Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28

Zapata and Duval in southwest Texas
owing to severe drought
/ The Indiana delegation to the demo
cratic national convention will vote fol
Cleveland for president
The American government has re
| fused to reduce the transportation
charges on New Zealand mail by the
way of San Francisco, on the ground
that it already pays out more than it re
ceiveS.
| CALIFORNIA experienced three earth
quake shocks within week.
JAMES COCHRAN, of Des Moines, Ia
shot and killed his divorced wife and
w. 7. Davis, her lover. He then com
mitted suicide.
JAMES PALMER has been arrested
in New York by a Central Office
detective, charged with the larceny
of $4,000 from the firm of Tiff
any & Co. on Union square. Palmer
was captured at his warerooms, Is West
Seventeenth street, and when he learned
that his misdeeds had been found out
he exclaimed, SO, my God, wish had
shot myself" He acknowledged his
guilt to Inspector Steers at police head
! quarters.
JOHN HARrNUP, the astronomer at the
4 1hSISCy udTDOT observatory, was h1llSO
by falling from the observatory.
| EUGENE KAUFMAN, postmaster at
Reisel, Tex, was assassinated by two
negroes. He was investigating noise
near his store when he was confronted
by two negroes, who shot him dead and
| then fed.
A DELEGATION of colored men waited
on the president the other day in regard
to lynchings in the south.
| THE house judiciary committee have
discussed at some length the resolution
offered by Representative Watson, of
Georgia, for an inquiry as to the methods
followed by the Pinkerton detective
agency. The resolution was recon-
mitted to the subcommittee, consisting
of Messrs. Oates, Broderick and VOL
verton.
DIR. ALBERT 81. CABLE, a physician of
Dayton, O., who has been addicted to
the opium habit, committed suicide by
shooting, the other day. He was un-
married and a protege of the late Mrs.
Thomas Ster, sister of the late Gen.
George Crook.
JUDGE CLAIBORNE, of ST. Louis, says
suit clubs are lotteries.
The government lot sale at Hot
Springs, Ark, is over. The sale real
lied S74, 72O.
CINCINNATI carpenters and bosses have
settled their difficulties for the coming
two years.
A FIRE in a three-story tenement at
St Petersburg caused the death of
twenty-four persons.
MCGUIRE, the murderer of Mrs. Greg
DRY, at Newburg, n. Y, has been SEN
fenced by Judge Bartlette to suffer
death by electricity in Sing Sing state
prison some time in the week begin
ming June 6.
CHARLES ID. SMITH, a wealthy resident
of New York, was found dead in his
room in the Palace hotel San Francisco,
having shot himself during the night.
1t is supposed he committed suicide on
account of dependency, from the re-
marks which he made at various times.
ONE of the Wyoming cattlemen held
as prisoner wrote letter to friend
and which was found on his person, in
which he said that it cost over So, 900 to
kill Champion and Ray, and that hired
aSSaSSlnS were to receive Sc a day and
$50 for every man killed.
A GIGANTIC trust of trunk manufact-
urers, including the greater establish
ments in Milwaukee, Racine, Chicago,
Oshkosh, Cleveland, ST. Louis, Cincin-
natl, Detroit, Louisville and other cities
in all portions of the United States has
been effected. The big combine is know
as the National Trunk Co., and it's
headquarters are in Chicago.
CHARLES MILLER, the eighteen-year-
old boy who while tramping across the
country over year ago in company
with Ross Fishbaugh and Waldo EN-
erson, of St Joseph, Mo-, murdered his
companions in box car in Cheyenne
for few dollars, was hanged the other
day.
The Chicago racing associations sum-
mer meeting commences June and
ends June %. There will be seventeen
days racing, with five races on each
day, including a stake event, with the
exception of June 81.