Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-09-24

GEN GRosvENoR, on the night of the
Goth at Athens. O., gave out table of
estimates of the probable result of the
presidential election. He claimed 278
electoral votes for Mckinley, or "a
more than su efficient to elect.
ADYNAMITE explosion at the bottom
of I2O-foot shaft of the Metropolitan
waterworks, about two miles from
Clinton, Mass, on the 10Th instantly
killed three men and fatally wounded
two others.
BEFORE adjourning its special session
on the 10th at McAlester, I. t., the
Choc Jaw council passed bill to enroll
all citizens. including the citizens by
blood, intermarried citizens and freed
men.
HOMER CHASE, farmer living near
Hudson, Mich, wound up weeks
carouse at the fair at Hudson by shoot
ing his wife twice and then putting
bullet into his own head. The wife
may recover.
AT the games of the Knickerbocker
Athletic club at New York on the 10th
three worlds records were broken. r.
Sheldon, of Yale. threw the discus III
feet inches, the previous record being
1O1 feet inches; Thomas E. Burke. of
Boston, ran 600 yards in I'LL, and
Jerome Buck won the 40 yards hurdle
race, ten hurdles, in Sc 2-5 seconds.
WHITEcAPs near Toledo, O.. whipped
farmer named Huntsinan and then
buried him alive, dug him up and then
administered another whipping. The
farmer and his children were accused
of stealing pocket-book. Huntsman
was reported as respectable we'll to
do farmer.
A BRUSSELS dispatch to the London
Chronicle on the Goth said that the
authorities of Rotterdam had received
an anonymous letter threatening to
blow up all the public buildings there
unless the Irish prisoners, Kearney and
Haines, were liberated.
MAJ.-GEN. CARLOS ROLoFF, Cuban
secretary of war, was arrested recently
on a warrant sworn out by the Span
ish consul, and spent the night in Lud-
low street Jail in New York. The
charge was on information and be-
lief that the general had set on foot
preparations for a military expedition
to Cuba. Roloff was released from
custody as soon as his friends learned
of his arrest.
JIMMY BRITT, once champion ban
tumweight of the Pacific coast. and
Frank Lawler, another well known
local athlete, had mill at San Fran
cisco on the 18th. Both men were
terribly punished and the referee called
the fight draw at the end of the 2sth
round as there seemed no prospect of
it being finished.
THERE was conflict between whites
and blacks in Colbert's reserve, near
Florence, Ala, which resulted in one
negro being instantly killed, with
good chance for further trouble. The
trouble grew out of an assault upon
planter by a negro.
M. BossU, the public prosecutor in
charge at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France,
of the case against P. j. p. lyman. the
alleged Irish dynamiter. received a
violent letter on the 18th, informing
him, in the name of committee of in
-vincibles and anarchist brotherhood,
that unless TyEan was released within
"a hours he, M. Bossu. would be blown
up with dynamite. The letter was
written with red fluid, believed to be
blood.
The blast furnace at Embreeville,
Tenn, exploded and Douglass White
was burned to crisp under a mass of
hot iron and several other men were
thought to be fatally hurt.
The grand vizier of Turkey, HALL
Rifat Pasha, recently threatened to re-
sign unless the minister of police was
dismissed on account of the recent
rassacres. The sultan upheld the po-
lice minister and refused to accept the
resignation of the grand vizier.
WILLIAM F. SHEEHAN, of New York,
has resigned as a member of the demo
cratic national committee.
THE press bureau at the national
democratic headquarters at Chicago
published on the 18th an estimate of
what they thought would be Mr..
Bryan's majorities in November. It
gives Bryan SO out of As states, with
324 electoral votes.
MOBILES cotton gin, near Denison,
Tex. blew up and three persons were
killed and II were more or less injured.
CHILD tipped over cupboard in an
>ante-room of the Ogden school at
Chicago on the 18th, and the sound of
breaking glass SO frightened the
younger children that they were ter.
rorized, and rushed from the building.
No one was hurt.
FREELANDsvILLE, Knox county, Ind,
was almost totally destroyed by fire
he,