Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-04-25

Greenville, Ala, for the murder of
Watts Murphy, popular young farm
er. One of the negroes confessed and
implicated the others. After murder
ing the farmer the negroes placed the
body in brush heap and burned the
heap. The debris was afterward ex-
amined and the teeth, liver and heart
of the victim were found.
GOLD miners from the west were re-
ported focking to the Piedmont Sec
ton of North Carolina, and there was
an outbreak of mining fever. The
discovery of a pure nugget. weighing
eight pounds and five ounces, in
Stanley county had increased the in
terest in mining.
IT was reported at Key West, Fla,
that British smack, plying between
Long Key and Nassau, was fred upon
by Spanish gunboat and two of her
seamen killed and that the vessel was
taken to Santiago de Cuba by the gun
boat
A CONTROLLING interest in the Chi
cago Times Herald has been purchased
by II. II. Kohlsaat, formerly owner of
the Inter Ocean, who immediately an
nounced that he would run the paper
in the interest of hard money and pro-
lection.
THE failures for the week ended
April ID (Dun's report) were PAL in the
United States against 2I9 last year.
THE fifth annual convention of the
Young Women's Christian association
met at Pittsburgh, Pa, with over 200
delegates present. The following of
ficers were elected: Mrs. Grace Whit
ney Evans, of Detroit, president; Mrs.
L. w. Messer, of Chicago, and Miss
Mary B. Stewart, of Detroit, vice
presidents; Flora Shank, of Indiana
polls, and Carlotta Codding. of Wilkes
barre, Pa, secretaries. The reports
showed a membership of 29,459, with
an increase of thirty associations dur
ing the year.
c. j. BRoNsToN, a Breckenridge adj
mirer, who will almost surely be elect
ed state senator from the Lexington,
KY, district, has received a petition
from 2s3 Breckenridge men, asking him
to work for w. G. P. Breckenridge for
United States senator against Mr..
Blackburn next year.
CHARLES w. SLICK, of Mishawaka,
grand commander of the Indiana COM
mandery Knights Templar, has caused
something of a sensation at the annual
meeting of the commandery by de-
nouncing the use of Intoxicating
liquors at masonic headquarters.
CHAIRMAN GEORGE D. GIDEON, of the
L. A. w. racing board, has sprung his
eagerly-looked-for sensation, and TWEEN
ty-eight riders in class A have been sus-
pended. Who these men are is not yet
known, as the names will not be an
nounced till later. johnson has been
to the Minneapolis rider, two class A
men have been placed officially under
the ban. They are Orlando Stevens, of
Ottumwa, Ia, who has been suspended
from class A pending investigation, and
George Fitzsimmons, of Charlotte. n. G.
DEPLoRABLE accounts of the condi-
ton of crops were received from the
section around Austin, Tex, as result
of the unprecedented dry. winter and
spring. The prevailing winds had
been from the north, blasting fruit and
whitening oats, which will be total
failure. Cotton seed had rotted in the
ground and whole plantations will
have to be replanted. Corn was wilt
ing; trees, which usually have a crop
of young nuts at this time of the wear,
were just budding.
THE regents of the California uni
versity have been informed by the ex-
ecutors that the bequest of the late ].
c. Wilmerding of trust fund of $780,,
900 for the building and maintenance
of a school of trades for boys was ready
to be turned over to them.
THE main business portion of Ard
more, I. T., for six solid blocks, was
burned on the 10Th, sixty business houses
being entirely destroyed. The loss was
estimated at from $500, 600 to $500, 600.
The United States court and jail were
also destroyed and the vault of the
courthouse was cracked and the court
records partly destroyed. The fire was
said to be incendiary.
THE National league opened the
championship baseball season on the
18th with Brooklyn at New York,
Philadelphia at Baltimore. Cleveland
at Cincinnati, Boston at Washington,
Pittsburgh at Louisville and Chicago
at ST. Louis.
THE fifth international convention
of the Young Women's Christian asso-
citation opened at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 18th.
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON, commander of
the United States Confederate Veter-
ans urges the members of the order
all over the country to be present at
the fifth annual reunion to be held
the latter part of Nav at Houston,
Tex. He represents that projects of
great Importance will come up, among
other things the marking and caring
for the graves of the unknown dead