Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-05

Elder 10, Willis IL, Davis 4, PRUDENTIAL
8, Doster 5, Snyder 2, Vrooman 8, Rice
!, Cogswen 9, Overmeyer 1, Scott 2,
Maxon 2, Odds 2, Hurt 2, Osborn 1, Har-
ris 1. The ballQting continued with
PETER in the lead. Willis and Elder
ran up to 90 votes on several ballots and
on the seventeenth ballot PETER received
Is, Willis "A and Elder 1. The eight
eenth and decisive ballot resulted PEI
fer 81, Willis 80. and Judge PETER was
declared the nominee of the Alliance.
MisceiIaneous.
Eight kegs of beer in the National
Hotel at Leavenworth were recently
seized by the police.
Judge PETER, recently elected United
States Senator, will continue his editO-
rial control of the Kansas Farmer.
Judge Houk, of Hutchinson, has ruled
that original notes and mortgages, not
copies, must be produced in court in all
foreclosure cases.
The Savings Bank of Wichita has
failed. There hal been more or less of
a run on the bank for week, and S40,-
coo had been withdrawn.
Bishop Fink's reported removal and
the removal of the diocesan headquar-
tiers from Leavenworth to Kansas City,
Kan, has been confirmed by Vicar
General j. c. Cunningham. The change
will not be made Immediately.
The State Central Committee Of the
Peoples party held a meeting at Topeka
the other night and elected w. L.
Brown, of Emporia, chairman. Mr..
Chase, who was deposed, will pay no
attention to the order. He holds that
the meeting was Irregular.
James OLeary, foreman of Aber-
nathy's furniture factory at Leaven-
worth, committed suicide the other day
by shooting himself in the head. No
cause known. He was about % years
! old, sober and Industrious, and was APP
| parently very prosperous.
A late fire at Osawkee destroyed five
business houses and a residence. The
hardware store and residence of Sam
uel Stephenson, grocery of D. D. Bram-
nell, drug store of ]. A. Stotler & Co.,
the office of DR.. Tucker and general
store of r. E. Haberlein were burned.
The remains of a mastodon were found
| by o. S. Northup, of Anthony, while
on a recent hunting trip on the Canadian
| river, in the Indian Territory. The
skeleton was complete and measured 81
| feet in length and 10 feet in height.
| The horns measured feet on the inside
| and 10 feet on the outside and the jaw
! bone over feet. Some of the teeth
| were IL inches across on the surface.
The National conference Of the repre-
sentatives of the Peoples party, which
! was called to meet in Cincinnati Febru-
| airy %, has been changed to May 10.
| The day was agreed upon through a
! conference at Topeka of P. P. Elder,
| chairman of the Union Labor party: S.
| w. Chase, chairman of the People
| party of Kansas; w. f. Rightmire, sec
rotary of the Citizens Alliance, and rep
resentative of the Indiana State ALI
| ance.
The lifeless body of William Horne
man, a hermit and miser, was discovered
the other afternoon in a miserable little
hut, which he called his home, near Ar
| gentine. A hole in the top of his head
and the disarranged condition Of the
bedding and furniture told the story Of
| what is supposed to haveEbeen a muir
| der. His body was in state of ad-
vanced decomposition and the indica-
ton were that he had been dead al
least ten days.
S. A. Hoy, night operator Of the Santa
! Fe road at Holloway, a station about
twenty-five miles west of Kansas City,
and his young wife were struck by an
| engine the other morning and Mrs. Hoy
was instantly killed and the young man
supposed to be fatally injured. They
were going to breakfast and stepped
| upon the track to avoid mud hole
| when an engine that was backing struck
them. Both were less than 20 years Of
age and had been married but few
weeks.
A stock train on the Kansas City, Wy
andotte 6 Northwestern read was
wrecked the other afternoon a.
Calorifc, small station nine miles
northeast of Kansas City, Kan.
A stockman, whose name was
not learned, was reported to have
been so badly frightened by the acct
dent that he dropped dead after walk
ing about half mile from the scene Oh
the wreck to farm house. This wal
the same train that went through {
bridge some weeks ago by which the
fireman and another man were killed.
Charles Gob1e, an iron worker, sho
and MORALLY wounded Anna Louther, a
Rosedale, the other night, and ther
blew his brains out. Goble was an OLD
sweetheart of Miss Louther's. He offered
himself in marriage two years ago an(
was rejected. Since that time he had
not called upon her. On the night o.
the tragedy he entered the house by
stealth and went to her room and told
her he had come to kill her. He drew
a revolver and fred two shots at thu
young woman. One hit her in the arm
and the other in the breast, inhictinf
probably a mortal wound. He then
placed the revolver TO his head and
killed himself. Miss Louther resided
with her widowed mother and sister
They are highly respected people.
William Swigard and wife had quar-
rel at Hutchinson recently. and he at
tackled her with butcher knife. Tn
six-year-old son cut his father in the lie;
with a pocket knife, and then mothe
and son fed This so enraged Swigart
that he beat the six-months-old baby S,
severely that il could not recover
Threats Of lynching were freely ex