Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-10-06

the prohibition plebiscite question in
Canada was a comparatively small ma
jority for prohibition, not enough to
influence the government to enact pro-
hibition legislation.
A TERRIBLE storm recently swept
over Japan, the summary of the loss of
life and property being as follows:
Deaths, $50; houses swept away. 164;
houses overthrown. 1.195; partially
wrecked, II, 400; houses inundated, 49,
597.
ONE man was killed, another fatally
injured and third severely hurt in
bicycle accident at the Garfield race
track at Chicago on the Both. trip
let and bicycle collided.
AT meeting of the New York dem
ocrats favoring the Chicago platform
Henry George, the son of the single
tax advocate, was nominated to head
the independent democratic ticket for
governor.
MRS. WILLIAMS, white. near Sheri-
dan, Kingfsher county, Ok, while
alone with her two children, boy of
six years and girl of four. cut off the
girls head, ripped open her abdomen
and removed the viscera and then
threw them into a nearby pond,
where they were found soon after by
passing strangers The mother has
been quite melancholy for three years.
but was thought to be harmless
Mrs. SAMUEL SwARrwooD, wife of a
railroad brakeman, residing at Noun
tain Top, Pa, gave birth to her TWEEN
ty-ffth child the other night. OF the
large number of children born only
two sets were twins. Three of the
children died. The rest are in good
health.
GEN. GOMEZ. in an interview at Camp
Rojas. Santa Clara province, is quoted
as saying that the Cuban insurgents
would disband and apply themselves
to farm labor as soon as the Spanish
troops evacuated the island.
A ROUGH estimate placed the aggre-
gate loss by the recent forest fires in
Wisconsin at $1,000. 900 to S., OOO.O 600.
THE Wabash had a damaging rear-end
collision at the edge of Decatur, I'LL,
on the St Louis branch of the road.
delaying the passage of all trains for
eight hours, tearing up the track for
distance of 100 feet. A fine engine was
nearly ruined and about Is freight
and coal cars were destroyed.
FOREST fires were burning over Wis
consin on the goth. At Cumberland,
half the city was destroyed, five chill
dren were burned to death and large
sawmill was burned, throwing many
men out of employment. Sixteen
farmhouses were destroyed at Rice
Lake and large portion of the town
of Clear Lake was burned. Almena
and Poskin, two small towns, were re-
ported wiped out entirely and much
damage was done at other places.
JOHN WARD, until recently city mar
shall of Ava, ILL.,, has had the hiccoughs
for several days and it seemed as
though the physicians in charge were
powerless to stop them. TWAS thought
that the hiccoughs were cansed by the
condition of his liver and stomach.
The democratic state convention at
Syracuse, n. Y, on the Goth nominated
Augustus Van Wyck, a brother of
Greater New York's mayor, for gov
ernor and Elliott Danforth for lieu
tenant governor. The platform at
tackled the conduct of the war, but
otherwise confined itself to state is
sues, no mention being made of the
Chicago platform or Of the financial
question.
The Russian am bassador at Vienna
requested that attention be called in
the United States to the fact that the
Russian government had decided to
hold a great international poultry ex-
hibition in May, 1899. at St. Peters
burg. Official invitations are being
addressed to foreign governments
through the customary diplomatic
channels.
Miss LUCY LEE HILL, an examiner in
the office of the civil service commits
sion at Chicago, is the new daughter
of the confederacy." Her southern
friends have conferred this honor
upon her since the death of Miss
Winnie Davis. She is native of Vir-
ginia and is distant relative of Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT was nominated
for governor of New York on the first
ballot by the republican state conven-
ton at Saratoga on the 27th.
THE ninth triennial session of the
general grand chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star was opened at Wash
ington on the 9th, nearly every grand
chapter in the country being repre-
sented.
THE health conditions in Dawson,
Alaska, were recently described as
something deplorab1e and death rate
ranged from five to II per day. 1t was
estimated that 5000 people joined the
rush to Stewart river and every foot of
ground prospected, but no gold found.
NEARLY 5000 carpet weavers have
been thrown out of employment in
Philadelphia because of the action of
the ingram carpet yarn spinners in
shutting down this branch of their
business For some time the spinners
have been turning out yarn about
twice as fast as weavers could consume
it. and this forced the price down to
such an extent that it was deemed ad-
visa BILE to close down for a time.