Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-12-30

Sanger broke his own worlds indoor
bicycle record for a mile unpaced, rid
ing the distance in one minute fat.
GEN. WEYLER, in an interview pub
Iished at Madrid, was quoted as de-
claring that there was no hope of the
success of autonomy in Cuba, and that
if Spain persisted in autonomy Cuba
would be lost in few months.
| REV. w. w. BROWNE, president OF
the Grand Fountain of True Reform
ers, powerful organization among
the negroes of the south. died in
| Washington from blood poisoning. He
was one of the wealthiest men of his
race in the south, being worth S125, 900.
CHARLES SCHMIDT nailed a revolver
to an upright pillar in the store where
| he was employed at Davenport. Ia,
pressed his head against the muzzle
stantly. He was but Is years of age
| and killed himself on account of love
affair.
Miss ELLA n. BREsLIN committed
suicide at the Girls Cooperative home
in Dallas, Tex, the other morning.
She locked herself in her room, got
into bed and set fire TO the bedclothes-
She was burned to crisp before the
matron of the home could rescue her.
JOHN LAswELI, driller, was instantly
killed and Horace Wathen, his assist
ant, was deadly injured by the explo-
sion of a dynamite cartridge at West
Point. KY.
THREE boilers at shaft No. . of the
Choctaw Coal Mining company, at
Iowan, /. T., blew up and negro
fireman was fatally scalded.
EIGHT buildings in the business CEN
ter of Morning Sun. Ia, burned re-
Gently.
THE boiler of the engine of the Bear
Creek Milling company, at Evergreen,
Ala, burst, killing three men instant
ly, fatally injuring another and wound
ing three more.
A FOUR-YEAR-oLD child of Albert
Wittenmeyer, of Emison, Ind, fell
into tub of boiling water, completely
cooking the flesh from the bones.
PETER s. MCMAHON, of Albany, n.
Y, crazed by cigarette smoking, stood
in front of mirror and fired bullet
through his heart. He was about 30
years old.
MINISTERS in Lincoln, Neb., have be-
gun a crusade against Christian Sci
entists. The crusade takes the form
of castigation from the pulpit, togeth-
er with social ostracism.
The aggregate value of Iowa crops
for 1897, at prices prevailing December
1, was given at $500. 100000.
A NUMBER of earthquakes, increasing
in intensity, occurred on the 22d around
Smyrna, Asia Minor. Considerable
damage was done and some persons
were killed and many others injured.
A CHICAGO telegram said that Des
Moines, Ia, would become a member
of the Western Baseb ball league.
TEN years in the penitentiary was
the sentence imposed upon Thomas
Hyland by jury in the criminal court
at Kansas City, Mo-, for killing David
Fitzgerald with single blow of his
fist.
JOSIAH M. QUINCY. democrat, was re-
elected mayor of Boston on the 21st.
THE Auditorium theater and hotel
at Kansas City, Mo-, was destroyed by
fire early on the morning of the 21st.
So far as known all the guests escaped
without serious injury. The loss on
the building was placed at $500, 200.
NOTICES have been posted at the
China, Pembroke and Webster cotton
mills at Suncock, n. H., announcing a
reduction of about ten per cent. Janu-
airy 1. The cut will affect nearly 1900
operatives. tits probable that the cut
will be accepted.
GEN. A. B. CAMPBELL, ex-adjutant
general and ex-chaplain of the states
prison of Kansas, committed suicide in
a hotel at Chicago by taking morphine.
THE A. +. of L., at its meeting at
Nashville, Tenn, on the Goth, adopted
resolutions favoring the establishment
of postal savings banks and denounc-
ing Secretary Cages currency bill.
The convention decided to increase
the pei capita tax to two cents, to go
into effect February 1 next.
A FREIGHT train of 81 cars, travelling
down the mountain near Altoona. Pa,
became unmanageable, owing to the
slippery tracks, and crashed into a
freight train standing at the station.
About so cars were completely broken
up and passenger train was also
thrown over on its side. Several train
men were seriously hurt
AT the meeting of the Chicago Fed
| Grafton of Labor on the 10Th resolu-
ton was adopted that every trades
| unionist now member of the Illinois
national guard be requested to Sc
cure a discharge from military service
at once. Gen. Miles suggestion of
| guns for the post office was denounced.
! Opposition to the proposed new cabi-
net position of secretary of commerce
| and industry was declared and also a
motion was passed favoring the crea-
ton of a cabinet department of labor.
THE post Office at Alton, 1. T., was
entered by burglars early on the morn
| ing OF. the 21st and about $3.50 in money
| and other valuables taken.
THE American Cotton Growers Pro
| tective association was called to order
at Memphis, Tenn, on the Goth. Presi.
dent Lane delivered an address in
which he pleaded for reduction of
the cotton acreage and made the state
| ment that cotton was selling at less
than five cents. which meant only ten
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