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

ming while blowing near Dubuque, Ia
THE steamship Mariposa arrived at
San Francisco on the 3Oth and reported
everything quiet in the Samoan islands.
WILLIAM KELLY shot and killed his
wife while she was passing along the
street at Lowell, Mass, because she re-
| fused to live with him.
MISS HALLE PERRINE shot the seven
year-old son of Mr.. Henshaw through
the breast and then shot herself through
the heart on Henshaw's farm near Ra-
leigh, KY. No motive for the murder
and suicide was known.
THE Asphalt Company of America has
been incorporated in New Jersey with
capital of $50, 900, 900 and will proba-
bly, be known as the asphalt trust
The main business of the concern will
be carried on in Philadelphia.
| THE feature of Milwaukee's great
midsummer carnival on the Both was
the gorgeous pageant of 20 floats, the
| subjects being nature and the clements,
the emotions and stories of myth and
fable.
THE military party in France is max
ing strenuous efforts to knife Dreyfus
with a second condemnation. The 81
generals who at first merely entertained
an antipathy for Dreyfus and selected
him as scapegoat, are now fighting to
''save their own scalps-"
AT the national social and political
conference at Buffalo, n. Y, ON the
| 29th Rev. Fl. w. Thomas, of Chicago,
in speaking of the war in the Philip
pines, declared it the saddest thing in
the history of the United States. Dur
ing DIR. Thomas remarks not a syllable
of applause greeted Admiral Dewey's
name.
AT New London Conn, on the Goth
Harvard's university eight won from
| Yale over the four-mile course by 90
| lengths in 20 minutes and SO seconds.
ALLEN RIGGS and Deacon Daniel Her
| rim were jailed for killing Paul Gilbert
over a game of euchre at Bobtown, XIV.
They were all church mem berS.
AFTER an unsuccessful strike of IT
days duration the freight handlers at
Buffalo. n. Y, returned to work on
| the 2Sth at the old rates.
THE annual commencement of Yale
| university at New Haven, Conn, was
celebrated on the 2Sth by comforting
615 degrees.
NEARLY all the white puddlers en-
iron works at Sharpsburg, Pa, have
| been replaced by negroes because the
| former affiliated with the Amalgamated
| association. There was no trouble.
GRAssHoPPERs were reported as de-
stroying the cotton in the Hickory creek
| bottom, southwest of Denton, Tex,
and leaving path behind them utterly
destitute of anything green.
THREE strikers were killed in a riot
at the Bochum coal mines in Germany.
Mrs. A. c. ABBOTT, of Huntington,
! Ind, gave birth to three boys the other
| day. Her husband is a freight con-
ductor on the Erie road.
Oswego voted bonds to put in nat
| ural gas system.
| ALL the coal companies in the Pitts
| burgh, Pa, district have combined.
! A HEAVY rain on the 27th caused a
creek near Springfield, Neb, to over
| flow and much damage was done by
the food. the Missouri Pacific losing
| 900 feet of track and the Rock Island
| 1000. Many farms also suffered.
THREE negroes were killed and an
other was not expected to live as re-
| suit of riot between the white and
negro miners on the 27th at the ore
mines in Jefferson county, Ala.
| EARLY the other morning whitecapS
went to the residence of ST Hilton, at
Stone Fort, Ill, took Mrs. Hilton out
of her bed and whipped her severely.
She afterwards left the town, in &C
cordance with the warning given her.
| A SMALL yacht capSiZed on Lake
Michigan and Thurman Malone, of Gin
cinnati, went to the bottom. The three
| men in it had attempted to sail from
| Chicago to Waukegan. but the loss of
their compass left them helpless.
FIVE men We're scalded by the col
lapse of a steam fue the other night on
the steamer st. Paul when near Elsah,
Ill. Two soon died and the other three
were in such a serious condition that
| they could not live.
| THE assay office of New York sent sc
tons of gold. valued at SIS, 900, 900, to
the Philadelphia mint recently to be
coined into double eagles and smaller
| coin.
| TWELVE or Is Iowa wholesale grocers
met at Des Moines, Ia, the other day
and formed the nucleus of what will
probably be within a year the greatest
business combination ever attempted
in the state. The purpose of the com
| bination is to organize a corporation
to buy all the California canned goods,
| all cereals, salmon and Syrups that will
| be required by all the houses interested.
THE assertion came from st. Louis
on the 2Sth that the National Baseball
| league will have a rival association
next year in all its leading cities. In
| ST. Louis the grounds have already
been secured and are being put into
shape to build grand stand.
THREE hundred whist players are ex-
pected in Chicago from all over the
United States for the mint annual con-
| gress of the American Whist league, to
be held during the week beginning
July 10. Four trophy matches are to
be held.