Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-04-18

THE Hotel Raymond. at Pasadena,
Cal. was totally destroyed by fire. The
hotel was crowded with guests, but
they all escaped with their lives, al
though wardrobes and other property
were entirely consumed.
IN Beaver county, Ok, great con-
hict was raging between homesteaders
and cattlemen. Farmers have picked
out the quarter sections and the best
ones have been taken and filings placed
on them in the United States land of
fee. The cattlemen have fenced up
the land not taken for homeSteads for
grazing purposes, and in many in
stances have fenced in a host OF settlers
from the outside world. Col. Poe,
government agent, has forwarded
circular to the cattlemen to meet him
in Beaver City on the Goth, for a full
investigation. 1t was said that serious
shooting scrapes occurred nearly every
day.
JAMES w. SCOTT, proprietor of the
Chicago Times-Herald and the Chicago
Evening Post, died at New York on the
14th very suddenly from apoplexy.
RECENT news from Shawneetown.
ILL.,, was that there were thirty-nine
cases of smallpox there. There was
citizens left the town temporarily
DUN's review of trade for the week
ended the 18th said that progress to-
ward better business continued, but it
was slow. The money markets were a
little more active. The worst feature
was the rapid advance in meats. Prices
Of commodities were a shade higher
than last year. Receipts of corn were
about half and the exports a fifth of
last years. No improvement in the
price of domestic wool appeared.
CLEARING house returns for the prin
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended April - showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of III; in New
York the increase was 105; outside
New York the increase was 4. 3.
The Florida senate adopted a reso1u-
ton declaring that it most heartily
sympathized with the Cuban patriots
in their efforts to free Cuba from for
eign control and to obtain for the peo-
pie of that island the right of self gov
eminent. believing that they had the
same reasons for their actions that
Americas forefathers had.
THE Tennessee senate has adopted a
joint resolution asking congress to en-
act a free coinage law at ratio of 16
to 1.
A PLAN for the reorganization of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
has been approved by the committees
at home and abroad. It provides for
an assessment of $40 share on the
$1O2, 600, 900 of common stock and an
assessment of per cent. on the second
mortgage and income bonds. The cash
so received will be used to retire the
floating debt. The plan also proposes
to acquire control of the Atlantic e
Pacific, Colorado Midland and st. Louis
& San Francisco. The total issue of
general mortgage bonds if these roads
are acquired will be $3.50, 0OO,o 600.
CHARLES HART was hung shortly af-
ter midnight on the 18th in the state
prison at Colum bus, O.. for the murder
of Elsie and Ashley Good, children z
and years old. The children were
gathering nuts in the woods, and Hart,
who was only IS years old, joined them.
According to his own confession he
killed the boy and then ravished the
girl, afterward killing her, and burned
their bodies in a log heap, having first
dismembered them to conceal their
identity.
Illinois legislature to give Cook county
and Chicago entirely separate govern
mentS.
AN authoritative statement of the
terms of peace being negotiated be-
tween Japan and China has been Sc
cured from official sources, and has
been made public in order to clear up
much apprehension arising from specu-
Iation.. The terms are five in number,
as follows: The independence of Corea,
permanent cession of the island of For
mosa to Japan, indemnity of 300, 900, 600
taels in silver equivalent to $ot5, OOO,-
600 in gold, permanent occupation of
Port Arthur and the immediate contig-
uous territory, and a new Japan-China
treaty opening the interior of China to
commerce.
AT Covington, KY. State Senator
Goebet shot and killed John Sanford,
president of the Farmers national
bank. The Immediate cause of the
shooting is said to have been the Goe-
bet road law. Sanford is president and
owner of several turnpikes. Senator
Goebet secured the passage of a bill re-
ducing the tolls. This was bad for the
turnpike stock and Sanford was re-
ported to have used severe terms in
talking about Senator Goebet and his
law.
PETER MAHER has signed articles for
fight with Steve O'Donnell, to take
place under the auspices of the Atlantic
Athletic club, at Coney Island, n. V.