Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-05-19
W. C. AND ALEX AurRY and Fellows

loosa, Ala, in the Warrior river. They
had been getting out timber out of the
river and yesterday started down the
stream in skiff, which was capsized.
CHARLES BLAsE pleaded guilty before
Judge Burford in the Saltwater ok
court to passing one counterfeit nickel.
He was sent to the penitentiary for
three years.
A COLLISION of passenger trains oc-
Cured on the Philadelphia s. Reading
road at Exeter station, near Reading,
Pa, on the 18th and % persons were
killed and so others injured. An ex-
cursion train crashed into an express
and plowed its way through three cars.
GEN. JOHN b. GORDON was reelected
commander-in-chief of the United Con-
federate Veterans at Charleston, S. c.,
on the 18th and Louisville, KY. was
chosen as the next place of meeting.
THE schooner Nelson foundered in
Lake Superior. Nine lives were lost.
Ex-Gov. ROSWELL P. FLOWER, of New
York, died suddenly at Eastport, L. L,
on the 18th. He was taken i'll with
severe attack of indigestion and heart
failure supervened.
OWING to drought famine threatens
Indians in Arizona.
THE First Nebraska volunteer in
fantry took the unusual step of re-
spectfully petitioning the division com
mander, Mai. Gen. Macarthur, to tenn
porarily relieve them from duty at the
front in order that they might recuper-
ate. 1t was said that many of the men
had been unable to have their clothing
washed for months, having been COM
PEELED during all that time to sleep in
their uniforms to be in readiness for
fighting.
AN equestrian statue of Gen. John T.
Hartranft was unveiled at Harrisburg,
Pa, on the 18th in the presence of many
people. The exercises were followed
by parade, in which the survivors of
the troops commanded by Gen. Hart
ranft in the civil war participated.
THE legislative committee that in
vestigated the industrial school for
girls at Chillicothe, Mo-, showed the
need of great changes in the institu-
ton, but declared there was no truth
in the charges of immortality. The dis
charge of Dayman A. c. Vandiver was
| recommended.
THE legislative committee appointed
to investigate the Fulton (Mo.) insane
| asylum submitted unanimous report
18th finding DR.. Coombs, the superin-
| tendent, guilty of drunkenness and
recommending his removal. The house
| adopted the report.
| A. RowLE, a passenger from Califor-
MIA on the eastbound Union Pacific
overland train, suddenly jumped
| through the coach window while the
train was near Chappelle, Neb. The last
seen of him he was running across the
| prairie. His family remained at Chap
pelle to search for him. It is supposed
| that he suddenly became insane.
THE bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Tincknall were found in their rooms at
| Auburn, n. Y, the other day. The
| man was dead without a mark upon
| him. The woman was unconscious,
with the side of her head battered in
and the brain protruding. She was
| taken to the hospital but cannot live. It
was supposed her husband tried to kill
her with hammer and then committed
suicide by poison.
| RECENT reports from all parts of the
Indian territory indicated that the
| straw berry crop was almost entirely de-
stroyed by a hailstorm.
A CHICAGO dispatch stated that the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy contem-
plated an outright ownership of sew
eral of the most important lines which
are operated by it under leases. The
roads mentioned in the report are the
Hannibal & st. Joseph, the St. Louis,
| Keokuk & Northwestern, the Kansas
City, st. Joseph & Council Bluffs, the
Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City and
| the two narrow gauge lines-the Bur-
lington & Northwestern and the Bur
lington & Western.
The women won signal victory at
the meeting of the Catholic Knights of
America at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
18th, the convention voting almost
unanimously to permit women to join
the organization. On the previous day
the motion had been defeated.
RICHARD LOVE, colored, and Lewis
Davis, white, were shockingly mangled
by premature explosion of a dynamite
blast in a stone quarry at Baltimore,
Md. Both had their eyes completely
torn out and sustained other injuries
which, it was thought, will prove fatal.
A CALL was sent out on the 10th for
a convention of representatives of lead
| ing credit mems associations, members
| of judicial committees of the house and
| senate, United States district judges,
experts on bankruptcy laws and refer
ees in bankruptcy cases, to consider
and present to the next congress amend
ments to the national bankruptcy act.
Chicago has been selected for the con-
| vention, which will be held late in June.
The United States cruiser Nashville
arrived at st. Louis on the 10th and
fred a salute of 81 guns, which was re
sponded to by battery A, Missouri ma
tional guard, and the whistles of all
the river craft and factories. The
Nashville was met down the river by a
feet of steamers loaded with excursion
lists and escorted up to the city. The