Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-12-02

~ W.. SOOLBOCks the hStOEs uIc0 dt
New York on the 27th of indigestion.
complicated by dropy of the heart,
aged 81 years.
a STREET fight occurred at Hughes
Springs, ON the line between Marrs
and Cass counties in Texas, in which
Constable Driver aud his son were
killed and Ben Boone, a prominent
resident, was mortally wounded. The
affair resulted from trivial matter.
THE Boston Anti-Imrerialist league
has begun the preparation of signed
protest against the extension of Amer
lean sovereignty over the Philippine
islands to be presen ted to the presi-
dent and the congress of the United
States The s'antis'' said they expect
ed to secure 10000. 600 names to the
protest. A sort of endless chain ar
rangement was to be the method of
work.
The vault of the Wrentham CMass-)
national bank was blown open by
burglars and robbed of s., 900 in cash
and notes valued at $65, 900.
AT Weatherford, Ok. on the 2Sth
there were two banks ready for bust
ness, two newspapers, 40 or more bust
ness houses and 2. 900 people where four
months ago there was cornfield.
REPORTS reached Meridian, Miss. on
the 27th that three negroes had been
lynched in Newton county, Miss, and
the farmers of that section were on
the trail OF others implicated in as
sault on a white man. The trouble
arose over the ownership of hog.
THERE was report in circulation in
Havana that Gen. Maxine Gomez had
died. but it was not credited in Cuban
cirles.
THE Hutchinson & Sou thern railroad
will be extended from Blackwell, Ok,
to Ponca-
A DISPATCH from Perry. Ok, said
that prairie fires had played havoc in
Oklahoma and the Indian territory.
One farmer had lost hay, cotton and
live stock to the amount of $40. 600. In
the Kiowa Indian reservation a strip
of land so by T5 miles wide was burned
over, causing great damage.
THREE men raped at the door of
the home of Jacob Nominee, near
Touissant. Ottawa county, O., and
when the door was opened they tor
tured the aged man and his wife and
compelled them to divulge the hiding
place of 81, 700 in cash and 81, 600 in ne
gotiable paper.
GEN. SHAFTER was the principal guest
at banquet given by the Sons of the
Revolution at New York on the 25th.
Gen. Shafter, in his speech, defended
his line of action at Santiago.
WILLIAM CATO was hanged at Eddy
vile. KY, on the 25th for murder.
MANY points in south and southwest
Virginia and in North Carolina expert
enced an earthquake shock soon after
three o'clock on the afternoon of the
25th.
WILL BARNES, MINER was empty
ing keg of powder in house at
Isley's switch. Hopkins county. KY,
while smoking and a spark from his
pipe dropped into the can of powder.
His mother was instantly killed and
he and his sister were seriously injured.
One end of the house was blown down
and the entire building damaged.
THE soap factory of the Allen B.
Wrislew company at Chicago was COM
pletely destroyed by fire the other
evening. It was generally supposed
that spontaneous Combustion was the
cause of the fire. Loss estimated at
$105, 600; we'll insured.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 25th
numbered IT'S, according to Brad
for the cores ponding week last year.
TRAIN was derailed on the Bur-
ling ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern road
while rounding a curve near Burling-
ton, Ia. The day coach, containing 20
passengers, rolled over twice and land
ed right side up in ditch. SO feet
away. Two persons were fatally in
jured and several others received
bruises
SIMON GUGGENHEIM. who was mar
ried on the cath in New York city to
Miss Olga Hirsh, commemorated the
event by giving a Thanksgiving din
ner to 4, 300 children in Denver, Col,
where he lives. The tickets were dis
tributed by Parson tom" Uzzell, of
the Peoples tabernacle. to whom Mr..
Guggenheim entrusted the manage
ment of the feast.
MRS. THOMAS STEPHENS was burned
to death and Alex Ross was fatally
burned during a fire in the woman's
house at Elkton, Mich, caused by the
explosion of an oil stove
The Wilson bank at Utica, O., was
robbed while the officials were absent
for period of Is minutes at dinner on
the esd of $4,000 in registered bonds,
50. 600 in coupon bonds and SIS, 600 in
gold and currency. Tramps were sup
posed to have done the work. En-
trance was effected through a back
window.
Two men were killed and several in
jured by the premature explosion of
dynamite at the Limestone auarries
| near Middlesboro. Ky.
MRS MAMIE SrALEY and Minnie
France, her niece, were burned to death
| at Huntington, w. Va Nav STANLEY
| was also badly injured
A BOUNTY of SO a head for wolves is