Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-03-17


freight trains near Bradley's station.
Conn, an engineer and fireman were
killed and several brakemen injured.
The accident was due to a denee fog.
CHICAGO is going to spend SO. 900. 900
for street improvement
| A TERRIBLE fall of snow and howl
ling blizzard ragged in northern Nichi-
gan on the 18th, blockading streets,
stopping all railroad travel and break
ing down telegraph wires
+ In the chess match between the
j American team at Brooklyn and the
British Chess club at London the for
mer won nine games out of ten and the
Sir George Newnes Anglo-American
chess trophy will once more come to
America.
In a collision between a fast freight
and switch engine near Lincoln,
Neb, three men were killed and four
badly injured. A storm was largely
responsible for the accident, as when
the engines sighted one another it
was impossible to stop them because
the rails were SO slippery.
CONSOLIDATED returns of the various
crop reporting agencies of the depart
ment of agriculture showed that the
amount of wheat remaining in farm
BOO, 600 bushels; of corn, 500, 600. 900
bushels; of oats. 1888. 900, 600 bushels
THE Oklahoma legislature ad journed
sine die on the 18th.
FIRE at Wymore, Neb.. destroyed
quarter of block of business houses
OWING to smallpox Cleveland, O., has
enforced compulsory vaccination.
/ In fit of jealousy James Medgram,
an Italion 1aborer. shot and killed his
wife Theresa at Chicago and then sent
Ia. bullet through his own head Med
gram may recover.
A VAST quantity of rock overhang
ing the village of Ruccuerga, in Spain,
fell and destroyed many houses and
killed IL people.
LOUIS RoEsEL was executed in the
Union county Jail at Elizabeth. N. j..
for the murder of James c. Pitts, OF
Summit The purpose was robbery.
MRS. CoRNELIA PORTER and Samuel
Parslow were hanged at st. Scholas-
tique, Que, for the murder of the WON.
ans husband
A BLIZZARD ragged in Wyoming on
the 10th and stockmen feared a loss in
cattle and sheep amounting to SO pei
cent
THOMAS P. DONALDSON, the diver,
who recently fractured his skull in
dive in to tank at Madison Square
garden, New York. died at the hospital.
OVER 200 persons persisted in hurri
cane that swept the northeast coast OF
Queensland.
pounds of powder occurred in the
Commodore mine at Creole. Col, Gre
ating great havoc and killing five if
not six miners, besides seriously I'M ur-
ing several others.
]. Font TILLMAN, ex-register of the
United States treasury, died at his
home near Shelbyville. Tenn, on the
10th after a brief illness.
IN fire at Rockford. Ill, the seven
lyear-old son of Joseph McCabe and
Lottie Brickley. aged 16, Mr.. McCabe's
sister-in-law, persisted in the flames
Mr.. McCabe sustained fatal in juries in
attempting to rescue them.
LABOR circles in the northwest are
much agitated over reports that hun
dreds of Japanese contract 1aborers
are being brought into Puget sound
wash cities. Every month from 500
to 1000 Japanese 1aborers are landed
at Tacoma, Vancouver and Portland.
TWAS said that hundreds of these men
were finding employment on various
railroad lines
The steamer Alameda brought the
news to San Francisco of the finding
of gold nugget in western Australia
weighing 2O1s pounds avoirdupoise.
The massive slug, together with over
200 ounces of smaller size, was uncov-
cred just two miles north of where
the Pantomine nugget. weighing S34
ounces, was found by party nine
years ago.
THE ladies of the Memorial asso-
citation at Winchester, Va, together
with the Daughter of the Con federacy
in South Carolina, have succeeded in
raising the necessary funds to erect a
monument to the South Carolina con-
federate dead who lie buried in Stone
wall cemetery at Winchester. The
monument is to be unveiled on Memo
rial day, June 6.
THE Reorganized Church of Latter
Day Saints (non-polygamist Mormons)
recently held three-days' conference
in the old temple at kirkland, o. Del
egates were present from number of
states. Resolutions were adopted ear
nestlv protesting against anyone gull
ty of the crime of polygamy being
seated in the house of represen tatives
of the United States.
PETITION addressed to the British
high commissioners has been circulat-
ed and largely signed in the little
town of Dyea, Alaska, asking that the
commissioners accept the town from
the Americans, as proposed in dis
patches from Washington some time
ago, and make it a British port The
idea is to get the trade of the Klondike
and Atlin districts, which are in Brit
ish territory.
The Utah legislature, which is DEM
ocratic by a large majority. adjourned
without electing United States sena-
tor.