Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-11
THE corn carnival held at Reatrice,


and wife, who live near Mont Calm
Mills, Que, were brutally butchered
the other day. The parents had gone
to St Julienne to transact some bust
ness, leaving their three daughters
and boy at home. During their alb
sence a neigh Dor found two of the
girls on the kitchen floor with their
threats cut The body of the oldest
laughter was found outside the house
81 a similar condition and the boys
remains were discovered in the barn.
Posses were organized and hunted over
the vicinity for the miscreant-
LUIS SILIcEo, the Mexican govern
ment colonization agent, is making the
final arrangements for taking lis to
l20 families, comprising 500 persons or
thereabouts, from Luling, Corpus
Christi, Prairie Lea, Taylor, Gonzales
and elsewhere in Texas and settling
them in the state of TamauHpas, Mex.
On an average each family will receive
100 acres of land.
THE New York Herald published
letter from Hannis Taylor, late United
States minister to Spain, in which
after telling of his strenuous efforts to
prevent a rupture of diplomatic rela-
tions between the two countries dur
ing the dark days of the Competitor
case, he asserted that the ruling classes
of Spain are determined to refuse any
concessions which would be accepted
by the Cubans.
JESUS MEJIA, a Mexican, applied for
burial permit for his child at Tucson,
Ariz. His actions aroused suspicion
and the child was found to be alive,
although in the throes of death from
poisoning. A few days before another
son of Mejia expired under peculiar
circumstances. He has been arrested
on a charge of child murder.
THE large hay sheds of the Ardmore.
q. To Oil & Milling company. contain
ing about 40 cars of baled hay and
some machinery, were destroyed by
fire.
A BOY named Thomas Van Wiel,
helper employed in the big dye works
at Lodi, n. j., slipped and fell head
long into vat of calculated boiling
water. Before he could be rescued
nearly every inch of skin on his body
boiled off. He died soon after in the
hospital.
Four negro workhouse prisoners
made a desperate break for liberty at
st. Louis the other evening. Twenty
shots were fired by the guards and
fugitives. One managed to escape, but
the others were captured.
Mrs. CELIA WALLACE, who resides
at the Auditorium at Chicago and is a
childless widow, has taken a fancy to
Evangelins Cisneros and has offered to
adopt the Cuban maid and make her
an heir to a fortune estimated at $780,
600.
SELMA, Ala, experienced disas-
trOus fire the other morning, the losses
being appropriated at $1,000 A
lantern exploded in the basement of
Cawthorne & Coleman, wholesale drug
gists, and the basement and three
floors being packed with inflammable
goods, the fire department had all
they could do to keep the fire within
the building.
JOHN WKBsTER.>Jr., of Oshkosh, Wis.
drank IL full glasses of whisky with
out intermission and laid down and
died.
PETER CHKwPER, his infant daugh-
ter. Anna, and John Stohlma, were
asphyxiated by coal gas at Chewper's
home on the outskirts of Sanford, Pa
Mrs. Chewper and boarder named
Simon were found unconscious and
were not expected to live.
MAN LA WbOA, NSO. w ILLS oUuu.
aged 81, and two younger brothers
found what they supposed was bottle
Of whisky in wheat bin. Each drank
of the contents and all will die. The
stuff proved to be horse medicine.
Two earthquake shocks were felt at
$3.50 a m. on the 4th the entire distance
from Silver Bow, Ida, to Monida,
Mont.
GEN. NELSON A. MILES has suggested
to the supervising architect for the
new Chicago post Office building that
it would be wise plan to make pro-
vision for mounting q few Fatling
guns over the several approaches to
the new structure Gen. Miles has
had some experience in handling strik-
era and riotous moks and he thinks
that some precaution SHOULD be taken
to protect the building from being
sacked and destroyed in a time of great
excitement or local commotion. Local
labor leaders denounce the scheme.
MARSHAL BLANCo, the new captain
general of Cuba, has sent a cable mes.
sage to the Spanish government, say
ing he has formed a favorable opinion
recording the prospects for the pacifi-
cation of Cuba
HARRY JONES, an engineer ON the St
Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern road,
was killed at Viele. Ia, the other
night by the cara
FIVE powers of the Latin union, on
the initiative of Switzerland, have
signed convention to increase the
number of small silver coins by q franc
per head of their population, using the
existing Eve franc pieces to supply the
necessary silver.
JUDGMENT was rendered in the dis
trict court at Fort Dodge, Ia, against
Thomas Reedy for 81. 600 for playing a
practical joke on Randolph Reynolds.
In 1898 Reedy, for g joke, induced