Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-10-06

grocery at Peoria, Ill, resulted In the
death of Mrs Mary Smith, serious in
juries to Mr.. Hudson. the proprietor,
and painful injuries to W. 81. Gerter.
THE people of Pana, Ill. had a ter
rorizing time the other night In some
cases the residents of a block spent the
night in one house. expecting an at
tack to be made on them by Alabama
negroes, imported to take the place of
striking white miners The train con-
veying the imported negroes was. how
ever, held MP by the strikers and the
negroes at the point of guns were
taken from the train and afterwards
started on an eastbound train to In
| diana The militia were sent to Pana
by Gov. Tanner.
| THE Dawes commission has issued
orders that all intermarried white
men were intruders and would have to
leave the Indian territory. The orders
| have created a sensation and will af-
feet 20. 900 white men. Indian Agent
| Wisdom will comply with the orders
of the commission. His mounted POI
lice are under orders to eject the in
| truders.
! HALF ton of powder exploded at
Linds Road building camp. II miles
north of New Whatcom, Wash, and
killed three people Two others were
seriously injured.
THE Transmississippi Sunday school
congress opened at Omaha, Neb., on
the 27th with fair attendance from
all parts of the country.
| A SPECIAL from Fort Reno, I. T., said
| that orders have been received there
to get the post hospital in proper shape
| to receive number of sick regular
4 = At l,-@r-
Cuba
The triennial conference of the Ger.
man Baptists of the United States and
Canada at st. Louis was concluded
after session extending over week.
It was decided to meet in 1901 at Ber-
| lin, Ont.
A SPECIAL excursion train on the
way to the Halifax IN. So exhibition
from Pictou crashed into working
train near Stellerton. The two engi-
neers, two fremen and a passenger
were killed.
| A CLAREMoNT, Mimi, special stated
that that village was wiped out by fire
the other night, % buildings being de-
stroyed.
! Gov. SMITH, of the soldiers home at
| Santa Monica, Cal, was shot twice on
the 2Sth by an inmate of the home.
He was badly injured. but the injury
was not believed to be fatal. Smith
was formerly commander of the home
| at Leavenworth, Kan.
MADRID officials believe Cuba will be
evacuated within three months.
THOMAS E. BAYARD, ex-United States
senator, ex-secretary of state under
President Cleveland and ex-ambassa-
dor to England. died on the 2Sth. after
an illness of six weeks at Dedham,
Mass, aged 70. His body will be
buried in Delaware, in which state his
family was conspicuous long before
the revolution.
COLORADO is being swept by forest
and prairie fires and ranches and min
| ing camps are threatened with destruc-
ton.
! AT the insane asylum at ST. Louis
William Kerens. an inmate. went to
| the bunk where Benz amin T. Bevan
his cell mate, was asleep and attacked
| him. fierce struggle followed in
which Kerens dashed Bevan violently
| to the floor and kicked him until his
| body was almost reduced to pulp.
| kerens then turned on the guards and
| required dozen men to restrain him.
STRIKING union coal miners and i'm
ported negroes had a pitched battle at
Pana, Ill. on the 2Sth. Several hun
dred shots were fred and the negroes
were driven from the city to their
stockades. One negro was reported as
having died of his wounds.
| The distress, starvation and deaths
at Matanzas. Cuba. con tinue undated,
the daily average of deaths upon the
| street corners exceeding 20. The situ-
alton in Havana was said to be not
| much better
THE United States transport Massa-
| chusetts, while at Santiago. had the
coal in her bunkers take fire and it
was found necessary to jettison 100
tons. A portion of this coal was taken
on board again. On going to sea the
fire again broke out in the bunkers
and smoldered for three days 1t was
finally extinguished by the use of
| steam and the steamer reached New
| York without further accident.
BETWEEN two and three o'clock on
the morning of the 27th the safe of
the Farmers bank at Flora, Ind. was
blown open. by robbers. who secured
| close to $4,000 and made good their
escape. Cashier William Lemon, who
| was aroused by the noise of tie explo-
sion, appeared on the scene while the
| robbers were at work, was shot and it
| was believed will die.
JUDGE DUFFIE delivered an unusual
ly vigorous charge to the grand jury
at Hot Springs. Ark, and gave rigid
instructions regarding malpractice
and fraud upon visitors by disrepu-
table physicians and others at the
springs.
SOME person placed q spike on the
Iron Noun tain track near St. Louis and
the locomotive of a passenger train
| irmped the track shaking nm the mas
sengers. Before order could be re-