Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-01-06

| temporary home in Dover, Del. The
jury recon- mended that she be impris-
oned for life.
FIVE children were left locked up in
the home of Albert Brown at Wash
ingtou Courthouse, o. The house
burned and two of the children per-
| ished.
PROVIDENCE Or. u dispatch stated
| that deal was on to consolidate the
paper manufacturers of this country,
involving about $40. 600. 600.
FLORENCE MAssENGALE, aged Is, was
burned to death in Dallas. Tex.
| The residence of Mrs. j. f. Wells at
Hopkinsville. KY, was burned recently.
| the occupants being chloroformed.
| robbed of their monty, jewels and
other valuables and the place set on
| fire to hiS1e the robbery. Aaron Nixon
and his bride, boarders in the house.
received serious injuries and barely es-
capped with their lives.
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's CONNER
cial report on the 30th there were
Ii, e3S failures in the United States in
| 1895, involving liabilities of Sal, 1877, III.
| a decrease from 1897 in mum Der of 11.2
per cent and in liabilities of 9.5 per
cent.
| New York passed a resolution con-
demning the efforts of Senator Butler.
of North Carolina, to obtain pensions
| for ex-eonfederate soldiers from the
United States government
WHILE a prisoner was sleeping off a
drunken spree in frame Jail at An
derson. Ind, it burned down and his
charred remains were found later in
the debris
| EARLY on the morning of the 3Oth
the thermometer at West Superior,
VS., recorded temperature of 34 de-
grees below zero.
COL SEYBURN raised the American
| flag at Mariel. Cuba. and distributed
500 rations to the poor.
AT Oberlin, O., eight business houses
were destroyed and six stores damaged
by fire which started in De Frances
millinery establishment Loss. $50, 600.
AN epidamic of blind staggers re-
Gently prevailed among horses in CEN
trail Texas
FIRE practically wiped out the bust
ness section of Litchfie1d, Ky, over
$780, OeO worth of property being swept
away before the flames could be got.
ten under control.
ELEVATOR x, at Minneapolis, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire on the 29th, to-
gether with 200, 900 bushels of wheat.
Loss, about $500. 600.
THE office of the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press company at San Antonio. Tex,
lost. it was reported, $50, 900 in cur
Erency and 5000 in gold. The driver
who had it to deliver was missing and
his wagon was found outside the city
| in the brush.
tn 4 49,, !,
were burned to death in fire which
destroyed the two-story brick and
| frame stable of Mrs John Brooks, of
| New York. McCanney was asleep in
/ the loft of the stable when the fire
started.
JAMES BROWN, colored, was hanged
| IN the county jail at Kansas City, Mo-,
| on the 2Sth for the murder of Henry
Prather, also colored, three years ago.
MAY THOMAS, a school teacher near
Clare. Ia. was shot by a man who had
been keeping company with her. The
murderer then killed himself.
AN incendiary fire almost destroyed
| the News Democrat building in Belle
Vile. Ill.
STRIKERS in shoe factories at Marl-
| boro. Mass, were reported weakening.
THREE children named Geary were
drowned in the Norris canal near Wash
ington, N. j.. by the ice breaking.
| THE recent announcement by the
officials of the Chicago & Northwest
ern that they would dispense with the
services of female employees on the
| ground that women were not compe-
tent to fill the more important posi-
| tions on the road, has interested the
| club women of Denver, Col, and they
will lead an organized movement to
protest against what they consider
rank injustice. The club was prepar-
ing circular letters to other federation
organizations to help in the cause.
IRA SEXTON was hanged at Princeton,
| Mo-, on the 2Sth for the murder OF
Nathan Stark, young farmer, October
%, 1897.
| Two children of Tilman Milks were
left alone in their house near Manis-
tee, Mich, for short time and when
| the father returned the house was in
flames and the charred bones of the
children were found after the fire
burned out
FIVE men were more or less seriously
injured as the result of an Ohio Sou tn.
ern switch engine blowing out its
crown sheet with terrific force at
Springfield, o. Some of the injuries
to the men may prove fatal.
A Loss of 800, 600 was caused by the
| burning of an elevator at Minneapolis,
Mimi, containing so. 600 bushels OF
wheat s
A STATEMENT to the effect that the
Liggett &SMyers Tobacco company o1
St. Louis will be consolidated with the
Union Tobacco company, the purchase
price being placed at about s12, 600. 600,
was emphatically denied by Col. NJ. G.
Wetmore, who is at the head of the
first company.
THREE great thread manufact urine