Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-04-16

wreckage before the DooleS can Ne
reached.
LAvINA JONES, a colored domestic.
IL years of age, was arrested at Nor
folk, Va, charged with attempting to
poison the entire family of F. l. Hol-
and, by placing a quantity of poison
N the coffee pot One person had died
and four others were made intensely
sick
ATTEMPTS were recently made by
incendiaries to burn the Savannah,
(Ga.) post Office and also some of the
large business houses in different Sec
tions of the city.
HERMAN BOAK, a stonemason OF
Hampton, Ia, on the 18th shot and
killed Mike Bartz and fatally wounded
the latter's son and young daughter.
Boak's wife recently secured divorce
from him and he laid in wait in the
bush for them while they were on
their way home from church, and dis
charged both barrels of a shotgun at
them at short range. He mistook the
girl for his wife.
DEPUTY GAME WARDEN BREWSTER, OF
Grand Haven, Mich. began wholesale
arrests Of fishermen and seizure OF
their nets, upon the charge that the
meshes used were smaller than the
lawful size. Nearly every fishing firm
in Grand Haven was complained
against The seizures throw many men
out of employment, as fishing in Lake
Michigan is big industry there 1t
was asserted that the total value of the
nets seized will amount to $50, 900.
AT Pentwater, Mich. S. B. Minshall,
an attorney, shot and probably fatally
wounded William b o. Sands,
wealthy citizen. Minshall then went
home and shot his wife and three chill
dren and then blew his own brE,ins
out No motive for the tragedy has
developed.
WILLIAM VERILL and Joseph Soular
were sentenced to be hanged at
Duluth, Mimi, for the murder of
Samuel De Mars, at Bewabilz. Veril1
is 1e years of age and Soular II. The
murder was a most brutal one and was
deliberately planned
ARTHUR SCHNEIDER, a German about
90 years of age. was hanged in the
prison at New Orleans on the 10th for
the murder of Herman Schroeder, q
rival in the affections of waitress.
He also killed a deputy sheriff with
knife in the prison where he had been
confined.
NEAR Falkland, Ok, while Mrs.
Wheeler was burning trash in the
yard. her little six-year-old daughter
got too near the flames and, her cloth
ing catching fire, she was burned to
death before her mothers eyes
The clearing house returns for the
week ended April 10 for the follow
ing cities were: New York, 1921, l66,-
222; Chicago, $77. O6s O96; St Louis, S22,-
919.736; Kansas City, 50, 396, 11e; St J<l
seph, 81, 1872, s65; Topeka. 1914, 40; Wich-
tia, S459. Gas; Omaha 81, 29s, $50.
ALL the Cree Indians in the United
States, who largely inhabit Arizona
and the northwest, will soon be de-
ported to Canada.
SPORTING men were reported as try
ing to arrange a limited glove contest
between Corbett and Peter Maher to
take place at San Francisco in May.
THE Cuban insurgents under Maceo
were said to have defeated the Spanish
troops four times recently in the prov
ince Of Pinar del Rio, the Spanish loss
being l, 500 killed and wounded, but
the government suppressed all infor-
nation about the battles
THE barns OF Mark Hickey and j. B
Wallace, near Hi1lsboro, Tex, were
destroyed by fire with their contents
One horse Of Wallace's was burned TO
death, and another badly injured The
fire was of incendiary origin and Sher-
if Bell sent some deputies out with
bloodhounds to investigate. The dogs
followed a trail when word was
brought that suspected negro, Henry
McCutcheon, had shot himself. He
was supposed to have killed himself
rather than gu bmit to arrest
RECENT dispatch to the London
Daily News from a resident of uba
drew a lamentable picture of the fero-
cious character that the war had as
sumed under Gen. Weyler. 1t was be-
1ieved, however, that the rebels would
eventually shake off the Spanish rule
The dispatches also stated that a
band of volunteers, infuriated by the
resolutions of the American congress,
had shot six sons of an American
farmer at Casigaus- The United States
consui-general was said to be inquir-
ing into the matter.
TEN inches of snow fell at Monti-
cello. n. Y, on the 18th
EVERY building except on four
squares in the central part of Camp
bellsvilne, KY. was destroyed by fire
of supposed ineendiary origin The to-
tai loss Sas placed at S3s, 600
AT Klang Gin two regiments OF Chi