Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-01-20

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several cars were overturned and
burned. A brakeman was also pin
.oned under the debris and burned to
Heath.
SERIOUS freight wreck occurred on
the Pennsylvania railroad near Rich
nond. Ind, on the 18th. Two trains
.ollided and both engines were wrecked
and much merchandise destroyed.
A TRAIN on the Illinois Central had
; head-end collision with switch
engine at Champaign, ILL.,, and the
fireman of the passenger train was
killed. The passengers were badly
shaken up.
THE Indian nations will try to coll
iect the traders license tax from
non. citizen merchandise dealers in the
Indian territory. Before the passage
of the Curtis bill the nations were not
In position to enforce these collec-
tons
THE first detachment of the Seven
teenth United States infantry left
Columbus, o., on the 18th for New
York. en- route to the Philippines.
THE British ship Andalina capsized
IN a terrific squall at Tacoma. Wash,
and her captain and a crew OF Is men
we're lost.
= ANAToLE DEIBLER has been appoint
ed to succeed his father as official exc
cutioner of Paris. The father had
record of 600 heads
THE New York Sun says there is q
plan on foot to get ex-Gov. William j.
Stone, of Missouri, nominated for pres
ident in 1900.
THE gunboat Yorkto sailed from
San Francisco to Manila on the 18th.
CONSIDERABLY excitement has been
created by rich gold discoveries 25
miles east of Vernal, Utah, in the Blue
noun tains. near the Colorado line.
GREAT interest is being manifested
throughout the west over the coming
meeting of stockmen at Denver, Col,
during the week of January %. Be-
sides the national live stock conven-
ton, a range cattle exhibition is to be
held at the stock yards, the first ex-
hibition of its kind ever held in the
country. These cattle are range-bred
and have never tasted any feed but
grass and hay.
SAMUEL STEINER, a farmer of Pleas
ant Valley township, Ia, went to
West Union and surrendered himself
to the authorities. He said that his
brother John and himself, with a
neighbor named Huns berger, were to-
gether and drank freely of homemade
wine, becoming intoxicated. Aquar-
rel arose between them. in which Sam
uel shot his brother, killing him in
stantly.
A LETTER received by Stephen E.
Barton, chairman of the Cuban relief
committee at New York, from Mr..
Warner, recently sent to the Sancti
Spiritus district in Cuba, says that
there are 1851 destitute women and
children in the town. with 1892 men
to provide for them, more than half of
whom are too sick and weak to even
help themselves "The condition of
the people in the little villages and
country" he says, sis even worse than
in the city"
THE employees of the Sioux City Qa.)
plant of the Cudahy Packing company
have purchased four blocks of prop.
erty short distance from the packing
house and will build up what they will
call Cudahytown on the cooperative
plan. No one not an employee of the
packing company and a member of the
TOWNSHIP company will be allowed to
buy lots.
A CONFERENCE between the Canadian
Pacific railway and the western roads
of the United States has been arranged
for January II at Chicago and it is ex-
pected that it will resu1tiu an arrange
ment of the trouble relating princi-
pally to the immigrant traffic
THE repu blican legislative caucus at
Indianapolis. Ind, selected Exon
gresham A. J. Beveridge for United
States senator. AS the republicans
have a majority on joint ballot in the
Legislature he will be elected to sue
coed Senator David Turpie (dem.). Mr..
Beveridge is but SO years old and he
will be the youngest man to be elected
United States senator from Indiana
The report that Mgr. Ireland. the
arch bishop of st. Paul, Mimi, is to be
nominated papal nuncio in the Philip
pines was absolutely contradicted at
the vatican at Rome. There is no in
tention OF instituting a nunciature in
the Philippines
Four crooks in Jail at Columbus, Neb.,
dynamited the building to effect their
escape. Two of them were seriously
if not fatally injured and another will
lose his eyesight-
A SERIOUS fire ragged in the town of
Bridgewater, N. s.. and about 80 bust
ness places were destroyed, including
the post Office, music hall, savings
bank, hotel and telegraph Office. A
number OF residences were also burned.
CONFIRMATION of the report that the
German government was secretly back
ing the Filipino insurgents was said
to have been secured in San Francisco.
Germany is anxious to secure the
islands for herself.
THE anti-Drey fusites in Paris were
said to be doing everything possible
to discredit the court of cassation. as
it was generally accepted in the best
informed circles that the court was
preparing to render Judgment in favor
of Dreyfus.
PROF. J. B. TURNER died at his home
in Jacksonville, Ill. on the 10th aged