Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-18

rail. beating him and then leaving him
half dead in a barn all night, whereby
his arms and feet were SO badly frozen
that amputatiOn was necessary. Fergu-
son had been jailed for being drunk.
WORD was received from Toronto
Ont, on the 18th that Miss Eva Bal
Hngton-Booth. commander of the Sal
vation army forces in Canada, was dam
gerous1y i'll and that her recovery was
very doubtful.
FIRE broke out in John A. Tolman's
wholesale grocery house at Chicago on
the 18th and did damage to the amount
of $500, 900. Chase & Sanborn's spice
house also suffered. Both firms were
fully insured.
Gov. BRADLEY, of Kentucky, on the
18th refused to grant the appeal for
clemency of Scott Jackson, the con-
victed murderer of Pearl Bryan.
The barn and stable of l.. w. Pres
ton at Glasgow, KY, was burned re-
Gently, together with IS horses and
mules. All of the horses lost were
thoroughbreds and included Paragon,
Jr., and Vidette Boy. The fire was in
cendiary.
CRIrTENDEN MARRIOTT, the Chicago
Records correspondent in Havana, de-
clared on the 18th that Gen. Weyler
had received positive orders from Mad
rid to end the Cuban war at once, even
going to the extent OF selling the island
20 the insurgents to accomplish that
object.
A MASS meeting was held at New
York on the 18th for the purpose of in
dorsing the arbitration treaty between
this country and Great Britain, but the
meeting was captured by the ants.
Judge Lynn made speech denouncing
Great Britain for her policy in support
of Turkey and against the Cretans and
Armenians. The resolutions favoring
ratification were put to the meeting by
President Seth Lowe and, although
only one-third voted in favor of them.
they were declared carried. Pande-
monium reigned at the meeting.
A SEVERE wind and hailstorm passed
over Leila and Morrison, Ok, on the
night of the 10th and hundreds of
fruit trees and wheat fields for miles
were ruined. Chickens and small
stock were killed by hailstones, win
dow lights broken out and some few
houses were blown down.
BY the falling of a section of the old
wall of the old town of Fee, in Africa,
$50 workmen were killed.
JOSEPH n. DoLPH, ex-United States
senator, died at Portland, Ore, on the
10th, aged 81. His leg was amputated
in the hope of saving his life, which
was threatened by blood poisoning,
and the shock was too great for him.
The Western Baseball league mag
mates adopted the schedule at
meeting at Detroit, Mich. on the 10th.
The season will be opened at Kansas
City by a game on April % with the st.
Paul club.
| A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone a mile in
width struck Ralston, I. T., and great
damage was done. Nearly every house
in the town and in the path of the cy-
clone was either blown down or
wrecked. Many persons were injured,
but no lives were lost.
| DEsIDERIo SANDovAL returned uneX-
pectedly to his home at Coyote, n. NJ,
early the other morning and found his
wife and a man named Martinez occu-
plying the same room. Sandoval imme-
| diately pulled his revolver and shot his
wife and her paramour dead.
AT Queen City, Tex, Simon Hunt, a
negro desperate and ex-convict, took
refuge from a posse in a hollow log and
had his head blown off by one of the
pursuing party. The log was then
used Tor a coffin and Hunts body was
not taken from it.
AT meeting of the Miners union at
Leadvil1e, Col, on the 9th it was de-
cided to declare the strike off. The
strike has lasted nearly nine months
and has cost the camp fully $4,000, 600,
besides the money contributed by SYM
pathizers.
The authorities of Kemper county,
Miss, claim to have positive proof of
an organized gang of professional and
business men in the county who insure
the lives of poor people and then poison
them for the insurance money.
THE cattlemen of northern Mexico
are urging their government to place a
prohibitory duty on American live
hogs and packing-house products in
retaliation for the proposed increase
in the United States duty on Mexican
cattle.
JOHN P. WALKER, chief clerk in the
auditors Office of the Air Line railroad
| at Louisville, Ky, had both legs cut
off below the knees at the Air Line
depot in Evansville, Ind. He had come
down to visit his family, and in his
haste to leave the train jumped while
it was in motion and fell under it.
A RUMoR was circulating at COnstan-
| tinople on the sth that the German
ironclad Kaiserin Augusta, after hav-
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