Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-02-10

and referendum will be entitled to
seats in the national conyen ton of the
Union Reform party in Cincinnati on
March 1.
In boarding house fire at Spring
field. Ill. early the other morning
three persons were burned to death.
The other guests managed to get out
in their night clothes
TEXAS CITY, Tex, indignant at the
action of Congressman Hawley in de-
feating the appropriation in the river
and harbor bill of $3.50. 900 to deepen
the channel at that city. burned MIR.
Hawley in effigy the other night.
The central and western parts of
Texas were visited by blizzard on
the 5th and it was feared that much
live stock was killed.
THE smallpox situation, in eastern
Oklahoma among the Greek, Iowa and
Sac and Fox Indians having be-
come somewhat alarming, Agent
Walker, of the Kiowa, Comanche and
apache tribes in sou thwest Oklahoma.
has issued an order that no one will
be permitted to enter that reservation
without permit. A police force
guards all the roads to the reservation
to prevent any one from entering.
the international Paper company was
steadily pushing ahead with its plans
toward absolute monopoly of the pa
per manufacturing trade.
A HEAVY hailstorm ragged at Morris,
Ala, on the Sd. This seemed to start
a tornado and trees, telegraph poles.
houses, railroad cars and fences were
blown down. Several persons were
injured.
THE Hutchinson & Southern rail-
way, built several years ago sou tn yard
from Hutchinson, Kan. IS miles, is to
be extended at once in southerly
direction some 200 miles, the work to
be ompleted this season. Next year
rails will be laid northward and Oma-
ha. Neb., will be the terminus.
Ex-SHERIFF CHARLES G. CALLAHAN
shot himself in the head at Youngs-
town. O., on the Sd, dying instantly.
He had just retired from office, having
filled two terms as sheriff of Mahon-
ing county. The cause was Gnanc ial
difficulties.
A DISPATCH from Denver, Col, on
the Sd said that the loss to the rail-
ways in Colorado from business not
moving and the pay of armies of snow
shovelers is estimated at $50, 600 day.
Not less than !, 900 men were shoveiing
snow for several days and storm bound
passengers were fed and cared for by
the railway companies. On the noun
tains thousands of cattle froze and
starved to death and nothing could be
done to save them.
AT Lafayette, Ind, Patrick FLYNN,
his wife and their son Owen were
found dead in bed. They had been
aspbyxiated by natural gas
The other afternoon, while bathing
her baby in the bath tub at her home
in St Louis, Mrs. Hattie Maffray faint
| ed and fell upon the floor. When she
recovered consciousness she found the
child lying lifeless. in the water and
all efforts to revive it were futile.
THB steamer Dierigo recently ar
! rived at Victoria, B. c., from Skaguay
with passengers from Dawson City.
They reported the temperature at SO
degrees below zero when they left the
Klondike capital.
THE schoolhouse at Clifford. I'LL, was
| totally destroyed by fire. The princi-
pal discovered the basement burning
| and quietly told the teachers, who
promptly dismissed the scholars There
| were no signs of panic. although the
stairs were on fire and the scholars
| had to make their way through the
| fire.
A LARGE tobacco house at Providence,
KY, was destroyed by fire. 1t con-
tanned 700 600 pounds of fine strip to-
| bacco. The loss reached $50, 900. The
| origin of the fire was unknown. Sew
| enty hands were thrown out of en-
ployment.
CHARLES WHITNEY, a cattleman from
Fort Worth, Tex, won $4,000 in a
Denver. Col, gambling house the other
| evening.
The San Francisco Examiner said
that Tod Sloan, the jockey, received a
telegram from New York stating that
he had cleaned up $3.50. 600 as the result
/ of speculation in Wall street. 1t was
said that before going west Tod left
several thousand dollars with a Wall
street operator, with general instruc-
tions to invest it as he thought best.
| THE rich strike at the Crown King,
Prescott. Ariz., exceeds all expecta-
tions. Ore worth by assay SLIT, 600 a
| ton has been uncovered.
A TERRIBLE explosion through a gas
| leak in the cellar occurred at Pitts.
burgh, Pa. completely demolishing
the brick residence of Joseph Acker-
man. Mrs. Weaver was killed, Joseph
Alderman had both legs broken, Mrs.
Alderman was injured internally and
bruised and two young women, daugh-
| ters of the Ackermans, were badly
crushed.
| A coLoRED boy. not quite IL years OF
age, named William Miller, was hanged
IN the Jail yard at La Grange, KY, on
| the Sd. He was convicted of a Grim
| inal assault on a farmers wife.
| ADVERTISEMENTS have been issued
for the sale of all the lands remaining
| Of the land grant of the Union Pacific
Railway company. The sale is to oc,
sur at Omaha, Neb-. on March 6 and is
| neld under decree of the United