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

L
ng some desperate characters, escaped
from the national prison at Tahlequah,
IL. t.. by tunneling through tbs base
nent wall the other night. Tie sher-
| f was absent
| SIXTEEN miles of the Hennepin canal
is now completed and ready for the
| water to be turned in. One thousand
men are at work in Bureau county,
ILL.,. the work being pushed night and
| lay.
| WHILE a cage was being hoisted in
the shaft of a mine at Washes, Bel
gium, the cable broke and 10 miners
were dashed to pieces
! JEFFERSON KNIGHT was hanged at
Mobile, Ala, on the 21st for the MUIR
der of Frank Dantzler. The con-
1emned man made full confession.
JOHN MCGOWAN, who taught school
in Alexander county, Ill. whipped
Henry and Scott Jordan for disobedi-
ence. The brothers afterwards way
laid the teacher and beat. him so that
he died. They were jailed at Jones'
boro and an attempt at lynching was
! feared.
EDWARD SHANNON. aged 30. who shot
his divorced wife dead on the train,
has been sen tenced to be hanged Feb
/ IL dit w ucdIOH, HI.
A MINING estate in Colorado valued
at S25. 900, OG0 has been left to George
Clark and Maria Hook. who reside near
Columbus, Ind. The estate was left
by Ambley Clark. a grandfather of the
| two heirs.
THE widow of DIR. Thomas J. Cogley
has presented to Hanover college,
! Madison. Ind, $50, 600 to endow chair
of physics.
| BLACKLEG in Beaver county, Ok,
(which is 800 miles long and so miles
| wide and con tains many large ranches,
| was causing much alarm among cattle
men, great numbers of cattle having
died from the complaint.
TIE towboat job Williams. with a
tow of go coal boats, was caught in
storm near LeavenwOrth, Ind, and IA
of the coal boats were sunk and two of
the steamers crew were washed over
board and drowned.
w. E. WICKER. contracting freight
agent of the Chicago, milwaukee &
St. Paul railway. died some days ago
and his body was cremated. His ashes
were afterwards scattered to the four
winds of heaven from ferryboat at
San Francisco, according to his in
| structions.
KID" MCCOY has deposited So, 900
with sporting paper in New York as
forfeit to fight either Corbett or
Fitzsimmons for the heavy weight
champ onship of the world.
Iowa bank clerks to the number of
200 have organized the Alaska Grub
Stake Joint Stock association, for the
purpose of grub-staking competent
miners in Alaska. Charles Swanson,
| of Ia oil ha
tract and will start on five-year ex-
petition.
| \ DISPATCH from New York the other
day stated that there was an organized
movement in the Theosophical society
to depose Mrs. Katherine A. Tingley,
the present leader. and restore E. I.
Hargrove to the presidency.
On his return to Waco, Tex. from
Kansas City, Mo-, recently, w. C.
Brann. of the Iconoclast, was arrested
for criminal libel on four charges.
q. A. R. MEN at Boston will erect a
monument in that city in memory of
Henry Clay Work, author OF March
ing Through Georgia" and other war
songs.
THE Iowa house of represen tatives
passed a joint resolution requesting
Senators Allison and Gear to vote for
the Hawaiian annexation treaty. The
vote was 81 to 40, most of the demo
Gratis and fusionists opposing it.
EDWIN A. DUFF shot and killed his
wife and sister-in-law while they were
walking on the street at New Haven,
Conn. The shooting took place about
six o'clock, just after dark. Duff was
at once arrested.
FIVE. masked men entered the resi-
n
o., and bound and gagged the house
hold, consisting of Mrs. Gratz. a daugh-
ter. three sons and two farm hands,
and then secured all the valuables in
the house. After cooking themselves
a good breakfast the robbers departed,
leaving the inmates still bound.
THE body of Rev. Father William
Kurtenbach, of Flint Hill, Mo-, was
found in the river at st. Louis. The
trouSer pockets were turned wrong
side out, but nothing further to indi-
cate violence was found.
GEN. r. E. LEES birthday was cele-
brated at Richmond, Va, on the 10th
by the closing of all schools, banks
and private offices and business ex-
changes Addresses were made at the
soldiers home and other places.
WHILE the fire department was ex-
tinguishing a fire in dwelling house
on Chouteau avenue, st. Louis, on the
18th the charred remains of little
girl were discovered. The house was
occupied by August Bauer and his
paramount, Mrs. Hilda Ersar, and her
little girl. Bauer was arrested. The
police think he killed the child and
fred the building.
J. A. PRITCHETT, who has been trav-
cling over the country under the name
of Cherokee Kit" was arrested by
the federal authorities at Waco Tex,