Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-07-15

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| tearing open the arteries of her left
wrist with hairpin. She was uncon-
| scious when found from the loss of
blood, and only prompt action on the
part of those who discovered her saved
her life. II wanted to go to Heaven,
and that is why / did it." she said. The
authorities cannot understand her case.
| THE drought which has prevailed
around Jackson, Tenn, for two months
still continued on the sth. The gar
dens were burned up and ruined and
unless it rains very soon the corn crop
will be failure. The cotton crop was
! reported falling daily.
| DURING severe storm the house of
S. E. North. near Larmore, N. D.. was
struck by lightning and North, his
wife and three-year-old child We're
killed. The only member of the fam
lily that escaped was 15-months-old
| child.
THE gold mining convention at Den
yer, Col, selected Salt Lake City for
holding the next meeting. A minority
report on the 9th declaring for the free
coinage of silver at sixteen to one was
laid on the table.
MAKING MARTINEZ, who murdered
his sweetheart and her parents, after
| having assaulted the girl, has request
ed that brass band play at his hang
ing and that the occasion be made one
| of festivities, and the citizens of
Floresyille, Tex. have arranged to COM
/ ply with his request and a genuine
| Mexican fiesta will be held the dav of
| the hanging. The condemned man
Iawill be allowed to participate under
! strong guard.
! ACHILLES TOMLINSON and Joe Ruther-
ford were drowned in the Okaw river
| while bathing near Patoka, Ill.
MRS. KATE BERLE, of ST. Louis, was
so severely burned while filing her
gasoline stove the other day that she
died soon afterwards.
THE convention of reform rabbis at
Montreal, Can, on the Sth passed
strong resolution condemning the pro-
posed plan of establishing an indie
| pendent Jewish state in Palestine.
A THRAsHING machine boiler blew up
in a field one mile north of New Haven,
Neb., the other morning. Three men
were seriously injured The boiler
was blown 200 yards.
HUGH JOEsON, his wife and four
/ children, who lived near Pineville,
KY, were burned to death in their cot
! tage, which, was fired over their heads.
! The remains of all six were found in
| the debris. The fire was undoubtedly
of incendiary origin.
HERBERT CORNWALL was shot and
| killed by his brother, DIR. Richmond
Cornwall, of Kansas City, at the bust
ness house of their father in ST. Louis.
Herbert was enraged at Tais father for
Gliding him and assaulted him when
DR.. Cornwall stepped in TO protect his
father and in the fight which followed
| Herbert met his death.
FIFTY picnickers were rendered I'M
| conscious by an electrical storm near
Wheelersburg. O., on the nth, but no
| body was killed.
AT Cincinnati on the 5th there were
IL deaths from the hot weather, max
| ing 81 fatalities in three days.
WHILE two men were excavating for
water pipes at Los Angeles, CAL. the
earth caved in upon them, burying
them, and when they were dug out Is
minutes later they were both dead.
JOHN REYNOLDS, for 80 years pub
Usher of the Odd Fellows Talisman
and one of the best known odd fellows
in the United States, died at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 18th of fatty degen-
| Grafton Of the heart, aged 20 years
SIXTY tons of butter arrived at Van
couver, B. c., on the 5th from New
York and will be forwarded to Sidney,
| Australia. This is the first shipment
| of American butter ever made to Aus
tralia.
i IT was 1O2 degrees on the streets at
ST. Louis on the nth. Thirteen pros
| trations occurred. five of which were
expected to prove fatal.
EIGHT deaths from the heat took
| place at Cincinnati on the 18th; three
at Evansville, Ind; three at Pitts
burgh, Pa; two at Louisville, KY; five
in New York; three at Chicago, and
seven other deaths likely to result
among the prostrations in that city.
The sawmi1l and about 1000, 900
feet of lumber belonging to ii. g..
Elder & Son at Kilgore, Tex, were
totally destroyed by fire; no insurance.
Indications pointed strongly to incen-
diarism.
Two we'll dressed men assaulted
sIiss Rose Miller at New York and
robbed her of diamond necklace and
her pocketbook. When she screamed
for help one of the men attempted to
gag her. She caught his thumb in her
mouth and bit it off below the second
joint
The other night party of men sp-
piled the torch to Mormon church in
Fairfield county, S. c.. and burned it
to the ground. the feeling being high
against the Mormons.
THE little town of Lowry, Mimi,
was obliterated by a cyclone on the
9Th and several people were killed and
many others injured.
Il CHRISTIAN MOLLY shot and killed
; Nancy Hill near Hamburg, Ark, be-
cause Mrs. Hill would not desist from
7 whipping her child. The Molly WON
an has killed three men, two of whom
were her husbands She is under ar.
rest.
j THOMAS MORGAN and his wife were