Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-01-27


was shot at St Louis in wine room
by Miss Nellie Mangan, and some one
then shot the woman. They had been
engaged. but had quarrel, Miss Man
gan being jealous of another woman.
Both of them will die of their wounds.
BY the explosion of an engine boiler
on the farm of Mrs Meadows, SO miles
southwest of Abingdon. Ill. Oscar An
derson and his stepson were killed and
Lloyd and Willis Meadows were seri-
ously. if not fatally, injured.
POLICE found s9a 900 worth of coun-
terfeit money in the chimney of va
cant house in West Hoboken, y. J..
recently. it was all in 500 notes on
the Bank of Montreal. The United
fed and the secret service men took
charge of the counterfeits and will try
to find the plates.
EAST Grand Forks, n. D., suffered
another severe fire on the goth. An ell
evator and the bridge approach are in
ruins and a number of stores burned.
In the trial of the whitecaps at De-
catur, Ind, in which James Parrish, a
consta BILE, was whipped almost to death
last September. evidence brought to
light the fact that Parrish's wife was
one of the persons to make the ar
rangements to have her husband
whipped and visited the whitecaps at
secret meetings to accomplish her pur-
pose.
ROBERT G. HAZLETT. a leading citi-
zen of Youngstown, O.. was engaged
in moving from one house to another
when Ray H.. Lee, who was assisting,
picked up target rifle. The weapon
was accidentally discharged and Haz-
lett fell dead in his wife's arms.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred in the
business center of Mount Vernon, Ind.
early the other morning, destroying
about $50, $50 worth of property.
FORTY persons were killed and is in
jured by an explosion of gas in mine
in the Tagenrog district, on the north
shore of the sea of Azov, Russia.
c. w. VosMER, of San Francisco, is
planning to go to the Klondike gold
country by the big balloon made for
the Chicago worlds fair. He will be
accompanied by three other expert
enced aeronauts.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire visited Ransburg,
Cal, on the 10Th. The post office and
several business houses went up in
smoke, causing loss of 100000.
THE westbound passenger train on
the Central Pacific railroad left the
track about half a mile east of Colfax,
Cal, and the engineer was scalded to
death and the fireman crushed lifeless
beneath one of the two locomotives
Several other persons were also hurt.
One of the locomotives exploded and
the mail car caught fire and was de-
stroyed.
The establishment of the Washburn
Halligan Coffee company at Daven.
port, Ia, burned. Loss, $50, 600; insur
ance 100000.
Mrs. JOHN MCCAFFERY, of Dubuque,
Ia, while pulling weeds poisoned her
hands and rubbed them on her eyes.
The result is total blindness.
SIGNoR NICoLINI, husband of Adelina
Patti, the great singer, died at Pau,
France.
DIR. CHARLES f. SIMMONS, a reputed
millionaire and president of a patent
medicine company, attempted to kill
Emil Davidson, a bookkeeper of &
trust company, at St Louis on the 18th
Simmons, when he was placed under
arrest, said that he had avenged q
wrong done his daughter. This is said
to be Simmons third deadly affray.
THE surveyors who were engaged in
surveying for the proposed low-line ir.
rigation canal, to extend from Albu.
querque, N. NJ. to the Indian village
of San Felipe, distance of 80 miles
were stopped at their work by about
300 native citizens who were opposed
to the construction of the canal.
A FIRE broke out short time ago al
Hong Che Itome, Japan, during a gale
and 653 houses were destroyed in less
than two hours.
THE Nicaragua canal convention, in
session at Kansas City, Mo-, adopted q
memorial to congress strongly urging
legislation that will secure the early
and permanent construction of the Nj
caragua canal.
DE-. NJ. o. TERRY, surgeon general OF
the national guard of New York, ad
vocates the use of cathartics and sweet
oil in the treatment of appendicitis
and declares that of 81 cases under hi.
personal supervision 40 were success
fully handled without operation.
THE internecine strife within the
ranks of the Catholic Knights of Amer
lea has broken out anew. The fight
involves the Ohio, Illinois and Missouri
Communicates. The trouble started
over the fight for a supreme medical
examiner at Indianapolis.
MISS MILDRED STEPHENSON wa.
crowned Queen Polaris at Omaha, Neb.
On the 18th and the ice carnival in thai
city formally opened, every thing being
there but the ice.
SCHLATTER. the divine healer" left
GAINESVILLE, o., on the 10Th. owing to q
quarrel with his managers. who desired
to restrain him from getting under the
influence of liquor.
THE fight between the newspaper:
| and department stores of Denver, Col.
regarding advertising rates has beer
settled by the unconditional surrender
| Of the department stores