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

0ENEh<AA NE
The annual boat race between the
universities of Oxford and Cam bridge
took place over the usual course from
Putney to Mortlake, AZ miles, on the
2Sth and was won by Oxford by quar-
ter of a length. Time, 2O:O1. Oxford
has now won 80 races and Cam bridge
90.
THE women of north Texas have
signed a petition to President Cleve-
land, Secretary Hoke Smith and con-
gress, calling attention to the numer-
Gus robberies and high crimes gener
ally which have been committed by
outlaws in the Indian territory on the
citizens who live adjacent to the terri
tory, and appealing for protection and
relief from the outlaws, which, the
petition says, can only be done by the
settlement of the Indian territory by
civilized people.
FOREST fires burned over a large ter
ritory to the east of Black River Falls,
Wis, recently, doing damage to the
extent of many thousands of dollars
They have destroyed the prospects of
the blueberry crop in the burned
region, which has in the past furnished
employment to hundreds Of berry
pickers.
~ WAhSHlf was OuEuS0 dC MdERHer-
tie, Venezuela, and eight men met
their deaths.
SIX men in the freight yards of the
Central railroad at Elizabeth, N. J.,
were run into by train which
was being shifted from one track to
another on the Goth. An effort was
made to stop the train, but coupling
pin broke and several cars sped along
the siding. Two of the men were
KILLED and one probab bly, fatally wound
ed The others were only slightly
aurt-
AT the republican convention at
Austin, Tex, on the goth policemen
aad to be called in to stop the riot be-
tween the Mckinley and the Reed
men. One faction elected an Allison
man and TIVE Reed men to the couven-
ton at St Louis, aud then after they
had adjourned the Mckinley forces
took charge of the hall and elected a
contesting delegation.
MRS DARLINGTON BOOTH 1ectured on
the Goth at Pittsburgh, Pa, on "Slum
and Shelter Work in Large Cities" to
large audience, and broke the silence
as to the cause of herself and the COM
mander breaking away from the old
organization. She practically admit
leu IudG tuoV Hdu OoCOtne 100 IuuCu
Americanized to suit the ideas of the
powers in London.
A TRAIN on the Indiana, Illinois &
Iowa railroad, loaded with grain and
dressed beef, was wrecked near Toto,
ind. The wrecking train, in cleaning
up the track, found the dead bodies of
four unknown men in a car of oats.
They had evidently died from suffoca-
ton.
THE badly decomposed body of an
unknown man was found on the Goth
in trunk bought at an auction sale
of unredeemed property at Chicago
LITTLE 11-year-old Ebert Henderson,
of Jeffersonton. went into Louisville.
KY, on the Goth with a chain two feet
long attached to his ankle. He was
taken to a hardware store and the
chain removed. He said that for two
years his ia Their had had him chained
to a log. Henderson will be prosecuted.
AS the result of a free-for-an fight
near Rushville, Ind, In which knives
and pistols were used, nearly a dozen
men were wounded. Henry Wilson
and Samuel Templeton were rivals for
the same girl and this led to the fight
when the men met at a dance. Charles
Bolster and Henry Wilson may die.
THE Chalmers building at Chicago
was burned recently. Loss. S65. coo.