Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-06-04

gathered to witness the nn1Sn OF the
bicycle race from Wheeling to Chicago.
24A miles The race was won by o.
P. Nelson in I:12:53. He had been
given nine minutes in the handicap.
A CABLE message has been received
at Chicago that Miss Kate Field died
at Honolulu of pneumonia. She was
in the Sandwich islands as the special
correspondent of the Chicago Times
Herald.
HARRY FISHER, a son of one of the
most prominent citizens of Austin,
Tex, has been arrested for incendiar.
ism. He confessed to having fired
dozen buildings and also to robbing
the United States street mail boxes.
THE bolt of the free silver prohib;-
tionists from the regular national con-
vention at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently, is
now claimed to be the first move of sill
yer men to bolt all the political con-
ventions.
SPECIAL from Fiat, a small place
near Canton, ILL.,, said man answer
ing perfectly the description of George
Taylor, Missouri's escaped murderer.
passed there on the night of the 31st,
walking on the railroad track. The
man appeared uneasy and in a great
hurry. He was identified from a pic
ture by five citizens.
RETURNS from the mass conventions
in Kentucky to select delegates to the
state convention show that the latter
body will be made up of $50 free silver
delegates and 300 gold standard men,
with IL doub tfu1.
PREDICTION has been made by
Pennsylvania congressman that. I'M
der the call of states, when Pennsyl-
vania is reached on the first roll call at
st. Louis. Senator Quay will arise and
announce that "Pennsylvania casts her
Ga votes for William Mckinley, of Ohio,
which will result in stampede of the
remaining delegations for the Ohio
candidate.
AT Mount Vernon, ILL.,, nine people
were killed by a tornado on the 27th.
DURING recent entertainment in
the town hall at Belmond, Ia, given
by members of the high school lamp
in the wings was overturned and the
scenery caught fire, precipitating
panic. The hall was crowded and the
people struggled, fought and trampled
each other in their efforts to get out.
Miss Cecilia Finch, who was on the
stage, had her clothes burned off and
it was feared that she would die from
her injuries.
THE bill for submitting a woman
suffrage amendment to the constitu-
ton which passed the Rhode Island
senate was killed in the house and
the legislature adjourned until Sep.
TENDER.
WHILE M. Jenkins and II. Barnes
were cutting grass in a cemetery at
Breckenridge, Ill, they were struck
by lightning and killed.
CONGRESSMAN w. L. LINTON was re-
nominated for third term by the re.
publicans at Saginaw. Mich.
THE board of education of Moline,
Ill, has decided that it will no longer
employ married women as teachers,
and has adopted rule that every
teacher annuls her contract On mar
riage.
THREE hundred feet OF roadway of
the Northern Pacific sank in Bumar's
lake, near Aitkin, Mimi. and 20 feet
Of water washes over the spot where
heavy trains were recently running.
Workmen were laying new track
north of the old one.
CHAIRMAN HARRITY, of the Gemo-
cratic national committee, has written
to Senator-elect Money, of Mississippi,
denying the statement that the ma
tiona1 committee would keep out of
the Chicago convention every contest
ing delegate who would not pledge
himself in advance to abide by the ac-
ton of the comsnittee making up the
temporary roll of the convention.
A FIRE which started in the candy
factory of Williams Sc Bower at Sher-
man, Tex, burned several other stores
and entailed loss of probab bly, $125, 900.
There was no insurance on the stock
of Williams & Bower.
THE trustees of the college of New
Jersey have filed a certificate in court
to change the name to Princeton uni
! versity.
THE flibustering steamer Three
Friends, which recently left Jackson
vile, Fla, with a cargo of arms and
ammunition for Cuba. was said to have
been chased by revenue cutter and
ran ashore on one of the Florida keys.
1T has been decided that the Luther
an college, to cover the southern states,
shall go to Charlotte, n. c. For some
tine it has been hanging between Char
lotte and Columbia, S. C. 1t was ru-
mored that IS, 600, 900 was backing the
enterprise.
New BADEN, 90 miles west of Gen.
tralia, Ill, was practically wiped out
of existence by the tornado on the
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