Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-15

death in a fire in Max Stiner & Co.'s
whisky house at New York the other
afternoon. The fire was started by
the explosion of a barrel of spirits of
alcohol.
THE G. A. e. encampment at Cincin-
natl on the 9th finished the election of
its officers. Two resolutions, indoors
ing President Mckinley and Secretary
Alger for their conduct of the war.
were passed amidst a scene of enthu-
siastic demonstration. The pension
resolutions asked for liberal con-
struction to be placed on the pension
laws
LIEUT.. GUY MORGAN. of the Twenty
second Kansas, who was tried by
court-martia1 at Camp Meade, Pa, on
charge of desecrating the graves of
confederate soldiers in the south, was
acquitted.
The republican state con vention of
Utah strongly Endorsed President Nc
Kinley and declared for the free coin
age of silver.
THE National Editorial association
elected j. B. McCabe, of East Boston.
Mass, president. and r. M. White, of
Mexico Mo-, recording secretary. An
arrangement was made for a trip to
Paris in 1899.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 9th
numbered 142. according to Brad
streets commercial report, against 173
for the corresponding week of last
year.
The Arkansas state pension board,
after a tedious session of three weeks,
concluded its 1abors at Little Rock
and is busy sending out the warrants
to the various pensioners of the state
There are this year 1, 178 pensioners on
the roll, to whom amounts ranging
from $25 to 800 each have been al
lowed. The amount of the pension
fund on hand is in round figures $44. 00O
THE session of the National Edito
| rial convention at Denver, Col, on the
9Th was devoted to discussion of the
question of uniform press laws and
plan as outlined in the paper of Azel
F. Hatch, of Chicago. met the indoTse-
ment of the members A standing
committee was appointed to further
the plan of Mr.. Hatch
AT the Grand Army encampment at
Cincinnati on the sth Col. James A.
Sexton, Of Chicago, was elected COM.
chosen for the next meeting place.
JOSEPH LETTER has cleared up his
famous wheat deal at Chicago. Every
creditor has been paid and IA, 900, 900
bushels of wheat have been liquidated
since the ntary assignment nearly
three months ago. To pay these debts
| mortgages were placed on Letter real
estate to the amount of SIS, 500, 900.
The Mexican war veterans of Ohio,
most of whom are veterans of the civil
war, reelected their entire board of
old officers at Cincinnati on the Sth.
| Columbus was selected for the place of
| next meeting.
FROM reliable passenger who ar
rived at New Laredo. Tex, direct
| from Tampico, Mex, it was learned
that yellow fever was playing havoc
in that city. OF the 1000 Americans
employed in building the new wharf
and custom house about 800 have sue
cumbed to the deadly fever.
The state conventions of the demo
Gratis, populists and free silver repub-
licans at Marshalltown, Ia, agreed on
ticket, headed by Claude Porter, of
Centerville. for secretary of state.
The platform declared unequivocally
for the Chicago platform and sixteen
| to one.
APARADE by the naval veterans was
|
con test for commandments of the
G. A. r. was complicated and it was
said that Tom Anderson, of Topeka,
| Kan, was getting many votes. The
EX-Prisoners' association elected
James Atwell, of Pittsburgh, Pa. com
mander.
BOTH of the proposed charter amend
ments, by which Kansas City, Mo-,
| h 10 70. "a
police department and freedom from
the powers at Jefferson City, were de-
feated at the special election on the 9Th.
Two spans of the international bridge
across the st. Lawrence river at St.
Regis, n. Y, fell without warning on
| the 9th and so men at work were pre-
cipitated into the river. TWAS thought
the death list would reach 80. The
scene at the Hotel Dieu. where the
wounded and dying workmen were
taken, was heartrending.
REV. THOMAS III. GREEN, d. D.. of
Cedar Rapids, Ia. was elected bishop
of Iowa by the Episcopal convention
| at Davenport.
THE deaths from the heat in New
York on the 9th numbered ten. Phila-
ielphia had five deaths and many
prostrations-
News of a daring plot to assassinate
the car of Russia at Moscow was re-
ceived in London. The plan was to
let the gas in a house escape and then
for the conspirator to light match
and cause an explosion which would
kill the car while he was passing.
The conspirator, in his agitation,
however, struck the match too soon
and his mangled body was found
among the ruins. A staff officer and
his wife were killed, their coachman
fatally injured and about 80 other per-