Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-05-07


cago The FIRST prize was won by }. S.
Ingrahana, of the university OF Miehi-
gan, who delivered an Grafton ON Get
tysburg;" H. l. Ward, of the North
western university, was second; e. S.
Gabrielle, of Ober1in college, third; W.
T. Wilson, of the university of Chicago,
fourth; a. 81. Schmidt, of the univer-
sity of Wisconsin, fifth; W. c. Keller.
of the university of Iowa. sixth.
JUSTICE ANDREWS, of the New York
supreme court. has appointed Alfred
Ely receiver for the Times Publishing
Co. in proceedings brought by the ma
jority of directors for dissolution of
the corporation. The petitioners
stated that the capital stock of the
company was 81, ESQ., 600. that the assets
of the company were not sufficient to
pay its debts and that the company
was indebted in the sum OF 1915, 10.
EARL GREY, co-administrator with
Cecil Rhodes, of the territory of the
British Chartered South African Co.,
arrived at Buluwayo on the 3Oth with
a strong escort The recent actions of
the insurgent Matabeles have resulted
in inf1icting such severe loss upon them
that Buluwayo is looked upon as being
practically relieved, and it was no
longer likely that the natives would
attack the town
PRINCESS BEATRICE. youngest daugh-
ter of Queen Victoria and widow Of
Prince Henry of Batten berg, has been
appointed governor of the Isle of
Wight, the Office previously held by
her husband
THE repu blican state convention at
Atlanta, Ga. resulted in split. The
regular convention adopteda pla torn
reafirming the principles of the repub-
lican party, the financial plank de-
Glazed strongly for sound money. The
boiling convention Endorsed two of the
delegates chosen to st. Louis and
named two others as contesting dele
gates
The strike of the 900 employees Of
the Electric Railway and Light Co. at
Milwaukee was inaugurated on the
night of the Sd, and a. each car was
run into the barn. motorman and con.
ductor left it not to return until the
demands of the union for increased
pay, recognition of the employees Or
ganization and several minor conces-
sions are granted Serious trout BILE was
expected, as the company had been
arranging to fill the strikers places.
JAMES NIXON shot and instantly
killed Dempsey Brown, his brother-in-
law. at Austin, Tex. on the Sd. Brown,
in his dying agony. returned the fire
with doub1e-barreled shotgun,
emptying both barrels into Nixon's
face, and he was taken to the county
Jail in a dangerous condition. The
difficulty was the outcome of family
troubles
GUY LINsLEY was horsewhipped
while acting on the stage at Colum bus,
O., by Miss Georgia Kimball, of ST.
Louis, who claimed that the actor had
rejected her after making her prom
Uses The woman was arrested.
JOSE RAMOS, in a ranch settlement
near Montemorelos, Mex. while crazed
with jealousy, shot and killed his
sweetheart, and when the latter's pa
rents attempted to capture him he
shot both of them to death and then
took his own life.
THE split that had been expected in
the Arizona republican convention at
Phoenix came on the night of the 3Oth
when about SO of the liz delegates left
the hall. leaving the remainder in their
seats to pursue the work of the con-
vention. Those who left were those
known as the Mckinley faction, as OPP
posed to the Stoddard Christy wing.
The Stoddard-Christy wing platform
compliments Mckinley, but the dele
gates were not instructed.
In Woodward county. Ok, Charles
Tingle, wife and baby were drowned
while fording Indian creek and Mrs.
Caldwell was carried away by the cur
rent while crossing the North Cana
dian river in Oklahoma county. but
was rescued in an unconscious state.
Recent heavy rains had swollen the
streams.
THE May day celebrations in Lon
don, Paris and other European cities
by laboring men were attended with
no unusual demonstrations.
ROBERT EMORY PATTIsoN was unani
mously indorsed as the choice of the
democracy of Pennsylvania, assembled
at Allentown on the goth, for the pres
idential nomination at Chicago on
sound money gold standard platform.
National Chairman William T. Har-
rity, got his unit rule instructing
the delegates to Chicago to abide by
the will of the majority through with
little opposition.
A CYCLONE struck the little town of
Epiphany, s. D.. on the goth. The
large Catholic church was destroyed
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