Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-04-23

EZEKIEL SMITH, wealthy contractor
at Chicago, who was recently sued by
Miss Ella Donaldson for $50. 600 for
breach Of promise, has compromised
the suit by marrying the plaintiff and
starting for California on a wedding
trip.
PADEREwsKI made his final appear
ance at New York on the 18th. The
audience went wild. Men yelled and
women rushed down the aisles. The
Virtuoso played three encores and was
called out - times besides.
A FIRE on the river front at Evans
Vile, Ind, caused loss of 500. 900.
STERLING SAVAGE was taken from
nis bed at Irving college. near McMinn-
vile. Tenn, by a mob Of men and
hanged t. a tree. The man was
suspected of being a ''spotter' for
United States officers by the moon
sinners.
AN explosion occurred in the Broad
water mine at Niehart, Mont. on the
18th by which seven ID en- lost their
ives and six others were seriously
1urt 1t was supposed that an en-
ploye in the magazine must have ig
aited some powder by his candle.
YOUNG man living in jefferson
county, Ia, who has been experiment.
ing with the X rays, believes that he
has discovered the way to transform
the base metals into gold. It is said
that he took a piece of metal worth a
few cents and in three hours time
change it into pure gold worth 1854.
Two BOYS. Isham Strobe and James
McNeGl, were charged at Guthrie, Ok,
on the 18th with holding up and rob
bing Allen Howard in regulation high
wayman style. They took from How
ard his toy bank, containing 81. 90, in
timidating him by club and a toy
revolver. The crime is punisha BILE in
the territory by imprisonment for life.
CHANDLER, the county seat of Lincoln
county. Ok. has suffered great loss by
fire, which burned the post office and
nearly all the business portion of the
town.
THE notorious Jimmie Jack has been
convicted of numbering Jimmie Brown,
both rich Indians in Judge F. Mar
shal1's court for the Okmulgee, 1. T.,
district, and sentenced to be shot,
which among the Indians is the legal
mode of death.
AN issue of So, 600, 900 in Gu ban bonds.
payable ten years after the Spanish
forces evacuate Cuba, has been offered
for sale in New York.
THE championship season in the Ma
| tional Baseball league opened on the
10th with games at Philadelphia,
Louisville. Washington, Cincinnati, St
Louis and Baltimore. The attendance
indicated a genuine interest in the
game. At Louisville the attendance
was 10000, the largest crowd ever
packed in the grounds Fifteen thou
sand saw the St Louis game and %, 600
| that at Philadelphia
THE kentucky republican conven-
| ton completed it's labors at Louisville
after indorsing the presidential can
didacy of Gov. Bradley, with second
| instructions for Maj. Mckinley, adopt
ing a platform declaring for the gold
standard, protection and reciprocity.
and expressing sympathy with Cuba
A NEW comet has been discovered by
Prof. Swift, of the Mount Lowe obser-
| vatory in California.
C. o. DAVIS. in Jail at Winterset. Ia,
charged with bank wrecking at Peru.
escaped recently by tunneling under
the Jail.
BURGLARS blew up a safe and
wrecked bank at Diagonal, Ia, early
on the 18th, but the explosion made
such noise that citizens were awak-
ened and opened fire on the burglars
and they fed, without securing any
| money. che banks officials were said
to be afraid to open the safe because a
bottle of unexploded nitro-glycerine
was inside of it.
CHARLES VEITH, baker, suffocated
himself with mOlasses at Chicago on
the 10th. He was very fond of the
stuff, and in order to get enough he
lay fat on his back on the floor, so
that when he opened the clip on the
barrel the strip would flow into his
mouth He was literally drowned by
the strip. He was found dead with
his mouth open and the molasses pour
ing into it
JAMES E. ALsoP, alias A. A. Austin,
who was arrested on the 10th in Seat
tie. Wash on the charge of numbering
Lena Olson near Duluth, Mimi, in
order to get possession of $3.50, COM
mitted suicide in the Jail on the 18th.
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the
United Mine Workers convention at
Colum bus, O., on the 10th recommend
ing the nomination of Eugene v. Debs
for president by the populist national
eOuveDtion