Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-27

the wind being too strong, and was
fatally injured.
The four sons of George Bearden,
farmer in Caldwell county, KY, and
Carrie Woods were bitten by a mad
dog and were said to be in a serious
condition. The dog died soon after
| biting them.
A CLOUDBURsT at some point near
| Asotin, Wash, sent wall of water
down the valley. Stock was drowned,
houses wrecked. bridges washed out
and orchards ruined. So far as re-
ported no lives were lost.
| THERE was said to be considerable
excitement in Havana over Washing
ton matters. The publication of the
consular reports has also worried
them, and great many maledictions
have been uttered against the United
States officers and Gen. Lee. The
Spanish officials have placed a guard
of troops around the American con-
sulate.
By the bursting of still in McGar-
rity's distillery at Hazelton, Pa, the
proprietor and laborer were scalded
to death and Mrs. Mccarthy was bad
ly burned in trying to save her hus-
| band.
BENITo LOPEZ, 20 years, paralyzed
and feeble, was hanged in the state
prison at Folsom. Cal, on the 21st for
the murder of George Washburn. a
| neigh Dor, with whom he quarreled
over their water supply and shot.
Gov. BLACK, of New York, refused
to sign the graduated inheritance tax
bill passed at the recent session of the
| legislature on the ground that the
| proposed law would bear unequally
upon the taxpayers.
| THE brigantine Galilee. which re
Gently arrived at San Francisco, con>
frmed the news that Lichtenstein, a
| wealthy Englishman, and a mission
| airy. had been killed by cannibals on
the Santa Cruz islands.
| E. S. FLEIsCHER, prominent man in
| Pittsburgh, Pa. was robbed of all
| his valuables and then deliberately
thrown over a bridge. He was found
living a short time after the occur
renee, but died on his way to the po-
| lice station. No clew to the murder
| ers
THE Southern hotel at Meridian.
Miss, was damaged $150,OO0 by fire on
the goth. The hotel was well filed
with guests and panic epsued, but so
far as known no lives were lost. The
fire was miserably managed by the vol
unteer firemen.
The afternoon session of the lower
house of the Illinois legislature on the
10th was marked by a riot among the
legislators. Waste baskets, books and
other articles were hurled back and
forth, and Representative Novak, of
Chicago, made an attack on the speak
er. The trouble was caused by the
| speakers refusal to recognize Novak.
WILLIAM FL. PHILLIPS, a locomotive
engineer was almost instantly killed
in the presence of his wife at Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, by being run over by a
| Baltimore & Ohio train. The engine
struck the wagon he was in and threw
him under the pilot of the locomotive
and horribly mangled him.
| THE Oklahoma quarantin board has
| invited the quarantine boards of Kan
| sas and Texas to attend meeting to
be held early in June at Oklahoma
City for the purpose of reaching an in
terstate quarantine agreement by
formulating a system of rules by
which cattle can be transported be-
tween the states and the territories
without the tedious formality now eX-
listing.
JUDGE FREELAND MARSHALL and
Capt. Berryhill. chief of the light horse
men, with other Creek officials, were
cutting down illegal pasture fences
near Okmulgee, I. T., when a cowboy
employed by the Texas stockman,
whose fence was being cut. appeared
with a Winchester and killed both of
them and wounded two of the light
horsemen.
JOSEPH III. EARLE, United States SEN
ator died in Greenville 5. c., on the
goth. He had been i'll for several
weeks.
The Arkansas senate passed the
Prince good-road bill, and the measure
is now law. The bill provides for a
commission to lay off counties into not
more than II road districts, to be APP
proved by the county court
ALBERT NJ. KING, a 19-year-old mes
senger of the Bolyston national bank
at Boston, was reported missing on
the 10Th, with about $40, 600 in cash
and "a $40, 900 United States certificate.
King started for the clearing house
and had not been heard of since.
DAVID DAVIDSON. formerly of St
Louis, hunted mp his divorced wife
:, the proprietress of a restaurant at
Randsburg, Cal, and, after vain at
tempt to persuade her to return to
J him, shot and killed her. mob tried
to lynch him. but officers got him out
of the way.
FIFTEEN business houses and severa
dwellings in Calumet, Ia. were de
stroyed by fire on the 10th, causing {
loss of $50, 600. There was no fire ap
paratus in the town and surrounding
, cities sent aid.
A DISPATCH from Houghton, Mich
on the 18th stated that forest fire:
We're burning at many points in the
upper peninsula and that unless heavy
rainfalls came soon serious losses IL
logs and timber, as well as the wipine