Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11

loaded trolley car jumping a trest1e
near Bridgeport, Conn.,. on the 9th,
and dropping into a pond below and
the ponderous motor crashing on top
of it.
THE passenger steamer City of Grand
Rapids, with 200 persons on board, had
a narrow escape from laundering in
Lake Michigan on the 9th. It began
to leak when in midlake, the pumps
were found useless and the engine fires
were threatened. The vessel was
turned back and fortunately managed
to reach South Haven, Mich.
A SCORE or more OF persons lost their
lives by the breaking of a gang plank
by which they were boarding an eX-
cursion steamer on the 9th at Bar Har-
Dor, Me.
AS the result of collision near
Detroit, Mich. the steamer w. B.
Morley, with a cargo of hard coal, and
the car ferry steamer Lansdown were
both sunk.
THE compositors and stereotypers on
the New York Sun struck on the 5th
forcing the suspension of the publica-
ton for a time.
SEVENTEEN persons were killed and
81 others were injured by collision on
the other night. The disaster was due
to imperfect signaling.
CHARLES YAGER, aged 40 years, of
Brandt. Pa. while temporarily insane,
murdered his three small children by
cutting their threats and then commit
ted suicide by the same means. He
was a widower.
JOHN MAXEY. a negro rapist, was
hanged at Van Buren,, Ark, on the 4th.
Up to the 4th ITO applications had
been received at the Office of County
Judge Evans at Bonham, Tex, asking
for pensions which were granted by
the last legislature to eX-confederate
soldiers and their widows.
The New York commerce commits
sion, appointed by the legislature to
investigate the commerce of New York
state and report as to the means of re-
viva1, convened at Whitehall on the
4th.
DISPATCHES from Pine Blur, Ark,
said the intense heat had caused the
cotton in that vicinity to shed and,
unless weather conditions were soon
changed and rain fell, the result to the
crop would be disastrous.
JOE KENNEDY, the California boxer,
who has aspirations for the heavy
weight championship has been matched
to fight Peter Maher at the LenoX Ath-
letic club, New York, where the men
will meet on Septemb Der 26.
A WOMAN at Bletchley, Eng, had six
children at one birth recently.
DURING dance at Wellsville. O., the
| other night the floor of the room gave
way and the audience of 200 persons
were precipitated to the cellar, a dis
lance of II feet. Many persons were
badly injured, but no one was fatally
hurt.
OSCAR E. RICE, white. and John
Kennedy, negro, were put to death
by electricity in the prison at Auburn,
n. Y, on the I'd. Oscar E. Rice killed
his wife and John Kennedy murdered
| John Hummings.
DURING an electric storm lightning
struck the barn on Ben Hammer farm,
| in Union Grove township, Ill. The barn
| horses We're burned to a crisp.
CARABELLE. Fla, was almost com
pletely destroyed by a terrific wind
and rainstorm. Many boats in the
harbor were wrecked and most of the
long wharf gone, together with large
| quantities of naval stores. Lanark,
| st. Michaels and other towns also suf-
|
! fered.
| PRESIDENT DONNELLY, of the Inter
national Typographical union. com
| pleted his annual report to be submit
| ted to the convention in Detroit Mich.
| August IA. 1t shows membership of
about $4,000, with something over S19,-
| 900 in the treasury. There were 19
strikes during the year, of which seven
were won, three were lost and nine
were pending.
THE United Brotherhood of Friends,
an order of colored people, held pic
mic and celebration at Burton, Tex,
| the other day. During the progress OF
the affair Sandy Tenplin was shot and
killed by another negro. The trouble
| was over woman.
| THE worlds bicycle record for 1 O0C
miles. held by T. A. Edge, of London,
| and made over an ordinary turnpike
road. has been broken by A. A. Hansen
who finished his long ride at Mime
| apolis, Mimi, and succeeded in cover
ing the distance in "a hours and A min.
utes. The time by Edge was 1O5 hours
and 10 minutes.
SHEEP herders and cattlemen were
reported lighting in northeastern Col
crado. Four horsemen, carefully dis
guised both as to person and their
horses, rode into large fiocks of sheep
| which were grazing along Two Mile
creek and shot and killed $50 sheep and
crippled 25 more.
ACCORDING to the weather bureau
st. Louis was the hottest city in the
United States on the Sd. when the Their
mometer on top of the custom house
registered 90 degrees At the time sew
eral thermometers in the street showed
the mercury at 1O5. While there were
many cases OF sunstroke. none was
fatal.
WORK has commenced on another
railroad in Oklahoma. 1t is an extern
| tor, Of %ba Roclr Island from, Enid fC