Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-08

ties of Cohoma, LAHORE. Quitman and
Tallahatchie and lay waste the newly
planted corn crops. The levee near
Helena, Ark. had also broken, for
which the people had made such deS-
perate fight to save.
THE forest fires in the mountains
near Bellefont, Pa. were spreading at
an alarming rate on the 4th and. many
thousands of acres of valuable timber
land were going up in smoke.
A FIRE in George f. Cites carpet
store in Cincinnati did damage to the
amount of over $500, 900.
THE steamer Fuerst Bismarck
brought nearly 1000 Italian immi-
grants to New York on the 4th.
The Jim river in South Dakota had
overfowed its banks on the 4th and a
steamer was sent from Yankton to res
cue the sufferers. Thousands of acres
of farm lands were under about six
feet of water.
JOHANNES BRAHMS, the well-known
musical composer, died at Vienna re-
Gently, aged 81.
A FAREWELL, banquet to ex-AmbasSa-
dor Bayard is to be given at London
on May z, when gold loving cup,
worth So, 500, will be presented to him
by the American colony in London and
elsewhere in Great Britain.
WILLARD SPENCER, farmer living in
Chautauqua county, N. Y, fatally as
saulted a stepdaughter and young
lady who was visiting her, set fire to
his barn and burned Is head of stock
and then cut his own throat.
The steamer r. T. Cole, loaded with
merchandise, sank near GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, the other day. Three roust-
abouts were drowned and one man was
reported missing. The boat was a
total loss.
A DISPATCH from San Antonio, Tex,
said that the cattle grazing season had
opened and rush of shipments to the
Indian territory began on the LIST from
many different points in southwest
Texas. 1t was estimated that no less
than 5000 car loads of cattle would be
shipped from the section around San
Antonio to the Indian territory graz
ing lands by April Is.
THE Texas house passed the senate
bill appropriating $500 to buy the
San Jaointo battlefield and improve it
for a state park. 1t was understood
the governor would approve the bill
CATTLE men in Oklahoma and the
Indian territory have commenced ship
ping cattle to Europe. The first ship
ment went via Galveston, Tex.
NEARLY $12, 600 had been raised in
ST. Louis up to the I'd to aid the flood
sufferres in the south.
AT Kansas City, Mo-, the other night
DIR. Jefferson D. Goddard shot and
killed Frank j. jackson, a laundry
man. There was bad blood between
the two men, jackson being jealous of
Goddard on account of the 1atter's
many visits to Mrs. Jackson. DR.. God
dard ran drug store for Mrs. Jackson
and his visits were said to be on bust
ness. Jackson was fond of morphine
and whisky and did not live with his
wife, but managed her laundry on a
salary.
FIVE hundred employees of clothing
manufacturers in ST. Louis struck on the
Cd. Last fall the price paid for making a
coat was reduced from 65 to SO cents.
It was promised that the old rate
would be restored in the spring, but as
this has not been done the workers
struck.
A TEST case to decide the right of the
order of Modern Woodmen to exclude
liquor sellers from membership was de-
cided at Lacrosse, Wis, recently, the
Judge sustaining the orders right to
exclude any individuals and to be at
all times the sole judge of the qualif-
cations of its members.
THE steamer City of Columbia, one
of the largest boats on the Chattahoo-
chez river line, sank in 80 feet of water
at Smiths Point, near Columbia, Ala.
The pilot accidentally steered the boat
upon a rock. The steamer and cargo,
consisting chiefly of flour, are a loss.
HENCEFORTH the headquarters of the
National American Woman's Suffrage
association will be in New York in
stead of Philadelphia, the transfer
having been made on the 1st. The
work will be in charge of Mrs. Carrie
Chapman-Catt, chairman of the COM
mittee on organization and campaign.
AT the Fifth Avenue Athletic club at
New York on the 1st Oscar Gardner. of
Kansas City, knocked out Jack Grant,
of New York, in the ninth round.
A SPECIAL from Toledo, O., said that
a gigantic farmers trust was being or
ganized in this country. Several
branches were secretly organized, and
the order is strictly oath-bound. 1t
originated at Lancaster, Pa, and was
incorporated under the laws of New
Jersey as the Agricu1turists' National
Protective association. It is patterned
somewhat after the anthracite coal