Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-14


began operations in Kansas City, Mo-,
IN the 9th. Seven speakers addressed
he congregations of various churches
md an effort was made to perfect the
organization of a Missouri branch of
;he league to look after its interests
the state.
The National Antitrust league has
been formed in ST. Louis Tt proposes
10 fight trusts by boycotting trust
made goods and inducing consumers
20 use only manufactures of independ-
.nt concerns. The league claims
mem bership in st. Louis of i5,0 900.
A FIRE on the 9th destroyed the ma
chine shops of the Northern Pacific at
Mandan, n. D., causing a loss of about
ga, 1000.
AT a recent meeting of the general
committee for preparing for the peace
jubilee at Washington blows were eX-
changed between two of the leading
promoters of the celebration. One
member of the committee tried to
brain another with a chair. An up
oar drowned proceedings for a time.
Out of the confusion came the resigna-
ion of the general director.
A WASHINGTON dispatch stated that
Missouri was the banner state for the
small number of applications based on
service in the late war with Spain.
Some volunteer regiments have fled
from 800 to 400 applications each.
Many regiments which were never
lnder fire have fled as many as 200
applications. Missouri furnished six
regiments and a battery. The seven
organizations, all together, have filed
up to date only t96 claims for pensions
Of these. Isl are in the invalid class
and as are for dependent pensions.
THE most severe winte drought tina.
Texas has known for q quarter of a
century was broken by a rain that fell
On the 9th soaking every part of the
state
A TRAMP was found in a critical con-
1ition on the farm of Edward Wunder-
teich. near Reynoldsville. ILL.,. the
other day. He crawled into a straw
stack to sleep and during the night the
stack was destroyed by fire and he was
horrib bly, burned Wunderleich had re.
fused the tramp permission to lodge in
the straw and he was suspected of hav-
ing set fire to it after the stranger had
gone to sleep.
THE largest grain elevator in the
world is to be constructed at West
Superior, Wis. It will cost So. 600. 900
and will have a capacity of $500, 600
bushels of grain.
THE United States transport Arizona
arrived at San Francisco on the 9Th.
The vessel returned with hundreds of
sick and convalescent soldiers from
the Philippines.
AN English syndicate closed a deal
with petroleum producers at Corsi-
cana. Tex, by which it became pos.
sessed of nearly 200 oil land leases.
The price paid was nearly $780, 600.
O'BRIEN & SCHMIDT's large livery sta
BILE at Hoplzinsville. KY, burned the
other night. Eighteen horses. includ-
ing valuable blooded stock and the
noted stallion Bachelor, persisted.
To save his mother from murder
ous attack by his father. who had gone
insane, Lewis Dennis, of Millheim,
Pa, had to brain his parent with a
chair.
GRADING for the extension of the
Arkansas & Oklahoma railroad from
Gravett, Ark, to Southwest City, Mo-.
has commenced. The terminus of the
road will be at Miami. /. T.
MACHINIsTs at the Rock Island ar
senal, dispatch from Davenport, la.
stated. quit work because a demand
for more wages was refused by Com
mandant Blunt.
The failures in the United States
for the week ended the 9Th were 141
according to Dun's commercial repor t.
against 232 for the corresponding week
of last year.
MATTHEW MYERS, a farmer neal
Kenney. Ill. was dynamiting stumps
when he accidentally exploded a full
basket Of dynamite sticks. The explo
sion blew his body to fragments, shook
window glass out in the town of Ken
ney and was distinctly heard ten miles
away.
Mrs. S. T. PLowMAN, of Topeka
Kan, sustained fractures of five rib:
on her left side in car wreck in Cali
fornia on the Los Angeles & Pasadena
Electric railway. The wreck wa:
caused by a number of small iror
Nuggets on the track which caused the
car to be derailed and crash into a tel
egraph pole.
The bodies of the 1856 dead heroe:
| who gave their lives for their country
in Cuba and Porto Rico during the
Spanish american war were consigned
on the 9th to their resting place in Ar
lington cemetery at Washington
Every honor, military and civil, wa:
shown to the nations heroes. The
government departments and the fed
| eral courts were all closed at noon anc
| the flags over the government build
ings and forts along the Potomac were
| half-masted. The president and Other
| distinguished men, besides vast con
| course of people, were present
A RECENT fire at Lead, s. D., de
| stroyed block of buildings.
SENATOR COCKRELL few days ago
recei we'd a letter from some coloreC
| constituents asking him about an as
ISOLATION which proposed to secur'
pensions for all ex-slaves- The sena
tor referred the communication to thu
commissioner of pensions and stated