Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24
A MEEr1Ne in memory of Gen. Avn.

est excitement prevailed and when the
collection boxes were passed women,
who composed half the audience. took
off their rings and other jewelry and
threw them in.
IN a railroad collision on the Texas
& Pacific road near Sodus. La. three
men were killed and seven badly in
iured
A WAGON was struck while crossing
the track of the Chicago & Northwest
ern road at Denison, Ia, and Mr..
krual. a farmer. was fatally hurt and
his wife was killed.
THE gold fever was said TO be run
ming high at Guthrie, Ok, and there
was talk of an organized rush to cap
ture the rich gold discoveries IN the
Wichita mountains.
Two Proctors, Dink and Arch, father
and son, We're taken from the Jail at
Russellville, KY, on the night of tbs
18th and 1ynched and Arch's brother,
Bill, was shot to death in his cell.
They were all charged with the MUIR
Ter of Doc and Aaron Grafton. The
mob came from Adairville and was
composed of about rs men.
A FIRE at Brooklyn on the 18th dam
aged the car house of the Nassau Elec-
sric railroad and partially burned Is
electric cars.
The Missouri congressman have re-
.eiyed notices from the secretary of
agriculture that their allotments of
seed for this year are ready for their
disposal
JAMES SMITH, a mulatto, was hanged
1t Upper Marlborough, Md, on the
18th for the murder of Margaret Brown, :
white girl, with whom he claimed to
be in love. He cut the girls throat be-
cause she repulsed him.
A BURLINGTON, Ia dispatch said that
;he anti-cigarette law passed by the,
legislature was virtually a dead letter
n that city, owing to the recent deci-
sion of the supreme court regarding
original packages.
A LOUISVILLE dispatch stated that
The repu blicans would contest the
election of Kentucky's single Bryan
alector.
THE most violent earthquake ever ex-
oerienced in England shook that coun-
Try from Durham to Surrey and from
London to the Welsh coast about $50
o'clock on the morning of the 18th,
.asting from four to thirty seconds.
At many points two distinct shocks
we're experienced. No great damage
was done.s
IT was officially announced at Bonn
bay on the 18th that there had been
l,511 cases of plague in that city and
/. 094 deaths from the disease up to
late. The exodus from Bombay con-
inues. 1t was stated that 200, 900 per-
sons had fled from the city.
WHITE men were reported as intimi-
lating colored mill hands in Lafayette
county. Ark, in order to drive them
but of the county.
AN explosion occurred in match
factory at Aschaffen burg, Bavaria,
which demolished the building, killing
Is women and girls and injuring seven
others.
AN ammonia cylinder in the Casino
skating rink and summer theater in
Schenly park, at Pittsburgh, Pa, ex-
ploded at 2:15 a. IA. on the 18th and the
whole handsome structure was soon in
flames. The losses were placed at
800. 900. with $75, 600 insurance.
PURSUANT to call issued by the
publisher of the Tim herman and the
publisher of the Lum herman, $50 dele
gates representing 81 states assem- bled
1t Cincinnati on the 18th to take ac-
ton for the better protection of 1um-
Der interests. The purpose of the
meeting was to work to secure from
The next congress a satisfactory tariff
On lum Der.
AN accident by which six men were
believed to have lost their lives oc-
CURED on the 10th in the tunnel of the
Holy Cross mine near Red Cliff, Col. A
blast caused great fall of earth and
1t was believed the men were buried
under it.
WHAT is supposed to have been plot
to blow up the new opera house at Bel
ton, Tex, was discovered on the 18th.
Four large sticks of dynamite were
found in window. The fuse attached
had burned part of the way down, but
went out. There was enough of the
stuff to have wrecked the opera house,
the courthouse and other adjacent
buildings had it exploded.
In a match shoot at live birds at Mil
waukee to settle a tie in match for
medal and $500 a side between DIR. J. L.
and George L. Deiler, Will
hanson shot 191 out of possible 200,
beating the worlds record, which was
lSS. Deiler's score was 1873.
DAVID BOYD and his daughter Min
ME, who had been travelling in a COW
cred wagon, were found lying in pool
Of blood on the roadside in Lincoln
Ok. They had been hacked to
death with an ak A mob of 100 white