Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-03-07


brated at Rome on the Sd with great
pomp and ceremony.
NEAR Adelphi, O.. the boiler in the
saw mill of John McCroom exploded
with terrific force. Three men, Snyder,
Brown and Mcbride, were blown to
pieces Schmidt's skull was crushed,
McCroom's legs were broken and Augs-
burg was badly injured about the head
and back.
AN immense aerolite shot out OF the
northern heavens and passed over
Reno, New, on the Cd. It exploded
with terrific force and shook the build
ings.
In Grayson county, Va, the residence
of Henry Sefiy. occupied by a woman
named Hart, was burned and her two
children, aged and 9 years respec-
lively, were cremated. The woman was
arraigned on a charge of having locked
her children in the house, then firing
it to burn them up, and the evidence
was such that she was bound over.
THE report of the committee to in
vestigate the Oklahoma agricultural
college was submitted to the legisla-
ture on the 1st It stated that the
board of regents allowed one another
hundreds of dollars for services never
performed. One regent was superin-
tendent of buildings at SIS per day and
drew this pay for a year, Sundays in
Guided, while no building was going
on. Others served as purchasing agents
at the same per diem and bought live
stock at treble their value and in many
cases their pay exceeded the eXorbitant
price paid for the animals. A man
was also employed at 500 per month
who knew nothing about practical
farming.
A FREE silver resolution was adopted
at the Michigan democratic state con-
vention held at Saginaw.
FIFTY tramps went to Decatur, Ind,
on the 2Sth and began stealing and
frightening women and taking cloth
ing and edibles. The mayor sent the
marshal and a posse of officers to drive
out the tramps. They were driven
across the railroad bridge, when they
refused to go any farther, and opened
FIRE on the police with revolvers. The
police returned the fire. The tramps
finally fed, carrying off three of their
number, who were either killed or
badly wounded.
DUN's review of trade on the I'd said
that wheat and corn were little high
the rise. Cotton had dropped to the
lowest point known. The industries
we're making very slow gains where
| they made any. The market for cot
| ton goods was active.
| AT New York on the 1st an accident
occurred in the tearing down of an old
| building through the walls falling by
which at least three workmen were
nd c1x
iured. A few hours after, in another
part of New York. one of row of five
story buildings being erected collapsed
Ind one man was killed and eleven in
iured, some of whom will probably die.
The accident was due to the worthless
mortar and the fimsy construction of
the building. The contractors were
arrested.
THREE hundred persons, fleeing from
smallpox at Hot Springs, Ark. arrived
at St Louis on the 2Sth. They de-
:lared that the disease was epidemic
with thirty-fve cases in the pest house,
but that the local board of health was
disappearing matters.
THE supreme court of the indie
pendent Order of Foresters of Canada
has begun mandamus proceedings in
Chicago to compel the Illinois state
insurance superintendent to allow the
society to do business in Illinois
AT the republican congressional con-
vention at Galva, Ill, after three days
Of balloting and an all-night session,
George w. Prince, of Galesburg, was
selected as the republic candidate for
congress in the Eighteenth Illinois dis
trict on the .476th ballot.
AT Rockford, ILL.,, on the 2Sth the
National Butter and Cheese Makers
association elected the following
officers: President, B. S. Carr, Pocoa-
tonica, Ill; vice president, II. T. Hines, of
Stella, Neb.; secretary, I. w. Burridge,
Of Chicago; treasurer, E. II. Lobster, Of
Hudson, Mich. One vice president
was also elected for each state. In the
butter contest the prizes were taken
by S. c. Oltrogge, of Tripoli, Ia, in a
separate cream division, and E. S.
Allen, of Clarion, Ia, in the gathered
cream division.
staff of the governor of Michigan.
dropped dead on the 27th from heart
disease, while attending the funeral of
Green Packe, late president of the De-
| troit Railway Co., in company with
Gov. Rich and several state officers.
THE White Ash coal mine near Cerril-
| los, n. NJ, was the scene of an awful ex-
| p1osion on the 9th, due, it was thought,
to the accidental breaking into an
abandoned chamber charged with gas.
| Thirty-seven men were known to be