Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-05-14

stepped off the bridge backwards, fall
ing 90 feet and sustaining fatal inter
aal injuries
THE democratic state convention
met at Nashville. Tenn, on the 7th. 1t
was free silver convention from start
to finish. Ex-Gov. Robert L. Taylor
was nominated for governor.
WHILE chasing ro5ber from his
store Thomas J. Marshall. proprietor
of the Golden Rule dry goods store at
Chicago, was shot twice and died
few moments later on the sidewalk in
front of his place. The robber escaped.
after wounding two other persons.
The robber entered the store and ap-
preached Miss Matte Garrettson, the
cashier, and demanded what money
she had. She screamed and Marshall
came to her aid, chasing the young fell
low out to the sidewalk.
A GUTHRIE, Ok, dispatch stated that
Deputy Marshal Tilghman had re-
ceived 81, 900 from the Rock Island
Railway Co. for the capture of Bill
Raider. Thirteen months ago the
Rock Island train was robbed at Dover
by five men, and the railway company
at once offered 1000 for each of the
robbers, dead or alive. All five have
been captured or killed, and the rail-
way company has paid the 81 900 for
each one.
THE democratic convention at Tren-
ton. n. j., on the 7th declared for a
gold money standard and warmly in
dorsed President Cleveland's admins
tration. No effort was made to in
struct the delegates
SIX firemen were perhaps fatally in
jured in a fire in Fischer's hotel at
Kingston, N. Y. This hotel and Rig
ney's hotel adjoining it and several
barns in the neighborhood were
burned. The fire was started in Fisch-
er's by the explosion of a gasoline
stove. The injured fremen were in
Rigney's building when the roof fell
in. The loss will exceed $50. 600 The
guests in the hotel escaped in their
night clothes, losing all their property.
The Oklahoma courts have struck a
puzzler in the Indian custom relating
to plural marriages The Kickapoo
bucks have an average of five squaws
each. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes
are nearly all polygamists, as are the
Kiowas, Apaches. Comanches and
Wichitas. It is stated that the courts
have decided to take action in the mat
ter at once, unless polygamous prac-
tees cease. Capt Woodson, of Ana
6arko agency, has issued orders COM
manding Indians of his agency, having
several wives, to at once decide on the
wife wanted and give up the others
A POLICEMAN arrested Charles Boyse,
colored, at the race track at Louis
Vile, Ky, on the 9th for shooting
craps and started to Central station
with the prisoner on crowded street
car. On the way in Boyse broke from
the officer and ran Both men pulled
their revofvers and began firing.
Boyse was shot through the arm and
the policeman was shot in the eye and
under the chin. Both men will proba-
bly, die. Two people on the car were
also slightly wounded.
THE DiRger's News at Johannesburg,
Transvaal republic, stated on the 9th
that the sentences imposed on Ham
mond, the American, and the other
convicted members of the reform COM
mittee will be reduced to nominal fines,
and that the sentence prescribing inn
priSonment and subsequent Danish
ment will be revoked.
THE republicans of Michigan met in
state convention at Detroit The del
egates were instructed for Mckinley.
Both the gold plank submitted by the
majority and the silver plank SUBJ
mitted by the minority were squelched
and the money plank of the Minneap-
oils platform of 1899 was su bstituted.
WILLIAM WORCESTER attempted to
murder his wife, Eliza beth, who keeps
boarding house in Cleveland, @, and
was shot through the heart and in
stantly killed by John Bayne, one of
the boarders. Worcester had recently
escaped from the Toledo insane
asylum Both Bayne and Mrs .Worces-
ter were arrested to await the result of
the coroner's inquest
THE Methodist Episcopal general
conference at Cleveland, o. on the 9Th
decided to increase the amount of the
fund for the relief of worn out minis
terS and widows and children of de-
ceased ministers by appealing to the
churches .. .F s.s.e.....
By a vote of 425 to 90, the Methodist
general conference at Cleveland, o.,
On the 7th decided that the four
women, delegates might retain, their
seats. The decision was reached SIM
ply as the result of compromise, and
with the understanding that it should
not pre- iudice the claims of women. in
future or establish a precedent for
future conferences to follow.
z5JOHNs POTUINYas and A. Purski two