Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-11-26

20 people asleep in the hotel at the
time.
THE London Chronicles correspond
emit stated on the 23d that so Armeni-
ans had been condemned to hang at
Constantinople and that great agita-
ton prevailed in the city.
REPRESENTATIVE TIMBERLAKE has in
troduced a bill into the Alabama gem
eral assembly to make it unlawful for
any woman to wear any article of mems
clothing or boomers, tights, divided
skirts and shirt waists.
The executive committee Of the Ma
tional Republican league met at Chi
cago on the Goth and decided to take
part in the inaugural ceremonies next
March, and an effort will be made to
have $4,000 leaguers in the procession
The Misses Lucia and Linda Lind
and Al Pollock, a young attorney,
were crossing the railroad tracks. at
Concord, KY, in buggy. when fast
train struck them, killing them in
stantly.
AT Newcastle. Del. on the night of
the Goth some one placed a Spanish
flag in front of the armory of company
81, of the national guard, and when the
young soldiers came out they tore it
from the staff, trampled it under foot,
made some fiery speeches and finally
made a bonfire and burned the flag
amid the cheers of the crowd.
SANDER SwARINGEN, a negro, killed
a white mans dog at Columbus. Miss.
and g mob of white men surrounded
his house, fred his crib containing his
cotton crop and shot him.
BRADFoRD's roller mills at Creston,
a., were destroyed by fire and a large
amount of wheat, -four and cornmeal
was consumed.
NOTICE has been given that the st.
Joseph & Grand Island railway, for
merly part of the Union Pacific, will
be sold at auction at the depot at
Hastings. Neb.
THREE men entered a saloon at Har-
rison street and Fifth avenue, Chicago,
at $3.50 a. m. on the Goth and held up
the bartender. The saloon is only a
block from police station.
A BALTIMORE Sun special from Rome
on the Goth said that Rev. DR.. Thomas
j. Conaty had been appointed to the
rectorship of the Catholic university at
Washington to succeed Bishop Keane.
ALL the policemen of Helena. Mont,
have given notice that they will strike
on December 1. They claim that the
warrants for their pay for the last
month cannot be sold even for five
cents on the dollar. the merchants re-
fusing to take them as the city has ex-
ceeded the limit of it's lawful indebted
ness.
JOHN LAWSON, the Terrible Swede,'
lowered the worlds SO mile unpaced
bicycle record at Memphis, Tenn, on
the 18th. doing it in the remarkable
time of 2:16:O3.
WESLEY GARLAND. aged IA, and Will
Lee, colored boy, went hunting
around Greenville, ILL.,, and disputed
about their workmanship. Garland
stepped off 80 PAGES and, turning his
back: bantered Lee to shoot. Lee fred
and fatally wounded Garland.
REPRESENTATIVE TAwNEY. of Min
nesota, said recently that his bill for
the retirement of government employees
upon pensions would be favorably
acted upon by the house committee on
civil service reform at the coming ses-
sion of congress.
18th stated that William J. Bryan had
been engaged to deliver non-partisan
lectures on governmental and social
topics all over the country. The man
behind the enterprise was said to be
v. E. McBee. of Norfolk, Va.
THE 2Sth annual convention of the
Society of the Army of the Tennessee
at st. Louis on the 18th selected Mil
waukee as the next place of meeting
and elected Gen. Granville NJ. Dodge
president; Gen. Andrew Hickenlooper,
corresponding secretary; Gen. NJ. T.
Force, treasurer, and Col Cornelius
Cadle, recording secretary. The Sher-
man statue com nittee made it's report
and the contract for the work, which
is to cost 800. 900, was approved
THE joint wage scale committee of
window-elass workers and manufac-
turers adjourned at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 10th after two days conference
without having reached any agree
ment. The result of this failure means
the continued idleuess of $4,000 men
throughout the country, who have
already been without work for the
past six months.
THREE men in How, Oconto county,
Wis, recently hanged them selves for
fear of being drawn into murder case
that was on trial
THE 2sth annual reunion of the So
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee
convened in St Louis on the 18th, Gen.
-Greenville NJ. Dodge, of Iowa, the pres
ident, calling the meeting to order.