Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-03-24


swept houses away, uprooted trees and
leveled everything in its path. The
house of Lewis Coffee was demolished
among others and ten members OF the
family were killed. A woman in an
other house at Hof1in also lost her life
great number of people were injured.
and dozens of grain mills demolished.
NEAR Waynesboro. Ga. on the 18th
four people were killed by tornado
and many houses were destroyed.
A NEGRO boy. aged Is years. was
| jailed at Bowie, Nd, for beating an
/ elderly woman to death with a club
and then attacking her sister and NAL
! tire ating her SO badly that she will die.
There was talk of lynching the pris-
0neE
A DISPATCH from Dallas. Tex. said
| that Milton Park, chairman of the
populist national organization commit
tee has issued manifesto setting forth
the nomination of Barker and Donnel-
! Iy for president and vice president of
the United States He has appoin ted
Paul Fl. Dixon, of Chiilicothe, Mo-,
as organizer for Kansas, Missouri and
Nebraska
CHARLES l.. BACKMAN. an engraver,
mortaIly wounded his wife at Chicago
and then sent a bullet through his
own brain. It was caused by the
woman refusing to live with her hus-
| band.
THE passenger train on the Cheyenne
& Northern railway. which was
snowed-in for mon tn near Iron Noun
tain. Wyo., has been finally released,
rotary snow plow pushed by three
locomotives opening the road.
| L
Amesburg, Mass, and destroyed three
of the largest business blocks in the
place and one church. The loss was
estimated at $3.50, 600.
FLAMES broke out in the Windsor
hotel at New York on the afternoon
of the 18th and spread with such rap
idity that the means of escape for the
guests were soon cut off and there was
a wild scene of excitement Many OF
the panic-stricken women threw them
selves from the windows and some
died from their injuries Soon two of
the walls collapsed and several per-
sons were undoubtedly buried in the
debris. It was estimated that about 40
persons were injured and Is lives lost.
with the probability of the death list
increasing. The loss on the hotel was
about $1,000, 900.
| The queen regent signed the treaty
of peace between Spain and the United
! States on the nth.
OLIVER PROVOST was hanged at Port
Arthur, Ont, on the 18th for the muir
der of two swine herders.
| THE report reached San Francisco on
the 18th that Princess Kaiulani had
died a Honolulu of inf1ammatory rheu-
ma ism. In 1891 Queen Liliuokalani,
who was then on the throne of the
Hawaiian islands, proclaimed her heir
apparent.
Four companies of the Second vol
nnteer engineers at Honolulu have
been ordered to San Francisco to be
mustered out of service.
PARTS of Rome, Ga. were under
water through the rise in the river.
IN the United States court at Atoka,
I. t., Judge Clayton granted an in
junction restraining striking miners
in the territory from interfering with
other miners who wanted to work
with federal protection.
A RAFT of logs from the mountains
for Chattanooga, Tenn, went to pieces
near the Cincinnati Southern bridge
in the Tennessee river and two RATS
men were drowned and four others had
a thrilling experience in getting out
Of the water with their lives.
BENJAMIN P. HUTCHINSON, better
known as "Old Hutch" the former
board of trade operator at Chicago,
died of heart failure at the Lakeside
sanitarium, Lake Geneva, Wis. He
was 20 years old.
WHILE alone in her home at Chicago
the other evening Mrs. Charles Fl.
Nix was seized by two burglars, who,
after gagging her, tied her TO chair
in the basement. Then they looted
the house and secured So, 900 worth of
vaiuables After this. they carried Mrs.
Nix, still gagged and bound lin the
chair, to the second floor and locked
her in a clothes press After 21@ hours
she succeeded in Slipping the gag and
calling for help.
The report that Archbishop Ireland.
of Minnesota, is to be made cardinal
was denied at Rome.
AT Laredo. Tex, over 500 cases OF
smallpox were recently reported.
REPRESENTATIVE GROGIN recently in
troduced a resolution in the Texas leg
is1ature to disfranchise all persons re-
siding in Texas who draw pensions
from the federal government The
bill was reported adversely by the con.
stitutional amendment committee.
THE third annual bench show of the
Kennel club of St Louis opened at tn
Coliseum on the 18th with nearly So;
entries benched.
A DEPUTY sheriff engaged in an al
tercation at Columbus, Tex, with q
man named Scott, when Scott re
marked that if he had gun he would
fight Ex-Sheriff Reese offered him 8
revolver and the shooting began
Reese was killed at the first fire
Charles Boeme. a bystander, was also
killed and small boy named William.
was badly injured.
YOKOHAMA papers contain details O.