Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-07-08

opinion at South McA1ester, l. T., in
the Indian citizenship cases. HSsays
all white persons married to Choctaws
in accordance with their laws aTe en-
titled to be enrolled.
JAMES NJ. BURGIN and his wife were
found murdered in their home near
Bentonville, Ark. Robbery was pre-
sumed to have been the motive. There
was no clew to the murderers.
A WILD man which haunted the pine
forests in Dawes and Sioux counties,
Neb., was captured the other day
while asleep, He apparently knew
nothing when examined by the board
of insanity.
WHILE a revival was recently in pro-
gress at the church at Grassy Plains,
N. Y, Julius Whitehead, aged IL, and
other youthful unbelievers, attended
to make sport. Julius began to sneeze
artifcially, and after a pulpit rebuke
sneezed the harder, but when he tried
to stop he could not, and physicians
said that he was liable to sneeze him
self to death.
A VOLCANIC eruption occurred six
miles from cambridge, O., on the I'd.
First camerumblings like distant thun-
der and the earth began to tremble
r1ho IdCh III PldCSS dAQ d
number of small trees were swallow ed
up in the assures and large volumes of
smoke issued from them. The resi-
dents of the neigh borhood were badly
frightened.
JOHN Cox was sentenced by Judge
Lunt at Colorado Springs, Col. to hang
for killing James Daley. Cox will
probably be the last man to receive a
40 IN, CoIOraI0 toll
punishment has been abolished in that
state since the commission of his crime.
A NUMBER of boys were swimming in
the river at the foot of Ferry street,
st. Louis, on the ed. One boy sank
and man plunged after him. He got
hold of the boy, but before they could
reach the shore both were drowned.
EMMA OCHsNER, a ten-year-o1d girl,
threw her hand across an electric light
guy wire while watching a funeral
procession pass at Joliet, Ill, and was
instantly killed. Her father was hsr-
ribly burned in an effort to rescue her.
Lakes BRATIsCH. near Galatz, Reu-
mania, became swollen by rains and
burst its embankment and 60 soldiers
and many women and children were
carried away by the torrent and
drowned.
Col. w. J. CALHOUN, of Danvilles Ill. .
after consulting with his family and
business associates, has decided to de-
cline the position of comptroller Of the
treasury on account of his law prao-
tice.
FIVE Indians were reported dead at
Nalone'S Point, on Mile Laos. lake.
Minnesota, on the 1St, and several 9th
ers were expected to die, as the result
of drinking pain killer. hair oil and
other preparations containing alcohol.
The Indian payzaent had been going
on there and the redskins gorged them
selves with this stuff, which was
bought from Malone's trading pest.
JONAS WILDER, an emigrant and his
wife and two little girls were burned
to death in cabin near Rochester,
KY. They had stopped in the cabin
for few days rest. They We're sup
posed to be from Benton, Mo.
THEODORE ROSE, who is under SEN
tence at Glasgow, Mo-, for ten years
for killing Charles Wells in an election
riot, but who broke out of Jail June ii,
was captured at Pueblo, Col, on the
goth.
Four troops of the garrison at Fort
Robinson, Neb., were ordered to be in
readiness on the 30th to move to the
Fort Hall reservation, Ida, in case the
Indians there were troublesome, dis
patch to Washington stating that they
were burning fences and killing cattle.
JACOB MILLER was electrocuted at
Nine Mile creek, near Cleveland, O.,
on the Goth, and several others were
badly burned and shocked. The men
were building stone abutment and
the metallic guy ropes on the derrick
hung over trolley wire and they
tried to tighten one, when it touched
the trolley wire and sent a current
through them.
On the Great Northern railway near
Fisher, Mimi, Thomas Hunter. a sec
ton foreman, and his. gang were sud
denly startled by seeing fully half a
mile of track lifted from the roadbed
and thrown into a ditch. IT wassup-
posed that the rails were expanded by
the heat and finally lifted and thrown
as describe Hunter succeeded in
signaling passenger train before it
reached there and it stopped within
300 feet of the gap in the track.
IT was reported that Schweinfurth,
the so-called messiah of Rockford.
HI, has contracted for the purchase OF
1900 acres of unimproved land in Ben
ton county, Ark, with the view of re-
moving his proteges from ILLINOIS and
establishing one of his ''heavens" there.
GHoULs have recently robbed the
grave of Jesse Paul, noted Chicka-
saw Indian chief, who died in 1864.
Quantities of clothing, fire arms and
| feathers and a vast sum of money were
buried with the chief near Perry, Ok,
and all have been stolen.
VICTOR S. BERGER, editor of a social
ist organ, at Milwaukee, gave out a
| statement the other night on his re-
| turn from conference with E. V.
| Debs He says the scheme to plant a
| socialist COLONY in the west has been