Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-12-16

panies have been organized this fall
and at least ten large mines will be
opened near Des Moines during the
winter and spring.
SOME of the ore from a claim being
worked by John Finley at Alpine, Tex,
which was sent to Scrant ton, Pa, to be
assaved, ran So, 800 to the ton.
THERE were 292 business failures in
the United States reported by Brad
streets commercial agency for the
week ended the 10th against ISL for
the corresponding week last year.
| BROWN SMITH, a farmer in Simpson
county, Miss, left his family at home
to go to town for shopping purposes.
When he returned he found his wife
and five children weltering in their
blood and apparently all dead. An
| alarm was raised Immediately and the
entire neighborhood turned out to
hunt for the perpetrator of the crime.
One of the little girls, supposed to have
been dead, revived enough to say that
the man who committed the deed was
negro.
AT the last annual convention of the
International Typographical union it
was decided to make fight for work
day of nine hours in all book and job
printing shops as soon as possible.
This fight will be started in New York
January 2, and will involve 5000 men,
as the employing printers have re-
solved to oppose the demand.
WELTERING in his own blood, and
literally hacked to pieces with an ak,
which was found in the next room,
the body of Roy Erickson, maker of
wicker baskets, was found shortly
after midnight in a shanty at Sioux
Falls, S. D. In the next room sat two
men who are now behind the bars for
the murder.
Ind, has closed down in all depart
work. The factory suspended opera
tions through the polishers refusing
to work on piece work.
THE national fox hunt opened in Har-
rison county, Tex, and will close on
December II. More than 100 mounted
hunters and several hundred hounds
started. The chase will extend over
scope of country approximating 100
miles around Marshall as a center.
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and In
dian territory are well represented at
the meeting.
MYNATT LEACH was hanged at Gin
ton, Tenn, on the Sth for the murder
of J. D. Heck.
THE National Prison congress met at
Austin, Tex, the other day. Many in
teresting papers were read and there
was considerable discussion on the SUBJ
iect of the health, industrial training
and management of prisoners. War
den Starke, of Missouri, claimed that
the Missouri prisoners were treated as
humanely as in other states. He APP
proved the custom of pardoning three
men each Fourth of July and Thanks
giving day for good behavior, as an in
centive to convictS.
THE 27th annual meeting of the
American Association for the Study
and Cure of Inebriety began at Boston
on the Sth.
THE epidemic of measles at Spring
field, O., was admitted to be beyond
control on the Sth. A total of 1,1SS
cases has been reported in the past six
weeks, but there has only been one
death.
JOHN D. LEoNI, young Italian who
has mania for breaking plate glass
windows. has been arrested by the po-
lice at Chicago. 1t transpires that he
has broken over 1000 worth in that
city alone.
CONSTABLE MURRAY was found dead
by the roadside near Jenny Lind, Ark.
He had been lynched by a mob of coal
miners while taking one of their COM
rades to prison on a warrant
1T was reported at Chicago that Mrs.
Pullman will renounce her husbands
will, emitting her to million or so
dollars, and demand her dover of
about S3, 100000. Her object was said
to be to divert the bulk of the estate
from her daughters and to make mil
honaireS of her sons, despite their
fathers action in cutting them off
with So, 600 year each.
TORU HosHI. envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary from Ja-
pan to the United States, recently ar
rived in Washington with important
instructions in reference to the Ha-
waiian treaty of annexation, which will
be considered by the United States.
SILVER sold on the New York market
at 60 cents an ounce on the Sth, being
an advance of nearly nine cents since
September I.
GERTRUDE PRINCE, the pretty 19-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Prince, of Hayes. Wis, has eloped with
William Smith, a negro. The couple
were married by justice of the peace
at Mountain, Wis. The girls father
swears vengeance on Smith and has
disowned his daughter. insisting that
she can never be forgiven.
THE Fair" one of the largest de-
partment stores in ST. Louis, failed on
the 9th. with heavy liabilities, but as
sets will pay all claims.
A FIRE broke out in the Owosso
(Mich.) casket works early the other
morning and destroyed about $50, 900
worth of property. Frank Wilcox, the
night Waterman, was suffocated to
death while trying to quench the fire
with a hand extinguisher. The fire
was supposed to have been the result
of spontaneous combustion.