Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24

| years a professor IN the wesleyan uni
versity and an author and theologian
of note in the Methodist church, died
| at Delaware, o., ON the 18th in his s1st
year.
| AT Emit. i. T., Rev. J. T. Evans, of
| the Baptist church, was killed by fist
blow delivered by Elisha Bradburn.
They quarreled in field over crop
! contract
VIOLENT windstorms passed over
| wide district in Nebraska on the 18th
At Monroe hardly chimney was left
in the place and many roofs were taken
Off
A TORNADO passed over Logan coun-
| ty, Ill, and completely destroyed the
immense barn on the farm of the state
institution for the feeble-minded, 90
persons being buried in the debris
Four boy pupils from Chicago We're
taken out dead and five others were
severely injured.
THERE were 226 business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 18th, according to Bradstreet's re-
port, against 265 for the corresponding
week last year.
THE Kentucky ex-confederates will
present the name of Gen. Simon Boil
var Buckner for commander-in-chief of
the Confederate Veterans association
when it holds its annual meeting at
Nashville.
Four more bodies of supposed sui
cides were found in the Thames at
London on the 18th, making 21 found
in the river during the last three
weeks.
A TORNADO swept over the country
near Paris on the 18th. Twenty per-
sons were said to be killed and 80 in
jured. Property was also damaged to
an immense amount.
FATHER KNEIPP, well-known as the
originator of the cure for bodily ills
which bears his name, died at Woerri-
shoffen, Bavaria, on the nth. He had
been i'll for long time.
MORE tea was reported af1oat on the
Pacific ocean on the 18th than ever be-
fore at one time, the importers of New
York and other eastern cities having
made large purchases in China and
Japan for immediate delivery and
were having it hurried across the Pa
cific in order to enter it before the,
Dingley bill goes into effect.
AS soon as it was known that the su-
preme court had denied the petition
for a rehearing of the Drake estate
case, active work to collect the inherit
ance tax from all estates in Cook
county, ILL.,. was begun by County
Treasurer Kochersperger.
THE American Railway union was
on the 18th adjudged at Chicago by E.
V. Debs and his followers to be
corpse, and the social democracy of
America was launched to take its
place.
The Adirondack express the other
afternoon struck a carriage containing
horn at street crossing in Herkimer,
N. Y, and Stimson was instantly killed
and Miss Schermerhorn was fatally in,
jured.
MICHAEL DoNNELLoN, 55 years of age.
a f1agman for the Terminal Railroad
association at st. Louis, was struck by
an engine, receiving in juries which re-
suited in his death few hours later.
STEVE ODONNELL, the Australian
heavyweight, knocked out Alex Greg
gains, of San Francisco, in the eighth
round at San Francisco on the 18th.
THE 122d anniversary of the battle of
Bunker Hill was observed at Boston on
the 18th on scale surprising by many
degrees that of former years.
AT RusEin, Neb.. n. E. Bride, section
hand, shot and killed himself because
Lena Helms, a farmers daughter, had
lately broken her engagement to him.
FRANK BUTLER, who was arrested
some time ago at San Francisco on the
steamer Swanhilda for the alleged
murder of Capt. Lee Waller in the
Australian bush and was afterwards
extradited, was found guilty of the
crime at Sydney, n. S. W., on the
10th.
The two commissions at Tahlequah.
j. T., representing the United States
and the Cherokee nation, have ad-
journed without coming to an agree
ment. The Dawes commission told
the Cherol1ees that no further attempt
would be made and that congress
would now act.
IT was reported that Queen Victoria
was almost blind from the effects of
cataract of the eyes.
The suit brought against several
railroads for alleged overcharges by
the Northwestern Iowa Grain Ship
pers' association in the United States
court at Dubuque, Ia, ended rather
abruptly, Judge Shiras holding that
the fact that-th schedule of rates had
been published under provisions of the
interstate commerce law was conclu-
sive as to their reasonableness- The
only remedy for the shippers was to
petition the interstate commerce COM
mission for modification of rates.
THE other day 500 quarrymen struck
at Joliet, Ill, for a raise of 25 cents.
per day. The quarrymen throughout
the city had been getting S1.25 per day.
The usual increase to S1.50, generally
made May 1, was not orthcoming this
spring.
The assets of the bankrupt CONNER
cial savings bank at Sioux City, Ia,
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