Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13

The whisky escaped and filed the gull
lies and the poultry imbibed freely and
all got intoxicated.
AT the second day of the national
funniest at ST. Louis on the 7th the
forenoon was taken up with class COM
petition of the ''actives,. fully 5000
turner's being on the field at one time.
In the afternoon mass exercises by the
st. Louis juniors and by ladies' classes
in swinging clubs took place. In the
evening speeches and musical num-
bers were given at the exposition hall
A BERLIN dispatch of the 9TH said
that the king of Greece had formally
asked for the mediation of the emperor
of Russia in the war between Greece
and Turkey.
BoTH houses of the Iowa legislature
defeated the anti-Sunday baseball bill
on the 7th and the Western association
is safe for another year.
WITH a box con tanning 200 pounds of
dynamite on fire ten feet away from,
him, John Thomas, the boy who runs
the compressed air hosting engine in
the Tamarack mine, near Houghton,
Mich, stuck to his post and saved the
lives of the men at work in the mine
by his bravery. Ten seconds after he
had hoisted the men to the level the
dynamite exploded.
THE interior of the large cold storage
warehouse of the Merchants Refriger-
ator Co. at New York was completely
destroyed by fire on the 9th. The loss
will probably amount to more than
$500, 900. Thirty or more fremen who
entered the basement where the fire
started were overcome by smoke and
one died in an ambulance on the way
to a hospital.
THE first case of prostration from
the heat this season occurred at Chi
cago on the 9th. Charles Wilson,
milk wagon driver, fell into the street
unconscious. The weather bureau
thermometer registered so degrees
during the day. On the streets it was
three to five degrees warmer.
MEMBERS of the Chicago and Milwau
kee Beer Brewers associations will
combine to fight the proposed increased
tax on beer in the tariff bill.
THE south and w est grain and trade
congress got through with its business
on the 9Th at Kansas City, Mo-, and adj
journed to meet in Tampa, Fla, in
1898. The resolutions demanded equit-
able rates of transportation between
carrier and shipper. the improvement
of the Mississippi river and other water
courses, Endorsed the Nicaragua canal,
favored the.Torrey bankruptcy bill. the
promotion of the consumption of our
food products abroad and aid rendered
to the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
railroad.
THE London afternoon papers were
bitter at the rejection of the arbitra-
ton treaty by the United States SEN
ate.
Col. GUsTAvE G. PABsT, first vice
president of the Pabst Brewing Co., of
Milwaukee, is authority for the state
ment that he is to marry Miss Hulda
Lemp, daughter of William j. Lemp,
the millionaire brewer of ST. Louis.
Four years ago Col. Pabst married
Margaret Mather, the actress, who
publicly horsewhipped him, and the
couple were divorced.
The sheriff and force of deputies
raided three of the gambling places at
Mena, Ark, on the 5th and arrested
about 40 players at the tables. The
faro, crap and other gambling devices
and tables were taken out on the COM
mons and burned.
Two hundred sports on the night of
the 9Th held a prize fight in the United
Brethren churchyard at Muncie, Ind.
The principals were Dan Bailiff, of
Lima, o., champion heavyweight of
Ohio and Indiana, and Gus German, of
San Francisco, champion heavyweight
of the Pacific coast. Bailiff knocked
his man out in the fourth round, after
a vicious fight.
AT a crowded charitable bazaar in
Paris, France, presided over by lead
ing society women. an alarm of fire was
given and there was wild rush for the
exits and the weaker persons were
borne down and trampled upon. The
roof soon fell in, burying numbers of
those unable to get out of the building.
Over 100 charred corpses were taken
out of the ruins and it was thought
that 100 more bodies were buried in
the debris.
REPORTS from many towns in south
western Michigan said that an earth
quake shock was recently felt for sew
eral seconds. At Holland the front
of brick building fell into the street.
DE-. JOSEPH S. GooDMANsoN was found
guilty of murder in the first degree at
Ponca, Neb., on the 4th for poisoning
his wife, and his punishment fixed at
imprisonment for life.
EIGHT-YEAR-oLD Emilia Killsling
drank lemonade which was kept in a
tin bucket over night and died at Dan
vile, Cal. Eighteen school children
who also drank of the stuff were made
very sick.
Miss CLARA BARTON, president of the
American Red Cross society, has APP
pealed to the American people for aid
to the Greek Red Cross society, in the
way of money to purchase hospital
supplies.
HAVANA advices show that the in
surgents are active in that province.
Tapasta was attacked by force of 40C
| insurgents and held for an entire day,
the SnaniSh garrison in a block hOuSe