Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-09-30

| ALTON, 1. T., was almost wiped out
| by fire on the gath. All the business
| houses were destroyed, the Frisco de-
pot and Is cars of wheat. The loss
will foot up between $50, 900 and $751;
600.
| A DISPATCH from Bombay on the oath
stated that the bubonic plague was
again active and wide area was af-
fected, owing to the withdrawal of
| the medical officers for service with the
| troops in the rebellion on the frontier.
| NOAH JOHNSON. aged %, waylaid Miss
Tacy Mang, aged Is, while she was on
her way to school at Gas City, Ind,
and blew her brains out. They were
| lovers and had quarreled the previous
| evening.
| The Madrid Correspondence de Es-
pana asserts that proceedings are on
| between the United States and Spain
| for friendly settlement of affairs in
Cuba
The John Gund Brewing Co.'s plant
at Lacrosse, Wis, was destroyed by
fire on the 23d. Over $4,000 barrels of
beer, 5. 900 bushels of barley and sew
eral car loads of malt were consumed.
The loss exceeded $500, 900.
THE strike on all the school build
ings of Chicago has ended, the board
adopting the report of the arbitration
committee inserting the union labor
clause in all building contracts
| THE annual entry of King Ak-Sar-
Ben into Omaha was made in the pres
ence of 25, 200 people on the night of
the 23d. The parade was the most
pretentious yet given by the Knights
of Ak-Sar-Ben. 1t contained 30 floats,
depicting scenes in the history of the
Kingdom of Quivera.
A DANCE by young people at Dobbins,
| near Birmingham, Aha, closed with
| the death of Miss Mary Jackson whose
throat was cut by Miss Louise Woods,
one of the most popular girls in the
neigh borhood. Jealousy was the cause.
AT Saline q. To courthouse David
Ridge, sheriff of the district, and Jesse
| Sunday, sheriff-e1ect, both Indians,
| drunken row by Samson Bait. The
| murderer was arrested.
''UNcLE" JIMMY LANE, one of the old
est residents of Chicago, died on the
Esd of old age, being 1Oa years old.
THE plague at Bombay was reported
| on the 22d as increasing.
THE works of the Youngstown (O.)
Bridge Co. were destroyed by fire the
other morning. Loss, 500, 900. About
| 300 men were thrown out of employ
| ment.
L The Clyde line steamer Oneida,
which sank in her slip at New York,
| was raised on the 22d and her cargo
| removed.
A TORPEDO boat capsized and sank off
the Hamburg coast and eight of her
crew were drowned, including her
| commander, Duke Frederick William
of Mecklenburg-Schwer
| Two men held up the cashier of the
Merchants bank of Wooster, Ind,
while he was working at night over
the books, and took $3.50 in bills and
escaped.
BY the bursting of fywheel at the
Providence (R. L. Rubber Shoe Co. two
1 men were killed and several others
| were injured.
| A TORNADO swept over Sava, Oria and
Latiano, Italy, the other day. Forty
persons were killed. ~ people were
wounded, 20 houses were destroyed and
| telegraphic communication with the
| scene was cut off.
News was brought to San Francisco
by the steamer City of Picking that the
Hawaiian senate had unanimously
ratified the treaty for the annexation
| VI GhO Law tSldnOS 10 tuC - III leu
States.
WILLIAM TR1Fr. aged 80. employed
on the government tug boat Alpha
from Cairo. Ill, was taken to the Ma
rine hospital at st. Louis on the 21st
| as a yellow fever patient from Cairo.
| WHILE Charles and Philip Mas were
loading wagons with sand near Rock
port, Ind, the bank caved in and
Charles was taken out dead and Philip
was thought to be fatally injured.
THE famous PAGERS, John R. Gentry
and Robert j., hitched together, on
the 22d lowered the worlds double team
record for mile to 200 at Philadel-
phia. The quarters were: :33, 1:04H,
1887, 400. The previous record was
2:094, held by Mrs. w. E. d. Stokes
Miss Rita and Josie B.
THE Glover Leaf railway has given
an order at Sloan Springs, Ark, for
a shipment of 80, 900 barrels of apples
to New York commission house.
COMMANDER BooTH-TUCKER has Sc
lected about 500 acres of land in Mon
terey county, Cal, and a Salvation
army colony will soon be established
| near Soledad.
THE sawmill of j. w. Day & Co. at
Minneapolis, Mimi, was burned on the
22d. Loss, $50, 900; insurance, $40. 600.
The fire department managed to save
$50, 000, 900 feet of lumber
A DISPATCH from Madrid to the Paris
Temps stated that Gen. Woodford had
delivered an ultimatum to the Spanish
government that if Spain did not end
the war in Cuba during the month of
October the United States would inter
fere.
The negotiations with the Shoshones
and Bannocks fer the purchase of a
part of the Fort Hall reservation in
Idaho is off, the government refusing
to pay 81 per acre for it.