Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-04

SYLVESTER COREY, state geologist of
Indiana, has been afflicted with
dementia.
THE railway ticket brokers have won
their habeas corpus case at Chicago,
! which means that the law against
stscalping'' is unconstitutional.
CLAUDE WILSON, a Methodist minis
ter of Shawnee, o., took poison on the
porch of the house of his betrothed,
with whom he had quarreled.
AT the Transmississippi conference
Gov. Mcconnell, of Idaho, was elected
president after spirited contest with
A. C. Fisk.
GEN. ROBERT SMITH, aged SO, died re-
| Gently at Hamilton, Ill
WILLIAM C. GoUDY, leading demo
crat and lawyer of Chicago, dropped
dead at his desk.
THE Ingham County Savings bank at
Lansing, Mich, has suspended.
THE financial enbarrassments at
Sioux City, Ia, extended until most of
the business firms was affected.
THE International Y. w. C. A. is in
session at Toledo, o.
AN expert, by order of the railroad
board, is examining Ann Arbor engines
which recently exploded.
THE Western Baseball league has
been formed, to commence play May
20. There are six clubs, representing
Denver, Pueblo, Wichita, Omaha, To
peka and Kansas City.
The Transmississippi congress took a
vote on the silver resolution, passing it
by vote of $50 for free coinage and 40
against, the opposition coming largely
from California and Missouri.
THE list birthday anniversary of
Gen. Grant april 81 was celebrated at
Galena, ILL.,, by public demonstration
and speech by Gov. Mckinley.
THERE is great excitement in south
ern Oregon over the discovery of rich
gold fields in the Willow Springs dis
trict.
FROM latest reports from the terrible
storm in Oklahoma it is believed that
not less than seventy-fve persons were
killed.
NINE log rollers were killed by the
breaking of jam at Menominee, Mich.
A RECEIVER has been applied for at
Toledo, o., for the Ann Arbor road
THE Liberty bell arrived in Chicago
all right and was received with a great
demonstration.
THE Navajo Indians located in north
ern New Mexico, are on the warpath
Eight settlers have already been killed
and more bloodshed is feared. Troops
have been ordered to the scene.
The chess tourney at Kokomo, Ind,
ended in the victory of Lasker over
Showalter. Ten games were played,
Lasker winning and Showalter 9;
drawn, 2.
JAMES RoTHFoRD, ffteen-year-old
boy, was killed at London mills, Can
ton, Ill, by falling on circular saw.
THE bar at Bloomington, Ill, gave
Minister James S. Ewing a farewell
banquet.
WILLIAM CowAN, of Monmouth, ILL.,, a
veteran of the Seminole war, has just
been granted a pension.
CHARLOTTE L. ZIMMERMAN, of Chi
cago, who was saved from drowning,
stabbed herself and then jumped head
long from a window. Her neck was
broken.
THE Transmississippi congress at Og-
den, Utah, just before it adjourned
passed resolutions in favor of the ad-
mission of Arizona, New Mexico and
Utah as states.
RED river has been out of it's banks
in Minnesota and thousands of acres
have been covered. Many farmers lost
every thing and will not be able to put
in crops.
THE SOUTH.
CARLISLE and Luttrell, condemned to
death at Sherman, Tex, made sharp
weapons out of spoon handles and de-
fed the sheriff.
COMMITTEE of prominent citizens
has started a Sunday closing movement
at San Antonio, Tex.
The statement is made that in the
shipment of cattle from Texas to Kan
sas the quarantine laws have been VIC
lated, and the matter will be looked
into. -
PACKAGE containing 81, 269 was
neatly robbed in transit between Sa-
vannah, Ga, and Birmingham, Ala, a
wad of paper being substituted
The Transmississippi congress has
selected San Francisco for the next
meeting.
The Texas crop report shows damage
done by drought in many localities.
ROBERT MOORE, banker at New Or
leans, is dead.
NEAR Gainesville, Tex, cyclone de-
stroyed villages and many houses. Sew
eral lives were lost.
BRIDGE LIGHT, by imp. Brigadier, got
away from a stable boy at Cumberland
park and during the attempt to catch
him fell and broke his leg. The horse
had to be killed. He was the property
of A. 7. Hayden, Union City, Tenn
THE coroner's jury in the Denmark
Is. CO. lynching concluded that the
mob lynched the wrong man.
THE Big Four is to build into Louis
vile, KY.
julius KOCH, of Velasco, Tex, killed
and is having stuffed for exhibition an
immense coal black eagle of unknown
species. The wings are nearly 9 feet
across and the claws are as large as a
mans hand.
The engineers of the Rock Island
have run three surveys into Dallas,
Tex The Denver & Fort Worth have
also determined to bring that road to
Dallas.
III. A. WISE, of Kansas City. Mo-. is
suing Houston, Tex, for s35, $50 for al
legged violation of sewer contracts.
AT Pratt City, Ala, during a severe
thunderstorm Mrs. NJ. A. Tate went to
window to close it, when lightning
struck the house. Only two panes of
glass were shattered, but the woman