Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-17

EDDIE HEssE, 12-year-old boy OF
St Louis, was literally ground to pieces
| beneath the wheels of O car on the
Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis rail-
way. The child was gathering pieces
of coal and as he was about to step
| over the high end board of an empty
coal car a freight engine bumped into
| it and the little fellow was thrown
over backwards, the wheels passing
over both legs close up to the body.
THE great snowstorm on the night
of January % buried Max Miller be-
meath drift at the foot of Ohio street.
Chicago, and concealed his death until
the warm sun of the 10th disclosed the
body. Men with axes chopped out the
frozen body.
A NUMBER of congressman and Gen.
Shellenberger, the second assistant
postmaster general, were present at
the opening in New York on the 18th
of the pneumatic he system built for
the transmission of the mails. Officials
believe it will greatly increase the
revenues of the postal department.
Al COLLISION by two log trains oc-
Cured on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad at Carney Spur,
Mich, and Conductor Anderson and
Brakeman Too1e were instantly killed
and an engine and nine cars were
wrecked.
THE executive committee of the Ma
tional Repu blican league met at Chi
cago and Secretary bowling was or
dered to have the manual for 1898 pub
Hshed as soon as possible. This manual
will contain an outline of the plans of
the league for the ensuing year and
much general information. The time
for the national convention at Omaha
was changed from June 1916 to July
1915.
A MEETING will be held soon at De-
troit. Mich, to form stove trust with
a capital of $40, 0OO,O
DURING funeral service in the syn
agogue at Idzienciol, Poland, the
women's gallery collapsed. In the
panic that ensued IL women, five men
and three children were crushed to
death and many others were seriously
injured.
JONES & MCLAUGHLIN have notified
the employees of their steel mills at
Pittsburgh, Pa, and elsewhere that
beginning February 12 the men must
work on Sundays the same as the other
six days of the week. The desire of
the large steel manufacturers to work
Sundays is caused by the Carnegie
company working their men seven
days per week.
ADoLPH LUETGERT. the sausage-mak-
er, was convicted at Chicago of muir
dering his wife and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
THREE men named Snyder, Cheno-
weth and Burton were lying dead at
Chenille, w. Va, as the result of a
protracted spree. They sent for big
jug of whisky and when they had got
through with that they bought case
of extract of lemon and some patent
medicine, composed of alcohol, ginger
and other hot ingredients, after drink
ing which they died in agony.
THE Hill Fontaign Cotton company's
large brick block in Harrison, Ark.
was burned the other morning. Loss,
$50, 900; insurance small.
IN all probability bill providing
for the taxation of bachelors will soon
make its appearance in the New Jer-
sey Legislature.
Two boys, Stephen Putowski, aged
eight, and Stephen Luewezski, aged
ten, fought a duel with knives at De-
troit, Mich, on the Sth. Young Lue-
wezski received wounds in his right
lung and left side and will probably
die from them. The lads quarreled
over a trivial matter and decided to
settle the difference with knives.
THE National Sporting club at San
Francisco has matched Joe Choynski
and Tom Sharkey to box 20 rounds on
March II.
FIRE started the other evening in
the Planters compress at jackson,
Tenn. The entire building and ma
! chinery, together with 5000 bales of
cotton, were destroyed and also many
freight cars loaded with cotton. Loss,
So, 600.
THE extensive milling industry of
the northwest is organizing to secure
favorable action on the pure four
bill introduced in congress by Repre-
sentative Pearce, of Missouri. Some
of the millers state their purpose to
go before the ways and means commit
tee and urge the passage of the bill.
The measure is on the line of the oleo-
margarine and filed cheese laws.
PARLIAMENT was opened in London
on the sth with the customary ceremo-
MES. the queens speech being read by
commission. It contained nothing eS-
pecially interesting to Americans.
In a case against the Colorado Springs
street commission for working men
nine hours, Judge Lunt, in the district
court of Ell Paso county, rendered a
decision which practically nullifes the
eight-hour labor law passed by the
Colorado legislature.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Virginia Legislature to incorporate a
Memorial Park association to care fo2
the fredericksburg and adjacent bat
tlefields
THE Mount Carmel house at Mount
Carmel, Pa. was totally destroyed by
fire on the Sth and the 30 inmates es-
capped in their night apparel. Loss,
so. 600; partially insured.