Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-03-05
LATE NEWS NOTES


has suspended.
Detroit white lead works were dam
aged 500, 900 by fire.
Prohibition in Iowa is dead for five
years, the constitutional amendment
being defeated in the legislature.
Business portion of Florence. S. c.,
burned; loss $1,000 half insured.
George Williams. printer, was Gre
mated
Body snatching seems epidemic
Seattle's cemeteries are depopulated
to fill the watts of San Francisco med
ical colleges.
A gasoline stove explosion at Eureka,
S. D.. killed Mrs. Frank Pickett and
two children, Hattie aged and Clar-
ence aged 4.
Rev. Ferdinand Bergmeyer, Fran
ciscan priest, was fatally shot at Santa
Barbara, Cal, bya demented employee,
b. Fl. G. Krusemeyer.
Two indictments against J. o. P.
Burnside for embezzling $4,000 from
the Postoffice department at Washing
ton in 1888 have been dismissed.
Funds sufficient to complete the
Grant monument have been secured
and it will be dedicated April 81, 1897,
the anniversary Of his birthday.
Scores of people are dying in Sgd.
ney, Australia, from sunstroke. Ter
rifle storms have occurred, crops are
ruined and stock is starving.
Miss Overman confessed on the wit
ness stand in San Francisco that she
had entered into plot with Mrs. Da.
wilson TO blackmail Rev. Mr. Brown.
F. L. Woodward of the Lawrence
scientific school at Harvard has de-
vised a lamp by which cathode shadow
graphs are obtained in fve,seconds.
General Lewis Merrill, who com
manded a brigade known as ''Merrill's
horse" in North Missouri during the
civil war, is dead in Philadelphia,
aged 60.
Administration Democrats refused
to submit the free silver question to
primaries in Nebraska and abide by
the result in sending delegates to
Chicago.
A favora BILE report has been ordered
in Congress on the bill to abolish the
fee system and put United States dis
trict attorneys and marshals on salary.
Six thousand garment workers in
Baltimore are on strike.
Manitoba legislature, after an all
nights session, adopted 81 to 2, a reso-
luton protesting against Dominion
government interference in Manitoba
school matters
The revolution in Nicaragua is TO-
mented by priests and is plot to
overthrow the liberal administration
and to prevent friendly relations with
the United States. Government troops
have already captured the town Of
Nagarate. The war has become gen
eral and the whole country is wild
with enthusiasm. Mica guam SOL
inn, "a
and straw hats, go barefooted and a
few beens and plantain makes big
meal. for one of them.
Bill West, a noted desperate, VINO
escaped from the Fort Scott Jail about
year ago, has been recaptured in
South Dakota.
Thomas Davenport, who was jailed
at Leavenworth charged with COM
plicity in the murder of J. T. LamboI n
at Fall Leaf, was released.
William Simmonds, confessed horse
thief from Joplin, Mo-, was shot in the
thigh while attempting to escape from
officers at Fort Scott.
Rev. Thomas Grace has been made
Bishop of Sacramento.
Ara kir Armenians to the number
of 5000 have been murdered recently.
The Indiana Prohi bitionists nomi
mated a ticket and adopted platform.
Captain D. E. Shea of Mexico, Mo-,
who made a gallant record in the Civil
war, is dead.
Ex- Representative Bevier of Indiana
committed suicide at Niles by sending
a bullet into his brain.
Nick Crews. a student, was publicly
disgraced at the State Normal at War
rensburg for drunkenness.
The State Department is informed
that Germany is fighting American
grain on the ground that it contains
bacteria.
General Manager Hays is introduc,
ing system of rigid economy on the
Grand Trunk, and continues to make
many changes.
The Kentucky Legislature threw
out a bill providing for the forfeiture
of the Southern Pacific's charter. The
vote was decisive one.
1t is predicted that the bitter fight
between Teller and Sherman in the
Senate will result in formal with
drawal of the free coinage Republi-
cans at the ST. Louis convention next
| June.
Postmaster Krebs, Indian Territory,
is short $3.50, and his bondsIneh are in
/ charge.
! Samuel Edison, father of the inven
/ tor, died at Milan, Ohio. aged 81.