Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-11-26
GENERAL NEWS.

MRS. ELIZABETH JOHNS, OF Wauke-
sha, Wis, committed suicide by TAX
ing carbolic acid, after having unsuc-
cessfully tried to kill her two small
children by the same means. She had
recently been arrested for shoplifting
and it was supposed that the disgrace
caused her to commit the crime.
THE steamer City of Osceola struck
an obstruction and sunk go miles above
Memphis Tenn. on the night of the
22d. All on board were saved.
GEORGE W. q. FERRIS, who conceived
and built the famous Ferris wheel at
the worlds fair died at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 22d of typhoid fever.
The steamer San Benito, bound from
Tacoma, WASH, to San Francisco,
struck sandbar near Point Arena and
broke in two. Seven lives were lost.
IN the football game between Yale
and Princeton at New York the latter
won by a score of "a to 6.
The University of Pennsylvania beat
the Harvard men in the football match
at Philadelphia on the 21st. Score,
Pennsylvania, 8; Harvard, 6.
THE Wall Street Journal of New
York has made careful poll of con-
gress on the subject of an extra session,
and has sought for information in
quarters likely to be well informed.
''The generally expressed opinion" the
Journal says, sis that there will be no
tariff or financial legislation at the ap-
preaching session. It is generally con-
coded that there will be an extra ses-
session, called to meet some time in
April, when both tariff and financial
measures will be considered.'
fLa
goth Oun's reporD were 344 in the
United States, against $40 last year,
and 90 in Canada, against AZ last year.
The extensive plant of the Chesa-
peake Guano Co. at Baltimore, Md,
was burned on the 21st It covered 2L
acres.
d. w. SEYBERT, of Vandalia, Ill, in
looking over some government reports
discovered that 4O-acre tract of land
in Fayette county, ILL.,, had not been
taken and he at once made application
for preemption papers.
AT the session of the Illinois Fedora
ton of Labor at East St Louis on the
goth resolution was adopted by a vote
of 81 to 10, declaring for the free and
unlimited coinage OF silver at the ratio
of sixteen to one.
RUMoRs that Capt. Gen. Weyler has
been retired are discredited by advices
received at Key West. Fla, from Cuba
THE lower branch of the Vermont
legislature declined to pass the senate
woman suffrage bill by vote of 1875
to 80.
THIRTY people, 5000 bales of cotton
and hundreds of tons of heavy timber
all went down in one loud crash at the
Central railroad compress. in Macon,
Ca, on the 10Th. Fourteen injured
people, all employees of the compress,
were removed from the wreckage, but
it was thought others were beneath
the cotton and lumber. and, if so, they
would be dead before they could be ex-
tricated. The supports of the platform
were rotten.
INDIAN AGENT DoANE. of the Qua
paw agency, /. IT,, has notified the
white renters in the Quapaw reserve to
leave the reservation. There are about
SOC of these renters and the order of
the agent will work great hardship.
Nearly all of them have large crops of
corn ungathered, besides hay and
other crops. The order is imperative,
and if they obey they will have to
leave their crops behind.