Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-15
Two inches of snow was reported al


Sherman, Wvo., on the 18th.
The Cubans in Tampa, Fla, cele-
brated on the 10th the 2sth an niversary
of the outbreak of their ten-year
struggle for liberty by a brilliant
pyrotechnical display
AT the final day of the Christian Al
| lance convention in Carnegie hall,
! New York on the 18th the subscrip-
tiOns secured for missionary work
amounted to $4,000
A DOUBLE execution took place on
the 18th at Wewoka, capital of the
Seminole nation, Charles Hadworth
and Henry Welsh, haIf-breed Indians,
being shot to death by four Indian po-
lice, standing 90 feet distant. Both
murderers fell back into their collins
dead. Two days before a full-blood
Indian was legally shot for murder
committed six months ago.
REPORTS stated that 100 women are
engaged in selling whisky to the Usage.
Otoe, Ponca and Creek Indians on the
border of Oklahoma and that it was
dangerous for a deputy marshal to APP
pear in that country alone. A party
of deputies brought to Guthrie, Ok,
on the 10th dozen whisky sellers,
mostly Indians.
visited Maj. Mckinley at Canton. O.,
on the 10th. They came from Iowa,
New York, Kentucky. Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
West Virginia. Maryland and Ohio.
MOST Rev. EDWARD WHITE BENSON.
D. D., arch bishop of Canterbury and
primate of all England, was stricken
with apoplexy while attending church
on the 18th and died almost immedi-
ately.
j. ID. SAIR, one of the men who
| robbed the bank of Sherburne, Mimi,
and shot the cashier and a bystander,
was surrounded in farmhouse by
posse, when he jumped through win
dow and fatally shot Marshal Gallon
and got into cornfield. Then seeing
that there was no chance of escape the
robber shot his own brains out. AL
most the entire amount of money
| stolen was found on the dead man.
THE Jasper county Jail burned at
Paulding, Miss, during the night of
the 9th, and two prisoners, E. A.
Strickland, charged with forgery. and
Mollie Daniels. a crazy negress, were
cremated. Strickland had stated that
unless opium was brought to him he
would burn the Jail.
JOSEPH PENTACosT, of Guthrie, Ok,
was reported as lying very low from
the effects of bite from a spider.
| Within short time four people have
been bitten in that city and dozen at
other points in that territory. all suf
| fering greatly and one dying. Those
who are bitten suffer bad effects for
months after the first sickness is gone.
THE 2o-round fight between austria
liam" Billy Murphy. of Cincinnati, and
Johnny Lavaclk, of Cleveland. at Lex
ington. KY, was declared a draw.
THREE Hen were drowned in the
Mississippi river near Meyer, Ill. by
their boat capsizing.
| IRWIN PORTS, farm laborer at Elem.
| ington, n. J., was reported to have
gone raving mad through the persecu-
| ton of whitecapS.
| A NOTICE was posted on the doors of
| the Cape Ann Savings bank on the Sth
at Gloucester, Mass, stating the insti-
! tuition had been closed. Soon after
came the news that George ]. Marsh,
| for more than quarter of a century
| the trusted treasurer of the bank, had
| shot himself at his summer home at
| Annisquam. He was short in his ac-
| counts.
A LARGE boiler in the Reading iron
works at Danville, Pa, exploded on the
Sth, killing two persons instantly and
injuring score or more of others The
/ house of John Burns, close by, was
| demolished. The cause of the explo-
sion was unknown.
THE buildings of st. Nicholas col
lege, at Logansport, Ind, were COM
pletely destroyed by fire, caused by a
defective fue. Loss, 10000; insur-
ance, $35, 900.
CHAIRMAN BABCoCK, of the repub-
1ican congressional committee, has is
sued a statement based on detailed re-
| ports. claiming the next house of rep
resentatives as republican by at least
80 majority.
A DISPATCH from San Antonio, n. NJ
stated that the United States mail
coach was held up by masked men, 40
miles out The mail sack was cut
open, rifled and the stage horses stolen.
There were no passengers aboard
THE great fall trotting meeting
opened at Lexington, KY, on the 9th.
the chief attraction being the S25, DOC
Futurity for three-year-olds. This was
an easy race for Rose Croix, owned and
driven by NJ. E. McHenry. of Freeport,
Ill.
The building occupied by the Ide
bicycle works at Peoria. ILL.,, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9TH. Loss. $50.