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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
CIinnInRs.

Among the messages of condolences
Mrs Childs received on the death OF
her husband was one from the town
officials of Stratford-upon-Avon who
testify to the appreciation in which
they hold Mr.. Childs' gift of the Shake
speare public fountain This one gen.
erous act alone of the editor gave him
a lively fame in England
Gen Neal Dow was once captured
while asleep in house in the south
and sent to a confederate prison After
some months hs was exchanged for an
officer of equal rank, who was no less
. person than Gen Fitzhugh Lee.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

FIRE in Ashland, Wis, destroyed the
Vaughn library building, causing
loss of S175, 600. Insured.
THE fourth convention of the Inter-
national League of Press clubs will be
held at Atlanta. Ga, May 1, 2 and s.
THE union painters and paper-hang-
ers of Chicago have declared a general
strike upon all the bosses who locked
their men out three weeks ago. This
action will affect nearly all the impor-
| tant shops in the city. About 1900 or
2, 600 men are out
A FIRE, supposed to be incendiary,
burned four business houses at Hot
Springs, Ark. on the 29th- Loss, $751;
900; partially insured.
| WHILE sixteen colliers were descend
ing shaft leading to mine at Bots
du Lac, in the Mons, Belgium. district,
the cable broke, precipitating the
whole party to .the ground Thirteen
of the miners were killed and the re-
naming three severely injured
THE St Charles hotel, at New Or
leans, was burned on the night of the
2sth. Several lives were thought to be
lost The hotel was built at cost of
81, 900, 600. and was one of the finest
in the south. The loss will probabl
lCACcCQ SOOU,OOU
THE steamer Oceanic, which has just
arrived at San Francisco, brings adj
vices of a great fire in Shanghai, China,
in which 500 houses were burned. So
far as known no lives were lost
| SEVEN THOUSAND pounds of food sup
lp1ies have been sent to Carriza for the
benefit of the Zapata county, Texas.
drought sufferers No rain has yet
fallen in Zapata and suffering among
the people was reported increasing.
The Dutch ministry has resigned,
lowing to the defeat of the government
at the recent elections
WITH a silver pick President Diaz
has finished the opening, from end to
lend, of the seven-mile tunnel out OF
the valley of Mexico. The tunnel and
canal, which it is hoped will at last
successfully drain the valley and thus
remove all danger to the City of Next
leo from inundation, have been in
course OF construction for many years
and when finished will have cost near
liy SO, ZOO, GOO.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has made long
statement as to whether it was true
that he had taken part in conferences
for the purposes of agreeing TO certain
amendments to the tariff bill He says
he had a conference with democratic
members of the senate finance commit
tee, but that he regarded most of the
lchanges in the bill as unimportant and
mot affecting the measure much as 8
whole.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

A TILE mill exploded at Markle, Ind,
killing several employees and injuring
others.
THE twenty-third annual meeting of
the Woman's Presbyterian board of
missions of the northwest began in
Denver on the 25th.
THE fourteenth annual meeting of
Union Pacific stockholders was held at
Boston on the 25th. The directors re-
port for the past year showed a deficit
of 81, sos, S41, compared with a surplus
of the previous year of 81, 069, 757, due.
it was stated, to the silver crisis and
the failure of the Kansas wheat crop.
SEVEN firemen at Memphis, Tenn, in
attempting to carry hose up to the
third story of building on fire were
severely injured by falling timbers-
A SENSATIONAL double tragedy is re-
ported from the Dos Cabezas mining
camp, Mexico. Jack Redding and
David Harper, wealthy and prominent
mining men, met and quarreled over a
business matter, which they agreed to
settle with their revolvers. Both men
fired at the same instant and both
| were shot dead in their tracks. They
had been partners for number of
years. and until their fatal quarrel had
always been fast friends
| In Wheeling, We Va, George Hib-
bard's residence was destroyed by fire
the other night Miss Jane Redman,
aged so years, sister-in-law of Hubbard,
was suffocated She could not be in
duced to leave in her night clothes, and
her delay in remaining to robe herself
/ proved fatal
THE Encouragement has sent to
congress the draft OF bill prepared by
the department of justice for the reor-
ganizauion of the Union Pacific Railroad
Co. and the readjustment of the claims
of the government against that COM
pany.
Two bridges west of Fort Buford, on
the Great Northern, have been burned.
1t is rumored that two others have also
gone.
The estimates by the director of the
mint of the silver product of the United
States for 1898 give total of &c., 600, OOC
as against S74, 995, 600 for 1892.
SEVEN empty warehouses were
burned at the worlds fair grounds al
Chicago. Loss only 81, 100.
THE Spanish sanitary inspector sent
to Lisbon to inquire into the epidemic
raging there declares that the out
break is one of true Asiatic cholera
THE Vacuum Oil Co. of Colorado
which has controlled the sale of two
thirds of the lubricating oil consumed
in the west. will be consolidated May !
with the Continental Oil Co, the west
ern representative of the STANDARD
trust
JURY in Judge McConnell's court
Chicago, awarded the Rock Island
railroad ss5 4s1 in its suit against the
Union Pacific The Rock Island had
sued for $3.50, 000. The suit grew out
of ali alleged breach of contract on the
part of the Union Pacific in relation tc
the use of the latter's bridge at Omaha
THE second annual national confer
ence of the German Young People:
Society of Christian Endeavor of the
Unieed States at Tiffin. O., closed with
the election of the following officers
President. Rev. C. Berner, Buffalo
vice president. Rev. J. Euszing, San
dusky, o.; secretary. Rev. A. w. Rine
hart. St Louis; treasurer. a Muekhe
Detroit.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

CoNsUL-GENERAL MASON, at Frank
fort. Germany, in report to the state
department, suggests that our fruit
preservers try the new fruit sugar.
made from beets 1t is limpid white
strip of great density, containing from
rs to 76 per cent. of sugar, possessing a
rich, fruity flavor, and the capacity to
remain fluid and free from granulation
for an indefinite period. 1t has the
power to assimilate, develop and pre-
serve the natural favor of the fruit to
which it is applied, and is far superior
for such use to cane sugar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

COMMISSIONER REYNOLDS, of Chicago,
has struck blow at the sweat shops,
which he believes to be instrumental
in the spread of smallpox. He has adj
dressed letter to the large commercial
houses which deal in ready-made cloth
ing, suggesting that they decline to
give any more work to outside shops
unless the contractors furnish proof
that all their employees and those who
take work home have been vaccinated.
He says the reports of factory and
tenement house inspectors show that
not more than per cent of these
classes are vaccinated.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

SERGEANT-AT-ARMs Snow, of the
house, has taken precautionary steps
for the protection of the big cash lock-
ers containing the pay of congressman
during the expected influx of Coxeyites
to Washington. Capt Garden, of the
capitol police, at Mr.. Shows request
has stationed an armed officer outside
the door of the office throughout the
day. Another officer will sleep along
side the huge safe through the night
The supply of cash kept on hand will
be reduced to the bare necessity of the
office
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
Kicked to Death.

George Lyons, of Neodesha, was
kicked by horse at independence on
the Goth and almost instantly killed.
He was in a buggy with two ladies,
watching an Odd Fellows procession,
when the horse became fractions and
kicked, striking Lyons in the breast
and crushing the bones
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

The encouragement has instituted
proceedings in the supreme court to
forfeit the charter of the Running
Water Cattle & Land Co, of Dallas.
Tex. The company was organized in
Topeka several years ago with a capi-
tai stock of 81, 900. 900. Nearly all of
the ineorporators were Texans. and
they left for Dallas as soon as the char
ter was issued, and have been doing
business there ever since. The COM
pany has never maintained headquar-
tiers in Kansas, as required by law.
hence the proceedings to forfeit the
charter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

THE crew of the fishing steamer
Capitaine recently found a lump of
white looking substance while cruis-
ing about 100 miles from the coast of
Vancouver, B. c. The stuff was kept
for some time as a curiosity, but was
finally thrown overheard, after small
piece had been cut off. The piece
saved was afterwards examined by ex-
perts, who declared it was ambergris.
AS the lump weighed close to 100
pounds, its estimated value is $3.50, 600.
A party has now gone with a diver to
search for the missing treasure
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
The Standard of True Refinement

A certain punctilious old gentleman
used to say that no true lady would
ever wear stocking with hole in it
The same idea was voiced by young
girl of a later generation, who declared
that she never felt like a lady when
there was a button off her shoe Each
put into words an appreciation of the
fact that more is required than out
ward correctness of appearance to mark
the woman whose mate impulses are
all toward refinement As the man of
thorough breeding is to be recognized
by his bearing to his interiors rather
than by his conduct to his equals as
the good housekeeper is judged by the
condition of her cellar and pantries
rather than by the state of her parlors,
so is the truly refined lady dis
tinguished more by the unnoticeable
minutiae of her dress than by the gen
eral outward Embellishments Mag
aZine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

AT Durant, Ok, the people were very
indignant at the inhuman treatment
accorded servant girl by famiiyeof
faith curists. The girls clothing
caught fire from a stove and she was
fearfully burned. but they refused to
send for physician and compelled her
to suffer Untold agonies for two days,
when she died
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

THE Paris Temps compared the march
of the Coxey bands in the United States
to the uprising of the populace in the
middle ages, adding: At the same time
it would be wrong to regard this par
ticular demonstration as the event of a
social revolution. Society in America
lies upon such broad foundations and
is SO firmly based upon the national
conscience that what would lead to a
general revolution elsewhere is only a
rapid skirmish in America.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

WHILE the procession following
George Stuckey's body was on its way
to Berne cemetery near Decatur, Ind,
a passing team became frightened and
ran away. This frightened others,
and before the affair ended three teams
and eleven people were piled in the
road. Mrs. Frank Warner was in
stantly killed and three others received
probably fatal wounds
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

HUNDREDS of elk have been found in
the neighborhood of Lander, Wyo.,
that have died of starvation. The
suppos:eion is they were driven from
.he mountains to the lower lands by
the cold weather. The death of so
many elk is deplored because of their
scarcity, there being but few in exist
ence outside the confines of Yellow
stone mark
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
Damages Awarded.

In the district court at Hutchinson
the jury in the case of Cox vs. the Rock
Island railroad gave the plaintiff a
Judgment for So, OO0 The action was
brought for damages sustained about a
year ago by an injury received in max
ing coupling. Cox has been, confined
to his bed ever since and is pronounced
by the physicians to be permanently
paralyzed-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Man.
PERSONAL AND PoIrTICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
REPRESENTATIVE JERRY SIMPSON was
reported much better on the oath.
THE senate has confirmed John e.
Lynch marshal for the Eastern district
of Missouri
Ex- POSTMASTER GENERAL FRANK
HATToN was stricken with paralysis at
Washington on the oath.
WILLIAM MCGARRAHAN, the celebrat-
ed claimant to the New Idria mine,
died at Washington on the Gath, and
with his death ended the most famous
of the long time claims before con-
gress. 1t has been prosecuted for over
thirty-ive years before each congress
REPRESENTATIVE GOODNIGHT, of Ken
lucky, has introduced bill creating a
department of health, presided over
by physician, serving as a member of
the cabinet, with the title of secretary
of public health.
The house coinage committee, by an
overwhelming vote, has decided to
sidetrack the Meyer seigniorage and
small bonds bill and instead to con-
slider the Bland free silver coinage bill
A. w. DICKINSON, late general super
intendent of the Missouri Pacific rail-
way system, was reported seriously i'll
at Seymour, Ind. on the 25th- His
disease is paresis.
Gov. FLOWER, of New York, has
vetoed the bill allowing Sons of Veteran
posts to carry arms
REPRESENTATIVE ONEILL., of Mis-
souri,. has introduced bill to protect
free labor from the injurious effects of
convict labor by con 6ning the sale OF
the products of the latter class of labor
to the state in which they are pro
duced.
SENATOR BRICE is authority for the
statement that a compromise tariff bill
has been agreed upon which is reason
ably certain to be adopted by congress
early in June.
The Mckinley Tariff league, which
has it's headquarters in Washington,
has issued a call for convention of the
colored republican clubs of the United
States to be held the first Monday in
July. Each club will be represented
by two delegates and one alternate.
Gov. FLOWER, of New York, has
vetoed the annual appropriation be
cause the legislature refused to strike
out the section to alloy the attorney
general to designate all counsel EN-
ployed by state commissions.
WORK on Gen. Grants tomb will b<
resumed soon and the structure will b'
carried up so feet this season. There
is now S433, 238 in the treasury for it
completion,
THE German National Zeitung, prob
ably rejecting the opinion of the Ger
man government. advises the United
States to leave the protectorate of tn
| Samoan islands to Germany, under
treaty giving the United States a coal
ing station. The same paper adds tina
under no consideration could German!
withdraw from the position which she
now holds in regard to Samoa
Ex-Gov. N. S. BERRY, the oldest gov
ernor in the United States, died il
Bristol, N. H., of pneumonia, aged 9e
He was elected governor of New Hamp
shire in 1861 and again in 1862.
SENATOR QUAY, of Pennsylvania, wa
reported sick on the 27th. His Attic
ton, it is said, is one that may TAX
him off without much warning.
ALL the Brazilian insurgents includ
| ing Da CANA, who were detained o.
board of the Portuguese warships
have succeeded in escaping.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

A TELEGRAM from Warsaw, Ind,
stated that forty days had passed since
Frank Woodruff, farmer of Kosciusko
county, had slept. He was afflicted
with some strange malady two years
ago, when he went eighty days without
sleep. He is to all appearances healthy,
and works every day. His physicians
have utterly failed to produce even a
stupor with drugs.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

AssAYER PUCKATT, of Denver, Col,
went to Washington to have the gov
eminent assay Office in Denver raised
to the standard of mint. The step
was taken because of the growth of
Colorado as a gold producer, the
amount of gold mined there having in
creased greatly during the last two
years and the outlook being for a much
greater output.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
An unfortunate Nan.

Oscar Myers went fishing in the Mis-
souri, river at Leavenworth the other
day, taking his 5-year-old son with
him, and after casting his line, fell
asleep and was aroused from his slum-
bers by the barking of dog he had
with him, only to find that his son had
fallen into the river and was drowned
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
Troops for the Otoe Country

Ell RENO. Ok, April SO.-A troop of
cavalry left FL Reno Saturday for the
Otoe reservation, to be present at the
payment of $50, 900 to the Indians and
remove intruders from the reservation
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
Acquitted.

The jury in the case in which Ward
and Cole, two members of the Wichita
school board. were charged with de-
handing pay from teachers for their
official support, returned verdict of
not guilty.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

Mechanical Experts Services Required to
Settle n Sisters Dispute
1t was in one of the big department
stores, and the penny-in-the-slot
weighing machine was placed where 1T
could. not be overlooked They were
evidently sisters, though one was
stouter than she could wish, while the
other would have been thankful for
the reversion of some of her unneees-
sary flesh They passed the machine
with sidelong look; then the stout
woman turned back, saying with
shamefaced air:
There's not soul here that knows
me; Pm going to find out just how
much 1 do weigh Then she handed
her bundles to her sister and stepped
on
Mercy; one hundred and eighty
niner' she screamed, and bounced off.
'tHere, wait a minute" the thin
woman called, 81 want to try, too"
well, give me your bundles, F"
snapped the other, ST didn't hold mine
while weighed"
''Of course not; you-goodness, only
ninety-fiveT'
gone half block when the stout
~OlAdA SOOppcO anu 4dC6O Inc IAAA
one
Those scales were wrong" she re-
marked firmly.
''Why, of course they WERE" cried
the other one Frightening up; "how
foolish of us not to think of it before!
All those people weighing every day
would be sure to put it out of order"
Certainly; the hands get loose and
take to making you out ever SO much
heavier -"
Lighter, You mean"
Il don't mean anything of the kind.
The idea that weigh one hundred and
eighty-nine pounds!''
Yes. the idea-rm sure it is two
hundred know 1 weigh at least one
hundred and five"
"How ridiculous! Not more than
eighty-five at the outside"
'Humphi'
1.-THE ideaI''
They turned and glared at each
other, then walked on in silence And
when the stout woman dropped one OF
her bundles and walked on unheeding
the other one was too angry to tell heI
| of it-ChicaCO Tribune
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE Spanish pilgrims, whose pilgrim
ages to Rome have extended over the
past fortnight, have made money con-
tributions TO the pope aggregating
1920, 600 francs
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

THE Prussian minister of agriculture
stated in the diet that farm mortgages
in Prussia had increased l, 800, 600 marks
in the past year and that the position
of husbandry in that country was
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
sunday schooI workers.

The annual convention of the Kansas
State Sunday School association will
be held at Wichita, May 8, 9 and 10.
Among other noted workers TO be
present are DR.. Vincent and DIR. Dun
can, of New York; Prof Greenwood
and DIR. Jesse Bowman Young, of St
Louis; Prof Excel. of Chicago, and
DR. Heisler, of Denver. Railroad rates
of one fare for the round trip have
SbeeD Granted
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
Fatally Burned.

Mrs. William Richardson, wife of
Missouri Pacific brakeman, was fatally
burned at Hiawatha the other morning
by an explosion caused by her attempt
ing to fill gasoline stove while
burning.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

A STEAM shearing plant started re-
Gently at Casper, Wyo. They have been
in use in Australia for several years,
but this was their first Introduction
into the United States The sheep
sheared were from aoband of wethers,
shearing fourteen pounds. They
worked perfectly satisfactory to all.
The first one was sheared in five
minutes Two hand-sheared sheep
Were caught and resheared by the ma
chimes From one the machine sheared
twelve ounces of wool and from the
other thirteen ounces. The machines
shear better staple and do closer
work than by hand.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
Denies His Guilt

Ex-Mayor Gaskill. of Argentine, was
recently arrested upon state warrant
charging him with embezzling funds
of the city. Mr.. Gaskill denies owing
the city a dollar
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
Happy Postmasters.

The senate has confirmed the follow
ing Kansas postmasters: John Fl. Mey-
er, Hiawatha; Henry c. Maxwell,
Harper; A. II. Jacobs, Larned; August
Bondi, Salina; Thomas A Fairchild,
Holton.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

Bur for deathbed confessions Allen
Yancy, recently confined in the Dade
GA coal mines, would have served a
life sentence for a murder for which he
is entirely innocent. AS it is he was
pardoned by Gov. Northern after an un-
just confinement of ten years The
man for whose murder Yancy has suf-
fered was Richard Cuff In 1884 party
of white boys, headed by a negro named
Blaclzer, went to the house OF Cuff at
the dead of night to whip him Burst
fng in, Blacker fired at random to in
timidate the occupants. One of the
bullets proved deadly, however. The
Yancy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

It is stated that Hutchinson lodge No.
90, L o. o. F., will take an appeal to
the supreme court in the De Boissiere
orphans home case decided by Judge
Hazen in Topeka, in which the subor-
dinate Odd Fellows lodge of Hutchin-
son was plaintiff and the grand lodge
was defendant BY this appeal the
grand lodge cannot collect the 81. so per
capita until the matter is settled by the
supreme court
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
Made the Atonement.

In the United States court at Topeka
few days ago Judge Riner dismissed
the case of the United States against
Lawson Mann. of Doniphan county.
charged with having voted at a con-
gressional election without having had
his political disabilities removed Mann
admitted that he had served in the con-
federate army, but proved that he
afterwards served in the ''Pawpaw
militia of Missouri thirteen months in
defense of the union, and the court
held that that restored him to the right
of franchise.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03
Polling the State.

Some months ago Chairman Breiden-
thai sent poll-books to prominent
populist in every voting precinct in the
state, with instructions to make a cor
rect poll of the voters and return to
him by May L About one-half of the
state has been heard from, and the re-
turns show 10000 populists, 60, 600 re-
publicans and 5000 democrats. These
returns are from the central and west
ern part of the state, and from counties
which gave populist majorities in 1892.