Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-08-27

| S6uQlO<SIe IOE VICE DE0S1QCnD u the
United States, sent long telegram to
The New York World on the Esd in
which he declared that William j.
Bryan's only hope of being elected
president was In the solid vote of the
south and west. and that if Bryan is
elected the peoples party will have
| done it.
DIR. NIcoLAIDEs. an official represent
alive of the Cretan reform committee
at Berlin, stated that 6.000 Christians
had been murdered by the Turks in
the island of Crete recently.
THE state board of health of Colo
RADIO, in it's annual report. holds it q
duty to stop the indiscriminate trans
portation of sick people. which. it is
alleged propagates disease. and pro-
poses that invalids he required to OBJ
tain permits before they can travel in
Colorado.
THE national encampment of Union
Veterans at Binghamton, \. Y. elected
Charles w. Wood. of Worcester, Mass.
mmander-in-chief.
THE. boiler of the steamer Manitou.
at Cla rlz's lake, at Jackson, Mich, ex-
ploded while carrying over 100 pas
sengers to train. The engineer and
two others were badly, but not fatally
scalded A number OF passengers
jumped into the lake but all were
rescued.
WILLIE GRAY, negro Is years old,
was hanged in the Jail yard at Mobile,
Ala, on the 21st. He murdered John
Lyndburg, February Is, and secured
less than 81 He confessed his crime
and attributed his downfall to whisky
and gambling.
A CLoUDBURsr struck Mogollon, n.
NJ. recently, drowning John Knight
and an unknown Mexican, rendering
about 100 families homeless and badly
damaging the property of several min
ing companies. Hardly a business
house in the town escaped damage.
AT the national soldiers home at
Milwaukee, Richard Botfield aged 7s,
formerly of the United States navy,
and William I. Gordon. once of COM
pany d, Ninth Ohio infantry, were as
sisting each other up the steps of the
main building when both fell back
ward to the stone Tagging. and were so
badly hurt that they died shortly
afterward.
A TELEGRAM from Tarrisa, Greece,
said that the Turkish troops had mas
sacred so old men. women and children
III UuO villages Ot anu AOu-
inc, Macedonia. The troops carried
off the crops and burned both villages.
NEARLY 5000 people assem- bled in
the convention hall at Saratoga. y. Y,
on the goth to listen to the address of
Baron Russell. of Killowen, lord chief
justice of England, on international
Arbitration, before the American Bar
association.
INCENDIARIEs fred the Cartwright
house at Creston, Ia, and the building
was totally destroyed. Several guests
had narrow escapes from suffocation.
PETE RYAN, foreman of the St. Law
renee mine at Butte, Mont. and Jack
Campbell and John Manning, miners,
were killed by fall of the cage from
the top to the bottom of the 1000 foot
level.
The 18th annual meeting of the Amer
| lean Bar association commenced at
Saratoga, n. Y. on the 10Th.
THE Kelley league began its sixth
annual national convention at Indian
apolis, Ind. on the 18th.
SENATOR IHURsToN came out with a
card on the 10Th stating that, as Mr..
| Bryan had denied that he had ever
! been an employee of the mine owners,
| he (Thurston) accepted Mr.. Bryan's
denial and took that way of letting
the public know it.
KATE CABANIE, who kept general
| store at Montgomery, Ala. was discov-
cred outside her back door choked to
death and her place robbed.
| WILLIAM J. BRYAN has personally
denied the charge that he was ever in
| the employ of any mine owners. di-
rectly or indirectly, and said that if
| the republican national committee
would say officially that he had ever
been employed to deliver speeches by
any mine owners, or by any associa-
ton supported by mine owners, he was
ready to make statement showing in
detail all money received by him for
speechmaking.
The body of Paul Rose, Weld coun-
| ty, Col, cattleman, who was murdered
! by a cattle rustler recently. has been
| found buried in the sand near the Col.
orado- Nebraska line. His herd was
| found in possession of Al Cochran,
| king of the cattle rustlers of Colorado
| and Nebraska. Cochran was jailed at
Greeley. Threats to lynch him have
been made.
DALLAS BRUCE. a white man of Caro-
line county, Va, attended the recent
confederate reunion in Richmond and
| then disappeared. A search for him
resulted in the finding of the body cut