Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-12-02
THE battleship Wisconsin


| launched on the Goth at San Francisco.
Miss Elizabeth Stephenson. of Wiscoa.
sin, christened the vessel.
ADMIRAL DEWEY is being doomed 10
the east for the democratic nominatic-
for the presidency in 1900, according l.
a New York dispatch.
| New YORK and the New England
| coast had one of the severest billiards
ever experienced on the 27th. A do zen
or more vessels were driven ashore in
Boston harbor and nearly all trains
| were stalled.
| CHIEF DEPUTY WARNoCK, in trying
to arrest an escaped negro convict in
| Birmingh lam, Ala, was shot and in
stantly killed. The town turned out
| to hunt the murderer and his capture
meant certain lynching.
The steamer T. C. Walker, running
between San Francisco and Stockton,
Cal, had one of her boilers blown up
and six persons were killed, II dan
! gerously injured and Is others more
| or less badly hurt The majority of
the passengers were in bed when the
explosion occurred and they rushed on
deck in their night clothes. The cleo
| trio lights had been put out, which
| added TO the awful confusion.
THE medical college at the university
at indianapolis was Quilted by fire.
| WHILE a party of IL people were re-
| turning from n ball at Otis, O., early
! on the 25th two hand cars they
were struck by the Lake Shore fast
mail east of Charleston, William Sea-
| benski and William Kempler being
killed outright, while William. Sea-
benski's two daughters. aged ID and IS
respectively. were probably fatally in
jured.'
JOHN B. SHAW was hanged at Gle
burne. Tex. on the 25th for murder
| THE cornerstone of the confederate
monument that is to mark the final
resting place of the 449 unknown con-
federate dead buried in the cemetery
at Van Buren,, Ark. was laid on the
gath. Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Lou
isiana and the Indian territory were
represented. Fully SO per cent. of
those inferred at the place are Nilsson
rians.
EIGHT horses were burned alive and
several others were blinded in a fire
early the other morning at Kansas
City, Kan. The fire started by one of
the horses kicking over lighted
lantern. The loose hay caught and
| the entire. building was DESTROYED.
| MEMBERS of the Third Alabama. the
negro regiment at Admission, Ala,
| caused the greatest excitement on the
night of the cath that the town had
ever known. The negroes, DESTROYS of
| getting even on whites, lay in a gully
and shot all who passed by. White
| citizens armed themselves and were
| with difficulty restrained from wreak-
ing summary vengeance. Several
shots were fired before order was re-
| stored.
Miss NORA BITNER, highly-respect-
| ed young lady of Allegheny, Pa, was
beaten so badly the other afternoon
by three girls that she will probably
die. Her assailants were jailed. The
| cause of the assault was rather mvste-
rious. Miss Bitner was walking along
the street when the assault took place.
THE coroner's inquest over the re-
mains of Lillian Brandes, the 13-vear-
old girl who was supposed to have COM
mitted suicide by hanging at Berkeley,
Cal. resulted in verdict charging
| her father with murder and naming
her stepmother as an accessory. The
| evidence tended to show that the child
had been beaten to death and hanged
to bed post by those responsible for
| her death.
The crown sheet of the boiler of a
| Denver & Rio Grande locomotive blew
out at Swallows, Col. The fireman
was killed and the engineer and brake
men seriously injured. Eight teen load
| ed freight cars were burned.
EARLY on the Esd the Baldwin hotel
at San Francisco was destroyed by fire.
There were 500 guests and employees in
the hotel when the fire broke out, but
| it was thought that only five persons
| lost their lives. The hotel cost ST. $780,
| OO0 to build.
| ORRIN D. LAW, indicted for murder
| ing his father-in-law and sister-in-law.
pleaded guilty of murder in the second
degree at Columbus. o., and was given
life sentence in the penitentiary.
THE steamers Tampa and Arthur Orr
| were wrecked on the north shore of
Lake Superior. They went on the rocks
| in fearful gale and snowstorm on the
ed. The crews were saved.
AN attempt was made on the life of
| the car while his majesty was return
ing from Copenhagen. The track was
DISTRACTED at a bridge crossing, SO as to
wreck the cars train, but a Waterman
discovered it in time to remove it suffi-
GENTLY to allow the train to pass.
TwENTY-FoUR houses were burned at
YOUNGSTOWN, mining town in the In
dian territory. The loss was caused
| by prairie fire in the Choctaw nation
NEAR Kildare, Ok, the ten-year-old
| daughter of family named McCray,
from Nemaha, Kan, who were travel
| ing in a wagon, was killed by the &C
cidental discharge of a rife which her
| five-year-old brother picked up.
A STORY was brought to Port Town
send. Wash. that the passengers and
crew of the steamer Jessie were not
drowned at the mouth of the Kusko-
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