Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-17

JOSEPH BOULANGER, a quarter-bIoodi
Usage Indian, is to make claim to;
about 35 acres of land on the site and
in the vicinity of the Union depot in
kansas City. Mo. He claims that his
grandfather on his mothers side re-
eeived patent to the land from An
drew Jackson and that it was never
properly sold.
MRS. CAROLINA LANG, aged 81 years,
and her husband, Cornelius, aged rs
years, were found starving at their
nome in Chicago on the 18th. They
we're both taken to the county hos
pital, where the woman soon died and
the man was said to be sinking fast.
Mr.. Lang had been out of work.
ACCORDING to news received at Vic
toria, B. c., from Alaska, five men
were frozen to death upon the Chilkoot
pass.
STILLwEI.L post G. A. B., at Colfax,
Ind, decided by unanimous vote to
enter politics by calling meeting of
the ex-union soldiers of the Ninth con-
yressiona1 district to nominate can
didate for congress pledged to intro
duce and work for a bill providing for
pensioning all union soldiers at 81 a
| day. The resolution of Stillwen post
also provides for making a national
organization along these lines The
| action has caused a sensation in Grand
Army circles
| In the British house of commons on
the 18th John Redmond, the Parnellite
leader. introduced measure granting
home rule for Ireland. 1t was defeated,
233 to 65
A FRIGHTFUL head-end collision of
freight trains occurred the other morn
ing near Kirkland station, on the Lou
isville & Nashville road. Four men
were killed. one fatally hurt and sew
eral others received broken limbs and
cuts. The force of the impact welded
the engines together and piled the cars
upon them to the height of 80 feet.
SEVEN members of the Covington
council were in jail at independence.
KY, on the 10th, having been incar
cerated for contempt of Judge Tar
ven's court in refusing to obey his
order to improve the court room and
provide better protection to the court
records. The judge extended the olive
branch, but all refused to purge them
| selves of contempt on the advice of
their attorney.
| Two Philadelphia schoonerS with 90
men were lost during the late blizzard
off the New England coast. One was
the William johnson and the other
the William K. Park.
| ABOUT 8, 900 trousers makers of New
York, Brooklyn and Brownsville went
on strike on the 9th for an advance
in wages. They claimed that they had
to work 16 hours day for from S. to
R9 week as wages.
In the New York assembly on the
10th when the Weeks resolution, ask
ing for the resignation of United
States Senator Murphy was called up,
Mr.. Weeks offered substitute, which
censured, but did not demand resigna-
ton. Mr.. Oliver (dem.), of New York
introduced a substitute calling for the
impeachment of President Mckinley
for aiding in the election of United
States Senator Hanna. The resolu-.
ton censuring Senator Murphy was
finally adopted by a vote of 80 ayes
and 60 nays.
A FIRE which broke out on the night
of the 9th in the cold storage plant of
| the Chautauqua Lake Ice company at
Pittsburgh, Pa. caused the loss of
nearly ST. 500, 900 worth of property and
the loss of Il lives, possibly more. as
it was rumored that there were several
men still buried under the walls which
| fell from an explosion in one of the
|
| stores burned.
| EDWARD BELLAMY, author of Look
ing Backward" and Eugene V. Debs.
| late head of the American Railway
union and leader of the social democ-
racy, have united to launch a new po-
1itical party. The social democracy
will be taken as the nucleus of the
party. This was decided upon at
meeting held at Denver, Col, on the
| 9th.
| Two thousand students of the Rush
Medical college, the Chicago College of
| Dentistry and the Marquette school
engaged in desperate conflict with 40
| policemen at Chicago on the Sth. The
battle ragged from noon until evening.
The trouble began by the students en-
| gaging in a SNOWFALL fight. Several
students were badly dubbed and two
or three policemen somewhat badly
| injured. When the riot was over 25
students were under arrest
THE Northwestern Christian Advo-
cate, of Chicago, on the 9th contained
an appeal, which was signed by a
large number of 1aymen and is to be
sent to every minister of the Methodist
Episcopal church throughout the
world, that the number of lay dele
gates to the general conference from
all the conferences shall be the same
as the mum Der of ministerial delegates.
GEORGE LORD, the oldest mason in
the United States, and probably in the
world, and the oldest odd fellow in
this country, died at San Bernardino,
Cal, the victim of a paralytic stroke.
He was born June 81, 1900.
IN an attempt at Bonham, Tex, to
arrest William Greene and Bob Hunter,
outlaws, both men were killed and Of
ficers Milstead and Bridges were so