Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-10


hotel at Indianapolis, Ind. at 2:3o B.
M on the Sd, caused some excitement
in that hosiery. All of the guests
were aroused and badly scared, but re-
turned to bed after it was learned that
there was no danger.
THE Minnesota state game warden
seized and declared confiscated to the
state of Minnesota 30 tons OF venison
claimed as being illegally shipped out
of the state from ST. Paul. The fines
for the alleged illegal transportation
of the game will reach somewhere in
the neigh borhood of $40. 600 Or $50, 900.
A MISPLACED switch at Justin, Tex,
caused the wreck of freight train and
the deaths of a brakeman and fireman
and the proba BILE death of the engineer.
WHITEcAPs fogged and warned
number of negroes to leave the neigh
borhood of Reel Foot lake in Tennessee
on account Of considera BILE stealing go-
ing on. One negro was so badly beaten
that he will likely die.
THE bubonic plague which has been
prevalent among the natives at Bonn
bay, with fatal effect in a majority of
cases.. has spread to the Europeans,
many of whom have died from the dis
ease.
ARCHIE STEVENS, infant son of Mrs
Marion Stevens, of Farmingdale, Ill,
was burned to death. The little fell
low, with two other children, was left
alone short time and, while playing
with the fire, his clothes were ignited.
FRED BEHME. who murdered his wife
and child on Easter Sunday, was exc
cuted at McLeansboro. Ill. on the Sd.
A LETTER of appreciation was sent
to Maj. Mckinley by the corresponding
secretary of the National w. c. T. y.
concerning the total abstinence princi-
pies which the major is said to have
main tanned for many years and as to
the belief entertained that Intoxicating
liquors will be excluded from the white
house during his administration.
The courthouse of Randolph county,
Ala, situated at Wedowee, was burned
to the ground, with all of it's records
for the past so years
Two men were killed at a fire at At
lantic City, N. j., which destroyed a
church valued at $50, 900 and another
man was reported missing and was
thought to be buried beneath the walls
of the church.
THE official footing of the presi-
Dental vote in South Dakota had not
been made on the Sd. but the canvass
on counties was completed. The I'M
official vote was as follows: Mckinley,
Al, O42; Bryan, ii. 224: lowering, $50.
THE Potomac river near Washington
has been lined with torpedoes for the
protection of the national capital.
HIRAM JEPPEsON, James Christian
son, Sr., and his son James were buried
in sn owslide on the Sd in Logan can
yon, Utah. Jeppeson finally extricated
himself, but the father and son were
both killed.
s'KID' LAvIGNE, of Saginaw, Mich,
and Charles McKeever, of Philadelphia,
have been matched to fight 20 rounds
for purse of So, 500 on December % at
New York. The men are to weigh in
at 14O pounds.
A SPECIAL to the New York Herald
from Guimaro Camaguey reported that
Maj. Dana Osgood. the noted Cornell
university half back football player,
who commanded Cuban battery dur
ing the recent siege Of the town Of
Guimaro, was killed in battle.
IT was discovered at Des Moines, Ia,
that large part of the original records
relating to the work of the state sem
ate last winter, in the direction of re-
vising the code of the state. cannot be
found. Secretary of State Mcfarland,
who made the discovery, admits that
the work of the senate during nearly
all of the last session has been sacri-
feed.
IN a fury of insanity Henry L. Bower,
of De Kalb, Ill, killed his wife and at
tempted to kill his daughter and
mother-in-law. He then cut his throat
with butcher knife and died in few
minutes.
WILLIAM BARRY and his brother,
farmers near Harvard, Ill, in the alb
sence of their mother, resolved to have
flour gravy for dinner and they found
a saucer that contained flour and used
it. not knowing that strychnine had
been mixed with it to kill rats. Two
hired men and a nephew joined them
at dinner and all five shortly after
wards were taken sick and three will
probably die.
Two children were cremated at
North Alton, Ill They had been
locked in the house alone and played
with the fire and the house was burned
down.
ROBERT GEORGE started down the
hill at Columbia, Tex, to the ferry
with load of corn when the team took
fright and plunged into the icy water
and all diSaDpeared