Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-01-13

hand, on the Iron Mountain railroad
while attempting to board moving
freight train near Fairfield, Ark,
slipped and his legs were crushed to
pulp. resulting in almost instant
death.
The Missouri, Oklahoma & Texas
Railroad company has been chartered.
The road is TO run from Henrietta,
Tex, northeasterly through Oklahoma
and the Indian territory to point on
the Southern Kansas line east of Che
topa, distance of 900 miles.
Two negroes, named Jim Watts and
Sam Cole, who were paying visit to
relatives at Pea Ridge, Miss, were
lynched by other negroes for being too
thick with their kinsmen's wives.
w. 81. I. DURRANT. generally known
as Theodore Durrant, was hanged in
the prison at San Quentin, Cal, on the
morning of the 18th for the murder of
church in San Francisco, April 8, 1895
He was received into the Roman
Catholic church a short time before
the end and was marvelously cool on
the scaffold. his last words being: 81
am innocent"
THREE negroes-Louis Richards.
George Washington and Foxey Morris
were hanged at Hahnville, La, on
the 18th for numbering a Jewish ped
dler named Zeigler. Richards con
fessed that he had murdered at least
nine men and one woman since 1854.
The military committee of the house
recently returned to Washington from
trip to the Vicksburg battlefield and
agreed to favorably report a bill for
making it national military park.
A FIRE broke out at Patoka, Ill, and
destroyed II buildings, causing a
heavy loss as there was little or no in
surance. Eight of the buildings were
business houses.
A MAMMOTH ice house in course OF
construction at Whitmore Lake, Mich,
collapsed the other day and two men
were instantly killed, five others prob
ably fatally injured and a dozen more
badly hurt.
PETER MAGNEs and his wife, of Rose
dale, Col, were cruelty beaten by rob-
bers, whose purpose it was to get open
large safe in Mr.. Magnes' house in
which it was thought he kept large
sums of money. A nephew, however,
summoned some neighbors and the
robbers ran off.
THE 14-year-old daughter of Enos
Builderback, who lives near Morris
City. Ill, was burned to death by her
clothing catching fire from fireplace.
AT Orlinda, Robertson county, Tenn,
Duke Brewer was Academia shot by
Alex Harmed while returning from a
rabbit hunt and bled to death before
medical aid could arrive.
THREE men were killed in the Avon
dale mine near Wilk.sbarre, Pa, on
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SENATOR MASON will soon prepare
| special appropriation for corn ex-
hibit at the Paris exposition He
hopes by this means to second the eff
| forts of our representatives in Europe
| in widening the markets for this
| cereal In the fiscal year ended June.
| 1897. the United States exported 81,
| O0O 600 bushels of corn and 200, 600
| barrels of corn meal.
| A. c. TANNER, acting commissioner
! of Indian affairs. has recommended a
| deficiency appropriation of 81, 700 for
| the revision of allotments on the Otoe
reservation. Oklahoma The work is
being done by Helen P. Clarke.
| A BIG hunt was being arranged Oh
the 4th in the Choctaw nation in the
| Indian territory. There was to be $50
deer and fox-hounds with the hunting
| party. Charley Colbert, the famous
| rif1e-shot and scout, of old Fort Wa
| shita, was to lead the party. Sports
| men from Texas, Kansas and the ter
ritory were to participate in it.
| JUST as the Port Arthur express on
the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
| railway pulled out of the depot at
Kansas City, Mo. at 6:40 p m. on the
| 4th two men entered the express cal
and covered Messenger Hyden. of the
| Wells Fargo express. with revolvers,
| bound him and robbed the local safe.
| They then escaped from the train
while it was within the city limits.
Hyden was badly beaten because he
| could not open the big safe.
| THE commissioner of pensions has is
| sued letter to special examiners to
watch pension attorneys and repor;
any solicita ton for business before
the pension bureau on their part.
| WHEN the Hamilton, Tenn, county
| court convened at Chattanooga on the
4th Esquires Springfield and Ralstor
| had some hot words and clinched. In
| stantly the $50 men in the court start
ed riot. Clubs, chairs, cuspidors anc
! knives were used and everybody fought
| his neighbor. The whole city wa:
stirred up and more trouble was feared
BURGLARS broke into the office o
the Standard Oil company near Alton
| Ill, the other night and blew up the
safe with dynamite. The explosion
was terrific, the safe door being blown
| open and almost the entire Office
| wrecked. There was only $50 in th'
safe and this was all the robbers got.
THE Vandalia depot at Logansport
Ind. was burned to the ground tn
other night The offices, books AM
private papers of the officials were al