Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-01-06

consumed.
| The business portion of Muchal<a-
mock, Ia, a mining town near Oska-
loosa, was practically destroyed by fire
on the 30th. The fire started in a res
| taurant and the flames burned them
selves out, there being no water tic
fight them.
| JAMES MCCOY, of Mud Run, w. Va,
! forbade his sister-in-law, Miss Sham
bin. to go to school, but she took her
books and started. He followed and
struck her blow with his fist, killing
her instantly.
A NEWS agency reported on the 30th
| that the British naval reserves were
| being modified. This created great
excitement in London. for it was held
to mean that Great Britain was pre-
pairing for serious trouble in China.
GEN. GOMEZ, the Cuban insurgent
general. was recently interviewed and
said that for Spain to offer autonomy
| to the insurgents was an insult; that
the insurgents were fighting for indie
pendence and, although they would
welcome the intervention of the Uuited
| States, they can, if let alone, achieve
| their independence uuaided.
| THE Farmers and Traders state bank
the 30th on account of business being
Improbable. The card on the door
said the depositors would be paid in
| full as fast as their claims can be pre-
scented.
THE overturning of lamp for heat
ing glue in Whitney's planning mill at
San Bernardino, Cal, started fire
which destroyed the mill, four dwell
ings, the Episcopal church, skating
| rink and a hardware store. The losses
aggregated 100000.
The office of the Texas Independent,
a populist paper published at Green
vile, Tex, was destroyed by an incen-
diary fire.
| THE business portion of Cantri1, Ia,
| was destroyed by fire.
| THE French have seized Hal Nan
| island. It has an area of Il, 900 square
miles and population of 10000
| Chinese, exclusive of wild tribes in the
| interior.
| THE warship Mohican is to recruit
about $50 apprentice boys on the Pa
cific coast, and probably will start with
them about the middle of January on a
cruise around the world.
MAY wheat will sell for $2-some
| time.'' This was the sensational proph-
| ecy made by John P. Grier, who repre-
sents the concern that is doing Levi q.
Letter & Sons business on the Chicago
change. Grier refused to elaborate
! his prediction when pressed.
| THE plant of the Austin Manufacture
| ing company, makers of agricultural
| implements. at Chicago was destroyed
| by fire on the night of the goth and
| Frank Sutton, an employe, was caught
! in hn Hor and h11r fo 6oa
Loss, $50, 600; covered by insurance.
| ROBBERS broke into the house of
| Mrs. M. S. Kimba11 at Mitchel1ville.
Ia. the other night and treated her so
badly that she will probably die. The
doors and walls were covered with
| blood, showing that a terrible strug
! gle took place.
| ASBESTOS has been discovered near
Rockford, s. d., in the Black hills. 1t
| is said to be of excellent quality and
easily mined.
JOHN NUFER shot and killed Joseph
Enzler. a laborer. at St Louis the other
| evening. The murderer was crazed
from the effects of drink.
| SIX men were injured by the derail
ment of an engine on the Chicago,
Hammond & Western road at Salt
creek, two miles north of Lagrange,
| Ill.,, on the Goth.
In rear-end collision on the Wabash
railroad the other evening five passen-
gers were somewhat seriously injured.
| The cannon ball" express, bound for
| Chicago. ran into the last coach of a
suburban train from Chicago, which
was switched at Palos Springs, 10 miles
from Chicago. The coach was ditched.
State Senator Humphrey was among
those badly injured.
THE Nation Ul1.) Tile company's
large factory burned the other day,
entailing loss of thousands of dollars.
| ALFRED FRANKLIN, colored, was shot
| to death by his son, a boy about II
years of age, at Elk, 1. T. Franklin
was probably the wealthiest co1ored
man in the Indian territory.
| MRS. WILLIAM KLIE was burned to
death at st. Louis by her clothes ignit-
| ing from the explosion of coal oil
lamp.
| JAMES REED, a negro, murdered his
mistress, Susie Blakely, at Kansas City,
Mo-. on the 2Sth. A lot of boys heard
the shots and they followed the negro
until he was arrested. Reed comes OF
a murderous family, his father having
been hanged for numbering the mans
mother.
CHARLES A. MCDANIEL. was accident
ally shot and killed by his eight-year-
old son. They lived near Tyler. Tex.
A GREAT fire occurred recently at
the copper mining camp of jerome,
Ariz-, which laid the place in ashes.
A PRISONER named Harry English at
tempted to burn his way out of the
Ysleta (Tex.) Jail and was cremated-
JOE WALcoTT and Tom Tracey met
at Chicago on the 27th for six-round
bout The decision of the referee was
draw.