Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-03-28

1HE Empire Gheater IN chicago was
nearly destroyed by fire on the night
Of the 24th.
FIRE broke out in the st. James hotel
at Denver, Col, on the Esd and four
fremen lost their lives. All except the
captain were colored men. They went
down with the floor of the rotunda and
were horribly mangled and burned
There were les guests in the hotel, all
of whom escaped uniniured- The dam
age by fire amounted to $40. 600.
The three receivers of the whisky
trust-Messrs. Lawrence, Mitchell and
McNulta-presented their designations
to Judge Grosscup at Chicago on the
23d, which were accepted After
lengthy discussion between the judge
and attorneys and other interested par
ties Gen. McNulta was appointed as
sole receiver.
A LEPRosY case in New York city has
been brought to the attention of the
board OF health. The man had been
living in tenement house for six
years
JACK McAUIIFFE, lightweight cham
pion of the world, and Hugh Behan,
representing Young Critic, of Australia,
signed articles at New York of agree
ment for a finish fight for a private
stake of $4,000 a side, the fight to be
decided before the club offering the
largest purse.
THREE masked men went to the
county Jail at Woodward, Ok. with
Winchesters and liberated all the
prisoners. Then they marched the
jailer about = mile over the prairie
and kept him long enough for the
prisoners to get away before the alarm
could be given.
IT was reported at New York that
the Chinese Six Companies were to
form an organization of laundrymen,
in opposition to the one talked of by
employees to put stop to the cutting
of rates It was proposed to secure a
charter from the legislature. Each
laundry will contribute from so cents
to 81 month and branches will be
established all over the country.
WALTER BARK was hanged in the Jail
yard at Tahlequah, I. t., on the ed
for the murder of Johnson Reese in the
Goingshake district several years ago.
EVERY cow of the herd at the Cali
fornia state university dairy has been
condemned by the inspector of the
board of health on account of tubercu-
losis in an advanced stage. The pro-
serving customers with milk although
he knew the cows were diseased.
THE Japanese fleet has attacked the
Pescadore (Fisheries) islands, between
Formosa and the Chinese mainland.
It is the intention of the Japanese to
make the Pescadore islands the base of
operations against the island OF For
moSa.
JAMES BALL was ambushed near
Perry, Ok, and filed with buclshot.
His body was soon afterwards found.
William Stoval was arrested, charged
with the crime. and there was con-
siderable talk of lynching him by the
excited people.
The total number now known to
have persisted in the mine disaster at
Red Canon, Wyo., on the Goth, is sixty,
of which fifty-one were married men
and nine young men and boys. There
are fifty-one widows and $50 orphaned
children as a result of the disaster.
AT Hominy Post, near Guthrie, Ok,
Charles Wah-Re-Ihe and Dick Hi-Kah-
Nah Kah, full-blood Osages, quarreled,
and the former struck the latter on the
head with a club with such force as to
crush his skull and break his neck
The murderer was arrested.
ADDITIONAL news continues to be re-
ceived from Cuba of insurgent victories
in the east. The latest and most start
ling is that Guillermon Moncada, the
negro leader of a band near Guantan-
amo, wants to turn the revolution into
a race war. 1t is also reported that he
surprised a large detachment of Span
ish troops near Guantanamo recently
and completely routed them. In this
battle, it is said, 200 Spaniards were
killed and wounded.
AT Cripple Creek, Col, Fremont and
Solen McCloslzey, brothers, who have
been in the employ of the Union Min
ing Co.. were arrested on the charge of
having stolen from the company dur
ing the past year $50, 200 to 500, 600
worth of ore.
AN explosion of gas occurred in
coal mine at Red Canon. Wyo., with
terrible results. The deaths number
fifteen and many more miners were
still confined below and thought to be
dead.
THE ninety-first anniversary of the
birth of Gen. Neal Dow, the American
temperance reformer, was celebrated
by all the temperance societies of Lon
don. The meeting, which was remark
a bic for enthusiasm, passed resolution
warmly congratulating Gen. Dow upon
the attainment of his ninety-first birth
day and recording the deep apprecia-
ton of the meeting of his immeasura-
a BILE service in the cauSe of femnerance