Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-02-18

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FIRE broke out in the Roosevelt hos
pita1 at New York on the 18th and did
$50, 900 damage. Two fremen were
hurt, but the rigid discipline of the
hospital prevented any excitement
among the patients.
THE New York Post denied that there
was any combination between the Car
negie Steel Co. and John D. Rockefeller
in regard to iron and said that there
was no foundation whatever for the
report.
| J. r. SOVEREIGN, grand master K. of
L., has written a letter declaring that
secret revolutionary societies, known
as the Iron Brotherhood and Industrial
Army, are being organized in every
part of the country, with their mem
bers leagued together to resort to civil
war as means of obtaining remedies
for the populace which they cannot
secure by the ballot.
Mrs. JANE NUBY, aged 1O3 years, was
found frozen to death on the 18th in
her farm dwelling in Arlington town
ship, Mich, where she had lived alone
for 40 years.
A REPORT comes from Salem, Ark.
that an insane man in the asylum in
y
1or, the escaped murderer of the Meeks
family of Missouri.
FIRE at an early hour on the 18th
172 and 174 Madison street, Chicago.
Schimpferman's wholesale liquor store
and Goster's uniform factory were the
heaviest losers.
THE Pittsburgh and western selling
agencies of the window-glass man
ufacturers will advance prices "a per
cent. beginning March in the central
and western districts.
JOSEPH HnDEBRANDT died at Chicago
recently from cancer of the throat. He
was formerly a farmer near Marysville,
Kan, and his wife poisoned her eight
children and then strangled herself,
on account of her husbands sickness,
only one child surviving.
MORTON SHEPPARD, residing near
Muncie, Ind, had his barn burned
down and 40 tons of hay, IS head of
sheep and lambs, Is head of hogs, two
mules, roo bushels of wheat, 900 bush
els of corn and oats and all his farm
implements burned. The insurance
policies had recently expired.
The medical institute at Lancaster,
O., burned on the 18th. DIR. Julius
Simon, of Jackson, W. Va, lost his
life.
PAUL WAGNER and his wife were
found asphyxiated by coal gas at Mil
waukee on the 18th.
LINcoLN's birthday on the 18th was
celebrated by republicans with ban
quets at GAINESVILLE, O., Chicago, In
dianapolis, Ind, Grand Rapids, Mich,
ST. Paul, Mimi, and many other places
throughout the country.
THE safe in the Clearfeld, Pa, post
Office was blown open recently and
81, 900 worth of stamps and $500 in cash
stolen.
FIRE broke out in the King & Uh1
block at Cleveland, O., and did $10O.0
damage before it was extinguished.
WHILE a freight train was running
at high rate of speed on the Mobile &
Ohio road car truck broke down
near Poe station, O., and nine loaded
cars were broken into kindling wood.
Brakeman Purcell was ground into an
unrecognizable mass under the engine
and the engineer and fireman seriously
hurt.
GEORGE FowEE, aged %, son of Squire
Joseph Powee, blew up his fathers
home at Vincennes, Ind, by putting
gunpowder into the stove. The stove
was blown to pieces and the house
shattered, but no one was killed. The
son said he wanted to kill his father
and stepmother.
FIRE early on the 10th destroyed a
cottage at Detroit, Mich, occupied by
the family of Stephen Rogulski. One
child was burned to death, another
fatally injured and five other members
of the family were more Or less seri-
Ously burned. The fire was thought
to have been incendiary, as Rogulski
was suspected of having killed man.
THE 21st annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, depart
ment Of Nebraska, opened at Hastings
on the 10th. Norfolk was chosen as
the place for holding the encampment
of 1898. Senior Vice Commander John
A. Earhardt, of Stanton. was unani-
mously chosen department commander.
THE Chadron (Neb.) steam laundry
was destroyed by an explosion of gaso-
burned to death.
Two cavalrymen fought duel with
sabers at West Point, n. Y, and one
was slashed over the lips and had to
be taken to the hospital. It was
caused by blacksmith's daughter
favoring one more than another at
soldiers ball.
Charlie Turner, of California, met in a
fight to finish at the ST. Louis club at
Hot Springs, Ark. Up to the Goth