Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-01-27
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


THE occupants of a large hotel at
Washington were startled on the nth
by the screams of woman and on
breaking in to the room a congressman
was discovered beating his wife. His
name was not made public, but he had
been on debauch for two weeks.
a CALL has been issued for pure
food and drug congress to meet at the
National hotel in Washington March
20 for the purpose CT urging congress
to pass a pure food and anti-adu1tera-
ton law.
ARRANGEMENTS heve been made for
the entertainment of President Dole,
of Hawaii, on scale BETTING his rank
as the chief magistrate of a friendly
nation. 1t has been decided that he
shall be regarded the nations guest
and that this government shall bear
the expense of his entertainment while
in Washington.
THE order issued by the department
of the interior. directing the su b-treas-
urer of the United States at st. Louis
not to issue any more money to any OF
the treasurers of the five tribes on ac-
count of the invested fund held in trust
for the tribes, has caused a sensation.
It has paralyzed the Cherokee govern
used in the running of the government
are derived from the fund.
ACCORDING to Senator Chandler, not
n bill for the reform of the currency is
likely to receive affirmative action in
this congress. He has leanipgs toward
very liberal coinage of silver and is
opposed Co the retirement of the paper
currency of the government.
NOTICE has been received by the state
department that the French govern
ment will surrender William r. Foster,
the defaulting custodian of the Pro-
duce Exchange gratuity fund, who fled
from New York with $175,O 600 of the
funds more than nine years ago.
COMMISSIONER EVANS, of the pension
Office, has in preparation a new set of
regulations governing the practice of
attorneys before the pension Office and
the adjudication of claims therein.
THE interior department has issued
a compact pamphlet of the United
States laws relating to mining. It
contains suggestions as to location,
possession, purchase and patenting of
the mineral lands OF the public do
main.
PRESIDENT GoMPERs, of the A. L. o
L., and other labor leaders had hear
ing the other day before the house Ia
Dor committee on proposed legislation
extending the eight-hour law to all
government work done by sub-con-
tractors.
GENERAL NEWS.
In scheduled siX-round fight be-
tween ''Yank" Kenney and Steve
ODonnell at Philadelphia on the 21st,
the latter had a broken hand and
could not go on, so Peter Maher was
su bstituted and in little more than a
minute he put Kenney to sleep.
A DISASTROUS flood at English. Ind.
the other night washed away three of
the five bridges over Little Blue river.
Fifty persons on one bridge were
saved with difficulty by old citizens
when it went down. Many horses
and cattle were drowned and many of
the houses in the low grounds were
four and five feet deep in water.
CHRIS MERRY, the peddler charged
with wife-murder at Chicago. was
found guilty by the jury. Smith, his
alleged accomplish, was found not
guilty.
THREE advanced students of the
Western Theological seminary, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, were recently indeti-
nitely suspended by the faculty for
gross immoral conduct.
JUDGE SHELDON, of the superior
criminal court at Boston, has decided a
point of law which is of Importance to
labor organizations. He ruled that
the word intimidation as used in
the statute, means only threats to use
force" and does not mean threats to
leave work" or threats to refuse to
work with others"
THE physicians of Paterson, N. J.,
1<xn -
medicines at any cost and will open up
A'"doctors' drug store" wE>re all pre-
scriptions must be filed, and they will
boycott the other drug stores.
FIRE in Iona, Mich, destroyed the
Webber block, a two-story sandstone
building and contents, causing SO. 600
toss
A SECTION of floor of the Cudahy
packing plant at Omaha, Neb., fell the
other morning, carrying down several
~orlxmen. ]. Novak was killed and
two others injured.
THE 18th anniversary of the Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor
of the Second Presbyterian church at
St Louis was celebrated by a cake
walk in the church.
AT Cairo, Ill. the other morning the
big log boom at the plant of the Chi
cdSO Mill 90 Der company was car.
ried down the river. 1t was not an
chored securely enough to withstand
the heavy drift of the Ohio river and
1000 logs were swept away.
AN immense flow of gas has been
struck in a well on farm west OF
Eldora, Ia At a depth of 100 feet the
water was suddenly blown out with
terrible force.
The five-year-old daughter of Mrs.
S. d. Thompson, of Falls county, Tex,