Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-19


| troops with heavy loss, but caused
| Gen. Weyler, the commander-in-chief.
| to beat a retreat and killed Gen. Mo-
| lima
A BIG gold strike has been made in
the Moon Anchor mine near Colorado
| Springs Col, the ore running in the
neighborhood of $15, 900 to the ton.
AT the emancipation celebration
given by colored citizens at Little
Rock, Ark, on the 18th Hon. II. L.
Remmel, the republican leader of the
state, branded the movement for pen
sioning ex-slaves as the veriest non
| sense and advised them not to be duped
into spe nding money for such an illu-
sion.
ALL negroes have been ordered to
leave the parish of Vernon, La.
KID" Mccoy knocked out Dan Bay
lift, of Lima, o., in the third round at
Dayton, o., the 18th. Baylif was
no equal to Mccoy as scientific
fighter.
LEWIS DEERwEsTE R, who was sus-
pected of being implic ated in the
Detrick double murder at Bellefon-
tame, o., was found unconscious on
his wifes grave with his throat cut
Slight hopes were entertained for his
recovery.
THERE were GA business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 18th, according to Bradstreets re-
port, against 2OS for the corresponding
week of last year.
THE family of George Rogers, of Chi
cago. consisting of eight persons, were
poisoned by eating bologna sausage.
The father and eldest son. it was
| thought, would not recover.
INFLUENCED by strong protest from
both the politicians and business men
of the northwest portion of the Domin-
ion, the Canadian government has de-
cided to abandon its scheme to force
miners of the placer regions of the
Klondike to pay royalty of 10 or Is
per cent. on all gold taken out there.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and his party
paid special visit on the 18th to the
grave of John Brown, near Lake Placid,
n. Y. Mckinley is the first presi-
dent to ever visit the last resting place
of the great abolitionist and father of
the republican party.
Two children, named Willie and
Mary Vogel, were drowned in the Blue
river near Crete, Neb., on the 18th.
They fell from a narrow walk and
were carried over the mill dam to the
rocks below.
REPORTS of terrific hailstorm were
received from Alexander and other
towns north of Eldorado, Ia, on the
18th. The corn crop was stripped and
will make nothing. Oats were so badly
pounded out of the shock that they
were not worth thrashing. Many barns
|. were wrecked and stacks torn down
and blown away.
FIRE in ST. Louis wrecked the two
top floors of the seven story building
occupied by the Enterprise Brass Co.,
causing $50. 600 loss.
THE president of the Universal Peace
union has written letter at Philadel-
phia offering the services of the union
as arbitrator in the coal strike.
JOHN THOMAS. while drunk, fired
! into a crowd at Spokane, Wash, shoot
ing three men. and will himself prob
ably die from shot fired by Chief of
Police Warren while resisting arrest.
THE London Times said on the 18th:
1t is estimated by persons in posi-
ton to form an opinion that at least II
per cent. more wheat than is usually
needed by Europe will be wanted this
year. Owing to the short Russian
French and Austro- Hungary crops, the
United States will be the only country
FUSION With the democrats was re-
pudiated by the Ohio populists in state
convention at Columbus on the 18th.
Jacob S. CoXey, of ''commonweaF'
fame, was nominated for governor and
the populist platforms of ST. Louis and
Omaha were Endorsed.
PHILIP HINES died recently at Della
ware, o., at the age of 1O7. He enlisted
in the union army at the age of II and,
being on a furlough at the close of the
war, was not discharged until few
years ago. He was the last veteran
| discharged.
QUARANTINE has been established at
the National stock yards, East ST.
Louis, ILL.,, against cattle aft icted with
Texas fever.
FRANK c. CONWAY, who murdered his
wife at Ogde nsburg, n. Y. was cleo
trocuted at the Clinton prison on the
10th,
E. E. BAKER, of Denison. Tex, has
| fled suit for divorce from his wife be-
cause she consumes a gallon of butter
milk a day and snores-
A BOILER exploded in Morrison's
| planning mill at Mena, Ark, wrecking
| the building and blowing the head off
| of Engineer Nelson.
BIsHoP KEY, of the NJ E. Church
| South, was interviewed at Chattanoo-
| ga, Tenn, about the union of the
| northern and southern churches, which
was agitated at the Epworth league
| convention at Toronto. Can, recently.
| The bishop said it would never be in
| the near future and gave many reasons
| for his assertion.
AT Grapeville, Tex, two little ne
groes, aged six and eight years. tor
tured another little negro, aged three
years, with a hot iron, and then be-
cause he cried they threw him off. a