Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-04-30

THE bronze equestrian statue of Gen.
q. S. Grant, erected By the Union
League club. was unveiled at Brook
lyn on the 25th. There was a splendid
military pageant. United States sol
dlers and sailors and the state militia
and G. A. r. veterans parading to the
number of 10000 q. S. Grant, the
general grandson, unveiled the statue
amid cheers from the multitude. Gen.
Horace Porter delivered the Grafton.
MRS LUDWIG GEORGE, an elderly
German of Laramie, Wyo., became in
sane over the action of the state land
board in dispossessing her of section
Of leased school land, and was ca ptured
while on her way to the state capitol
with a revolver to shoot Gov. Richards,
president OF the land board.
PETE EGBERT, a carpenter at Rock
vile, Ind, without apparent cause
shot and killed Mrs Herman Haske
and two children, next door neighbors.
He then went up town and met Sheriff
Null and Deputy Sweem and killed
them. Egbert then escaped to the fair
grounds and posse was organized and
went after him, but Egbert refused tc
surrender and fred a load of shot in t.
his own breast and expired. It was
thought that he was insane, as he had
once been in a lunatic asylum.
FAILURES for the week ended the oath
were, according to Dun's Review, 23s
in the United States, against $50 last
year, and Al in Canada, against 81 last
year.
The dead bodies of Mrs Joseph Cock.
ing and Miss Daisy Miller, her niece,
and the unconscious form of Joseph
Cooking. were found early on the Gath
in the village store kept by the Cock
ings at Hill Top, Nd. Robbery had
been the incentive for the murders.
The women were on the upper floor OF
the store and were struck dead with
blunt instrument supposed to have
been an iron bar. Cooking was left
for dead in the cellar. He had been
bound with heavy rope and bruta1ly
treated, but will proba bly, recover.
JOHN LOVE, of Milton, w. Va, arose
from his bed and fired two shots at his
wife, killing her instantly. He then
entered his father-in-faw's bedroom
and fred two shots at him. fatally
wounding him. He wound up by firing
bullet into his own brain.
AT a meeting in NJ. A. Hanna's office
at Cleveland, O., the official Mckinley
badge to be worn by supporters of the
presidential candidate at the ST. Louis
convention was adopted. 1t is bright
red satin ribbon, four inches in
length. In the center of the ribbon
a photograph of Mckinley will ap.
pear, and in golden letters above and
below it will be the words: patriot
ism, Protection, Prosperity. William
Mckinley, the Peoples Choice"
Two empty sleepers attached to a
freight train broke loose on the Penn
sylvania road recently near Allegrip-
pus. Pa, and started down the
mountain, crashing into an engine
drawing a freight train, demolishing
it and probably fatally injuring the
engineer and fireman. The sleepers
afterwards took fire and were con-
sumed.
AT Sing Sing, n. V, Louis Herman
and Charles Pustallza, both wife MUIR
derers. were killed in the electric chair.
A DISPATCH from Cleveland, O.. on
the esd stated that the proposition to
admit women as lay delegates to the
general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church had been defeated by
the narrow margin of 10 votes.
THE Presbyterian women's board of
tIliSSlOuS WIS III StSSIOA dG OhIdnOiuI
City, Ok. on the cad delegates being
in attendance from Missouri, Kansas,
Texas, Arizona. New Mexico, Oklaho-
ma and Indian territory. Prominent
missionaries of the Presby terrain
church from all parts of the world
were also present
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. Secretary Of
Agriculture Morton and Commissioners
of Internal Revenue Miller spent the
s3d fishing among the trout streams OF
Leesburg, Va
THE returns on the 23d from the
Louisiana election indicated the cleo
ton of Foster, the democratic candi-
date for governor. by good majority,
although the populists claimed the
state
FIRE broke out in the machine
shops of the Seaboard Air Line rail
way at Raleigh, II. c., on the 22d and
they were destroyed, throwing 125 men
out of employment.
THE Eighteenth Street Baptist church
at Detroit, Mich, was the scene of q
fight on the night of the 22d- One man
was struck across the face by woman
and raised his fist to knock her down,
but was pulled away. Women screamed,
men shouted and recriminations few
thick and fast Two of the church
trustees resigned and six were expelled
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