Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-23
LATE NEWS NOTES

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Ashantee war is over. British terms
OF peace being accepted
Omaha joins Kansas City as an cleo
ton fraud town, and recounts are in
order.
Rev. Father o'Gormaan has been APP
pointed Catholic bishop of Sioux Falls,
Next national convention of the w
I. L. I. will be held in San Francisco
in October.
Fourteen persons were poisoned at
log-rolling at I. j. Merrymans
farm, Nixon Springs, Tenn
Mrs Martha E. Holden. known as
amber" to newspaper readers, is
dead In Chicago from cancer.
Four outlaws held up fifteen people
and robbed them of SEQ in Senator
Rogers store at Kiatool1, Ind. Ter.
George Porter. New York commits
sion man. committed suicide in Brook
Ign jail, because arrested for a trifiing
forgery.
Ambassador Bayard believes the
Venezuela trouble will be settled be-
fore Justice Brewers boundary COM
mission can act.
Fifty Southern tobacco manufac-
turers met at Danville. Va, and formed
an association which is really a trust.
Marshall Tiighman spotted Bill
Doolin, the Indian Territory outlaw.
! in Eureka Springs, Ark, barber shop
and captured him single handed.
Anna Register committed suicide at
recently killed Banker Mcfarland at
Boone, Ia, for her seduction.
The engagement of ex-President
Harrison and Mrs. Dimmock has been
formally announced to take place after
lent.
Miss Katharine, eighth daughter of
Chief Justice Fuller, will be married
to a Mr.. Beecher. of Buffalo, y. ",
cousin of Henry Ward Beecher, Feb
ruaf,y l..
Stockholders of the Bank of Blue
Valley, Hebron, Neb., have been or
dered to pay back all dividends, and
an assessment of 160 per cent for de-
positors benefit.
New York city will not license a sa-
loon within 200 feet of a church or
school house. and it is proposed to
build the latter so thick as to drive
out the saloons entirely.
Senator Hale favors General Cop
plnger's confirmation Jas brigadier
general despite A. p. A. opposition
Coppinger fought in thirty one battles
during the civil war and was wounded
twice.
Robert X. Smith, express wagon
driver, pleaded guilty at Colorado
Springs to completely in the SI6, 900
Wells-Fargo express robbery in Grassy
Gulch and was given six years. Smith
implicated George Smith, recently
killed at Victor. Gray and Welch, who
broke Jail, and a man named Maye.
DIR. Jameson will be tried in England
Ohio Supreme court holds that q
woman cannot be a notary public.
Frederick Wynak, a Guthrie, Ok,
farmer, was assassinated in his yard.
One thousand families are destitute
in Newfoundland.
Cost of living in Havana has adj
vanced 30 per cent.
Warrants are out for thirty white
caps about Marion, Ky.
Iowa's delegation in Congress are
unitedly booming Allison for the
presidency
City bank of Minneapolis, Mimi,
suspended.
Hereafter there will be no feeding
of cattle on board ears between Chi
cago and New York
Four hundred men employed by Ar
mour < Co.. cutting ice on Cedar Lake,
Iowa, are on strike.
Iowa Republicans again chose ALI
son to represent them in the United
States Senate
The Benedict Paper Company, whole
sale paper dealers of Kansas City, Mo-,
have failed for $50. O00.
The senate finance committee is tied
on the tariff bill and the vote of Sena-
tor Jones of Nevada will decide the
matter.
Texas cattlemen donot fear Mexican
competition. but are down on the
Chicago stock yards for its terminal
charges.
Bank of Wauneta has closed, max
ing the third Nebraska bank to GO
under within d week
Attorney general of Illinois is after
the linseed oil trust
Mississippi and Maryland have q
senatorial deadlock. Q
Cherokee Bill has been sentenced to
die ST Patrick's day.
Germany Is beginning TO feel Ameri-
can competition in manufactured
goods
Congressman johnson of Indiana Is
against Harrison for president.
Liabi lities of Keep, Sutterlee & Co..
Philadelphia. leather dealers, foot MP