Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

Harry Hayward's mother tainted at
the coffin of her son during the flu
neral service.
by train at Milford, Ind, and killed.
Platt men were victorious in the
New York City primaries
Federation of labor has exonerated
John Mcbride from charges OF brib-
cry.
Billy Andrews, an old time clown.
died at the Kankakee, ILL.,, asylum.
William o. Bradley, Kentucky's first
Republican Governor, was sworn in.
Ex-President Harrison has engaged
thirty rooms at the Planters house
for the Republican national conven-
ton.
Arthur Dicks was placed on trial at
Toronto charged with burning his
wife to death in order to get an insur-
ance of SO, 900 on her life.
Hon. Clarke Wallace, controller of
customs IN the Dominion cabinet, has
resigned because he cannot approve of
the course which the Government has
adopted in it's attitude towards the
Manitoba school question.
The great shipbuilding ! strike in
Glasgow, Scotland, has been settled.
and one shilling in February. The
builders conceded the advance through
fear of losing foreign warship con-
tracts.
Barbara Aub of New York, on whose
complaint w. l.. S. Langerman was
convicted of assault, and who. after
the conviction, confessed that she had
perjured herself and that Langerman
was innocent, now says her confession
60 h.. or
true. She is under arrest for perjury.
In the French chamber of deputies
a resolution was adopted inviting the
government to prosecute those who
have been engaged in cornering
Gather.
Two hundred negroes hired to pick
oranges were driven out of Lee coun-
ty, Fla, by armed whites, who shot
several, drowned others and starved
all of them for two days.
Ex-Governor and ex-Confederate
General 7. j. Churchill of Arkansas
wants to fight for the Monroe doc
trine.
Congressman Terry has a bill in
hand to make railroad corporations
citizens of states in which their lines
run.
Mayor Bemis of Omaha proposes to
raise supplies for the Cuban inSur-
gents, but Federal Judge Dunday told
him he would be arrested if he at
tempted to forward anything.
Senator Call introduced resolution
in the Senate calling for relief of the
Armenians, even to Christian nations
combining and establishing them on
an independent government basis.
The semicentenn1al of Texas indie
pendence will be celebrated at Dallas
| next year.
Dr. Armstrong of Floyd, Miss, was
called to his gate and shot. He is
seriously wounded.
family Of five Germans is reported
! to have been murdered near Bowie
Station in New Mexico by Apaches.
Mayor Bemis of Omaha says that he
will send money and provisions to
Cubans. Judge Dundy says that the
Mayor will get into trouble.
While the funeral services over the
| supposed corpse of Mrs. Markham
| were in progress in Battle Creek,
| Mich. the minister, relatives and con-
gregation were Mortified by sound
from the coffin and were almost par
later the coffin lid was broken and
| Mrs. Markham found to be alive. 1t
| appears that she had suffered from
| conclusion of the brain, and for two
! days was unconscious.
News of more massacres near Bitlis
and Van have reached the Turkish
capital
Reports of conspiracy to depose
| Abdul Hamid are circulated in Con-
stantinople.
Chancellor Hohenlohe said in the
Reichstag that the present laws will
be strictly administered against So
cialists.
| Robert Shaw, banker of Topeka,
Kan, skated into a hole in the ice OF
| Soldier creek and was drowned.
Senator PETER of Kansas and ex-
Congressman Roswell G. Horn will de-
bate the financial question in Pennsy1-
| vania.
Two masked men held up the station
agent at Mountain View, Mo-, and Sc
cured $40.
General Daniel F. Miller of Keokuk,
| Iowa, a contemporary of Clay, HOus-
ton and Chase in Congress, died in
| Omaha, Neb-
The test of the pneumatic guns to
| guard San Francisco was concluded.
The military board was thoroughly
satisfied with the work done.
Said Pasha, who fed to the British
Embassy at Constantinople for safety,
| has returned to his home.
Sir Charles Upper may succeed
Mckenzie Bowel as Premier of Canada
Miss Minta Booker, daughter of a
farmer living north OF Trenton, Mo.
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