Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-03-31
BRIEF TElEGRAPHIc NEWS

hipps, eldest daughter OF the Steei
magnate, is reported to be engaged to
| Frederick Guest, lieutenant in the
Life Guards, and third son of Baron
Wimborne.
Topeka. Kans., March 28-Ar-
guments on the application of E. J.
Smiley. convicted of Violating the
antitrust law, were heard here yester-
day afternoon. Smiley stated he did
not know the antitrust law was on
the statute books until months after
it became effective.
Washington, >March 2s.-The
Supreme court will not likely get to a
decision in the Kansas-Colorado
Arkansas river suit until late in the
year. The taking of dispositions will
not be completed until July, and it
will be six months after that before
the mass of testimony can be gone
over by the court.
Ottawa, Kans., March 28.-Mrs.
Caroline Job, of Wellsville, Kansas,
patient in the Central Sanitarium,
was assaulted by some unknown
person this morning. Her skull was
fractured with an ak, and her body
mutila.ed with case-knife. She un-
derwent two operations today and
her case is precarious. There is great
excitement over the outrage.
Cleveland, o., March 28.-Judge
Taylor sentenced Mrs. Chadwick to
ten years in the penitentiary, at FIVE p.
m. yesterday. Unless the higher
court interferes she will have to serve
that period for her proven wrong
doing. The motion for new trial
was over-ruled. Her counsel will
likely take an appeal.
St. Paul, MINI, March 28.-A
cyclone last night, destroyed two ele-
vators, the Great Northern depot
and numerous small dwellings at Louis
burg, Minnesota, inflicting poperty-
loss of thirty-five thousand dollars.
Five members of the Winger family
and two other people were buried in
the Winger home, Minnie Winger,
one of the daughters, may die.
Chicago, Ills, March 29.-Thomas
J. Connors, general superintendent of
Armours CO., was yesterday indicted
by the Federal grand jury on the
charge of interfering with witnesses
now summonsed to appear before the
jury now investigating thebeef trust.
Connors was released on $4,000
bonds. If convicted of .ampering
with the witnesses he can be fined
$500 and imprisoned three months.
Ottawa Kans., March 28.-The
storm did considerable damage here
and at Gardner last night. In Ottawa
thirty or forty small buildings AM
barns were moved or overturned
James Bruner and his wife and child
were hurt. The Hall of Philosophy
in Forest Park, was unroofed.
AT Gardner the depot roof was
blown into a train waiting, and into
the Loe building smashing windows
and causing a panic. The Baptis
church, livery barn and many small
structures were partly wrecked.
! Boston, Mass, March While
the storm of protests against the &C
ceptance of Rockefeller's hundred
thousandsdollar donation to the Con
gregational Foreign Missions were
being heard, nearly half that sum hat
, been already accepted and was IN tn
treasury of the board. DR.. Barton
, foreign secretary of the board, author
ICES the announcement that Sal ,00
are in the boards possession. Dr.
barton said: "When Mr.. Rockefelle
! made the offer we accepted it an
: took this amount Immediately. TIL
question now is, shall we retain it?
The prudential committee will prob
ably decide the matter this afte
noon.
Ira has coined a new name for tn