Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

| unrest and the people fear an outbreak.
The government has taken measures to
put down the threatened insurrection.
MISCELLANEOUS.
AT Celtic, Tex, an eccentric old
woman named Carr concealed her
money in a fruit jar and placed the
same in a nest under a setting hen.
The hens nest was robbed and $500
| taken.
REV. JOHN J. JANSEN, bishop of the
Belleville diocese, is about to eXcom-
| municate all the members of ST. Pat
| rick's parish in East st. Louis, Ill.
| Twelve hundred people will be exiled
rom the ministrations of the Catholic
church. The impending wholesale in
| fiction of the church's extreme pen
atty. will be the consequence of three
months violent resistance to ecclesi-
| astical authority.
Upon one scaffold and simultaneous
ly four negroes were hanged on the
2Sth in the Baltimore (Md.) city jail
| yard. Three of the men, Cornelius
Gardner, John Myers and Charles
James, paid with their lives for crimi-
nally assaulting Annie Bailey, 13-
year-old negress. while Joseph Bryan,
the fourth member of the quartette
| killed Mary Pack, anegress with whom
he lived.
THREE girls We're drowned in the
river at Evansville, Ind, on the 2Sth.
THE strike of messenger boys at Gin
cinnati ended in failure.
The rumor that Gov. Barnes, of Ok
1ahoma, will soon be removed has been
actively revived. 1t is said that AS
sistant Attorney General Handkerchief
has rendered an opinion finding that
Gov. Barnes has violated the law in a
mum Der of measures which have fig
ured in the charges that have been
pending at Washington for some time.
WILLARD E. THAYER was killed at
Streator, ILL.,, by falling from a balloon
distance of 400 feet. His neck, back,
both legs and both arms were broken.
Probably 10000 people witnessed the
| accident.
ALTHOUGH the amount of capitaliza-
ton has not been settled on the exist
ence of a great compassionate power
trust is an accomplished fact, a New
York dispatch stated.
AN offer has been made by Andrew
Carnegie to give 200 for public Ii
brary in San Diego, Cal, if site be
donated and the library maintained as
| at present.
ADOLPH L. LUETGERT. the wealthy
Chicago sausage-maker, who was serv-
ing life sentence in the penitentiary
at Joliet, ILL.,, for the murder of his
wife, was found dead in his cell. A
post-mortem examination showed that
he died from fatty degeneration of the
heart.
WILLIAM PINKsTAFF's livery stable
at Bicknell, Ind, was burned down.
Fourteen horses were cremated and so
buggies and other contents of the
! stable were destroyed.
J. A. r. ELLIOTT, of Kansas City,
Mo-. defeated w. B. Crosby at Batavia,
n. Y. in a match for the wingshot
championship of America. Elliott now
holds every championship trophy, both
at live birds and inanimate targets, or
mud pies" and it is the first time in
| the history of this class of American
| craftsmanship that one man has held
all of these emblems at one time.
THE United States hospital ship Nor
gan City arrived from Manila at San
| Francisco with $50 sick or wounded
| men on board. OF these ca were mem
| bers of the Twentieth Kansas
a CYCLONE struck the eastern por-
| ton of La Porte, Ind, the other night
and wrecked the boot and shoe store
| of Butterworth & Co. 1t leveled other
| buildings to the east of the city and it
| was feared that the families of Jacob
| Horton and William Steele, who live
| on the Kankakee marsh, were killed.
Their houses were wrecked