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


Elkton gold mine at Cripple Creek,
Col, for ST, s75, 900.
CLARION is raising havoc in Claiborne
county, Miss. One farmer lost nine
mules in one night and another lost
eight. 1T still seems to be spreading.
EoRTH vDANoTA's glory as divorce
| Mecca is thing of the past, as on the
Ist the new law requiring years resi-
dence before fling suit for divorce
went into effect.
THE Greater American exposition at
Omaha, Neb., was opened on the 1st.
INDIANA's wheat crop will be the
| lowest in 90 years. In February it was
estimated that it would be $4,000, 900
bushels, but DOW it is reported that it
will not exceed II, 600, 900.
A STRIKE was Inaugural ted at the
Homestead Steel works at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 3Oth through the discharge
of some men belonging to the Anal
gamated association. The fear was ex-
pressed that it would assume huge pro-
portions.
JUDGE MOORE, of the Eighth circuit,
decided the 13 liquor cases of Sturgis,
S. D., in favor of the saloonkeepers.
The grand jury recently brought in
dictments against the saloon men for
violating the prohibitory liquor law.
The decision practically leaves that
part of South Dakota without liquor
law of any sort that can be enforced.
Bob SMITH, colored, was convicted of
the murder of ARIA Taylor, a white
woman, in Sherman, Tex, and his pun
ishment was assessed by the jury at
death by hanging.
ARTHUR T. CARY reached Lynn, Mass,
on the 3Oth after a tour around the
world on wheel. He wheeled from
/ Lynn to San Francisco, through Japan
and~China, Australia, Egypt, Italy,
Switzerland, France, England, Ireland
and Scotland. HISS record shows IL, 500
| miles covered by sea.
THE recent heavy rains in Texas
have done an immense amount of dam
age. At Calvert the rise was so sudden
that when the water went through the
town several negroes were crowned.
1t was rumored that many farmers,
white and colored, living in the Brazos
bottoms, were also drowned, one fam
lily of six persons perishing. The loss
in cotton and corn alone will reach ST.
900, 900, while another million will not
cover the loss to railroads and other
property.
MAI. GEN. NELSON A. MILES was in
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 3Oth as the
guest of ''all organized labor" The
general spoke to two immense audi
ences during the day and also took
part in a parade.
CAPT. DREYFUs, the noted French
| prisoner, arrived at the prison at
Rennes, France, on the 3Oth without
| incident.
ELEVEN lives were lost by the foun-
| dering of the steam barge Margaret
| Olwill in Lake Erie in a gale on the
Goth. Duncan Coyle, a deckhand, was
| the only survivor SO far as known. He
was rescued from the wreclzage after
being in the water for over four hours.
A COMPLETE lockout took place on
| the Goth in Pingree &c Smiths big shoe
factory at Detroit, Mich. The trouble
| was forced by strike of employees of
| the turning and welt departments, be-
cause of new machines, which are
| operated partly by boys in place of
men.
THE trial of August Becker. the Chi
| cagO butcher, charged with having
murdered and then boiled the remains
of his wife in order to leave him free
| to marry 17-year-old girl with whom
he had become infatuated came to d
sudden end on the goth when it was
found that the indictment named Mrs.
Becker as Elizabeth, when it should
have been Therese. The court at once
nolle pressed the Indictment. Becker
was afterward rearrested. The result
may be that Becker will escape punish
ment for having once been placed in
! jeopardy.
| A RECENT dispatch from Pawhuska
said that Oklahoma's greatest wheat
harvest had just ended The wheat
area included $50, 900 acres, the largest
in the history of the territory. The
product of the great crop is safely esti-
mated at 1000, 900 bushels. In some
of the counties the yield was 40 bushels
| per acre, but in others not so large,
making Is bushels per acre conserva-
tive estimate for the territory.
! JOSEPH S. HoLLINGER, a self-con-
fessed murderer, was hanged on the
goth in the Dauphin county pa Jail
for the murder of his wife, because
she would not live with him.
| THE Indiana supreme court overruled
| the motion for a rehearing in the Sun
| day baseball case. This means that
there will be no more Sunday baseball
in Indianapolis if the law is enforced.
BEssEMER pig-iron was quoted on the
27th at $50 a ton in the Mahoning val
ley and in Pittsburgh, Pa. the price
was SPOTS. This is an advance of 100
| per cent. in six months.
A DUEL with swords was fought at
Paris on the 2Sth by NJ. BerteauX $50
cialist) and NJ. Millevoye Republican
nationalist, caused by an alteration
in the chamber of deputies the previous
day.
A SEVERE storm swept the section
around Dubuque, Ia, on the 27th. The
Illinois track at Julien was washed