Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-01
HARRIS BOONE, colored. shot the

A WRECK occurred on the Pennsylva-
MIA road between Baltimore, Md, aud
Washington on the eth. Five freight
cars were derailed and piled in heap
Nobody was hurt
Miss CARRIE HoRNER, of Westm mister,
Md, was informed by her lover on the
9th while walking in a cemetery that
he could not marry her and soon after
wards she was found dying on a grave
from poison.
DURING a democratic rally at Mount
Erie, H.. n team belonging to Joseph
Sunday ran away, throwing the five
occupants out and severely or fatally
injuring all of them.
COUNTY TREASURER G. E. MORRISON.
of Troy, n. Y, reputed to be worth
$780, 200, has been jailed. charged with
the embezzlemento of $3.50. 600.
MOUNT HoLYoKE woman's college at
South Hadley, Mass, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, about $3.50, 900. None of
the 400 students were injured.
A SPECIAL from Shanghai said that
everywhere through Thibet the revolt
against the Chinese government was
spreading.
a HEAVY downpour of rain on the
Goth washed away the south part of
San Marcos, Tex. The houses gener-
orally were f1imsy and hoated away as
if they were boats The NJ, z. & T.
lost about 4 miles of track.
A FREIGHT train on the B. & o. was
wrecked at Riverdale park, eight miles
smashed and II others badly damaged.
| A brakeman was missing and it was
feared he was under the debris.
CHARLES GosPoBT, religious fanatic,
refused to cross the dam bridge at De-
6ance, O.. saying he would cross on the
water like his Saviour did. He was
| drowned.
BEN BUTLER, negro, aged %, shot
and killed Thomas Carter and seriously
wounded Edward Nelson, both colored,
at a cake-walk near Buckeye Stone,
Md. About three dozen men and WON
| en- had congregated at the place and
partook freely of whisky.
WILLIAM j. BRYAN made two speeches
in Boston on the 25th, one at Music
| hall and the other on the common, big
audiences being present at both places.
Arthur Sewal1, the democratic nomi-
nee for vice president, was also present
at the meetings and stated that he was
| on the ticket and was in the fight to
stay.
| w. D. BYNUM, chairman; John P.
Frenzel, treasurer, and G. V. Holman.
chief of the literary bureau of the gold
| standard democratic committee, form
ally opened their headquarters at Chi
cago on the 25th. As soon as Chair
man Bynum gets business we'll in
hand he will call meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee and energetic cam
paigning in the interests of Palmer
=
The American record was broken by
| four men in the 24-hour bicycle race
at Chicago on the 25th. The score at
the finish was: Gimm, 4S6 miles 1, rs
yards: Waller, 4s2 miles 96s yards:
Schinner. 462 miles SGT yards; Miller.
| 459 miles 233 yards, and Myers, 427
miles ss7 yards 1t was seen early in
the day that the American record was
certain to be wiped out, and it APP
peared to be equally certain that the
worlds record of $50 miles 1, 493 yards.
made by Rivierre, would not be touched.
AT Buffalo, n. Y, Peter Kamm killed
his wife with a Ratchet and then cut
his own throat They had been sep
arated for several months.
THE oil mills at Ennis, Tex, were
recently blown up with some explosive,
supposed to have been dynamite.
Loss, 1000; insurance, $40, 600.
PENNSYLVANIA sent two delegations
to Canton, O., to visit Maj. Mckinley
on the cath, one being from Westmore-
land county. representing the mining
| industry. and the other from Oil City,
| representing the oil producing indus
try. The marching of As young wom-
en-, representing the As states, each car
| rying a basket of roses, was a unique
feature of the occasion.
YALE students broke up a meeting at
New Haven, Conn, William j. Bryan
being obliged to quit speaking in con-
sequence of their yells.
THE celebration of the fifth ami
versary of the opening of the Sac and
Fox reservation to settlement was eel
ebrated at Chandler, Ok, on the cath
| by barbecue in which so beeves were
eaten and several barrels of bean soup
| consumed. At night grand camp fire
| was held.
ADvICEs stated that few days ago a
| party of 81 Spanish troops started from
Havana to Gala braza. eight miles dis
tant, and five men afterwards returned
and said that their companions had
been killed by the insurgents Troops
were sent to the scene and the state
ment was verified. The captain-gen-
eral had given orders not to publish a
word about the tragedy.
RIG meeting of com biued labor in