Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-30


States A motion was also carried Civ
ing the national committee plenary
powers in all things connected with
the party after adjournment Soon
after the announcement of organs
vote, l.o42, the convention adjourned
sine die.
In the 24-hour bicycle race at Lon
don for professionals Hurst led with
372 miles, Nelson made 335 and laps,
and Buffet 312 and laps
THE populist national committee,
which held its first meeting at St
Louis on the 25th, elected Senator
Butler, Of North Carolina, chairman.
NEAR Letohatchie, Ala, at negro
church picnic, a quarrel occurred and
an impromptu duel took place between
Dave Gunter and Burnett Means, which
afterwards developed into a general
battle of friends of both parties. Fully
so shots were fired and then it was
found that Gunter, Means and another
negro named Onery Gilmore were dead
and six seriously wounded, three of
them being women.
FIVE hundred delegates to the ma
tional convention of window glass
workers at Pittsburgh, Pa, went to
Canton, O.. on the 25th aud paid their
respects to Maj. Mckinley.
| CHAIRMAN JONES. of the democratic
national committee. has appointed
William p. ST. John, who presided over
| the silver convention at St. Louis.
treasurer of the democratic national
committee and Mr.. st. John announced
that he would accept the appointment.
AT London. in the bicycle race Of "a
hours for amateurs. Goodwin made 351
miles and lap and Hunt 243 miles and
20 laps.
The long strike of the quarrymen at
Berea, O., involving about 1000 men
and which lead to serious rioting, has
been settled by the state board of ar
bitration.
DIR. ]. c. HEARNE won his libel case
at San Diego, Cal. against the San
Francisco Chronicle, the jury assessing
the damages at $4,000. The article in
the paper implicated the doctor in the
murder of Amos ]. Stillwe11 at Hanni-
bal, Mo-, in December, 1888. Suisse
quent to the publication the doctor
was tried for the murder and ac-
| quilted.
THE new national committee of the
silver party at St Louis met on the
24th and Charles d. Lane. of Califor-
MIA, was made chairman and I. n.
Stevens, of Colorado, secretary. D. P.
Thompson, of Portland, Ore, was
chosen to go to Japan and j. NJ. Haw-
thorn, of st. Paul. Mimi. to go to Mex.
leo for the purpose of investigating the
effects of free coinage of silver in those
countries
AFTER several months of agitation a
strike of the various organizations
| constituting the Brotherhood of Tail.
ors was declared on the 21st. 1t will
involve about II, 900 workmen in New
York. Brooklyn and Brownsville. 1t
was alleged by the tailors that wages
had been cut 20 to 25 per cent, and
that they were compelled to work
more than ten hours a day.
THE fine stern wheel steam boat, the
Paul Tulane, struck a snag in the Mis-.
sissippi river. while en- route to New
Orleans, and, after drifting down
stream short distance, turned over
and sank out of sight. The boat and
cargo will prove total loss. None of
! the passengers or crew were reported
missing.
JAMES MURRAY, colored, was hanged
at New Orleans on the oath for the muir
der of Michael Cotton on the night of
July 26. 1894.
The peoples party convention at ST.
Louis on the Gath adopted a platform
and nomipated Thomas 6. Watson, OF
Georgia. for vice president
Two campers, Oscar Anderson and
Ed Kuehnstedt, fell from their small
boat while rowing near Appleton,
| Wis. and Anderson was drowned and
| KuehnsLedt was rescued in an uncon-
SciouS condition.
CAss NEEL retained the western ten
mis- championship. defeating George
| Wrenn, the aspirant for the honor, on
the 21st at Chicago, in straight sets:
81, GO. Ga.
THE town of Hot Springs, a health
resort near Seattle, Wash, was report
ed on the 22d in imminent danger of
destruction by forest fires, which had
| crept down the sides of the Cascade
| mountains.
SAMUEL CONRAD, of Huntington, Pa,
recently donned his best clothes and
boarded freight train for the national
encampment at Lewiston, Pa Soon
after four tramps boarded the train
and one of them compelled Conrad at
the point of revolver to undress and
turn over his good clothes in exchange
for the tramp's old suit The tramp
also took ali his money.
EDWARD S. WAsHBURN was elected
president OF the Kansas City, Fort