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

in street, IN CleyeldnO, w., were OS-
stroyed by fire on the 23d. 1t started
oy the explosion of a can of benzine in
the Autograph establishment of Johns
& Co. The loss was estimated at $780,
200.
1O4 Madison street. Chicago. occupied
as restaurant. big crowd was on
the sidewalk watching the blaze when
an explosion of gas took place and
windows, gratings, sidewalk and man
hole covers were hurled amongst the
crowd and % people were more or less
injured and wild panic ensued- The
loss was estimated at $125, coo.
Four hunters were found frozen to
death by the roadside near Dawes
Creek, Newton county, Ark 1t was
believed they were w. Fl. Hughes. A.
81. Dolphin. John w. Bright and Sam
uel Sewer, from Chicago.
A BOAT containing nine stevedores,
while proceeding to steamer in the
Thames near London. was capsized
and all the men were drowned.
THE Chestnut Street national bank
and the Chestnut Street Trust & Saw
ings Fund company at Philadelphia
suspended on the 23d. The state treas
urer had 1925, 900 on deposit in the bank.
GEN. PANDo has written to Capt.
Gen. Blanco that all of the commits
sioners sent to the Cuban insurgents
camps proposing peace with autonomy
have failed and therefore no other
course is open than to finish the war
with war.
MRS. BARNEY PICKERT, an aged
widow, was found dead in a hay loft
at Lima, o.. few days ago. The
premises were searched by the admin
istrator and over $40. 600 in bank notes
and silver was found and SIS, 600 in per-
sonal notes. The sum of So. 900 was
found sewed in an old bonnet. She
had lived in poverty, and the find was
a great surprise.
CHARLES A. PnLsBURY, of ST. Paul,
Mimi, who is reported to have made
So, 900, 900 in wheat this year, has
resigned the management of the Eng
lish syndicate mills.
SIXTEEN persons were killed by an eX-
plosion of firedamp in the Kaiserstuhl
pit at Dartmund, Prussia, the other
day.
The possibility that Letter and
Armour will pool their interests to
corner May wheat was stirring traders
on the Chicago change on the 23d.
The Post said that George French.
operating for the Letter crowd, had
piled up at least 1000, 900 bushels of
May wheat and it was we'll known
that Armour had pyramid of May
wheat bought which was supposed to
come close to the Letter holding. AL
ready that option is regarded as being
dangerous for the public to handle.
PRESIDENT SAMUEL SLOAN. of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
railroad, will be given by the employees
of the road a $1,000 gold table
,rvice as token of their esteem.
He is the oldest railroad president in
the country and has served for 30 years
as the executive head of the Lacka-
wanna system.
MRS. JENNIE ELKINs awolze the other
morning at Decatur, ILL.,, to find her
two-months-old baby girl dead at her
side. The child had smothered to
death under the coverlets.
WORK is being pushed on the negro
agricultural university at Langston,
Ok, and the school will be opened next
spring.
Mrs. FREDA SCHLINTZ, aged and Grip
pied, was overcome by smoke and died
within a few feet of safety during
fire at her house in New York. Her
two daughters made an effort to save
her, but their strength gave way and
they were forced to abandon her to
save themselves. {
THE recent sleet storm in Texas has
been disastrous to cattle in the west
and northwest portions of the state
and the death rate, it was reported,
will be unprecedented.
THE whitecap organization among
the renters who oppose the renting of
farms for money rent are carrying out
their threats by sowing a number of
large farms around San Antonio, Tex,
in johnson grass. Several large barns
are alleged to have been burned by
them. James Renbow, a farmer living
on Little river, was taken out of his
home by a band of masked men and
given severe beating. He had rented
his farm for money after being warned.
CANADIAN COUNTY, Ok, held its cot
ton carnival in Ell Reno with a parade
of cotton wagons, brass bands and
shouting farmers. Over 200 loads were
in line.
ANTHONY DEvIN shot his wife at
Philadelphia and then committed sui
eide.
BY the explosion of a gasoline stove
at Holyol>e, Mass, a woman and a
child were burned to death.
JACOB WEINERD, aged SO, was found
dead in his kitchen at ST. Louis on the
21st by his wife, who had spent the
afternoon visiting. He had been
gagged with handkerchief. bound
and choked to death by twisting a
towel around his neck. The house had
been ransacked from top to bottom.
There were evidences of a terrible
struggle having taken place.
JASON EWING, the ten-year-old son
of C. ID. Ewing, a farmer near Nor
man, Ok, died of strangulation from
a peanut. The boy was tossing nuts
into the air and catching them in his