Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-04-02

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straiphtawa course in the phenomenal
| time of Ill 3-5. It was the fastest time
ever made on a wheel. The wind was
at his back. blowing at the rate OF near
| " so miles an hour.
FORTY masked men,, armed with
| clubs and shotguns. marched to the
| Jail at Crown Point, Ind, on the night
of the Goth with the expressed deter
mination of lynching Albert Knaus,
who attempted to murder Mrs. Nicholas
Hoan. Sheriff Hays was prepared for
them and his threatening attitude
baff1ed the mob.
A FIRE broke out in Weston, w. Va
shortly after midnight on the Goth and
destroyed property to the value of
$3.50, 600, only about one-third OF which
is covered by insurance. The property
burned was about half the business
portion of the town. During the fire
a suspension bridge which spans the
West Fork river gave way with crowd
of people and number OF persons
were injured in the fall
A CYCLONE passed south of Alton,
ILL.,. recently and 90 box cars were
wrecked. Fences and telegraph poles
were blown down, but no fatalities re-
suited.
FOUR people were killed and two in
jured in fire which started early on
the morning of the goth in the three
story business and tenement house, 374
Hudson street, New York.
THE republican convention of Okla
homa territory, to select delegates to
st. Louis, met in Oklahoma City and
decided to send an uninstructed dele
cation to the national convention.
The delegates were said to be one for
Mckinley and five against. The reso-
lutions adopted favor the free coinage
of silver at ratio fixed by congress.
DISPATCHES reported that 800 armed
men held possession of the town of
Palmetto, La, on the 2Sth. Their
presence was to prevent the negroes
from registering. and not one negro
registered. A mob attacked the house
of colored man, who retaliated by
firing. Other shots were fred and four
negroes were killed.
THE United States battleship Iowa
was successfully launched from
Cramps ship yard at Philadelphia on
the 2sth before distinguished party.
Miss Mary Lord Drake, daughter of
Gov. Drake, of Iowa, broke the bottle
of champagne over the vessels Prov
THE worst windstorm experienced in
Denver, Col, in two years prevailed on
the 27th, the wind reaching velocity
of GO miles an hour. The telegraph
lines on all the railroads in the south
ern part of the state were demoralized.
At Cripple Creek the shaft house on
the Little Daisy mine blew down, kill
ing John May and severely injuring
John Harmon.
Mrs. JOHN F. SIEGEL and her son,
aged 10 years, were struck by a pas
senger train while driving across the
Lake Shore railroad tracks in San
dusky. O., on the 9th Mrs. Siegel was
killed and her son will die.
A FIGHT occurred between cattle
thieves and cowmen near Frevlis lake.
Lynn county, Tex, in which two
thieves were killed and two wounded.
One cowman was wounded, but not
seriously.
IN Greer county, Ok, on the 9th
every thing was in badly demoralized
condition as a result of the supreme
court decision that the county was not
part of Texas. The courts had been
closed and juries dismissed, all county
business suspended, and the hundred
more schools of the county all
closed.
ELsEY HAYWOOD, IS years old, was
taken to task by his mother at Paris,
Tex, for striking a horse with rein
when he answered impudently and she
whipped him. He was so angered and
humiliated that he shot himself through
the brain.
WHILE operating a circular saw at
Warsaw, ILL.,. Hubert Richards slipped
and fell on the revolving blade. He
was terribly mangled and will die.
FRANK SCOTT, the keeper Of the big
elephant Gypsy, attached to a travel
ing circus at Chicago, on the 25th had
been giving the brute her daily exer-
else. when he accidentally jammed an
iron hook into her flesh above the eye.
With scream she seized the man and
| threw him against a shed door, killing
him, and then roamed up and down
the streets on the west side for hours
with an army of police after her, try
ing to capture her.
By an explosion of in the Nfckerson
& Spence grease extracting works at
Newark, n. J., on the Goth two men
were killed and two badly burned.
The fire resulting from the explosion
did several thousand dollars damage
The cause of the fire was supposed to
have been from naphtha, which was
used in the factory.