Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10

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forts to exterminate the pest
| A FIRE at Wayne, w. Va. the other
night destroyed three hotels, three
stores and several other smaller build
ings. Loss, $50, 900, with little insur-
ance.
| T. A. CocKBURN. one of the proprie-
tors of two large ostrich farms in
southern California, will establish an
ostrich farm near San Antonio. Tex.
| OWING to slack business there has
been general reduction of employees
in all departments of the Missouri.
Kansas & Texas railway at Denison,
Tex. Altogether about 200 employees
have received their walking papers.
THE Sawyer & Goodman sawmill at
Marinette. Wis, was destroyed by fire.
The loss amounted to $50. 600.
| a NAH. train and a freight train col
lided on the Glasgow & Southwestern
road near Troon, Scotland. The en-
gineer and fireman and five workmen
on the freight train were killed and
| Sc persons in jured. some fatally.
| THE explosion of cinematograph
films caused the burning of the hand
some Y. M. c. A. building at Scranton,
Pa. Loss. 1925, 600.
| A HORRIBLE crime took place in
Franklin county. Ark, recently. While
Engaged in a heated religious discus
sion Sol Aubrey killed his aged father,
mother and his own ten-year-old son
and seriously wounded his wife and
three remaining children, two of whom
were expected to die.
| A SCHOOL building at Columbus. O.,
burned on the Sd, but the 300 children
were marched out safely and in an or
derby manner by the teachers. Books
and wraps were burned.
| ALI. the biscuit and cracker compa-
MES between Salt Lake city on the
west, Portland, Me-. on the east, st.
Paul on the north and New Orleans on
| the south have been com bined under
one management. The name of the
new corporation, which was incorpo-
rated in New Jersey with capital of
S25, ZOO. 900 of preferred and $50, 600, 600
| of common stock, is the National Bis
cult company. The new company con-
trolls 139 different plants, which is
about 80 per cent. of all the large bak-
| cries in the country.
| SYSTEMATIC pension frauds, it is al
legged, have been unearthed by the
pension bureau in Oakland City, Ind,
in which a leading physician and
prominent church deacon were said to
be leaders. Both were pension attor-
| affidavits and legal papers.
| VIOLENT earthquake shocks have
been felt at Balikesr and Brusa. in
Asia Minor. Numerous fatalities re-
suited and great damage was done.
! THE Mcintyre block, in the heart of
Winnipeg, Man., was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $500, 900.
A CHICAGO telegram said Mrs. Minnie
Wallace Walkup Ketcham had won
| victory over the other heirs of the estate
of the late John B. Ketcham. She was
made executriX of the will and receives
a clear title to over $500, 600 in proper
ty, while the Toledo Ketchams will re-
ceive about $50, 600.
A NEGRO was refused perm ission on
the 31st to go through a railroad tunnel
near Bramwell. w. Va, by the watch
man when the negro shot him, killing
him instantly. A posse captured the
murderer and placed him in Jail, but
at midnight so men took the prisoner
out of his cell and lynched him.
THE house committee on post offices
has recommended the passage of the
bill permitting the printing of private
postal cards. If this bill becomes
law any person will be at liberty to
print postal cards for his personal use
and make them means of advertising
if he so chooses. They will be carried
| in the mails when One-cent postage
| stamp is affixed to them. :
| DEFINITE assurances have been re-
ceived by the department of justice
that the original Pacific railroad syn
| dictate will bid up the Kansas Pacific
branch to the full amount of the gov
| ernment's lien.
FRANK S. WRIGHT shot and killed
himself at Chicago when Imprisonment
for confessed embezzlement from the
Collier Publishing company confront
ed him. He had been married less
than three weeks.
A DISPATCH on the Sd stated that the
deaths from the plague in Bombay for
the last seven days was 927, as against
S34 for the previous corresponding
period.
A WOMAN who wished to conceal her
| identity donated to the Volunteers of
| America an orange orchard of 20 acres
situated at Thermaito, Cal, valued at
S1O.O 900.
THOUSANDS of sheep were reported
to have persisted from cold and starva-
ton in western Wyoming. Old-timers
said it had been the hardest winter
they had seen for the past 10 years
A DOZEN stores. one warehouse and
two dwellings were destroyed by fire
| at Ash burn, Ga, on the S1St- The loss
was estimated at $50. 900; insurance
about $50, 600. 1t was thought at one
| time the whole town would be de-
| stroyed.
THE Alvord house. the largest hotel
in Gloversville. n. Y. was destroyed
| by fire on the 1st and five persons lost
their lives. The damage to property
will reach 500, 900.
The mail steamer Channel Queen
was totally wrecked off the island OF
Guernsey, in the English channel