Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-12-09

living near Dover, Ienu-, was at the
point of death as the result of a mys-
terious poisoning, and his entire fam
lily, consisting of his wife and two
children. were in the same condition.
1t was thought they were poisoned by
milk from COW which had eaten weeds
REGELA WRIGHT, the six-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Wright, of
st. Louis, was fatally burned while
alone at home. The little one saw
bag of candy on the mantelshelf and
in trying to reach it her dress swung
into the fire and got ablaZe.
In cooking supper at her home at ST.
Louis the other night Mrs Caroline
Merton got her dress on fire and was
burned to death.
THE plant of the Galesburg UlL)
Pottery company was almost totally
destroyed by fire the other evening.
The loss was put at $780, with SIS
600 insurance. Forty men were thrown
out of employment.
A SHARP earthquake shock was felt
at Galena, Ill, at $3.50 a. M. of the Sd.
Houses shook and windows ratified vio-
lently shock was also felt at Black
Earth. Wis.
LEWIS WILMoT, a Shawnee Indian, in
fit of jealousy, brutally beat to death
Mary Bennett. member of the same
tribe. The tragedy occurred near
Shawnee, Ok, at a dance.
The democratic caucus at Richmond,
Va. on the Sd nominated John Daniels
to succeed himself in the United States
senate.
Gov. JOHN GRIGGs, of New Jersey,
has been rendered the portfolio of at
torney general of the United States to
be vacated by Judge McKenna's ap-
pointment to the supreme bench.
A CONFERENCE of citizens from vari-
ous parts of the United States will
soon be held in New York in the inter
est of uniform primary elections. The
conference is to advocate the enact
ment of laws bringing primaries under
state supervision. The movement was
inaugurated by the civic federation of
Chicago.
PRESIDENT BECKER, of the Nation
al Anti-Spiritualist association, at
Adrian, Mich, has issued an invita-
ton to the National Spiritualist asso-
citation to join in appointing commit
tee to meet a similar one from the
Anti-SpiritualiS association to in
vestigate thoroughly the phenomena
of modern spiritualism.
MISS CLARA BARTON is about to issue
an appeal to the American people for
funds to enable the Red Cross to go to
Cuba to relieve the suffering there,
and is prepared to go to Cuba in per-
son to carry on the benevolent enter
prise.
JOHN S. MORGAN, the murderer of
family at Ripley, w. Va, who was
sen tenced to be hanged December 16,
escaped from Jail the other night
The Interstate Association of Live
Stock Sanitary Boards adjourned their
meet in st. Louis on the I'd to meet at
Fort Worth, Tex, October 2, 1898.
They recommend to the department of
agriculture that nine additional coun-
ties in Tennessee, six in Missouri and
all of Arkansas be placed below the
southern fever quarantine line, the line
of 1896 through the Indian territory
and Texas to remain undisturbed.
By a vote of 5,731 to 1913 Kansas City
on the I'd extended her limits, almost
doubled her area, and the historic city
of WeStport was annexed as portion
of what is now Greater Kansas City.
A LARGE portion of the business CEN
ter of the town of Carberry, Man, was
destroyed by fire on the 3Oth.
ABOUT 200 miners in Walker coun-
ty, Ala, struck on the 1st because of
the failure of the operators to restore
the ten per cent. reduction in wages
made last spring and promised to be
restored November 1.
w. j. BURIAN tried to murder his
wife at Detroit, Mich, on the 30th and
then shot himself dead in a fit of jeal-
ouSy.
A LOAD of uncompressed cotton on
fat cars in the M, K. & T. yards at
Dallas, Tex, caught fire and most of
it was destroyed.
THE steamer Egyptian burned to the
waters edge on Lake Huron, off Stur-
geon point, Mich, the other night
The crew was taken off by barge.
MERCHANTS at Daleville, Albany,
Eaton and Selma, Ind, are protesting
against the free delivery service. All
four of these small towns were for
merly great trading centers- They de-
pended wholly upon the farmer bust
ness. Since the free delivery has been
put into effect and the farmers get
their mail delivered at their doors the
business in the towns is said to have
fallen off about SO per cent
FRANK A. KEITH and Maggie God
frey, penniless lovers, committed sui
eide together by inhaling gas in a room
at Lowell, Mass. the other day.
JOE CHoYNsKI and Jim Jeffries fought
90 rounds to a draw at San Francisco
on the SOth. Choynski fought with
excellent Judgment
THE Central Trades and Labor union
at st. Louis have placed themselves on
record as opposed to the further re-
striction of immigration, in obedience
to a communication from the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, which de-
sires to ascertain the sentiment of the
wage-workers of the United States, in
view of bill to be passed on by con-
gress- Nearly 100 trades were repre-