Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-28

Sam Hose, negro WHO nStO AHlcO d
nan and assaulted his wife, was burned
at the stake near Newman, Ga, on the
o3d Before the torch was applied to
the pyre the negro was deprived of his
ears, fingers and other portions of his
anatomy, which the mob eagerly seized
as souvenirs.
THE British university chess players
defeated the American university chess
players, the score being 80 to "a. The
game was played by cable.
THE steamer Gen. Whitney sank so
miles east of Cape Canaveral. Fla, on the
ed. One boat with 16 men in it at
tempted to make landing and it up
set, - of the men being drowned
Fifteen men in another boat were
afterwards picked up near ST. Angus
tine, Fla.
AT Maxwell, La, crowd of white
men made an attack upon the negro
quarter, which resulted in the death of
one negro and the wounding of two
others. There had been trouble be-
tween the races at that point before.
The whites ordered the blacks to leave.
MANY cigar dealers throughout the
country will be innocent sufferers as a
result of the operation of the counter
eeiting gang arrested at Philadelphia
4nO LdncdSCcf, Ia, dS all Ill
boxes bearing the bogus stamps will be
seized and the dealers who have them
will be liable to fine and imprisonment.
In shooting affray near Treval in
Trinity county, Tex, Edward Harding
md James Trebathan We're killed and
c. Harding fatally wounded. The
cause of the trouble was not known.
ALMOST the entire SIS, 600, 900 that the
citizens of st. Louis have proposed to
.aise to clinch the proposition of hold
ng worlds fair there is in sight.
THE steamer Glenogle crashed into
;he steamer City of Kingston off
Browns Point, Wash, on the Esd and
he latter was cut in two. The passen-
gers were saved.
GEN. BROOKE. now governor general
IF Cuba, will, it was said, soon request
change of station on account of his
health.
A PUPIL at the Shelbourne school for
Boys. located near San Rafael, Cal,
persisted in a fire which destroyed that
institution on the 23d.
The mutilated body of Miss Jane
Brunot, wealthy woman of Danna,
Ind, was found buried in an abandoned
well of her sister-in-law near Pana, Ill.
| Mrs. Anna Brunot, her son, Henry
| Brunot, and Frederick Sibley are IN
der arrest charged with the murder.
| SHERIFF j. S. DAWSON, of Cook coun-
! ty, Tenn, was killed near the North
| Carolina line, not far from Wallzerville,
| n. G. The sheriff, accompanied by a
| party of deputy marshals from Knox
vile, Tenn, was on a raid and they all
| walked into-the ambush. 1t was said
| the moonshiners had gathered in con-
siderable force and reinforcements were
to be sent to the deputies.
Gov. STONE appointed Matthew Stan
| ley Quay as senator to serve until the
next session of the Pennsylvania legis
| ture.
| A TRAIN on the Burlington railroad
| was wrecked near Aurora, Ill. The fire
| man was killed and several other per-
| sons were injured, but none of the pas
| sengers was seriously hurt. The din
ing car and one coach were burned.
| ISAAC BUTLER, a Stockman, was killed
| by train at Checotah, I. T.
A FORCE of 200 Filipinos attacked the
American outposts near Taguig, but
were routed after two hours fighting.
leaving IL men killed and several
| wounded on the field. A company of
500 rebels was also encountered near
Bocave, but after little sl1irmish the
rebels retired in good order. The Amer
leans exhausted their ammunition and
returned to their camps
| WHITECAPs took Lucindy Davis and
| her three daughters from their home in
| Powell's valley, near Midd1esboro, KY.
and, after severely beating them,
burned their house. The four women
were given "a hours to leave the county.
THE Trade Bulletin, at Chicago, con.
4 i IL
| between the Ohio and Missouri rivers,
estimated on the 20th that the winter
| wheat crop promises 327, O0O, 900 bushels,
or $1,000, 600 bushels less than last year
The board of education of Cleveland,
| O., intend to erect and equip a factory
from which will be turned out all the
school furniture needed for the school
buildings in that city. The board be-
heves large sum can be saved annual
| ly.
JOHN FLORA, whose trial was set for
| the Goth for the murder of Jessie Bur-
ton, was fatally injured in the Jail at
Paoli, Ind, the previous night by a
crazy prisoner named Wall. Wall sud
denly became mad and, selling a poker,
beat Flora so that he cannot recover.
THE national society of the Sons of
the Revolution accomplished all the
business of the triennial meeting at
one session at Denver, Col, and ad-
| journed to meet at Washington April
10, 1909. A resolution was adopted in
dorsing the erection of a Lafayette
monument in Paris. Nearly all the old
officers were reelected.
THE recent government sale of mules
at Chickamauga Park. Tenn, was a
remarkable success Something over
500 animals were sold. netting in the
neigh borhood of $40. 600. Fully 1000
buyers. largely farmers from Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi. Arkansas and