Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-01

strong and his wife at Columbia, Tex,
Mrs. Armstrong picked up a Winches-
ter rifle and shot and instantly killed
her husband.
WILLIAM T. ADAMS, the well-known
writer of boys books under the name
of ''O1iver Optic" died at his home at
Boston on the 27th from fatty degen-
Grafton of the heart, aged IS years.
A COMBINATION was said to be nearly
completed between dealers in the pro-
ducts of the fresh water fisheries of
the United States and Canada which
will practically control the supply.
The trust is backed by English capital.
AUSTIN, Tex, and the surrounding
country was visited by terrific cyclone
on the 2Sth that did a great amount of
damage to property, many buildings
being unroofed and twisted from their
foundations. Several persons at differ
ent places were reported killed or IA
tally injured Railroads in the state
were also badly damaged by the heavy
rains which followed.
AT the Broadway Athletic club at
New York on the 27th Paddy Purtel1,
of Kansas City, Mo-, and Dick O'Brien
started in for a 2O-round bout, but in
the seventh round O'Brien sent Purteu
to the floor and the police stopped the
fight and the referee declared O'Brien
the winner.
Two bills have been introduced into
the New York legislature to establish
the state of Manhattan, including
within its boundaries the territory of
the greater city of New York.
JOHN f. CAMPIoN and other mine
managers at Leadville, Col, have re-
ceived letters signed ''The Committee"
threatening to blow up their mines IN
less they Immediately discharge all
non-union workmen. The letters have
caused considerable uneasiness.
ROBBERS tried to derail train on the
Texas, Saline Valley e Northwestern
road on the 25th by piling iron on the
track, but the pilot of the locomotive
pushed the obstruction and the plan
miScarried.
A DETECTIVE at Chillicothe, O., made
the statement on the Goth that he had
located Kate and Jake Bender, two
members of the notorious family who
murdered nine people near Independ-
ence, Kan, over 20 years ago. He said
he would arrest them as soon as he
heard from the authorities in Kansas.
THREE men were blown to atoms and
ten other persons injured by an explo-
sion of nitro-glycerine at the Repauno
chemical works near Gibbstown, n. j.,
on the 26th. The remains of the victims
were gathered up in two buckets.
THE East German Methodist Episco-
pal conference in session at Scranton,
Pa, voted against the admission of
women as delegates to the general con-
ference. The vote was A against to 9
in favor of admission.
AT the session of the New Jersey
Methodist conference at Trenton a
vote was taken on the question of the
admission of women as delegates tc
the general conference and resulted:
In favor, 6S; against, 103.
IT was announced that Baroness
Hirsch intends to give 81, 500, 900 to
various Hebrew benevolent institutions
in the United States
MAJ.-GEN. DODGE, grand marshal of
the Grant monument dedication pa
rade at New York, says the showing
to be made by United States troops on
April 81 will be the largest ever seen
in this country with the exception of
that at the close of the war. Mrs. y.
5. Grant has written a letter to the
committee that she would endeavor to
nave all the MEMBER or her family
present at New York on the day of the
ceremonies.
AS the result of an old quarrel Blan-
chard Thomas was shot and instantly
killed at Lapaz, Ind, by Jacob Leeds,
who had previously been fatally cut by
a knife in the hands of Thomas.
A FARMER named Bernhard Koch,
with his wife and brother-in-law, drove
through a freshet near Eau Claire,
Wis, caused by rain and melting snow,
and the wagon was upset and all three
were drowned.
NEAR Mount Gilead, KY, Amos Riggs
shot and killed young Boyd and his
father, w. R. Boyd. Young Boyd had
run off with one of Riggs daughters.
The two men were shot from ambush.
THE national convention of Patrons
of Husbandry, in session at Cleveland,
O., elected w. S. Donnelly, of New
York, president and George A. Ben
nett, of Illinois, secretary and treas
urer.
THE Denver Coli Republican said
that an association was about to inau-
gurate gigantic project for manufac-
turing beet sugar in Colorado. If car
ried to a successful issue, it will in
volve an outlay of from So, 900, 900 to
S5,0o0,00O. AS a preliminary to plant
ing beets and building refneries, the
projectors of the scheme have secured
control of the La Junta and Lamar
canal and of large tracts of land that