Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-10-10

The estate of the late Jay Gould is
valued at eighty two million dollars.
1t is said that visitors to Kansas
City during Carnival week spent ST.
600, 900
Two men have been sentenced to |
life imprisonment in Oklahoma for |
highway robbery, under the new law
Harry < Shatfe r, grand keeper Q |
records and seals, K. of P, Lincoln |
Neb. is short in his accounts to the |
amount of S2.526
A receiver has been appointed for
the large Produce Cold Storage ex-
change at Chicago; liabilities $500, 600 |
assets oneIhalf million.
In his annual report. Governor
Hughes of Arizona declares his belief
that the territory is democratic and
calls for statehood as soon as possible.
Arthur Freshman, a Is year-old
Kansas City boy threw pair of scis-
sors at his brother Emil. The blade
penetrated the boys breast and he
died
The Texas legislature sympathizes
with the people of Cuba and asks
the next Congress to take action
against Spanish despotism upon the
American continent.
The Texas legislature met last
Tuesday and passed an anti prize
fighting law within three hours. The
observation-disclosures fight will probl
ably come off in Mexico now.
Dispatches received from Rio de
Janeiro announce the wreck and total
loss of the German mail steamship
Uruguay of 1 ,460 tons. Her crew
and all passengers were rescued.
Harry Wright, chief of umpires of
the National league and American
association of base ball clubs, and ex'
manager of the PhIiapelphia league
club, died last week at Atlantic City,
n. j of catarrhal fever, aged sixty
years.
The trial IF Durrant, the alleged
murderer Of Blanche Lamont and
Minnie Williams in Emanuel church,
San Francisco, is drawing to a close.
| The defense presented a very weak
case and there is no doubt of Durrant's
conviction.
The twentieth annual conference of
the Afro American church convened
at Omaha, Neb., October 4 Sixty
ministers, representing the different
! parishes in the district comprising
MISSOURI, Kansas, Colorado and Neb-
raska were present. The coRfe ron ee
was opened by Bishop james -.
Handy Of Kansas City.
The Indians in the northw are
predicting an early and unusually Sc
we're winter this year One thing that
seems to back them up SO far is the
fact that many of the mountain peaks
in that region are already covered
with the earliest SHOWS known in the
history of the country.
President Harper of Chicago uni
versity announced that Mrs. Mary
Esther Reynolds, widow of Diamond
Joe" Reynolds, the we'll known Miss
issippi steamboat man, has given oner
fourth million dollars to the university
''to be used for educational purposes
in such manner as shall commemorate
the name of her husband"
Ex-Governor Buckner of Kentucky
has published card stating that he
will support the democratic state ticket
with the exception of Hardin, and adj
vising democrats not to vote for Har-
din. General Buckner denounces
Hardin for making war on the state
platform. Hardin advocates silver
currency.
General o. M. Poe, the United
States engineer, died suddenly at his
residence in Detroit, Mich, October
2. He had been ill for several days,
but the serious nature of his condition
had not been announced. Some of
the most important light stations, in
Guiding the famous Stannard rock
light, were designed and constructed
by him. He also constructed the new
and famous lock at the Soor.
Ardmore, in the Indian territory,
seems to have the inside track as a
location for the tt-Fitzsimmons
fight. The ChIckasaw Indians favor
bringing off the fight there, the people
of Ardmore are anxious for it, the
Santa Fe road proposes to haul the
people from Dallas to Ardmore with.
out cost, and Dan Stuart is keeping
the wires hot to know the conditions
under which it can be pulled off at
Ardmore The hotels of Dallas, Fort
Worth and Gainesville are equally
accessible for visitors to Ardmore, and
Ardmore can accommodate 5000
guests for any length of time and can
feed all who may come.
Neal Smith, the negro convict who
hrufallv osss ,1lte6 Miss HaDdarson