Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24
GENERAL NEWS.

augural BALL
GENERAL NEWS.
SOME ''speak-easy'' whisky did some
awful work in the Benwood oil field in
Monroe county, O., on the 10th. So far
as can be ascertained 16 men imbibed
of it and three have died. another was
dying, three more had gone crazy and
nine others were dangerously sick.
ONE of the powder houses of the
Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at
New Haven, Conn, was blown, to
pieces by an explosion. Fortuna tely
no one was in jured.
Ell HARALDe, a Spanish. newspaper at
Madrid, asserted that the minister of
war was preparing numerous PAM
phlets on the geography, topography
and military condition of the United
States to distribute to the chief officers
of the Spanish army.
SEVERAL bombs, secretly manufac-
tured by a druggist at Rome, exploded
on the night of the 10th shattering
two stories of his house and killing five
persons and injuring six others.
THE football game between the Car
Isle Indians and the university of Wis
consin at Chicago on the 10Th by cleo
trio light drew crowd of over IL, 900
people. The Indians won by a score
of Is to s.
EX-CoNGREssMAN ROSWELL G. HoRR
died at Plainfield, n. J., on the 18th of
bronchitis and Bright's disease, aged &c.
FIVE miners were instantly killed in
the Virginius shaft at Ouray, Col. on
the 18th. They were repairing tim
bers, when the cage fell, carrying them
with it to the !, 400 feet level.
FIVE persons were recently drowned
in the neigh borhood of st. Johns. Que,
through going on weak ice.
THE New York Evening World on the
18th said that 600 men would be dis
charged from the Brooklyn navy yard
within few days. This was because
the next appropriation bill would not
be available until June, 1897, and the
recent appropriation of So, 900, 600 had
dwindled down to 100000.
FAILURES for the week ended the
18th Dun's report) were 367 in the
United States, against 377 last year,
and AZ in Canada, against 80 last year.
GEORGE E. LEMON died at Coronado
Beach, Cal He was publisher of the
National Tribune at Washington, pa
per devoted to the interests of pension
ers.
THE Illinois la Dor organizations have
OG0u CdllGO OIL 10 SGHo uV10RdI0S I'D Oh
conference at Chicago on December 90
to consider the question of convict
la Dor.
United Mine Workers has been called
to meet at Columbus, o., On January
12. 1897.
The Galveston (Tex.) county court
house was recently partly destroyed by
fire, but it was believed that the rec
Ords were saved.
THE big prize in the Panama lottery,
at Paris, amounting to 500, 600, has
been won by a Marseilles market
woman, the widow BOissiere.
The recent annual charity ball by
the Young Mems Hebrew association
in Chicago yielded over $25, 600.
TwENTY-EIGHT of the anarchists i'm
plicated in the throwing of a bomb in
the religious procession at Barcelona
on June 7, whereby six persons were
killed and so others injured, have been
sentenced to death and SO others to
penal servitude.
THERE was much excitement around
Langston and Perkins, Ok, on the nth
over the murder of Freeman Morrow
and his daughter, white men wanting
to lynch the alleged negro murderer
and negroes declaring that there should
be no lynching.
ALEXANDER HERMANN, the famous
magician, died on the 18th in his pri-
vate ear near Salamanca, n. Y. while
on his way to Bradford. Death was
caused by heart disease.
THE supreme court of Nebraska has
declared that the payment by State
Auditor Moore of SAG, 600 in warrants
for sugar bounties to the Oxnard COM
pany was illegal
HENRY KILLENs, under death sem
tence in the Jail at Alexandria, La,
set the place on fire and but for its
timely discovery he and 40 other pris-
oners would have been burned.
lHE armory at the university of Ten
lessee at Knoxville was broken open
md 400 cadet rifles were scattered all
Ver the campus, many being broken
Ind some missing. A lot of ammuni-
aon was also missing. It was supposed
ne cadets did the work through mis-
thief.