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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
TOPEKA GRAVE RoBBERIEs
Two Members of the Faculty OF the
Medical College Arrested.


TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 1.-THE body
snatchiag cases took new turn yes
terday. when warrants of arrest were
served upon DIR. J. E. Minney, dean Of
the Kansas Medical college, and DIR.
M. E. Mitchell. city physician and pro-
lessor of obstetrics in the college. A
warrant is also out for DR.. C. S. Nc
Clintock, demonstration of anatomy.
Drs. Minney and Mitchell gave bond
in the sum of $500. DIR. McClintock
has left town, and his whereabouts
are unknown. That he is frightened
is evidenced by the fact that he moved
all the household goods out of his
house before leaving and put them IN
a place of safety. These warrants
were sworn out by l. o. Van
Fleet, husband of the woman whose
body was first found in the college
dissecting room. An additional war
rant has been sworn out against Jani-
tor Johnson, of the college, who is al
ready under bonds in the case. He
cannot be found, and is said to be in
hiding in the country. In each case
the charge is receiving bodies into the
college knowing them to have been
stolen.
The A. o. q. w. lodges held another
joint meeting last night, which was
attended by large crowd. The pro-
ceedings were temperate and har-
monious. A committee composed of
ore member from each lodge was ap-
pointed to engineer the detection and
prosecution of the body snatchers.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
TRUST AGENT CONVICTED.
The Texas Law Proves Effective Against
the Standard Oil Monopoly.

The Texas Law Proves Effective Against
the Standard Oil Monopoly.
WACO. Tex, Dec. 14.-The trial OF
the first of what is known as the
Standard Oil Trust cases was ended
yesterday. when E. T. Hathaway of
Denison, agent at that point for the
WatersPierce Oil Company, alleged
to be a member of the Standard Oil
Trust, was convicted of violating the
antitrust statute of Texas. and the
jury assessed his penalty at $50 fine. -
There are four other defendant
awaiting trial, and the indictments in
clude Messrs. Rockefeller, Flagler and
the leading Standard and Waters
Pierce Oil Companies officials. al
though none of them have been ar
rested. The case will be appealed at
once. and the much disputed question
of the constitutionality of the Texas
tested.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
AID FOR ARMENIANS.
AMERICAN RED CROSS So
GETTY TAKES HOLD.
Miss Clara Barton Will Go to Armenia to
superintend the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
People Are Utterly Observation-Disclosures
- Worse Than Fist Reported.

WASHINGTON, Dec. i4.-The Ameri-
can Red Cross Society has decided to
accept the duty of distributing the re-
lief funds for the Armenian sufferers,
and has issued the following state
ment:
lowing to the unanimous and
urgent appeals from the friends of
humanity, representing nearly all of
the people of this country, the Ameri-
can National Red Cross has decided
that it must accept the sacred trust of
endeavoring to relieve starving Arme
mans in Asia Minor. According to
conserva tive estimates there are $50, 600
utterly destitute people in that country
who will have to be assisted six or
eight months-until the next harvest.
Fully realizing the difficulties and
dangers to be met, the Red Cross will
start for Turkey as soon as sufficient
funds are placed at its disposal, or
guaranteed, to insure success. Funds
may be sent to Miss Clara Barton,
president and treasurer of the Ameri-
can National Red Cross, Washington,
ID. G. Authorized agents to receive
in few days. The Red Cross also
suggests that goods, grain and other
materials may be sent by chartered
steamer"
The Red Cross party, including Miss
Barton, will leave Immediately after
being assured of q sufficient sum to
carry forward the work. The start
must be made at an early day. as it
will take five weeks to get to the dis
tressed district, and the demands of
the suffering people are urgent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
Ingersoll Not Yet Invited.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, Dec 14.-No invita-
ton has yet been sent to Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll to deliver an adj
dress here commencement week. The
senior law class of the university,
without much debate, appointed a
committee to extend an invitation on
behalf of the class. The university
brought great pressure to bear on the
students to secure withdrawal of the
invitation. At a meeting of the class,
however, after a strong discussion, the
students declined to withdraw the re-
quest.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
The Civil Service Reformers.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE National
Civil Service Reform league elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: Carl Schurz. president; vice
presidents, CharlesSFrancis Adams,
Boston; August K. McDonough, New
York; Rt. Rev. Henry c. Potter, New
York; J. Hill Pleasant, Baltimore;
Henry Hitchcock, St. Louis; Henry G.
Lea, Philadelphia; Franklin McVeagh.
Chicago; Rt. Rev. s. Y. Ryan, Buffalo.
and William Potts, FarmiFgtcn-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
shown as follows:
State Bank Notes Next.

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 1.-THE Georgia
legislature has amended the Calvin
bank law. passed at former session,
SO that within short time citizens of
this state will esta blish a bank and is
sue notes for the express purpose of
trying the state bank tax issues in the
courts. Many able lawyers who have
studied the subject are convinced that
this tax is Unconstitutional, and some
of them will volunteer to defend in
the courts an issue of state hank
notes
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
QUIET. WEEK BUSINESS.
Renewal of Activity Expected After the
Holiday Season.

New YORK, Dec. 14.-R. G. DUN &
Co. IS Weekly Review of Trade says:
It has been very quiet week, with
out any disturbance. Prices of manu-
featured products slowly recede from
the high water mark of speculation
and no material increase in demand is
now expected until after the holidays,
but there is general confidence that
great activity will then appear and
that works which have stopped little
earlier than usual will again be called
into operation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19

The National COMMITTEES to Meet Janu-

The National Committee to Meet Janu-
airy 16 to Fix the Next Convention.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14.-W. f. Har-
rity, chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee, to-day instructed
the secretary of the committee to no.
tify the members to assemble in
Washington January I6 for the pur-
pose of selecting the time and place
for holding the next Democratic ma
ional convention.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
Miss PETER as a Cxclist.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-Miss Nell
PETER, the Senator's daughter and
private secretary, has learned to ride
the wheel during the summer months
and is now numbered among society's
devotees of the cycling craze. Miss
PETER has not yet aspired to boomers,
bnt presents most picturesque and
attractive appearance IN abbreviated
skirts and twenty button leggings
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
MIR. THURMAN DEAD.
THE "OLD ROMAN" PASSES
AWAY SUDDENLY.
a Long and Useful Career Ended at the
Age OF se-Hsd Filled Many Places
of Public Trust With Credit and Honor
Sketch OF His Career in Politics.

COLUMBUS. Ohio, Dec. 1o.-Ex-Sen-
ator Allen G. Thurman died very sud-
denly at 1:15 o'clock yesterday after
noon. He had long been in bad health,
but his illness had not been regarded as
dangerous for some time.
Mr.. Thurman was 80 years old
November Is, but his health was such
at that time that for the first time in
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
Worse Than the Most Vivid Reports.

CONsTANTINoPLE, Dec. 14.-At the
meeting of the am bassadors on Tues
day last the reports received from
Armenia at the different embassies
were compared and thoroughly dis
cussed, with the view of enabling the
different representatives to compile
full reports on the subject for the use
of their governments 1t is believed
if the result of this conference is pub
1ished it will show an unparalleled
state of affairs. The misery and dis
tress in Armenia are said to be more
severe than the most vivid reports
have made out, and the number of
people massacred is said to be greater
than anybody here really believed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
Omcials Under Clouds.

PERRY, Okla, Dec. 1. -Impea CHI
ment proceedings have been begun
against James Anterior, the Populist
sheriff of Payne county. in the District
court at Saltwater and John 81. Moore,
Probate judge of the county, has
been indicted for making false entries
OF his records It is said some other
indictments will be found against
county officers.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
Seven skeletons Found.

WEST PLAINS, Mo-, Dec 14.-In dig
ging a cellar on East Main street. in
this city, and abont 200 feet from the
public square, seven human skeletons
have been unearthed. The ssfind' has
created something of a sensation in
the town, and has set every body, es-
pecia1ly the old settlers, to account
inc for them
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
Killed in q Runaway.

LAWRENCE, Kan. Dec. 14-Henry
w. Poff. one of the oldest residents of
Clinton township, in this county, was
thrown from his wagon in runaway
and his neck broken. Death was in
Simultaneous. Poff was 60 years old
and lived alone on his farm. He first
came to Kansas in 1854.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
Warner for vice President.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-Politician.
are discussing with considerable vigol
some of the possible results of the Re-
publican national convention going to
ST. Louis The latest suggestion on
the subject of presidential candidates
is this ticket: Reed of Maine, presi-
dent; Warner of Missouri, vice presi-
donf
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
AT ST. LOUIS, JUNE Is.

The Next Republican National Conven-
ton Goes to Missouri
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Repub-
lican national convention will be held
at st. Louis on June 16 next. That
was the decision reached by the Re-
publican national committee yester-
day, after spirited balloting, lasting
two hours. The successive ballots are
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A NOVEL BRIDGE.
Gravity Will Be Used In Transferring Pas sengers During the Paris Exposition.

Gravity Will Be Used In Transferring Pas
 sengers During the Paris Exposition.
 It may be worth while to call atten- tion to an idea in transfuvial transpor- tation which has been adopted ill France and is to be put i'll operation for the first time in connection with the eom- ing Paris exposition to be held on both sides of the Seine
 While there are many bridges cross ing the Seine i'll the exposition grounds the visitor to the exposition will not be compelled to resort to this dull and pro- saie method of crossing Between the Eiffel tower on one side of the river and the hill of the Trocadero on the other side there will be rigged up a set of ca bles designed as an improvement on the well known cash carrier system ill use in all our leading retail stores. The travelling baskets will carry passengers instead of packages and cash tubes The basket load of passengers will be shot up to an elevation which will permit them to descend to the other side of tho river merely by the force of gravity. Thus will they not only enjoy pleas ant ride, but also illustrate one of the most beautiful laws of physics.
 It does not speak well for our inven- tiveness that France should be the first to utilize this novel improvement = New York World.
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Six Months, Fatalities at Sea.

The latest marine horror is the sink ing of the Italian steamer Maria P. ill the harbor of Genoa, involving the loss of 148 lives The present. year is likely to have an unusual record of great ma rine disaster, as will be seen by the fol. lowing list of wrecked steamers thus far:
 Port Nictheroy, Rio Janeiro harbor, 120; Nordsee, North sea, 25; Intria, hull English coast, 26; Prescott, at sea, 23; Ghicora, Lake Michigan, 26; Elbe, North sea, 332; Terciera, Rio Janeiro harbor, 100; Kingdom, at sea, 40; Reia Regente, Algerian coast, 425; Marie, English coast, 20; Billiton, at sea, 20; Grayina, at sea, 168 Dom Pedro, Span ish coast, 1o3; Colima, Mexican coast, 188; Washtenaw, at sea, 80; Maria F. 2, gulf of Genoa, 148.-Chioago Tribune
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The Result of Not Advertising.

The Boston Traveller says that few weeks ago Maine young man bought 8 pair of socks containing a note saying the writer was an employee of the Ken osha (Wis. knitting works and wanted a good husband. She gave her name and requested the buyer, if an unmarried man, to write with view to matri- mony.
 The young man who found the note considered the matter i'll all it's phases and decided to write to the girl He did Awaiting the answer with consid- erable anxiety, he was at last rewarded with curt letter stating that the girl was now the mother of two children and had been married four years, and the letter he had answered had been written eyer so long ago.
 It was "sock dollager," and the young man hunted for solution. He found 1t. The merchant of whom he bought the socks doesn t advertise.
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A SWEET ELEPHANT.
How to Get Rid of 25,ooo,ooO Gallons Q Molasses-A Solution of tl,a Iniaa....1.

How to Get Rid of %, ,000,OoO Gallons af
 Molasses-A Solution of the Difficulty.
 There are 25, ,0o0. 600 gallons of mo- lasses stored in tanks on the various sugar plantations throughout Louisiana that is an elephant on the sugar plant CTS hands. They do not know what to do with it. They cannot sell it. for any profit in sight by it's sale would be eaten up Ill transportation. Besides it would require cool $500, 900 to barrel it.
 The question of what disposition to make of this molasses is 8 knottv one to the sugar planters, and at the last two meetings of their association no other subject has been discussed. The planters say that 1t is problem that has to he solved, for before the next crop is taken off this surplus molasses has to be got rid of Ill order to make room for the new crop. New Orleans Times Demo crat
 Perhaps the oldest pavement ever laid IS one just completed at Chino, Gal. It IS made mostly of molasses, and if it proves all of the success claimed for it 1t may point way for the sugar plant CTS of the south to proftably dispose of the millions of gallons of useless mo lasses which they are said to have on hand.
 The head chemist of sugar factory at Chino, MT F. Turke, was led to mako certain experiments, of which the new sidewalk, thousand feet long from the factory to the main street, is the result The molasses used is q refuse product hitherto believed to be of no value. It IS simply mixed with a certain kind of sand to about the consistency of asphalt and laid like an asphalt pavement. The composition dries quickly and becomes quite hard and remains so. The peculiar point of 1t is that the sun only makes it drier and harder instead of softening it, as might be expected
 A block of the composition, two feet long, q foot wide, and an inch thick, was submitted to severe tests and stood them well. Laid with an inch or so of its edges only resting on supports, it withstood repeated blows of machine hammer without showing any effects of cracking or bending. Now York Sun.
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Boston's Great Project.

Boston proposes to have hotel that will rival in nagnificence and size any structure of the kind ill the United States. The lot will contain 150,0 ,000 feet, and the building will be 800 feet long, 2S5 feet deep and II stories high
 The plans provide for three payilions separated by courtyards 70 feet wide There will be 2,250 guesrooms, 21 ele- vators, a grand ballroom, banquet halls and parlors.
 The estimated cost of such a building is $3, 500, GOO, and the fact that so large an amount can be raised for such pur- pose is q splendid proof of prosperity and good times
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The BoWIeG EnY.

Who should come up the road one day But the doctor man in his two wheeled shay, And he whoa d his horse, and he cried "Ahoy, I have brought you folks bowleg boy Such cute little boy
 Such a funny little boyl
 Such dear little bowIeg boy!" He took out his box, and he opened it wide, And there was the bowleg boy insidel And when they saw that cunning little mite, They cried i'll chorus expressive of deiight "What cute little boyl
 What funny little boyl
 What q dear little bowleg boy'' Observing strict geometrical law, They cut his panties with circular saw, Which gave such a stress to his oval stride That the people he net invariably cried: sWhat cute little boy
 What funny little boyi
 What dear little bowleg boyl" They gave him wheel, and away he went, Speeding along to his hearts content, And he sits so straight, and he pedals so strong That the folks all say as he bowls aloug: tWhat cute little boy
 What a funny little boyi
 What a dear little bowleg boyi'' With his eyes afiame and his cheeks aglow, He laughs ssAhai'' and he laughs ''Oho" And the world is filled and thrilled with the
 joy Of that jolly little human, the bowleg hoy The cute little boyl
 The funny little boy
 The dear little bowleg boyl If ever the doctor man comes my way With his wonderful box in his two wheel shay, I'll ask for the treasure I'd fain possess- Now, honest Injunl Can't you guessF Why, cute little boy
 A funny little boy
 A dear little bowleg boyl
 --Euaene Field in Chicago Recor0.
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Cripple Creeks Coming Carnival.

Iapple Creek, Colo, the liyeliest of
 aler mining camps, is going. to hold aalYal of sports soon, at which the slpal feature is to bo a genuine bull after the Spanish fashion, with ae ilXings and trimmings. A pen 'aet Ill diameter has been construct Iaad seats to accommodate 10000 sqs are to be built around it. Two
 4l0s from Mexico city have been 'sea to conduct the fight. This, 1t is @ea will be the first real bull fight gwen i'll the United States. The authorities say the fight will be lsuled, but the management is con- a'ol 4a being able to juggle the law @'ne light is over. New York Sun.
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FOR A NEGRO TOWN.
Colored Population of the Twin City ot
 Kansas Have Q Novel Scheme.

ColoTed Population of the Twin City of
 Kansas Have a Novel Scheme.
 There Is q scheme on foot between leading colored citizens of the two Kan sas Cities to select a town site on one of the railroads within ten miles of Kansas City, lay off city and populate it with colored people who may desire to buy homes for themselves The object is to afford chance to the negro of living on his own land i'll preference to paying rentals. Such wealthy colored men as T. J. Grove of Edwardsyi1le, Kan, and Charles Ewing of Loring, Kan, will be invited to invest their money for tho benefit of the race.
 The scheme Is to purchase 800 acres of land ill a body at prices ranging from $20 to $40 an acre. It is intended to set apart land for public buildings, park and cemetery, the remainder to be sold for $25 per lot of one-haf acre each. The busi- ness portion of the town will be divided into lots 25 by 160 feet. Subscriptions will be solicited from all over the south.
 After the town is platted arrange ments will be made for cheap rates be- tween the new city and Kansas City and the workmen who move their fam flies to their now homes can get to their daily labor in Kansas City and get back to their homes every night at a rate as cheap as car fare. The projectors of the scheme intend to put 300 families ill the new town to start with, and when they are joined by others outside capital will be invested and industries started, Kansas City Times.
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Long Distance Electric Project.

"ohs biStAhCS 4stSCAIlC EpibGts Effminary steps toward the build
 dan electric line for the transmits E a passengers, mail and express Chicago to Buffalo are now on bmd 1t is the intention to continue line to New York. The run to Buff lRto be made in four hours and to York in from eight to ten hours. sadng on the proposition, Assist
 L1ef Manager Bailey of the Gen Electric company said the matter
 serious consideration. "It longer theory, " said Mir Bailey, asueh q road can be built and op- Awith safety. Tho speed that can aalned is practically unlimited, but Tactical purposes the average speed IDe from so to 150 miles an hour. :" n mother source 1t was learned that
 capitalists figuring on the Buffalo
 Flll endeavor to utilize the existing ped of one of the present trunk s-NeW York Times
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The Editors Word For It.

Owing to increased household duties in consequence of the arrival of q new boy, added to the Fourth of July cele- bration, The Herald does not get out until Saturday evening. Our readers are assured that these incidents do not happen every week, and we will endeav- or to be on time in future. -Chelan Herald.
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Paid His Subscription With Rattlesnake.

Rural newspaper subscribers frequent ly offer to pay their subscriptions with stove wood, produce and other farm products, but it remained for George Lucas of Henryville to send Editor Daily of the Jeffersonville News rat tlesnake in settlement of his arrears. Mir. Daily values the reptile at $5. It has ten rattles. Cincinnati Enquirer
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She's Strictly In It.

Minnesota, which was once consider ed outside the corn belt, reports this year 1,252, 900 acres planted to corn, or 200, 900 more than last year. The crop is in finer condition than evef before. A grand plant is the maize, and the boom it promises means hundreds of millions. St. Louis Globe Democrat
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A Pauper For Ninety Years.

Phebe Walton, who was 90 years of age, died at the Bucks County poorhouse recently. All of her long life, with the exception of five weeks, was spent i'll the poorhouse, where she died. She was we'll known to almost every person in, Bucks county y-Philadelphia Record.
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A Prolific Heatl.

Ia Iaaae a, 5 dis I fin in yer hair, boss?'
 " s''s,, scissors, , replied the rural edi- |saal, iy' l lost 'em last spring. Give jNau'iler rake and see if you can t ], ay Ink bottle and oil can. "-At- ! Constitution.