Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-12-16


Only two were seriously hurt. the 9TH
ers escaping with slight injuries An
explosion of a furnace adjoining had
occurred the previous evening, which
had probably weakened the founda-
ton of the cast house. The roof being
of sheet iron did not fall fat on the
ground, else all the men would have
been killed.
GEN. PAUL VANDERvooRT late com
mander of the G. A. R. and promoter
of the 6. A. r. colony in Texas, writes
from Denings Bridge, Tex. that he has
closed deal with John l.. and ''Shang-
hal" Pierce for land for q colony, and
that at least 1000 colonists will move
Immediately after the new year.
THREE small children of the Sobotka
family at St Louis were mysteriouslv
poisoned the other day. Willie, aged
nine. has died. but antidotes were Civ
en- to the other two and they will re-
cover.
LYMAN DART, aged 10, was sen.
fenced to be hanged at Halifax, n. S.,
for murder. He was convicted on cir
cumstantia1 evidence.
THE ten-year-old daughter of Mr..
James Rish, of Canadian county, Ok.
was burned to death while playing
near an open fireplace.
THE Dupont trophy was won at Chi
cago. by j. A. r. Elliott, of Kansas
City, Mo-. who defeated Fred Gilbert,
of Spirit Lake, Ia. Elliott killed his
25 birds straight and Gilbert missed
his sixth and tenth birds.
Two yard engines collided at Spring
field, Ill, during a heavy fog and
Switchman Castle was killed.
HARRY ALLENDER was hanged at San
Quentin, Cal, for numbering a woman
and man.
MRS. FRED SCHNEIDER succumbed to
wounds inflicted by her husband with
gun at Chicago in a quarrel.
Schrieder put a bullet through his
own brains just as the police forced
the door of his room.
A HEAVY fog at New York on the 9th
was responsible for two elevated rail
road collisions in which five persons
were hurt, but none seriously. Two
collisions of ferry boats also occurred.
but no one was injured, though there
were small panics on each of the boats.
THAT Germany anticipates trouble
at no distant date with Russia is man
ifest from the orders that have just
been issued by the war department at
Berlin for the Immediate rearmament
of all the forts along the Russian from
tier line. The expense entailed will
be enormous.
E. III. WINsLow, president of the
Metropolitan Plate Glass company at
New York, confirmed a report to the
effect that rates for plate glass insur-
ance will probably soon be cut in every
state. He said the compact for bust
ness in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota,
Missouri, Kansas and the Dakotas had
already been declared off.
A SLAB of quartz, with veins of gold
showing, will convey CALIFORNIA; in
vitation to President Mckinley to at
tend the golden jubilee of the discov-
cry of gold at San Francisco. Chair
man Parsons. of the executive commit
tee, has promised to secure suitable
piece of the precious rock and will
have engraved on its face the message.
EX-AMBAssADoR BAYARD is likely to
be candidate for United States SEN
ator to succeed Senator Gray, of Della
ware.
JOHN FRANCIS, general passenger
agent of the Chicago, Burlington 6
Quincy Railroad company, who stopped
at Denver, Col, the other day on his
way home from the Pacific coast, said:
There is going to be a big rush of
travel to Alaska when the season
opens. People are preparing to go
from every state in the union and from
almost every town. There will be at
least SO, 900 people make the trip and
the crowd may reach twice that num-
ber."
THE board of education at Minneap-
oils, Mimi. has issued a public state
ment that unless the city council would
allow it to issue 500, 1000 of bonds it
would be necessary to close the public
schools and discharge the teachers
March 1. Its financial condition is
due to a law passed last winter making
real estate taxes payable one-half in
June and the other half in November.
The California supreme court on the
sth dispelled the last hope of w. II. T. -,
Durrant, the murderer of Blanche La
mont and Minnie Williams, by dispos-
ing in summary manner of his ap-
peals- It only remains now to resen-
tence the condemned murderer.
THE Chicago. Western & Northwest
States Exhibition company has been
organized in Chicago to maintain
a permanent exhibition in the lake
city of products of the west and north
west, to give information to home
seekers about cost of lands, etc. and
to aid and assist in securing immigra-
ton and developing the above men
toned territory.
WILLIAM CRooT, of England, who
was defeated in London on the 9th for
the bantamweight championship of
the world by Jimmy Barry, of Chicago,
died the next morning of the injuries
received. The Knockout blows con-
sisted of a severe punch over the heart
and then a crushing Highlander on
the jaw, which caused conclusion of
the brain.
HENRY MOODY, a single man, was
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