Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-01-13

court of Dallas county for the judicial
forfeiture of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railroad company, of Texas,
and for the appointment of receiver
to take charge of all the company's
property. The petition charges nu-
merous violations of the state consti-
tuition by the railroad company. The
case is set for hearing on January "a
A FREIGHT train crashed into a pas
senger train near Elk Valley, Tenn,
and four trainmen were killed. two
others badly injured and about $780,
BOO damage done to property. No pas
sengers were hurt.
SEVERAL days ago box arrived al
the Air line depot, at Evansville,
Ind. from St Louis addressed to E. l.
Thurman. After all efforts to find
Mr.. Thurman had failed the employees
Opened the box and found it to con-
tain human body. apparently a
woman's, cut into small pieces. It was
believed murder had been COM
mitted.
THE 24-hour bicycle race at New
York ended on the 9TH in an exciting
finish, the winner being foot in front
Of the second, who was in turn wheel
in front of the third, with the fourth
OujH d WHICH, OIL. 1HG ScOEo WdS.
Gimm, Pierce, Turville, Frederick, $50
miles; Lawson, 449 miles; julius, AT
miles; Hale. 443 miles; Miller. 44a miles
The eight prizes were: 81. 600, $500,
$3.50, $3.50. 500. SIS. $50 and SIS.
A HEAVY windstorm blew down a
schoolhouse at Boles. Ark, and three
pupils were killed, another fatally
hurt and dozen or so sustained more
or less serious injuries.
A FIRE broke out in the Hotel Richie.
lieu at Pittsburgh, Pa, early the other
morning and three of the guests were
suffocated by the dense smoke and five
others were badly hurt The inmates
of the hotel had frantic fight for life
and the place was completely Quilted.
AN epidemic of grip has broken out
among the horses at Lexington, Ky.
THE business failures in the United
States for thesweek. ended the 9th were
237, according to eBradstreet's report,
against $50 in the corresponding week
year ago.
By an explosion of gasoline the hard
ware store of Keil & Son at Pember-
Vile. o., was badly wrecked and Au-
gustus keil, the junior partner. so
badly in hnrea that he died in an hour.
THE Hotel Main at Washington, Pa,
and the Levins building adjoining
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, SIS. 900. The fire start
ed in the rear of the Hotel Main and
burned SO rapidly that many of the
occupants narrowly escaped.
A BIG boiler being tested in He Wits
shipbuilding yards at Barking, Eng,
burst and the experimenting engineer
and eight men were killed. About 40
persons were injured. some fatally.
The bodies of the in jured were fright
fully mutilated. The whole ship
building works were wrecked.
MRS. FLORENCE RICHIE, a member
of Frank Daniels company, tainted
while taking a bath at her hotel at
Denver. Col, on the 9th and was
drowned.
THE flour mill at Venedy. Ill. was
demolished by boiler explosion.
The Missouri Pacific express train
which left Kansas City at 1O:4O o. m.
on the Sd for st. Louis was wrecked
one mile west of Jefferson City the
next morning. The wreck was caused
by a stone which had rolled down from
the bluff on the track. The engine
rolled off the track into the river.
crushing to death the engineer and
fireman who had jumped. All the
cars. with the exception of the rear
sleeper, left the track, running into the
face of the cliff None of the passen-
gers, however, were seriously injured.
A BARN belonging to a white farmer
named Green, near Banks, Ala, was
burned the other day, together with
some corn and other produce. Sus-
picion was directed toward Marshall
McGregor, a negro in Mr.. Green's en-
ploy. His body was found afterwards
hanging to a tree near where the b arm
had stood.
THE anarchist movement in France
has received an enormous impetus
through the growing fear of military
despotism. The sum of 200, 600 francs
has been placed at the disposal of NJ
Sebastien Faure for the purpose of es-
tablishing an anarchist daily newspa-
per in Paris.
FIRE in the paint shop of the Nash
Vile, Chattanooga & ST. Louis rail-
road at Nashville, Tenn, destroyed
tene coaches, including President
Thomas private car and the pay car
of the road. The loss on the building
was estimated at $40. 900 and on the
rolling stock at S37, 500.
THE outside doors of the vault of the
Phenix Or. II national bank were
blown out by dynamite about one
o'clock the other morning. but the
three men who attempted to rob the
bank were frightened away before
they could gain access to the interior
apartments, where the money, securi.
ties and other Saiuab1es were kept.
THE secretary of agriculture for
werded to congress on the 9th a report
of the work and expenditures of the
agricultural experiment stations for
the fiscal year 1898 During that time.