Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-02-04


CONSIDERABLE excitement was re-
ported at Deadwood, S. D., and the
Black hills over recent discoveries of
gold ore in unsupported quarters.
A GIGANTIC London syndicate has got
an option on the Is biggest breweries
in Cincinnati and the deal was likely to
go through it was reported.
WORD was received at Deadwood, S.
D., on the 31st that three Indians in the
Cheyenne agency had frozen in their
tents and a number of others will die
from the recent severe weather. Thou
sands of cattle also persisted, 800 being
found in one place.
ACCORDING to reports made to the
state board of transportation so to rs
per cent. of the farmers of Nebraska
are burning corn for fuel instead of
coal.
JACK DELANEY won the fight with
Australian Billy" on the 30th at New
York after Is rounds of clever boxing.
THE well-known bantam weights,
Sammy Kelly, of New York, and Jimmy
Barry, of Chicago, had 2O-round bout
at New York on the 3Oth, the referee
declaring the bout a draw.
A LONDON dispatch of the 31st said
that in spite of special denials it was
becoming generally known that the
condition of the cars health was crit
ica1 and that regency was probable.
THE United States steamship Brook
lyn struck on a sunken rock in the
Delaware river above Marcus Hook,
Pa, on the 31st and was seriously dam
aged, her lower double compartments
forward being completely stove in.
BARTHOLOMEW RACE shot and killed
his wife while she was sick in bed at
Goshen, Utah, and then committed sui
eide. Nine children were left orphans,
the youngest only four days old.
GERTRUDE PALMER died at Mamaro-
neck, N. Y, on the goth, making the
third victim of Arthur Palmer's frenzy,
he having previously killed his mother
and brother. The sheriff left for ST.
Louis, where Arthur Palmer had been
arrested.
A DISPATCH to the New York Sun on
the Goth stated that the Cuban insur-
gents were fighting near Havana, an
engagement having taken place few
days ago at Managua in which they de-
feated the Spanish troops and captured
a great quantity of guns and ammuni-
ton.
THE Patton seminary, a boarding
school for girls at Oak Cliff, Tex, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the
2Sth. About 40 girls were in the build
ing and they lost all their effects and
had to be taken in closed carriages to
Dallas.
THE failures in the United States for
the week ended the Goth (Bradstreet's
reporD were 1876, being a decrease of
102 from the previous week and of 81
from the corresponding week of last
year.
HENRY HEITFELD, popuist, was on
the 2sth elected United States senator
at Boise, Ida, to succeed Senator Du-
bois. The vote stood: Heitfeld, SO;
Dubois, 80; T. F. Nelson, 1. Heitfeld
was born in ST. Louis and lived in Sen
eca, Kan, from 1870 to 1882.
JOSEPH SMITH, head of the Latter
Day Saints church, arrived in Atch-
ison. Kan, on the 2Sth to unite all Lat
ter Day Saints factions in the city with
the reorganized church. Smith is
working to unite all factions of Lat
ter Day Saints in the United States,
including the followers of Brigham
Young.
AT the Georgia mine, near Fleming
ton, w. Va, by an accident on coal
incline railway, 80 men were thrown
from a car, and one was killed, two
others were fatally and eight seriously
injured.
A CONCURRENT resolution was
adopted by both branches of the South
Carolina legislature calling on the
United States senate to promptly rati-
fly the treaty of arbi tration with Great
Britain.
ELEVEN men were injured, one, Louis
Fogler, probably fatally, by an explo-
sion in coal mine at Foster. Ia
THE Kansas City Live Stock exchange
adopted a resolution on the Goth
strongly urging Secretary Coburn, of
the Kansas state board Of agriculture,
for secretary of agriculture in Presi-
dent McKinley's cabinet.
The Star furnace at jackson, O.,
burned on the 26th and two worlkmen
lost their lives.
THE bill to permit glove contests has
passed both houses of the Nevada leg
is1ature and Dan Stuart has announced
that the Corbett- Fitzimmons fight will
occur in that state.
c. K. RASH, of Wayne, Neb., muir
dered his wife and three children.
When the sheriff reached the house the
dead bodies of Mrs. Rash and her ten
year-old son lay on the floor, frightfu11y
gashed, and the two younger children
lay dead on their beds with their heads
mashed to a jelly. II was supposed