Barton County democrat., 1896-11-05

throwing lampblack and pepper into
the faces of pedestrians and breaking
hundreds of dollars worth of window
glass, the gang wound up in the
Eighteenth ward, where there where
three riots before midnight
THE greater part of the business por-
ton of the town of Manila, Ind, was
wiped out on the 1st by fire. Two
blocks of frame business houses were
consumed. The town had no fire de-
partment- The total loss will be over
$40, 900, on which there was but 81, 200
insurance.
ON a railway train running from
Beattyville, KY. repu blican rally Jerry
Cardwell, town marshal of Jackson,
and John g. Hargis fought with pis-
tolls. Hargis was killed and Cardwell
badly wounded. Hargis was son of
ex-State Senator Hargis. and Cardwen
is the son of ex-senator Thomas Card
well.
THE Dallas, Tex. county grand jury
have found an Indictment against Mark
Hanna for corruption and bribery. 1t
is charged that he telegraphed an offer
of $40 900 here for the electoral vote of
Texas. The grand jury is endeavoring
to get the Western Union Telegraph
Co. to give up certain kilograms in or
der that it may prosecute others on
similar ch arges.
CARDINAL HoHENLoHE-SCHILL
FURsT. brother of the imperial chan
cellor of Germany, died at Rome on
the 3oth, aged "a.
Two masked men entered Christian
Hanschild's saloon at Cleveland, O., and
held up the proprietor and three men
who were drinking. After rifling the
pockets of their victims and the cash
drawer, Hanschild got possession of his
revolver and shot one of the thieves,
but they both escaped.
JULIUS MANNOw was hanged at Chi
cago on the 30th for the murder OF
Carey B. Birch, cashier of the West
Chicago railway.
The district court of Denver, Col,
on the 30th granted divorce to Mrs.
Eleanor Mix from Charles Mix, Of
Albany, n. Y, on the grounds of deser-
ton and non-support. The woman
was the widow of J. Z. Emmett, the
famous actor, when she met and mar
ried Mix in 1894.
Two unknown tramps were killed
and 81 cars and an engine ditched in
wreck on the Mobile S5 Ohio railroad
60 miles south of Meridian, Miss.
THE ladies' dornitory at the Car
thage Qll) college was burned and
many of the students lost their ward.
| robes.
NEAR Water Valley, Miss, freight
train jumped the track and II cars
| were split into kindiing wood. No one
| was hurt.
THE schooner Sandill, loaded with
| 1unb Der, was reported at st. Thomas,
| Ont. as having foundered in Lake Erie
and all of her crew of six drowned.
| A SEVERE storm prevailed along the
! coast of Portugal on the Goth and a
| fishing boat was lost near Setubal and
IA fishermen were drowned.
A DISCOVERY has been made that
hundreds of 1talians in New York
have been fraudulently naturalized.
The papers are stamped with forged
seal of the superior court by a man
who has since returned to Italy, TAX
ing with him $40 from each of his vic
Tins.
The schooner Samuel p. Ely struck
the brealzwater at Two Harbors, Mimi,
and sank on the 3Oth The crew, con-
sisting of the captain, mate and seven
seamen, clung to the rigging, but it
was thought they would be swept off
| before help could reach them as there
was terrible gale raging on Lake Su.
perior.
| CHARLES DoRAN, of Glendale, O.,
took pinch of snuff for cold and
sneezed so severely after it that his
left eye came out
THROUGH broken rail wheat train
| of So cars was wrecked near Wallula,
| Wash, and the fireman and a brake
man were killed and the engineer bad
| ly injured. The engine and nine cars
were demolished.
SUSAN CHLDREss, of Elkhorn, KY,
recently gave birth to triplets, two
girls and a boy. The boy weighed
eight pounds and the girls four each.
| Mrs Childress has cen married five
years and has eight children, having
the children at three births.
JOsEPHUs CLEMMENs, the oldest pilot
in the United States, lost his footing
on his tug in the bay at Mobile, Ala,
and was thrown violently against the
railing and died soon after. He was
| nearly 80 years old and had done pilot
work on the Mobile bar for 60 years.
THE semi-annual meeting of the
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church began in Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 2Sth. The business was merely
routine.
THE Georgia lepiS1ature met at AZ.