Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-17

laps. winning purse OF 81. 300. Rlce
was second, with 1.ss2 miles and 6
| laps, purse $500, and Reading third,
with l. s55 miles and laps, purse $500.
| Twenty eight men started in the race
and IS rode at the finish.
A WHOLESALE raid of downtown pool
rooms at Chicago was made on the 18th
and upward of 1000 prisoners were
taken to the central station.
GEORGE ISAAC. scientist at Berlin,
was experimenting with acetyline gas
and he and three assistants were blown
to atoms.
THE boundary line between Missouri
and Iowa was to be settled by the fed
era1 supreme court, it was reported. by
formal decree sustaining the conten-
ton of Missouri and Mercer county,
Mo-, will acquire slice of territory
heretofore claimed by Decatur county,
la.
A SPECIAL from Fort Smith, Ark,
stated that the Choctaw delegates had
agreed with the Dawes commission for
the allotment of lands and abolition of
tribal government in eight years.
Townsites will be set apart and sold
and the balance of the land equally di-
vided among citizens.
The Cleveland, O.. delegates to the
annual convention of the American
Federation of Labor will use their in
huence toward the defeat of the re-
election of the president, Samuel Com
pers- The cause given is that Mr..
Gompers is too conservative, whereas
occasions often arise calling for ag-
gressive actions
MARSHALL j. MILLER was hanged at
the state prison at San Quentin, Cal,
on the 18th for the murder of Joseph
Pierre.
AN old-time feud between Taylor
Miller and George Jacks. farmers liv-
ing in McMinn county, Tenn, had a
tragic sequel by the pair meeting and
quarreling. when Miller drew pistol,
but before he could use it Jacks had
cut him almost to pieces with a pocket
knife.
THE failures for the week ended the
18th (Dun's report) were $50 in the
United States, against 333 last year.
and 43 in Canada, against 81 last year.
A COILIERY was flooded at Abernant,
in the south of Wales, and 100 men who
were in the mines had a race for their
lives. Six of them were drowned.
j. K. EMMETT, the actor, has been
granted a divorce at New York from
his wife, whom he married in 1894
THE plant of the Brown Bros To-
bacco Co. at Winston, n. c., was de-
stroyed by fire. entailing a loss of $780,
600, with $s5. insurance.
REV. Z. DEWITT TALMAGE has de-
MED the report of his engagement to
marry Miss Susie Mangan, of Sing
Sing, n. Y.
NEW comet was discovered on the
sth by c. D. Perrine, of the Lick OBJ
(Hxx1s
constellation of Pisces
THE bubonic plague was reported as
spreading rapidly in Bombay and on
the Sth there were So new cases and 35
deaths
DIR. ZERrUcHA, the personal physi-
clan of Al tonio Maceo, surrendered to
the Spanish commander at San Felipe,
Cuba. The doctor confirmed the report
of Maceo's death and described the
wounds received by the insurgent chief.
The Madrid newspapers were greatly
excited over the references to Cuba in
the presidents letter and declared that
the ton of the United States
would be un bearably humiliating.
A WHISKY jointist in Pom totic county,
ChickaSaw nation, was about to leave
the country, when he was attacked by
two men for the purpose of robbery.
Inc join ClStS killed them both and
made his escape.
MONMOUTH, ILL.,. has passed curfew
ordinance prohibiting children under
Is years old from being on the streets
after eight o'clock in the winter and
nine in the summer.
A DISPATCH from Boise, Ida, of the
18th stated that the supreme court had
handed down an opinion, in which it |
was held that the equal suffrage
amendment voted on at the recent cleo
tion in Idaho had been adopted and
hereafter women will vote in that state
BRAKEMAN SCHOGLE put a tramp off
a train of the Chicago & Erie al Gallon,
O., and was shot dead. Officers were
trying to trail the murderer by blood |
hounds.
COL >KowALsKI, the legal represe nta-
tive of Bob Fitzsimnons, the pugilist, !
has brought suit against Tom Sharkey
at San Francisco to recover the SO, 900 |
purse for the recent fight Col Ko- |
walsh said there was conspiracy to |
rob Fitzsmmons of the SIC, 900 and the |
evidence in his possession to prove it |
was overwhelming.
A TERRIBLE disaster occurred at |
Xeres, Spain, through a building col |
1apsing and burying IS persons Eleven |
dead bodies were taken out of the |
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