Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
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Fully 100. 900 pilgrims worshipped st
the shrine of Gaudaloupe, Mexico.
Atlee Hart, prominent Nehraskan,
goes to>the pen for extortion, IN con-
nection with a matchmaking weekly
publication.
Fifty delegates were present at the
Afro-American conference at Detroit.
Southern lynchings were denounced
as well as assaults on women
Alex Collie, the blockade lxings Of
war times and once q many times
millionaire, was buried in New York
at the expense of old friends.
Minnesota Supreme court has de-
cided that a member OF the legislature
cannot accept q public Office during
the two years term for which he was
detected.
French government has agreed to
pay the Diamond Match Company
500, 600 a year for five years for the
privilege of the machines controlled
by the company.
W. Morton Smith, . Lincoln editor,
has been sent to jail for contempt by
Judge Dundy of the Federal court
which he accused of crooledness in the
Cashier Outcalt trial.
Five Russian men of war are inside
Port Arthur and nine outside. Twep-
I ty-fve Manila soldiers who deserted
at Tatam were caught and massacred-
Five hundred Chinese lost their lives
by steamship explosion at sea,
Philadelphia seems to be wicked as
well as slow. Appalling revelations
as to vice, immortality and crime a<e
being disclosed before the Senate IA
vestigating committee. Vicious classes.
it appears, pay for police projections
and immunity.
A sensation IL proraiSad in MssSiS-
sippi when the legislature meets. over
charges of bribery in connection with
state contracts for school books
The strike of New York stone-ma-
sons ended in victory for the strikers
They will now receive IS for an eight
hour day.
Advices which have been received at
| BuenoS AyFes from Quito say a counter
revolution has broken out IN Ecuador
| against the successful insurGent, Gen
eral Alfaro.
Brevet Brigadier General William
/ Royal, United States army, retired,
died in Washington, aged IS years
He served with distinction IN the
Mexican and civil wars.
E. Gordon Castain, rs years cid. was
found in tie woods near Hamilton,
Ala, with his head split open and 8
bloody ak lying beside him. His wife,
| 6S years old, Is under arrest for the
! crime.
The striking housesmiths of New
York have lost their fight.
Two Cinnamon who were wanted as
| witnesses in 4 number of cases at
Portland, Ore, were held In chains.
They have fled a claim against the
government for indignities heaped
upon them Good lawyers say they
| can collect.
Presidents of the warning anthraeite
coal companies agreed to restrict the
output so per cent.
The iron ore shipments on the
! Great lakes last year aggregated To-
| 233, go tons, which breaks all previous
records
Ex-Congressman 81. S. Bundy, father
| of the wife of Ex-Governor Foraker.
died at his home in Wellston, Ohio.
r. B. Curtis, editor of the Anamosa,
Iowa, Daily Call, is on trial, charged
with having three more wives than
i the law allows
The case at Hamilton, NO., against
| Rev. l. V. Ismond, charged with as
saulting Miss Mamie Bryan. has been
dismissed by the prosecuting attorney.
Mgr Satoili has decided the long
fought contest between Bishop Bona
cum and Fathers Fitzgerald and Muir
ply, pastors of the South Auburn and
| Tecumseh, Neb.. missions, in favor OF
! Bonacum-
Attorney General Hancock OF New
York has denied the application for
| permission to begin proceedings for
the dissolution of the American Wall
Paper company of New York, on the
ground that it Is trust
At a Cincinnati meeting, composed
largely of printers, resolutions We're
passed to organize as conferences TO
oppose military training in the public
schools and to secure legislation 1e
| have the State furnish ols to pupils
of the schools.
The thirty-seven foreign missionary
societies in the United States occupy
99S principal stations, 4-91i out sta
tions; have sent out : 1869 male and
2,G43 female missionaries, q total Of
3,512, and are represented by Ii, go
native la borers and 5s7, 252 communi-
cants The income of the Societies Is
S5.OO5. sos.
| DR.. William Hammond. an alleged
nine times bigamist, swindler and cos
mopolitan crook, was arrested st New
! Orleans
The Weir plow shops at Monmouth.
Ill, were almost destroyed nv fire.
The Loss is $50, 200. Three huBzred
men are thrown out OF work
Mrs D. B. Culberson, mother OF the
Governor of Texas, is dead