Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-04-27
TELEcRApHIc eREvITlEs.

IEIE0hAP1tC bHEvITtES.
Fire at Devils Lake, n. L., destroyed
II buildings and 20 families were
rendered homeless.
Production of American coal last
year is estimated at PSI, 539, $50 tons,
an increase of IT'S per cent.
Rev. DIR. T., Dewitt Talmage is in
England and Sunday ehe addressed
a great audience at Manchester.
The handsome Baptist church at
Cherryyale, Kan. was struck by
lightning and totally destroyed.
c. Z. Walker, a wealthy farmer near
White Eagle, Ok, was drowned while
seining fish in the Salt Fork river.
Kansas socialists have put state
ticket in the field headed by G. C.
Clemens, of Topeka, for governor.
The total receipts of the Cuban
treasury for March were SLOTS, 669,
large increase over the same month
last year.
Archbishop Corrigan, of the Catho-
lie diocese of New York, has written
p letter attacking the American pub
lie SCHOOLS.
Mrs. L. A. Larson was shot and
killed by her son, nine years old,
kYhile he was playing with rifle at
!Croolston, MINI.
Hon. Sidney Clarke, just back to
Gutheie, Ok, from Washington, says
hood this session.
Secretary Root has issued an order
revoking the former spelling of
Puerto Rico and making the name
officially Porto Rico.
Five children of Harvey jackson,
near Fairbury, Neb., were fatally
poisoned by eating a wild plant re-
sembling the artichoke.
A Washington dispatch said Webstec
Davis has retired from politics and
will devote his time to the lecture
platform and literature.
The union carpenters in Kansas
City, Kan, struck for a uniform wage
schedule Of 37H cents an hours. They
have been receiving 80 cents.
The weather bureau predicted
heavy rains in the southern states,
causing further floods in that sec
ton during the next two days.
DR.. Renede Royen-Bellisle, professor
of French at the University of Chi
cago, committed suicide in his apart
ments att 2417 Michigan avenue, Chi
|.cagO.
The national council of the Usage
Indians st Pawhuska, Ok, rejected
the late @rder of the secretary of the
interior abolishing their tribal gov
eminent.
2 The United States transport Sum-
ner, which left New York March 81
fOr Manila with T3S enlisted men and
so officers, reached Port Said, Egypt,
April %.
A treasury official who has been
studying the different features OF the
Porto Rican bill thinks it probable
that. women may be allowed to vote
under this measure.
"A Frankfort (Ky.) dispatch said
| the Indictment against Gov. Taylor
| would be held up until after the gu
| bernatorial contest was settled in the
United States supreme court.
| The Indiana republican state con.
vention will meet Wednesday. The
| leading candidates for governor are
John L. Griffiths, w. T. Durham
Frank Posey and Enoch Hogate.
Gov. Lew Wallace, ef Indiana, former
minister to Turkey, is out with !;
vigorous defense of the sultan OF
| Turkey. He says he never knew
Abdul Hanid to break a promise.
The Ohio republican convention will
| meet at Columbus Tuesday. Senators
| Foraker and Hanna, Congressman
Dick and Gov. Nash will probably be
| delegates-at-la-ge to Philadelphia.
The Mount Sinai hospital at New
York received donation of $780,,
600 from Meyer Guggenheim and his
seven sons to establish a memorial
! to the wife and mother of the donors
In Usage, Usage nation, Richard
| Moore and John Vandegriff fought q
duel with pocketknives, in which
Moore was killed and Vandegriff sc
badly wounded that he died shortly
after. o
Tom Moran and "Pinl1y'' Blitz, two
| notorious characters, are in Jail al
Kansas City, Mo-, charged with steal
ing a diamond pin on a street cal
there from J. n. Stroud, Burlington
ticket agent. Mr.. Stroud personally
effected the capture of the two men.