Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-09-23

IT was said that DIR. Y. A. Noreaard,
of Denver, Col, has discovered sure
cure for cattle fever by dipping.
Should this prove true, the cattle mar
ket will experience a revolution, as
stock will be shipped north during the
prohibited season. A meeting of all
states and territories that handle cat
tie has been called at Fort Worth, Tex.
on September 81 to examine the cure
AT a crossing over the track of the
Versailles & Midway railroad near
Versailles, KY, a train struck a car
rage containing Ambrose FL. Wilson
and j. w. Bridges, killing the former.
The latter jumped in time to save him.
self.
THREE daughters of Preston Howard
were burned to death at Port Alma,
Can, on the shore of Lake Erie.
GEN. LUQUE reported to Gen. Weyler
that his column of 5000 soldiers had
utterly destroyed 1900 farms in the
province of Santiago de Cuba. The
country people on the farms were
obliged to march with the soldiers and
afterwarded were herded around Man
Zanillo as concentrates. Officially
only 100 were reported as arriving at
ManzanillO. The others, numbering
over Q, 600, are not mentioned in Gen.
Luque's dispatch. News from Cuban
sources said that they were shot by the
column.
PRIVATE advices received at San
Francisco convey the information that,
after two days of hard fighting, the
garrison of Barrios' soldiers at Quezal-
tenango succumbed to superior num-
bers, and the revolutionists are mas
tiers of the situation in Guatemala
This is understood as the equivalent
to the end of the career of Barrios as
dictator of the Central American re-
put
FRANCES BROWN, aged five years, died
recently at Evansville, Ind. Her sis
ter died a few days before and little
Frances grieved necessarily for her
and at last took to her bed. The ply
sicians pronounced it case of broken
heart, as the child was perfectly well
in all other respects.
THE Jackson Hill coal mine in Sulli-
van county. Ind, was destroyed by fire
early the other morning, causing loss
of $50, 900 and preventing 800 men from
working. There was a suspicion of in
cendiarism about the matter.
ABOUT one o'clock a. m. of the 18th a
large body of men on horseback en-
tered Versailles, Ind, and called out
Jailer KEENAN, and demanded the keys
of the Jail. He refused to give them
up and was overpowered and the mob
pushed the way into the cell rooms and
fred on Lyle Levi, Bert Andrews, Cliff
ford Gordon, William Jenkins and
Henry Shuler, under arrest for many
recent robberies, and then dragged
them to a tree a square from the Jail
door and hanged them.
The work of collecting evidence for
the inquest on the bodies of the strik.
ers shot by deputy sheriffs at Halle
ton, Pa, is being prosecuted by the
strikers representatives and the sec
rotary of the Hungarian consulate at
Philadelphia. The warrants sworn out
for the arrest of the deputies will not
be served while the militia is on the
ground.
THROUGH a misunderstanding of sig
nails the steamer Catskin was run into
by the excursion boat ST. Johns and
sunk in the North river near New
York. The ST. Johns had 1000 excur-
sionists on board and there was a
regular panic amongst them and some
jumped overheard. One boy was
drowned and two women were reported
missing.
A LARGE number of coal mines in the
Pittsburgh, Pa, district started up on
the 14th.
THE Peoples Gaslight & Coke Co., of
Chicago, has given a mortgage on its
plant of $4,000, 600 to the Farmers
Loan & Trust Co., of New York.
Two electric cars at Chicago collided
early on the. morning of the 14th when
they were full of passengers and many
persons were seriously injured. The
motorman and another man will die of
their injuries. One car had left the
double track and got on to the single
track and it was not noticed on account
of mist.
waukee brewer, was married on the
i4th to Miss Hilda Lemp, daughter of
the St. Louis brewer. The ceremony
took place at Ventor, Isle of Wright.
The bridegroom was previously mar.
ried to Margaret Mather, the actress.
from whom he was recently divorced.
WHISKY, pistols and razors came into
so much prominence at big negro
church meeting near Seneca, S. c.,
that Sheriff Moss and dozen deputies
arrested six of the principals. One
man is said to have been shot through
the brain, two were mortal1y cut and
several others were seriously wounded
Each of the six prisoners had from one
to six revolvers.
OSCAR GARDNER, the Kansas CITY
featherweight, had 20-round go with
Tommy Dixon, of Rochester, n. Y, be-
fore the Rochester Athletic club, and
although Gardner did not knock out
Dixon. Gardner was given the decision,
which met with general approval.
Four cases of yellow fever were re-
ported at Mobile, Ala, on the 14th.
Business at Jackson, Miss, was at a
standsti1 on account of suspicious
cases of fever being reported at Ed