Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-07-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Miss SARAH CECIL, the heiress, who
was adjudged insane and incarcerated
in the Eastern Kentucky lunatic asy-
1um at Lexington last fall, and later
was allowed to, 60 to private SANTA
rum, was reported as starving herself
because her relatives will not turn
over to her certain papers. She is
worth more than $3.50, 600.
JOHN HANuTER, a farmer living IL
! miles south at Mena, Ark, received
sunstroke while in the harvest field
and died before he could be taken to a
shade. E,
CORNELL won the boat race at Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, on the 25th; time, 2O:34.
Yale was second by SO lengths; time,
20:44. Harvard came in third, five
lengths ,astern of Yale; time 21:OO.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 25th
were 215, according to Bradstreet's re-
port, against 21S in the corresponding
week last year.
ALI. the window and flint glass and
95 per cent of the green glass facto-
ries, according to a Chicago dispatch,
will close on June 80 for long mac
tivity.s
PETER NELSON, of Montour, Ia, was
recently drowned in the Iowa river
while trying to rescue a boy who had
been seized with cramps
AN immense traction company has
been formed with a capital stock of
$1,000, 600. to consolidate and take in
the Lindell and Missouri street rail-
way systems at st. Louis
A PROPOSITION has been made by Bob
Fitzsimmons to Frank Dunn, manager
of John L. Sullivan, which has been ac-
cepted. It is that Sullivan and Fitz-
simmons meet at Brooklyn the after
noon of July ), for four or six rounds.
If Sullivan's sparring shall be deemed
by the public and sporting writer's cred
liable and Indicative of his ability to
enter the ring for a finish contest. terms
and conditions for such a mach to be
arranged Immediately thereafter
PETER MAHER, the heavyweight
champion pugiist of Ireland, and Tom
Sharkey, the ''sailor lad of San Fran
CISCO" were matched at New York on
the oath to fight to finish. Theoar
cles call for bout to take place within
three months after the second and
final deposit is made on Augusta.
DURING a heavy storm at Hopkins
vile, KY, on the 24th two earthquake
shocks were distinctly felt and the
walls of large buildings were shaken.
CRAZED with drink Fred Burger ran
amuck in Harvey. near Chicago, stab
bing right and left. Policeman Healy
was stabbed three times. Police Chief
Bates saved his own life only bv put
ting bullet into Burger.
THE Brussels Reforma reported on
the Gath that the entire Dhanis expe-
dition to the headquarters of the Nile
including Baron Dhanis himself, had
been massacred by. Soudanese. The
baron had enlisted 5000 men in the
Congo Free state to take part in a Sc
cret expedition.
1.-THE League of Ohio Valley Bimetal
lie clubs" is the name adopted by rep
resentatives of free silver clubs o.
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West vir
GINA which recently met at Cincinnati
and united under one constitution. OF
ficers were elected and indianapolis
chosen as the next place of meeting.
MEDICAL students of the Universit,
of Chicago, have entered into a secre
compact to give their brains to scienc,
when they die, accompanied with
truthful statement of personal virtue
and vices. 1t was believed that tn
manifold shades of character may b
thus located in their respective part
of the brain.