Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-28
BASEBALL RULES.
The Committee Recommends Ger
tain Changes in the Game.
FIXING Up A FREE SILVER PARTY.
Comrades of Chickamauga Ordered to Hold
Memorial Services There-Councn OF
Women-Ths Gospel of Better
Farming Being Pushed.

New YORK, Feb. 26.-The rules com
mittee of the National Baseball league,
consisting of Edward Hanlon, of Balti-
more; James a. Hart, of Chicago, and
C. II. Byrne, of Brooklyn, met in this
city yesterday in the Fifth Avenue ho-
tel. The committee made numerous
changes, which will be voted on by the
league at its meeting tomorrow. They
recommended among other things that
the pitchers plate be enlarged; placed
restrictions upon noisy coaching;
gave to the umpire greater
power to discipline Kicking"
and changed the wording of many
rules, some of which were heretofore
vague and ambiguous They also
ruled that no player except the catcher
and first baseman shall be permitted
to wear padded or lined gloves or
mitts- Another most important change
is one which constitutes foul ball.
Hereafter any ball that goes on to foul
ground between the lines of bases is to
be considered foul whether it is batted
directly to the ground or in the air.
This does away with the old 1O-foot
rule.
FIXING UP A FREE SILVER PARTY.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-It is under
stood that the advocates of the free
coinage of silver from different parts
of the country, who have been in ses-
sion in Washington for the past sew
eral days under the auspices of the
Timetable league, have progressed
so far with their 1abors as to feel
fairly confident that they will be able
to organize a new party which will
command the support of the silver men
throughout the country. A platform
has been agreed upon which plants the
whole party on the plank of free sill
yer, eliminating all other demands of
the populist platform of 1892.
COMRADES To MEET AT CHICKAMAUGA-
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 26.-George F. Dol
ton, general commanding the Comrades
of the Battlefield, yesterday issued a
general order to the military order of
which he is supreme officer notifying
it's members that the order will hold
its annual battlefield memorial serv-
ices for 1895 on the battlefield of
Chickamauga in September, at the
time of the dedication of that field as
a national park. He requests, in addi-
ton to his orders members, that all
who served under fire in the late war
who wish to attend advise him at ma
tiOnal headquarters in this city.
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.-The session
| of the National Council of Women
opened yesterday with a prolonged
discussion on the topic of equal pay for
equal work. Miss Virginia Chandler
Titcombe, of New York city, discussed
the power of money and said without
it women are dependent and helpless
and can never rise to their true posi-
ton in the world. In the open discus
sion that followed Susan Is. Anthony
took the ground that women cannot
expect equal pay for equal work until
they have equal rights before the law
| and have the ballot.
THE GOSPEL OF BETTER FARMING.
NEW HAMPTON, Ia, Feb. 26.-Presi-
dent Stickney, of the Chicago Great
! Western railroad, has inaugurated a
series of meetings along the line of his
road for the purpose of advocating a
more scientific and thorough method
of farming. He will hold one or two
meetings in all of the important towns
along the line, which will be addressed
by himself and others who have had
practical experience in special crops,
such as potatoes