Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-12-23

the 18th Tor murder.
ssKIDr Mccoy, of Indiana, fought
Dan Creedon, of New Zealand. at New
York on the nth for the middleweight
championship of the world After 15
lively rounds the latter threw up the
sponge and acknowledged the Hoosier's
superiority.
WILLIAM CARR was hanged by the
sheriff at Liberty, Mo-, on the 18th for
the murder of his three-year-old
daughter.
WHILE a herd of sheep, numbering
900 head. belonging to NJ. o. Muir
ply, was being moved out of Schleicher
county, Tex, to new range, dense
fog suddenly came up. The herders got
bewildered and the entire herd drifted
away and were not found, although
searching parties were out several days
CARL SCHURz was reelected presi-
dent of the National Civil Service Re-
form league at the meeting at Cincin-
natl on the nth. A resolution was
passed scoring the attempts of con-
gressmen to repeal the civil service
laws.
Two children of Albert Kellner, of
Muchakinock, Ia, persisted in a fire
which consumed the family's dwelling.
The mother had left the children alone
in the house.
Two children named Maggie and
Henry Carroll, aged respectively four
and six years, were burned to death at
Newark, n. J. Their mother had
locked them in the house while she
went out washing.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th, &C
cording to Bradstreet's report, aggre-
gated 2s3, against $50 for the CORE
spending week year ago.
THE A. f. of l.. convention at Nash
vile, Tenn, on the 18th adopted reso-
lutions for the government ownership
of telegraph lines, against anti-scalp-
ing legislation, for the appointment
of factory inspectors and for an amend
ment to the constitution depriving
courts of the power to set aside laws
made by the people. The proposition
to create a national department of
labor was indorsed and the fedora
TONS stand against the principle of
compulsory arbitration was reiterated.
THE 10th annual meeting of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform league be-
gan session of two days at Cincinnati
on the 10th with Hon. Carl Schurz pre-
siding.
A TREATY between the United States
and the Seminole nation was concluded
and signed by the Dawes and Seminole
commissioners at Muskogee, /. T., on
the 10th. 1t provides for the allotment
of lands and a division of it's moneys
among the citizens after the tribal
governments are extinguished.
A MOB lynched Tom Waller. negro,
near Bankston Ferry, Miss, for being
an accomplice of Charley Lewis-who
had been hanged day or two before
in the murder of Mrs Smith and her
four children.
A TRAIN on the Chicago e Eastern
Illinois railroad ran into an extra train
near Clinton, Ind, the other morning
and three employees were killed and
half dozen others injured. Both en-
gines were badly wrecked. the bag
gage car was thrown down an embank-
ment and the mail car smashed.
A RECENT dispatch from Bayou, La.
stated that the steamboat Pargoud
sank in the Mississippi river just
above the mouth of Red river. The
boat and cargo were in bad shape and
| the loss was heavy.
MRS. ANNIE WEI. stepped on parlor
| match at st. Louis, causing it to
ignite. The blaze caught her under
| skirt and she was fatally burned.
The date for the national encamp-
| ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-
| lie has been fixed for September $40
| at Cincinnati.
THE advance guard of 10000 Croa-
| tian colonists arrived in Denver the
other day. The colony will locate in
| the Shenandoah valley of southwest
| ern Colorado, where houses, schools,
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tutions will be erected, the Rio Grande
| railroad promising to construct a
| branch into the country.
FIRE destroyed the United States
courthouse at Ardmore, ]. T., on the
| 10th. The records were safe in the
vault, but valuable papers in the offices
of the marshal, clerk and commissioner
were lost. Only the bare walls were
left standing. The fire also destroyed
the Cobb house, Arch Matthews feed
store and so bales of cotton in a com
| press yard. The blaze was believed to
have been of incendiary origin.
AT least 1000 of the poor and un-
fortunate of Kansas City will be fei
by the Salvation army on Christmas
day at Kansas City, Mo. Maj. Still
| well, the commander, has received suf-
Gent money to assure a dinner for at
least 1,500 destitute people and he ex-
poets enough more to give an old Eng
| llsh dinner to 1000.
The wholesale grocery house Oh
Belts, Fletcher & Co, at Marshall
town. Ia, caught fire the other after.
noon and was entirely destroyed
BY fire at Duryea. Pa, Two lives
were lost and nine store buildings
and four dwellings were destroyed.
THE So mines of the Consolidated
and Madison Coal companies, in the
Belleville, ILL.,, district have resumed
operations and 5000 miners have re
turned to work. The mining compa