Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24

In Massac county. Ill. Miss Mary
Wade and John Lammert were sweet
hearts, but their parents opposed their
marriage. In fit of dependency the
young lady took poison and died.
When the young man learned of it he
became raving maniac.
ELEVEN illicit distillers from Con-
way county. Ark, recently surren-
dered to the United States district at
torney at Little Rock and. on their
obligating themselves to aid lin sup
pressing the illicit traffic, they were
allowed to go home, sentence being
suspended during good behavior.
Forty other moonshiners from Pope
county want to surrender on the same
terms. This will wipe out moonshin-
ing in those sections of Arkansas
THE post Office department, New
York dispatch of the 18th stated,
claims that postal cards having print
ed matter on the backs of blank forms
for orders, and on the face the address
and business of the firm, constitute
an advertisement and is violation of
law.
A TERRIBLE explosion took place on
the 18th in the Santa Isabel mine, at
BelmaZ, Spain. Seventy corpses were
recovered, five miners have since died
and many others were unaccounted for.
AMBOYANA, town on an island in
the Molucca group, was destroyed by
an earthquake and 90 persons were
killed.
THE 20-round glove contest between
Australian" Jimmy Ryan and Jim
Watts {colored), champion middle
weight of the south. took place at Louis
vile, KY. on the 18th. Ryan weighed
156 and Watts 15S pounds. 1t was a
most vicious fight. Ryan winning in
the twentieth round.
WHILE playing in his fathers barn
near Montpelier, Ind. 12-year-old Her
bert Stanley pretended to hang himself
and was so successful that he died a
few minutes after his mother found
him and took him down.
NEAR Beaver City. Ok, a deadly duel
was fought on the highway by Bill
Scrugsby and Jim Newlin, cowboys,
who were before fast friends. Both
were found dead and the six-shooter
of each man lay near his body, with
one chamber empty.
A RECENT Claremore. /. T., dispatch
stated that the full-bloods of the Cher
olkee nation were making preparations
to send a number of their most promi-
nent leaders to Mexico to see the lands
offered them in the states of chihuahua
and Sonora. These men will visit the
governors of both states to see if they
can arrange for tribal form of gov
ernment, which will be recognized by
the Mexican states.
ONE of the biggest pools the country
has ever known was formed in Cleve
land, o., on the 18th, all bessemer pig
iron producers in the Cleveland. Ma
honing valley and Shenango iron dis
tricts being in the combine. Prices
will be raised at once.
The agricultural department at
Washington has just issued a bulletin
on the San Jose scale in 1867, pre-
pared by Entomologist l.. o. Howard.
The conditions in over 80 states and
territories are given.
JEFFERSON TAYLOR, well-to-do
farmer at Alton. Ark, who has for
some time been mentally unbalanced,
found an old pistol, and shot his grown
daughter, killing her instantly. Then
he killed himself.
EARLY on the nth fire broke out in
the fifth story of the large furniture
warehouse of May. Stern & Co, at ST.
loss being estimated at $50, 900.
SHOULD clerical cell bacy prevail in
the Episcopal church? This question
has started a violent agitation among
Anglican priests in New York.
A BAD fire occurred on Wabash
avenue, Chicago, on the 10Th. in which
it was thought Is persons had lost
their lives and about 80 others had
been injured. There was wild panic
in the building at the explosions of
Photographic chemicals in the supply
house of Sweet & Co. and many per-
sons threw themselves out of the
windows and were dashed on the pave
ment. The Elevated railway tracks
were also badly damaged. The loss
was between 500. 600 and S50o,000.
GRAND RIVER. at Grand Rapids. Mich,
was higher on the 10Th than at any
time for five years and factories along
the river bank were forced to shut
down.
JUDGE SANBoRN. sitting as a circuit
Judge at ST. Paul, Mimi, confirmed
the sale of the Kansas division of the
Union Pacific road which extends from
Kansas City to Denver, Col.
THE Victor mills, of Cohoes, n. V. a
ten-story structure, burned the
18th. They are said to have been the
largest wooden mills in the United
States, employing over 1, 200 operatives.
The loss was between 100000 and
$500, 900. fully covered by insurance.
To the heroism of Chicago police
men IL persons owe the fact that they
are alive to-day. Seven of them were
rescued from a burning building at
the rear of 265 West Twelfth street
and FIVE were carried from a burning
cottage at the rear of So Liberty street
In the latter case a mother and her
four small children were unconscious
from smoke.
WHAT is supposed to have been the