Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-06-30
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
CHANCELLOR MAGICIAN, of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, has accepted the
call to the presidency of the University
Of Iowa.
ACCORDING to the estimates of the
publisher of the 1899 city directory,
which will soon be issued, Kansas City,
Mo-, has a population of 1872, $50, an in
crease of 9,573 over 1898. Kansas City,
Kan, has 40, 945, an increase of 2,21O,
and the combined population of the
two cities is 241 ,975, an increase of H.
7S3.
WORD was received at San Diego,
Cal, that party of 90 miners, bound
for the Sierra Pintada placers, lost
theirway in the desert and wandered
around long time, finally dying of
thirst. The corpses of the miners were
accidentally discovered in the desert
by another party bound in the same di-
rection.
DISTRICT assembly No. 4, Knights of
Labor, at meeting held in New York
on the 25th unanimously adopted reso.
buttons demanding Gen. Merriam's re-
call and court-martial on account of
his action in the Coeur d'A1ene labor
troubles
THE report that Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, the founder of Christian science,
was dead was denied by the Boston
Journal on the 25th, reporter for that
paper having interviewed her.
AN explosion on a Gillian torpedo
boat at Valparaiso killed two men.
Gov MURPHY has issued at Phoenix,
Ariz., over his signature, an announce
ment tantamount to proclamation, in
which he denOunces in most vigorous
language the methods of stock-jobbing
inining companies in that territory.
The publication of the announcement
caused a stir in mining circles.
THE window-glass combine, known
as the American Glass company, has
again advanced the prices of window
glass. The increase. ranges from five
to ten per cent. and takes effect imme-
diately.
THE Carnegie Steel company at Pitts
iburgh, Pa, has contracted with the
Russian government to furnish that
government with $780, 900 tons of steel
trails for its immense railroad enter
prises in Siberia and China. This will
insure to all the rail mill workers of
the concern profitable employment for
the next 90 years.
WHILE toying with loaded revolver
in the presence of number of children
at 2635 jefferson street, Kansas City,
Me-, Edward Williams accidentally shot
himself in the head and expired almost
instantly. He was Is years old.
THE Filipino rebels learned that the
American volunteers were returning to
lhe' United States and the Filipino
newspapers showed that they con-
strued this to mean that the Americans
we're abandoning the war.
COPPER has been discovered in paying
Quantities in.Archer county, Tex. The
IRE is very valuable and has assayed
from 40 to ~ per cent.
THE Cherokee executive council at
0Cahlequah, 1. T., on the 22d liberated
al1 the criminals in the Cherokee pen.
Tertiary. There were 10 serving terms
IF from one to fifteen years. This &C
ZION was taken on account of the Curtis
DILL prohibiting any more convictions
dnder Cherokee laws.
BECAUSE of a quarrel between his
six-year-old son and young Wallace
Barber at New York, Arthur Bonnell
spanked the latter. Barbier's mother
brought suit for S. 900 damages to her
nerves and the jury awarded her 81. 07s.
Mr.. Bonnen paid the money on the
spot.
THE Missouri. Kansas s. Texas Rail
way company has fled an application
for an injunction to restrain the town
of Muscogee, /. T., from laying out the
place under the Curtis law, the rail-
way company claiming every alternate
section of land along its line. The
matter is causing much anxiety in
other towns along the Katy's route.