Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21

toward a public library building at
East Liverpool, o.
Two banners were awarded to Kan
sas at the Christian union convention
at Lynn, Mass, for showing the largest
proportional increase of membership
during the year and for collecting the
largest proportional amount for the
missionary fund.
CAPT. WILLIAM A. ANDREWS, who
left Atlantic City, n. j., on June Is in
little craft 10 feet in length to cross
the Atlantic, was picked up in an ex.
hausted condition about 700 miles from
the Irish coast by the British steamer
Holbein. His boat was left adrift.
WILLIAM j. BRYAN has been appoint
ed by the governor of Nebraska one OF
the delegates to represent his state at
the conference on trusts to be held in
Chicago September 1916. Mr.. Bryan
will speak on the evil results of indus
trial and financial commissions.
j. REICHMAN killed the wife of a
neigh Dor at st. Louis on the night of
the 18th by striking her on the head
with a hammer and the husband of the
murdered woman gathered a number
of neighbors and attacked the house of
Reichman on Etzel avenue. A platoon
of police had to hold back the mob
which had swelled to 200 or more by
midnight to prevent the murderer from
being lynched.
THE big Texas cattle syndicate being
formed for the purpose of controlling
the cattle market in Texas is not sail
ing in smooth water at present.
Rumors that the organization of the
syndicate would be in vio1 alton of the
IL,
New York capitalists to back off from
the proposition.
GEORGE M. VALENTINE, cashier of
bank at Perth Amboy, N. j., which
was closed on the 18th, was jailed on
account of shortage in the bank
funds, variously estimated all the way
up to $165, 900. The affair caused con-
sternation to the residents.
Two lynchings occurred in Texas on
the 14th. Abe Brown, negro, who
assaulted and murdered a woman, was
shot to death at Gilead and an unknown
negro was put to death near lola for
numbering a white boy.
GEORGE A. OUTCALT, of Tecumseh.
Ok, has been appointed census super
visor for the district of Oklahoma.
THE French celebrated on the 18th
the 10th anniversary of the destruc-
ton of the Bastile. The buildings in
Paris were decorated with flags.
THE delegates to the Young Peoples
Baptist Union of America held state
rallies at Richmond, Va, on the 18th.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, John 81.
Chapman, Chicago; recording secre
tary, Rev. w. Reed, Wisconsin,; treas
urer Frank Moody
MRS. CATHERINE MEYERS, a widow.
residing on farm five miles southwest
of Centralia, Ill, was burned to death
while attempting to remove a horse
from a burning barn. She had re-
moved one horse and returned for an
other, when the building fell in. kill
ing her and the horse.
WILLIE JONES, the negro who muir
dered his wife by cutting her throat
from ear to ear, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree at Beau
mont, Tex, and the death penalty was
assessed by the jury. This was the first
extreme penalty assessed by a Jeffer
son county jury in 30 years.
APOSTLE BRIGHAM YOUNG, of Salt
Lake City, the eldest son of the former
head of the Mormon church, was at
Chicago the other day and among other
things he said the Mormon church ex-
pected, within a comparatively few
years, to begin the erection of a mag
nifcent city of the faith at Independ-
ence, Mo-, which would be its head
quarters.
FOUR bombs were exploded in Bar
celona, Spain, on the 14th, causing
great excitement.
THE coal breaker at Plymouth, Pa,
was destroyed by fire the other day.
Loss, 500, 900. It was supposed it was
struck by lightning.
THE organization of the United
American Glue company, with CAPT
tai of $35, 900, 900, was completed at a
meeting in New York the other day.
The company announced that it will
invade Canada and endeavor to get a
monopoly of the glue business in Brit
ish America.
A DISPATCH was received from Gen.
Otis requesting that there be sent to
the Philippines $500 horses in order
that a brigade of cavalry may be organ
lied for use at the end of the rainy
season. 1t is the intention of Secretary
Alger to have the mounts carefully
| selected, and he thinks that animals
from the southern states will be the
best.
VAST clouds of grasshoppers recently
| alighted on wheat fields near Rolla,
| n. D., from the Turtle mountain re-
gions.
A PLAGUE has appeared in Mississip-
pi in the form of myriads of grasshop-
pers, which were said to be devouring
crops by the acre.
THE Charlton plague, instead of dying
out, seems to be increasing in many
| sections of Louisiana. The board of
health of Plaquemine, La. has quaran-
tined against all points infected with
the disease. The quarantine prevents
| the taking in of any horses, cattle OF