Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-03

THE failures for the week ended De-
cember % Dun's report) were $50 in
the United States against 511 last year,
and Al in Canada against IL last year.
In Millington, Mimi, Matthew Palmer
cut his wife's throat and then cut his
own. Both are dead.
ONE hundred negroes caught Jim
Chockley at Tullahoma, Tenn, took
him to the woods during a binding
snow storm, stripped him, whipped
him nearly to death and ordered him
to leave the country before dawn.
While drunk, Chockley left his wife,
while she was sick at home. and when
he returned in the evening she was
dead. Then he left home, got drunk
and went to a negro dance.
COLD weather was prevalent through
out Florida on the 2Sth and it was
feared that the orange crop there
would be totally destroyed.
IN fire on board the British steam
ship Masonic at Galveston, Tex, one
life was lost and two more were de-
SPARED of. The whole cargo of cotton
was a total loss.
AT Chicago the warehouse of the
Pioneer Paper Co. was destroyed by
fire, causing loss of $4,000.
FRANCIS II, at one time king of
Naples, died at Arcol, in the Austrian
Tyrol, on the 27th, aged 5S.
The old capitol building at Atlanta,
Ga, owned by Venable Bros, and used
as an Office building, was visited by fire
on the 9th. and 800, 900 loss inflicted.
The building was purchased by the
state under the reconstruction regime
for $500, 900. When the new million
dollar capitol was built it was sold to
Venable Bros. for 1925, 600.
THE feature of the Lexow commit
tees investigation on the 9th was the
Introduction of evidence tending to
show that Anthony Constock,. agent
for the Society for the Prevention of
Vice, had taken a bribe of 81, 900 from
a green goods man to procure the dis
missal of an Indictment against him.
THE Indiana college presidents, at a
meeting at indianapolis, have decided
to forbid intercollegiate games of foot
ball.
JOHN w. FOSTER, ex-secretary of
state, has been requested by the Chi
nese government to go to Japan and
meet the plenipotentiaries of the
former government, to aid them in
their negotiations for peace. He has
to leave Washington in a few days.
A RECENT dispatch said that Moham-
medan inhabitants of Turfan, Kashgar,
were in open rebellion, desiring to
shake off the yoke of China and found
an independent government under
Russian suzerainty.
The forty-eighth annual report of the
American Missionary association of
h.
made. The total receipts for the year
were $4O4, ITO %, and the total disburse-
ments S299, 9S1.66.
In Memphis, Tenn, the Woman's
council and the Nineteenth Century
club, embracing a membership of 1000
women, passed resolution to boycott
Congressman w. c. P. breckenridge
when he appeared in that city to lee
ture
THE authorities who are looking
after counterfeiters in the City of Mex
leo have made some startling discov-
cries. It was evident that there was
an organized colony of several hundred
people scattered about the city making
and circulating the spurious coin.
Thousands of dollars have been secret
~ showed within the past few weeks.
Arrests of mem bers of the gang have
been made almost daily until now
there are $50 of them in prison.
EDWARD II. CARTER, transfer and
coupon clerk at the National Bank of
Commerce at New York has been ar
rested as defaulter. He was charged
with appropriating $50, of the
banks money and, it was said, con-
fessed his guilt.
THE miners employed at the Ander-
son mines near Massillon, O., have de-
clined the rate of 60 cents per ton fixed
by the arbitration committee and were
idle on the Goth. It was thought that
all the miners in the Massil1on district
would soon cease work.
j. S. TEMPLE, of Colum biana county,
O., guard in the penitentiary, shot and
killed Joseph O'Day, forger of Cleve-
saulted him because he reported them
for an infraction of the rules.
THE pope at noon on the Goth received
the officers of the United States cruiser
Detroit. which recently arrived at Ma
pies with the vatican relics exhibited
at the worlds fair in Chicago. His
holiness praised the progress, activity
and liberty of the United States.
The Missouri, Kansas &c Texas south
bound express and the westbound
Houston & Texas passenger train col
1ided near Waxahatchie, Tex, on the
25th. Seventeen passengers were in
jured, two probably fatally.
HEIRS of John Irwin p DiOraoT Sat-