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

| La, was destroyed by fire on the 25th.
The places burned included a grocery,
dry goods and a clothing store. The
total loss was estimated at more thar
s175, 0OO
| THE Kentucky house has passed an
an ti-cigarette bill. The bill is sweep
ing in its penalties and absolutely pro-
hibits the sale, barter, loan, or use of
cigarettes or cigarette material or even
| the possession of the prescribed weed.
WILLIAM r. COLT, a negro, was
hanged at Greensboro, Ala, for the
murder of John A. Singley, wife and
child.
NINE people were burned to death in
a tenement house fire at Charleston,
s. c., on the 25th.
THE picking, drying and steaming
| warehouses of the National Tobacco
company. at Louisville, KY, were to-
tally destroyed by fire on the 25th.
The loss will amount to $1,000, 900,
fully covered by insurance. Over 1, 400
| people were thrown out of employ
ment.
The comptroller of the currency las
issued call for statement of the
condition of national banks on Febru-
| airy 13.
| ANGELO WILL, at Coalburg blocks.
near Youngstown, O., the other night
shot Martha Lawrence. Mrs. Peter
| Farando, Joseph Farando and Daniel
Noute, the two latter being fatally
wounded. All the injured persons are
relatives. No motive for the deed was
! learned. Farmers were out with their
guns hunting for Will.
| SARAH HAMILTON, living near Cen
! ter, Ok, was burned to death by her
clothes igniting. She was 1O4 years
| old.
WHILE Mrs. George Fl. Huelswede
was at fancy dress ball in St. Louis
| the other night her costume-that of
a fairy-caught fire at stove and she
was probably fatally burned.
| IN the midst of the busy proceedings
of Judge Berry's court at Atlanta, Ga.
the other day bailiff called atten-
| face of Arnold Bumstead, a teacher,
who was defendant in the case on trial.
and when a functionary of the court
room reached him, he was found dead.
| AN avalanche at South Quebec, Can,
the other night destroyed two houses.
| In one house resided man named An
gers, his wife and six children. The
| father and two children were taken
out dead and the mother was in a crit
| ica1 condition. In the other house
James King lived with his wife and
two children. Mrs King was killed,
| the others escaping serious in jury.
| ALL the government department is
were closed in Washington on the 22d
save the navy department.. where the
signing of the wrecking contract was
| the most important event. There
| were no important developments con-
corning the Maine wreck. Lieuts.
Holman and Wainwright, two of the
vessels officers, were examined by the
court of inquiry.
| A CIRCULAR addressed to veterans of
the Atlanta campaign, whether wear
| ers of the blue gray, has been sent
| out from St. Louis to secure the organ
ization of all surviving participants
| into society of the Atlanta cam
paign." The organiza ton will be
purely social one, and will have for it's
principal object the creation of ma
tional park in and around Kenesaw
mountain, where the principal battle
of the campaign was fought.
| JIMMY MICHAEL, the wheelman, the
greatest rider the field of bicycling
has ever known, has left Chicago and
gone to New York to enter the employ
| of Phil Dwyer as a jockey and will
| ride Dryers horses this season.
THERE was an epidemic of suicides
in st. Louis. In the As hours ended on
the oath there were nine attempts, all
but one successful.
| A MORTGAGE for 500, 900, 900 was filed
at Beatrice, Neb., on the gath by the
| Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail-
road company to the Central Trust
company of New York and bears three
per cent. interest. The instrument
| contains over 80, 600 words
| A DISPATCH from New York on the
Gath said that 2. 900 residents of that
city and 1900 persons in other parts of
| the country, policy-holders in the
| United Life association, which went
| into bankruptcy in 1896, have been
| levied upon for an assessment, amount
| ing to SIS, 900, by the receiver, the in
| dividual assessment being as high as
| S. 1000 in some cases.
News has reached San Francisco of
a rich gold strike on American creek,
| $50 miles down the Yukon river in
| Alaska. The new diggings are on
American soil, 25 miles across the
| boundary line
THOMAS FORD, who had been jailed
| at Mascot, Neb., for cutting his brother
| in-law's throat, escaped and before
! he could be overpowered he killed
| four men. Intense excitement PRE-
| vailed at the place.
A MOB of 400 men dragged Richard
| Allen. colored, from the Jail at May
| field, KY, on the 23d and hanged him
| to tree. He had been arrested for
burglary.
AT Lake City, S. c., on the 22d Post
master Baker, negro, and his family
| were burned out of their home, the
postmaster and a baby killed and his
wife and three daughters shot and