Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-02-27
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Senator from Kentucky, is sound
money man.
General Weyler's military editors
are reporting lots Of Cuban insurgents
killed in battle.
Several more bombs have been ex-
pIoded in the gardens of the palace at
Madrid No harm done
Through lapse of outside bidders
about $1,000, 600 more of the new
bonds go to the Morgan syndicate
Arizona and New Mexico statehood
bills are to be reconsidered by the
lower house Of Congress
Cuban planters have been ordered
20 resume cane grinding at employ
guards at their own expense.
Debs will likely be the guberna-
torial candidate for the Indiana Popu-
lists on free coinage anti-corporation
p1atform.
Congress favors killing all seals in
-Behrlng sea unless an effective agree
ment for their protection can be
reuched.
Mississippi legislators with only one
dissenting vote. declared for free coin
age, 16 to J.; thus effectually squelch-
ing the Whitney boom.
Tailors' strike il, Germany ended in
i2}% per cent increase in wages being
obtained.
w. W. Astor is to marry Lady
Churchill, formerly Miss Jennie
Jerome of New York.
Count Won Cardoff, the German BIZ
metallist champion, says the cause is
making slow progress.
Perry. Okla. is gold crazy, pay dirt
having been found while digging
well on William Hodges farm.
The Nebraska labor party will put
ticket in the field at Omaha May 5.
Michael Travis, wealthy farmer
near McCook, Neb.. was found dead
decapitated and otherwise disfigured.
The wife of Vice President Steven
son was elected president general of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton.
Fleming Marshall's 9-year-old SON,
near Linton, Greene county, Ind,
committed suicide by taking arsenic
because his father whippid him.
Congressman Henry Clay Miner of
New York, and Annie O'Neil1. the
actress, will be married in April and
spend the summer in Europe.
Kentucky legislators think Carlisle's
refusal to invite sound money men to
vote for Blackburn is bid for the
Illinois Democrats have split on the
money question and will have contest
ing delegations in the national con-
vention.
The Monitor, Monadnock, which has
been twenty-one years in being built,
has been commissioned at San Fran
cisco, and the new harbor defense
ram. Katahdin, at New York.
James Fitzgerald paid the penalty
7 of his crime of killing his sweetheart,
Annie NaesSens, at st. Louis. Fits,
gerald was hanged twice; the first
time the rope broke.
The entire plant of the John Moran
Packing company, st. Joseph, worth
$50. 900, was sold by the receiver on
Wedn esday to satisfy a deed of trust,
and brought only 81, 500
In spree at Livingston, Mont, DAN
ie1 O'Connells whose parents live at
Maryville. was killed by being struck
with an AK in the hands of John
Burns, fellow-la borer.
Harrison refuses to be a delegate to
st. Louis.
Transvaal political prisoners are all
out on bail
The regular army has been recruited
to the limit allowed by law.
DuTSidFS DieW open a Saloon SaTe at
St. Elmo, Ill. They got $40.
At Harlan Courthouse, KY, Milford
and Felix Tee killed each other.
The pope has approved a decree of
divorce granted to John Keefe of Hal
flax.
Committeeman Sam Cook of Mexico
advises Missouri Democrats to be con-
sentative
7 he bonds on which original bidders
defaulted were awarded to the Nor
gan syndicate.
Edison has succeeded in producing
photographs instantaneous1y with the
Roentgen rays.
The House judiciary committee has
decided on bill for the abolition of
the federal fee system
The Southern managers of the Whit
ney boom have established headquar-
tiers at New Orleans.
There are 2.229 convicts in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary, which mum Der ties
the record made last june.
Anti-Platt Republicans expect to
send six delegates to the St. Louis
convention from New York city.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Repu blican League will be held
in Milwaukee August IS, 20 and -.
w. H. Iams, who was drummed ont
Of the militia camp at the Homestead
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