Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-04-14

given 500. 600 to Princeton university
to erect a dormitory which will bear
his name. Mr.. Little was formerly
clerk in chancery in New Jersey.
THE towboat Stella blew up at Ten
Mile Kanawha, dispatch from CALI
polls, O., stated, and the captain and
pilot were seriously injured. The
boat was wrecked and the crew had to
swim ashore.
A DISPATCH from Skaguay, Alaska,
stated that on the Sd, while number
Of gold-seekers were going over the
Chilkoot trail, a snowslide occurred
and at least 81 met death and large
number of others were seriously in
lured. Later advices said that %
bodies had been recovered and it was
| cared that so or 100 people had lost
heir lives in the slide.
WHILE a freight train was going over
the Dry Forks bridge, so miles from
treat Falls. Mont, car of dynamit tie
exploded. Three trainmen were killed,
ten cars were reduced to kindling
wood, the bridge wrecked and much
| other damage done.
RATHER than be punished by the
United States court, Forester Fobes. a
full-blood Choctaw. about IS years old,
| who was confined in the Jail at Antlers,
[. T., for double murder, cut his throat
from ear to ear with pocket-knife.
AT Commercial. KY. the three-year-
Did son of Nat Corbin. while playing
| about fire in the yard, was burned
to death.
r. d. MosELY's barn at GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, and ten head of stock, including
Eve blooded horses, burned the other
day. A thousand dollars worth of
feed implements were also destroyed.
The fire was of incendiary origin.
j. PIERPoNT MORGAN had an impor
tant conference in New York on the Sth
with bankers touching national
financial affairs. A big prospective
bond issue was discussed. One bank
| er said if bonds ranging from $50 to
$500, netting three per cent, were is
sued, the people would snap them up.
being influenced by sentiments of pa
triotism.
A HANDFUL at a time the ashes of
the County Club house at Long Island,
which recently burned. were sifted by
| experts in the hope of recovering at
| least small part of So 900 worth of
diamonds that were in the house when
the fire started.
States for the week ended the Sth num-
bered 900, according to Bradstreet's
commercial report. against 232 for the
corresponding week of last year.
THE Ohio senate passed the Riley
bill appropriating 81, 900, 600 to put the
Ohio national guard on n war footing.
THE gunboat Diogenes, recently pur-
| chased in England, has been renamed
to- oft he fol
GEORGE STOUT, of Cincinnati, was
knocked out by Oscar Gardner, the
Omaha Kid" in 70 rounds at Column
| from start to finish. The Knockout
blow was short rig ht-arm swing on
the jaw.
The Great Eastern hotel. of Chicago
a worlds fair relic, was destroyed by
| fire, with loss of $50 600.
| AN audience of between 5000 and
| 5000 people greeted Bryan the other
night at Indianapolis, Ind, when the
second conven ton of the League of BIZ
metallic Clubs of the Ohio Valley
ended. Mr.. Bryan was rendered an
| ovation.
4 POOL room in the open Board of
| Trade building at Chicago, which is
patronized by women exclusively, was
raided by the police OF the 9TH and 90
women, who were betting on the races.
taken into custody. Many of them
| were richly dressed and two had babies
in their arms They were all released
on bail later in the day.
SAM COBB. deputy sheriff. and his
brother, Felipe Cobb, who was a con-
sta BILE. were shot down by Carlos Gue1-
len at Brownsville. Tex, on the 5th.
Guellen was arrested and placed in
Jail. mob at once gathered, broke
into the Jail and shot Carlos Guellen,
killing him in his cell.
JOHN BRYANT, farmer living near
Seymour, Ia, was found in the Chica-
go, Milw aukee 81 ST. Paul railway
freight yard at Kansas City, Mo-, with
his throat cut from his right ear to a
point under his chin. He told the po-
lice that his throat was cut by two
highwaymen, who held him up and
robbed him of $40.
AN unprovoked murder was commit
ted at Mine Lick station, eight miles
west of Cookeville, Tenn. Clay Bros
well and William Bradford were fight
ing and Giles Bradford, young farm
err, attempted to separate them. Bros
wells father and brother came to his
assistance and in two minutes Giles
Bradford was dead man. He had
been struck with brass knuckles, shot
and stabbed.
A NEW BEDFORD, Mass, telegram on
the 9th said that the great cotton
mills strike, which had been in pro-
gress for three months, was abou t
ended and work would soon be re-
sumed in all the mills.
VESSELS have been dispatched to Ha-
cana to take off Gen. Lee and our con-
sular officers as we'll as all Americans
who desire to leave the island, but the
state department has received a dis