Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-01

than the police have any record of.
A CALL has been issued for national
good citizens convention, to be held at
Nashville, Tenn, on Nav 1920, to dis
cuss matters relating to the many evils
of the day, such as crimes, Sabbath
Dissertation, intemperance, dishonesty,
poverty, etc. The signers of the call
are from every state in the union.
Mrs. MARGARET PRESTON, the we'll
known writer of southern war poetry,
died at Baltimore, Nd, on the 2Sth.
A FIRE occurred at Portsmouth, Va,
on the 2Sth, making so families home
less and causing 500, 900 damage.
THE northern Colorado coal opera
tors combine has been dissolved and
the price of coal has dropped from 81
to So. SO per ton.
ALDACE +. WALKER, chairman of the
executive board of the A., L. & S. E.
company, said on the 27th that he did
not look for any immediate rate wars
in consequence of the recent decision
of the United States supreme court in
which traffic associations of railroads
were held to be contrary to the Sher-
man antitrust law.
THE steamer Olive, which arrived at
New York on the 2Sth, brought Lilo
Italians, the largest number of immi
grants bought to that port by any one
steamer this season.
OFFICERS at Perry, Ok, have arrested
over dozen boys between the ages of
10 and II years on the charge of whole
sale thefts. Most of the band are
from Chicago, Kansas City and ST.
Louis. They have been operating on
the line of the Santa Fee railroad.
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the car, bridge and building depart
ments of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railroad at Denison, Tex, has been
shortened to three days of nine hours
per week.
AT the bicycle tournament at San
Francisco Allen Jones won a quarter
mile dash in 81 3-5 seconds, the fastest
record for indoor riding. J. E. Wing
won the fifth heat of the fve-mi1e club
race in HOS, taking IL seconds from
mile race Brecker covered the distance
in 2:O5, reducing the worlds indoor
record by three seconds.
AT an informal meeting of distil1ers
and wholesale whisky dealers at Gin
cinnati on the Goth it was unanimously
agreed to advance the price of spirits
in a few days.
THE Iowa house on the 26th passed
the senate medical practice act with
out change, driving out osteopaths,
faith healers, massage doctors and all
others protesting to heal unless they
pass examination, the same as physi-
clans.
In the Canadian parliament two bills
have been introduced to prohibit the
of alien labor into Canada
under contract or agreement. Both
bills are drafted on the lines of the
alien labor law of the United States,
and are intended as retaliatory legis-
lation against citizens of the United
States.
The Order of Equity, operating in Is
states, made a deed Of assignment at
Indianapolis, Ind, on the 25th. It's
1apses and matured certificates amount
ed to more than its new business last
year.
MARSHAL RUSSELL, Maria Snowden
and Maggie Short were boat riding on
a pond at Allensville, Ky, when the
boat capsized. The cries of the drown
ing people We're not heard by anyone
and their plunge to death was not
known until late.
THE Colorado senate on the 25th
passed the bill for the abolition of cap
ital punishment. 1t recently passed
the house.
WHILE the British cruiser Theseus
was practicing outside the harbor Of
Malta with torpedoes one exploded as
it was being thrown to the ships
launch, injuring 80 men, two probably
fatally.
THE pope's mass in the throne room
of the vatican at Rome on the 25th was
attended by so American pilgrims,
mostly clergymen, from New York,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut and New
Jersey. After mass the pope permitted
the pilgrims to kiss his foot.
OSCAR ERICKSON was crushed to death
on the 25th in the basement of the old
post office at Chicago by the falling Of
an embankment.
GEORGE DIXON, the featherweight
champion, was declared the winner in
a 25-round bout with Frank Erne, of
Buffalo, at New York on the oath.
The five children of Frank Penrod
were burned to death at their home at
Laddsdale, Ia. 1t was not known how
the fire originated. The children were
all under IL years of age. The parents
had left them alone while they attended
a religious meeting at the schoo1house.
WILLIAM HIGGINS died of hydropho-
bia at Wheeling, w. ", on the 25th.
He and seven others were bitten by a