Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21


IN Humboldt, Neb., committed suicide.
He was short in his accounts.
The Chicago platform dinner for
democrats at New York on the 18th
was success. The speeches indicated
that the policy for 1900 would be
campaign against trusts William ].
Bryan declared he stood by the Chi
.ago. platform. denounced the policy
Of the administration in the Philip
pines and urged the need of an income
tax.
ELI THAYER, member of congress in
1S56-6O and originator of the Kansas
crusade, died at Worcester, Mass, on
the 18th. He organized the Emigrant
Aid society. to send abolitionists to
Kansas. and it was under this society
that Topeka, Lawrence, Manhattan
and Osawatomie were settled.
TEXAS was visited by terrific wind
and hailstorm on the 10th. At Lytle
a building on the X. L. ranch was de-
molished and cowboy killed. At Wei
mer the house of City Marshal Insall
was blown down and his wife and two
children were injured. At Medina the
schoolhouse was overturned and the
teacher and two pupils seriously hurt
The coast country around Rockport
and Corpus Christi was also flooded
and damage reported at other places.
ELEVATORS Nos. 1 and 5 of the Hay
exchange at st. Louis were destroyed
by fire on the 10Th. Loss. $50, 600.
MRS. MARY MCKEE, daughter of ex-
President Harrison. has been appoint
ed by Gov. Roosevelt commissioner
at the Paris exposition to represent
New York.
WILL Tut, a negro, who murdered
his wife, expiated the crime at May
field, KY, on the gallows.
Tom MARSHALL, mayor of Keithsburg,
ILL.,, for the second time won the Grand
American handicap at Elkwood park,
N. J., beating out 263 competitors for
the wing-shot championship honors of
America. Seven men were tied for
first place with "a straight kills, each,
but in the shoot-off Marshall was the
only one of the seven who shot 33
straight
JOHN SHAW and Andrew Yancy quar-
relied at Buffalo, Tex, over farm mat
tiers and the latter was shot and killed
and the former was dangerously
stabbed with knife.
GEN. POLAvIEJA, the Spanish minis
ter of war. has instructed Gen. Rios,
the Spanish commander in the Philip
pines, to evacuate the archipelago inn
mediately, now that the Publications
of the treaty of peace have been ex-
changed.
GEN. LAwToN was continuing his
march north and arrived at the town
of Longas on the 14th but found it de-
serted. At sunset the American troops
entered San Antonio without meeting
any resistance.
The National paper box factory, at
Kansas City, Mo-, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th, together with the
three-story factory building owned
by Peet Bros. Loss. $35, 900.
The big combination of all the coal
interests on the Monongahela river,
in Pennsylvania, predicted several
weeks ago, is now an assured fact
The combina ton will be capitalized
at $50, 600. 600.
CAPT. NATHANIEL W. PARKER, the
oldest river man and pilot in the west.
died at the residence of his daughter
in ST. Louis, aged 81 years. He is sur
vived by seven children, "a grandchil-
dren and Ia great-grandchildre
THE Boston museum on fremont
street, the oldest playhouse in that
city, was badly damaged by fire the
other day. It was caused by a care
less smoker. The loss to the museum
was estimated at about $50, 900.
THE eastbound passenger train over
the Great Northern went through a
bridge near Big Sandy, Mont, the
other morning, every car leaving the
track and falling about ten feet. Sew
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ably fatally.
dered from Porto Rico to the Philip
pines.
EMINENT represen tatives of leading
Catholic educational institutions in
the country gathered at Chicago on
the 18th to discuss plans for the unfit
cation and expansion of the education
al system for children of the Roman
Catholic faith.
A FIRE at Oshkosh, Wis, destroyed
the Hollister furniture factory, the
Reliance boiler works, the Star foun-
dry, the American Refrigerator COM
pany's plant, the Ozark flats and a
score of smaller buildings. Loss, es-
.timated at $500. 900.
GEN. LAwroN captured the villages
of Pagsajan and Lu ban, the Filipino
insurgents fleeing to the mountains.
EsPANoLA, n. NJ. was nearly wiped
out by fire the other day.
FRANK PURCELL, a Klondilxer from
Montgomery county. Mo-, died at Sc
attic, Wash, of pneumonia, the other
day. Purcell had large acquaintance
throughout Missouri and was en- route
to the Alaskan gold fields for the third
time.
THE SO dinner of democrats at New
York took place on the 18th. There
were fully 500 more guests than the
1, 500 planned for. Judge Van Wick
was the principal orator. He spoke
against the tariff and trusts. but
ignored the money question and terri
toria1 expansion.
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