Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

was still showing. Fears were enter
tanned that the fruit crop would be
damaged and the wheat crop ruined,
| as it was growing colder.
A STATE organization of the Daugh-
| tiers of the Confederacy was perfected
at Montgomery. Ala, recently, most of
| the larger towns of the state being
| represented. The organization deter
| mined that its first work should be the
| purchase of the old house which was
| occupied by jefferson Davis while the
seat of the confederate government
was in Montgomery and transform it
| into a home for INDECENT confederate
| veterans.
International Association of the Y. w.
| C. A. began their sixth biennial con-
vention at Detroit, Mich, with an at
| tendance of over 200 young women pres
| ent.
AN immense amount of damage has
been caused by the explosion of a car
loaded with fireworks at Buenos Ayres.
| The accident occurred near a block of
| buildings adjacent to the bourse and
| the buildings almost Immediately
| caught fire. Ten persons lost their
| lives from the explosion or during the
| confagration.
| THE Australian baseball players,
| who are starting out On tour of the
world. arrived in San Francisco on the
9th. The athletes, who have come
| thousands of miles to ascertain how
! the best baseball players of Australia
| compare with those of this country,
are Is in number.
WAITER c. SANGER has mailed a chal-
| lenge from Milwaukee to r. c. Bald,
| of Buffalo. for a bicycle match of three
races. one mile each. the winner of two
| out of three to win the money. 1t is to
| be FOR 81 600 side and the largest purse
| offered.
HUNDREDS of unemployed working
| men the other day gathered in front of
| the Parliament building at Toronto
| and asked the Ontario government to
| provide work for them so that they
| could keep their wives and children
| from starving
SOME of the largest business houses
| in Knoxville, Tenn, were destroyed
| by fire on the Sth and at least four
| guests in the Knox hotel were thought
| to have been burned to death or suffo-
| Gated by smoke. mount tain howitzer
| had to be called into play to blow down
| a wall in order to stop the progress of
| the fire. The loss was estimated at
| 81, coo, 600 to 81, 500, OO0 with about 60
| per cent. of insurance.
TWENTY persons were killed and
many others injured by an explosion
| in a fireworks factory at Lisbon.
| c. L. DRAPER, who is in Jail at Jack
| sonville, Ill, charged with the murder
of Hastings. hanged himself with a
| sheet in his cell, but prisoners heard
| his struggles and he was cut down and
recovered.
THE Denver, Col, branch of the
| United States mint showed an increase
| of the output of the yellow metal for
January, February and March of 1897
| of So per cent above what the prOduc-
ton was for the same period of 1896.
THREE masked men entered early the
| other morning the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Ford, an aged couple living
| at Parkertown, O., and, after binding
| and gagging them. attempted at the
| point of revolvers to make them reveal
| the hiding place of their money. The
| robbers got 500 in money and other
valuables. The old people were in a
critical condition from the rough
| handling.
SEVEN men were recently overcome
| by smoke and gas at the Strickler tun-
mel, on the west slope of Pixies peak, in
| Colorado. Two were taken out dead
| and two others were in critical con-
dition.
WHILE seated at the supper table at
| the Harrison hotel at Rosenberg, Tex,
James Banks came up from behind and
| cut Frank Conway'S throat with a
razor, severing both windpipe and
| iugular vein. Conway died almost in
| stantly. The men had quarreled in
| the forenoon.
| THE annual conference of Latter Day
Saints was called to order by President
| Joseph Smith at Lamont, Ia, the other
| day. The president outlined the past
and present condition of the work, re-
| porting 1,S4O baptisms. The church
recorder reported gain of 1900 in the
| church membership and 39S ord1na-
tions during the year.
JAMES II. ALDRICH, for Is years cash;
Ter and paymaster of the Kansas City,
| Fort Scott & Memphis railway, was
arrested on the 5th at Kansas City,
| Mo-, on the charge of embezzling $780,
| 600 of the company's funds.
| FRED ACoCK, an ex-soldier in the
regular army, will start from Topeka,
Kan, June Is to carry Old Glory
around the world. He will go to
Europe first and return by the way of
the Pacific.
By the will of the late Miss Winifred
Martin, who died in Baltimore, Nd,
April 4, 81, OOO.00 is bequeathed to va
| rious Catholic churches and charities
in Maryland and California
THE situation at Fargo, n. D., was
said to be appalling on the 9th, the
Big Call river taking big squirt and
flooding the west side of the city and
driving hundreds of people from their
| homes. Sidewalks were floating about
and many people used them as RATS to
move to dry land All bridges have