Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-06-09


gas and asphyxiated herself and her
two children in a tenement house in
/ New York.
A TORNADO swept the country west of
Dyersville, Ia. on the evening of the
4th. At some points the path of the
storm was mile wide. The operator
at Thorpe, Ia, reported buildings and
cars blown over. The neighborhoodo of
Kellogg, Ia, also suffered.
AT a meeting of travelling men in
Kansas City, Mo-, an association was
formed to build home and sanitarium
for sick and INDECENT travelling men to
be called the Interstate Commercial
Travellers home. 1t viii be built for
the drummers of Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa and Nebraska.
A REPORT from Union Pacific sources
on the 4th was to the effect that the
Albany county sheriff's posse had cap
tured three of the Union Pacific train
robbers six miles from Casper, Wyo.,
and that one of them had made con-
fession. The rest of the gang were be
ing pursued in the direction of Glen
Rock.
THE Ely dry goods store at Paducah,
KY, was burned by an incendiary fire.
THE new iron bridge over the Colo
RADIO river at Wharton. Tex, was to-
tally wrecked through fire. The east
bound train on the Southern Pacific
came near dashing into the burning
wreck. Loss, $40, 900.
A UNION PACIFIC train was held up
near Wilcox, Wyo., early on the I'd.
The express car was completely
wrecked by dynamite. The safe was
blown open and the contents were
taken. The robbers then escaped to
the mountains.
THE freight handlers strike at Buff
falo, n. Y, which originated at the
Lehigh freight house and spread to
other freight houses, threatening to
involve 2, 900 men, was checked by an
agreement reached at conference and
the men voted to return to work on the
Cd.
JOHN LIND and his four-months-old
son Raymond were attacked by horse
in his barn at Chicago the other day.
The child was trampled to death and
Lind received injuries which, it was
thought, will prove fatal. The horse
attacked them when Lind, carrying the
baby in his arms, entered the stall.
THE Ohio Valley League of Bimetal-
lie clubs-comprising the states of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky
convened at Louisville, KY, on the
31st.
LIGHTNING killed ten head of fine
cows owned by Paul Wood, a dairy
man, living near Carrollton, Ill. They
were found dead near a wire fence.
Mrs. MoLLIE BLOND at Kansas City,
Mo-, endeavored to fill lighted gaso-
line stove while holding her baby in
L L.
and both were SO severely burned that
they died in the hospital soon after
The report of the Nicaraguan canal
commission was made public on the
31st. It estimates the cost of the canal
at Sis, 113, 100. Col. Haines concurs
generally in the report but submits a
personal estimate of S134, SIS, 3Os.
FORTY people were more or less seri-
ously injured at Chicago on the 3Oth in
a collision between a Harlem race track
special and Forty-eighth street train
on the Lake street elevated road. The
motorman on the Harlem train lost
control of his train and it crashed into
the other which was stopping at the
station platform.
SUIT has been brought against the "a
members of the Kansas City Pharma-
ceutical association on the ground that
it is an unlawful combine. The COM
plant alleges that the association was
formed to get the wholesale druggists
to boycott the retail druggists that sell
at reduced rates.
A SPECIAL from Ensenada. Lower
California, reported that about 800
| miners were at the new gold fields and
some of them were taking out from
three pennyweights to two ounces a
| pan. The known extent of the new
| placers was 10 miles long by two wide.
| Water was selling at So cargo. There
| were no dry washers in the camp,
| dearly all the present output being got
| by panning.
NINE people were injured, two of
| them seriously, in head-end collision
Of local passenger trains on the Louis
| vile IL Nashville road. 25 miles south
| of Nashville, Tenn. Both engines and
the baggage cars were smashed.
SIX men were arrested at South Nc
| Alester, l. T., charged with attempting
| to blow up the railroad bridge over
South Canadian river. The men used
| dynamite on one of the abutments,
which was badly shattered, but not
| dangerously damaged. The motive for
blowing up the bridge was to secure
| work.
| The striking of match by a spec
tator near an oil well three miles east
| of Marion, Ind, caused the oil sur
rounding the well to ignite and the
flames instantly to spread some dis
| lance. Six men. two of whom were on
| the tank into which the oil was pour
| ing, were terribly burned.
| A SPECIAL stock train on the Chicago
81 Northwestern went through the
/ hv-id s,;o
west of Otis, Ia, the other day. Two
| tramps were killed and 100 head of
| cattle persisted. Nine cars of stock
and three of freight were wrecked.
| JOHN JOHNSON, farmer, was in
/ StanflY killed: Peter his son fatallu