Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-16

FIRE at Gainesville, Tex, burned
everything within reach.
An epidemic of influenza, or grippe,
prevails throughout the territory o.
Oklahoma In Guthrie alone there are
500 cases, some of them dangerous and
at Oklahoma City, Norman, FL Reno
and other places it is equally as bad.
THERE was a panic in ST Johns Cath
Ole school, Cincinnati, caused by an
overturned stove. Several children
were badly hurt
THE lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature has passed bill putting a
5000 territorial tax on liquor dealers in
| addition to the present heavy county
tax. If the bill becomes law it will
close half the saloons in the territory.
IT is now claimed that South Caro-
lima minister and his wife, recently
adjudged insane, were really crazed as
result of the privation they endured
INVESTIGATION of Chicago's sweat
poverty and disease.
PLANS have been completed for the
erection of che largest hotel in the
world at Chicago
FRANK HARREL and Willie Feldon,
| and firing Lee Robinson's store at Dick
cry, Miss, were lynched by mob near
the scene of their crime.
JAMES R KEENE alleges that the con-
tinued heavy exports of gold are due to
| arrangements of foreign syndicates
A. FURIOUS blizzard swept over the
northwest and into Iowa on the eth and
10th. Snow was ten feet deep in places
on railway tracks.
PLAINFIELD, N. J., has a Catholic
parochial war which bids fair to rival
| the famous one of Faribault.
SENATOR PEFFER's bill authorizing
the building of dam across the Kaw
| near the mouth has passed the senate.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended February 9 showed an average
decrease of 10 compared with the cor
| responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 14.3.
THE civil tribunal at Paris, France,
rules that South Dakota divorces are
| not valid.
THE Ecuadorian coffee and cocoa
crops are failures and the press of that
country is calling for subscriptions to
| aid the starving agriculturists
The Oregon legislature has passed a
joint memorial to congress for the issue
of $4,000, 900 more legal tender notes.
THE last of the Indians who murdered
the cowboys have been arrested, and
are lodged in Jail at Edwards, S. d.
A COLORADO snow avalanche swept an
engine from the track and killed a fire.
| man AID engineer, who were buried I'M
der it.
A DELEGATION appeared before the
senate committee to plead for an addi-
IS
! fair.
JOHN GossETT, well known young
man of the Usage nation, has been ar
rested on the charge of giving poisoned
whisky to rival, killing him.
Fl. G. ALLIs, late president of the
| First National bank of Little Rock,
ney-General Miller for his actions while
at the head of that institution. He was
| subsequently released on bond.
| BUSH fires are doing great damage in
many parts of Victoria, Australia.
Crops and homesteads have been de-
stroyed Twenty-Five houses have been
burned at Hastings, near Napier, New
Zealand.
| THE National Military institute at
! Bogota, United States of Colombia, has
been suppressed. The students are sus-
pected of revolutionary sentiments
| OWING to the deep snow in northern
| Michigan, deer are unable to get
through with speed and hunters are
capturing them alive.
| A LARGE number of prospective Cher
| ol1ee strip settlers have sent notice to
the mayor of Guthrie, Ok, that they
will fight the retention of the capitol
| at Guthrie because the people of that
town favor eighty-acre claims.
THREE lion cubs were born in the
| Lincoln park menagerie, Chicago. the
other day. They were all males and
| healthy.
| THE book committee of the Methodist
church of the United States adjourned
| at Chicago to meet next year at Cincin-
natl. where a fine new building will be
| dedicated. Reports of the book agent is
| show the sales in the east last year to
have aggregated s1,o76, 451, an increase
of $4,000.