Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-02-24

shot and killed Ida Fields, mulatto.
with whom he was infatuated, in a
cabin at Independence, Mo-, and then
put a bullet through his own heart
In the six-day bicycle race at San
Francisco, which ended on the 10Th,
| the score was: Miller. 2,192 miles;
Aaronson, ALAG; Fredericks, 1880:
Hale, 1909; Gimm, 1900; Nawn, 2,0i2:
Alberts, 1,S2S. Barnaby. 1,792; Pilking-
ton, !, 72y; Lawson, 1,635; JULIUS 1,501;
Ashinger, 500.
ALBERT HEYsLER, who murdered his
wife and stepdaughter at Burkettville,
Me-, few days ago, committed suicide
by. taking paris green.
Mrs. CHARLES FAHRENKAMP, her two
children and an unknown woman were
found dead in the formers home at
Philadelphia They were asphyxiated
by the gas being turned on.
AN express train crashed into an
other train standing at station near
Brussels and 80 persons were killed
outright and so injured. The COLI
sion was owing to a fog and was
terrific and several cars were smashed
to pieces
ADvICEs to the Omaha Bee from its
CORES pondents in Nebraska indicate
that the winter wheat crop has been
badly damaged in that state.
The United States army transport
Sheridan pulled out from New York
on the 10Th for Manila, by way of the
! Suez canal. having nearly 1000 regular
soldiers on board.
Washington, Wis, to ashes. Loss,
$3.50. 900.
THE contract for the construction
of an irrigation canal has been let. It
will be so miles long and will pene-
trate the country that is tributary to
Albuquerque, n. M. The canal will
receive its water from the Rio Grande
| and will open up for cultivation thou
| sands of acres that are now an arid
waste.
WHILE dozen fremen were at work
on the 18th in the ruins of the store of
the Emerson Shoe company at Phila-
delphia, which was burned the pre-
vious night, a mass of iron and stone
crashed down from the upper floors,
| burying the men beneath it. Three
of the f1remen were killed and five
others were injured.
CRACKsMEN gained an entrance into
| the vault of the Oberlin (O.) Banking
| company by shattering the walls with
powder. but did not secure any money,
| evidently from lack of time.
Four children of woodman named
Carlson were burned to death by their
home at Dubois, Pa, catching fire.
The mother and another child jumped
from second-story window and es-
capped.
NATHoRsT, the Swedish geologist, is
| to start in June in search of Andree.
A FIRE started in the cloak and suit
department of Joachim & Finkelstein,
at New York, and spread to several
other concerns, doing damage esti-
mated at $4,000.
ALL the surviving captains of the
| Spanish warships destroyed in the
naval battles off Santiago de Cuba and
| in Manila bay by the American fleets
will be court-martialed.
SENIOR AGoNCILLo, the Filipino COM
| missioner, in an interview at Mont
| real, Can, said there would be no let
up in the efforts of the Filipinos to
! force the Americans from their coun-
| try. He said he was not at all surprised
| that Iloilo had fallen. as the Ameri-
cans had the advantage of fleet.
| ''But wait till they get in the inte-
rior," he said. land then they will
have more than their work cut OUT
THE Arkansas state board of health
| is active in the appointment of sani-
| tary boards in various parts of the
state where smallpox is prevalent.
hoping thereby to do much toward the
| effective stamping out of the disease.
| AMERICAN outposts around Manila,
being fired on by rebels in houses
bearing white flags. California volun-
teers on the 18th cleaned them out and
drove tirem toward Lake Laguna de
Bayo. American gunboats Smelling the
villages and doing effective work on
| the jungle at the same time. The
American outposts were extended II
miles out from Manila
| The national convention of the
| WoOdmen of the World convened at
| Topeka, Kan. There were over 200
| delegates in attendance from NebraS.
ka, Iowa. North and South Dakota,
| Missouri, Oklahoma, Indian territory
| and Kansas.
| OVER s., 600. 900 worth of government
property was destroyed by fire on the
18th in the large machine shop of the
| Brooklyn navy yard.
THE total number of claims fled up
to the 18th on account of the disaster
| to the battleship Maine at Havana
was 325, amounting to $123. 342.
| Twenty-Five claims were on hand
awaiting evidence and 80 cases were
/ yet to be heard from.
MRS. MOLLIE HILL, of Kansas City,
NO.. who recently went to Leadville,
}o1.. claimed she was held up on an
infrequented street in Leadville the
'ther night, chloroformed and robbed
IF $3.50.
A CONSTRUCTION engine was wrecked
by the spreading of the tracks on the
South Carolina &c Georgia railroad near
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killed and eight more or less seriously
injured.
WHILE Ulysses Gibson, Chicago &
| Alton check clerk. was WALKING, by the