Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-03-31

Astoria, O., caused the, death of 4s;
horses and the loss of over SO wagons.
and buggies- I
In quarrel over dice throwing be-
tween Charles Prietsch and a barroom
porter at Cincinnati the other night,
the latter cut the formers throat, kill
ing him instantly.
FRANK KINAHAN. an electrician, was
killed in a street duel at Chicago with
two unknown men. Over 20 shots were
exchanged.
CoNDUcToR Underwood. running on
the M z. Z. road between Hillsboro
and Denison. Tex, was arrested at
Dallas charged with killing George
Franklin, who was found dead beside
the tracks of the road near Dallas with
two bullet holes in his heal. The
man had attempted to steal ride.
AN appeal for aid was received at
Washington from Americans in China
for 1000, 900 persons starving as re-
suit of floods by the Yellow river.
Rev. L L. HICKS. the weather prog
nosticator, a Guthrie, Ok. dispatch
stated, has made the prediction that
the coming summer will bring fire.
quent cyclones to Oklahoma and the
people of the territory are preparing
their cyclone cellars accordingly.
FRANCIS 81. PIERPoNT. the first gov.
ernor of West Virginia, died on the
Gath at Pittsburgh. Pa. aged So years.
The New York World on the 25th
printed the following cable from Ma
Mia. dated the previous day: "a
sweeping victory over Aguinaldo's
forces has just been won by the United
States troops. The total American
loss is estimated at about 100, includ-
LII Cd nd da6
Filipino loss is between 800 and 400"
MARY MCELRoY, a 17-year-old girl,
was burned to death near Jennings,
Ok, the other morning. She was lean
ing over a campfire when her dress
caught fire.
JOSEPH WRIGHT. colored. was hanged
in the Jail yard at Chestertown, Md. on
the Gath for numbering William New
comb. an aged colored man. in 1897
WHILE o. II. Skinner. a saloonkeeper,
was lying i'll in his house near Gray.
w. Va, he and his wife were attacked
by a negro who attempted robbery.
Skinner managed to get hold of his re-
volver and, while the man was attack
| ing his wife, shot him in the head,
| killing him instantly.
REPORTS reached Paris from Algiers
| of the massacre of another French ex.
peO1tlOn IN the Oaudrd ny LIE
| the most fierce of all the fanatic Arab
| tribes which infest that vast desert
A RACE war was reported on the esd
as being on in Little River county,
| Ark, and an indefinite number of ne
| groes had met their death at the hands
of an Infatuated white population.
Seven were known to have been
| lynched and the work was not then
| done. White men were collecting in
mobs. heavily armed and determined,
negroes were fleeing for their lives
and the community was in an uproar.
| MRS. FRANK WILsICK, of Oliver, Pa.
used kerosene to kindle a fire and as
result she and her two little children
| were fatally burned.
THREE river steamers, the Owens,
Flint and Ray City, were destroyed by
fire at Columbus, Ga, together with
two barges-
The Roumania sailed from Santiago
on the Esd with the remains of 554
soldiers who were killed in Cuba and
100 from Porto Rico.
| WHILE Mrs. George Gentry, wife OF
a farmer two miles west of Grant, l.
T.. was in the yard making soap her
dress caught fire, burning her to death.
The little town of Liberty. in De-
Kalb county, Tennessee. was almost
wiped off the map the other night
furious cyclone sweeping over it,,
wrenching trees from their roots and
telling houses in all directions. Dam
age to property was enormous, but no
| fatalities were reported
The new Mexican ambassador to
/ Washington was banqueted at St
| Louis.
JAMES DILDINE, a tramp, died at
Princeton, KY, from drinking wood
alcohol, being the fourth one of gang
to lose his life by so doing.
THE ministers at Albany, Ind, have
decided to wage war on progressive
euchre.
IN recent interview at Nebraska
City, Neb., j. Sterling Morton, former
secretary of agriculture, calls for a
new party to perpetuate democratic
principles, composed of democrats
and repu blicans opposed to expansion
and the present extravaganza in the
expenditure of public money in ma
tion, state and city.
SIX hundred employees of the Foz
Pressed Steel company at Pittsburgh.
Pa, quit work on the Esd because the
firm refused to grant an advance o:
| ten per cent. in their wages.
THE public appearance of Gen. Mel
son A. Miles in Massachusetts,, where
he enjoyed the honor of numerous re-
ceptions, started speculation on the
posi- bility of his being a candidate fol-
the presidency. Miles, as the cham
pion of the soldiers, could be made &
hero and the newspapers which made
, such an cutlery against Alger and en-
balmed beef will. it was argued. join
, readily in putting Miles name at the
head of their columns.
WILLIAM A. BRADY and Martir
Julian, on behalf of Jim Jeffries anc
Bob Fitzsimmons, have agreed to &C.