Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-05
LATE NEWS NOTES

Vice President Howard of the A. R
u Is trying to locate q colony In Ar
kansas.
A verdict of one cent and costs was
returned against j. S. Reap at Pine
Bluff, Ark, for killing neighbor
whose widow sued Reap.
The petrified body of 3 man who
had been Alynched was found near
Savannah. Iowa.
A benefit is being gotten up in Wash
ington for Mrs. Waller, wife of the
ex-consul in prison in France.
One man was killed and two prob
ably fatally injured by the explosion
OF an engine at Lafayette, Ind.
In some parts of Kansas teachers
are being paid $50 per month and have
only one scholar in their schools
Lively litigation has grown mp over
the possession of Staigers' Island in
the Missouri River near Leaven worth.
Suit has been brought npon the old
bonds of the Tebo and NeoSho road,
guaranteed by the city of Nevada, Mo
Their validity has been disputed for
years.
Colonel Warren S. Reese of Mont
gomery, Ala, left for Washington to
contest the seat of Senator Morgan on
the grounds of fraud.
The dead body of John Carmicle, a
farmer, was found in Hardin county,
Illinois. Manfred Underwood, with
whom he had quarreled about q hog,
has left the neighborhood.
A tramp was burned to death in the
destruction of house by fire at La
fayette, Ind.
closed his work in connection with the
Swiss mission and is expected to arrive
in ST. Louis IN few days.
Young Mrs. Stevens who ran away
from her old husband at Banner, Ill,
was arrested at Burlington, Iowa
where she had eloped with another
man.
The loss to the oil interests of Ohio
as a result of the recent storms will
amount to over 81 200, OUO Over z, 900
derricks are down and it will cost an
average of $10O each to rebuild them.
The Virginia Republicans have
chosen Colonel Lamb of Norfolk as
General MahOne'S successor as leader
of the Republicans of the state. He
was made chairman of the state COM
m1ttee and also state committeeman.
John J. Overton, SIS years of age and
veteran OF the Black Hawk, Next
can and civil wars. has just been con-
victed in the United States court at
Fort Smith, Ark, of the forgery of
afhdavits in support of mis- claim for
an increase of pension.
The District court at Tecumseh,
Neb., has refused to grant the injunc-
ton asked for by Bishop Bonacum
against the rebellious priest, Father
William Murphy.
In riot at the state prison at Jack
son, Miss, Deputy Warden Northrup
was fatally beaten with a hammer
two shirt factory officers were badly
beaten and several machines wrecked.
Thirty horses, a large quantity Of
feed. A. 81. Daniels feed store, John
Ritter's feed stable and the rooms of
about ten people were destroyed by
fire in Springfield, Mo. Losses $25, O0O
At Omaha, after five hours discus
sion OF the financial issues. the trans
Mississippi commercial congress de-
clared for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver on Is to 1 basis.
It is rumored that the Trans-At-
Iantic steamship lines are to form a
pool and advance rates of passage in
all classes.
The will of the late Alexandra
Dumas prohibits the publication or
the performance of any posthumus
works or plays which may be found IN
his manuscript.
A movement has been started to or
ganize an inter-scholastic football
association among High school teams
of Missouri and Kansas.
A. Fl. Nichols, a farmer living near
Lincoln, Neb., threw heavy club at
refractory horse. The club went
wild and struck Nichols little Swear
old girl on the side of the head, killing
her almost instantly.
Alaska's gold output for 1895 is
So, 600, OO0
Snow caused serious live stock losses
in Texas.
Hyman Hettenhost. a Brooklyn
pugilist, shot and killed his two chill
dren and himself.
Utah sent tn largest delegation to
the eighth al nual Trans Mississippi
convention at Omaha.
Under competitive bidding the gov
eminent saves SIS, 900 per year on the
printing of the Patent Office Gazette.
E. C. Carody and two other men and
a boy were murdered and robbed on a
trading boat below Arthur City, Texas.
Snow or ice have hitherto been UNI
known in Oklahoma before Christmas.
SO that the present storm is unprece-
denied
General Campos says Cuba should
not be recognized by the United States
because the insurgents possess no sea-
port or town on the island
Professor Hand of Perry Okla xUas