recently.
He was engaged in shooting well and
several quarts of nitroglycerin which
were in wagon exploded and tore his
body into shreds. The wagon was
and the horses killed. A sud-
den jar caused the explosion.
JIM HALL and Steve O'Donnen have
been matched to box 90 rounds before
the Greater New York Athletic club,
February 1.
THE boys wing of Buckner's orphans
home, near Dallas, Tex, was DESTROYED
by fire on the night of the 18th and five
boys persisted in the flames, three of
them being the matron's sons.
FIRE at Narbert, Pa, has destroyed
the famous old stone barn opposite the
Gen. Wayne hotel, which has been a
landmark for more than century.
Gen. Washington's troops were quar-
tered there once during the revolution.
FIVE persons were seriously injured
and about 80 others were more or less
cut and bruised on the 18th by a street
Ear in Pittsburgh, Pa, running away
Down a steep grade and dashing into a
pole.
CAsPAR w. WHITNEY, of New York
,ity, filed suit at Perry, Ok, asking
that his wife's divorce decree, which
vas granted in the territory year
ago, be set aside on the grounds that
she was not bona fide resident of the
territory. Mrs. Anna C. Whitney, one
IF New York's foremost society women,
after three months stay, filed suit
80 days bona fde residence,
and next day after the decree was
granted she left the territory and went
back to New York city. Since that
lime she has welded another.
INTERNAL revenue officers captured a
complete underground distilling plant
IN the 18th at a Jewish settlement in
Cumberland county, n. J. Two moon
sinners were arrested and the whisky
,onfscated.
WILLIAM FERGUSON and James Nc
Zenna were found dead in a room of a
New York hotel on the 14th, having |
been asphyxiated by illuminating gas. |
AT the national convention of the |
United Mine Workers at Columbus, o., |
IN the 14th John A. Cairns, eX-presi- |
lent, was expelled from the union for |
making an attack on President Penna, |
whose official acts were unanimously |
by the convention. A propo-
ition for levying 25 cents per capita |
Der month for a defense fund was re- |
erred to a special committee.
THE Tom Boy gold mine Of San Mi |
ss1el county, Col, has passed into the |
lands of the Rothschild syndicate. 1t i
S recognized as one of the richest gold |
mines in the United States.
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