Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-04-02
CONRAD BEckER, wealthy farmer Of

ArenZVllie, ILL, was shot dead by his
| stepson, William Becker. the latter
committing suicide by firing bullet
through his brain. The tragedy was
the result of a family quarrel
THREE hundred Chinese were re-
Gently blown to atoms by the explosion
of magazine at the fort at Kiangy in
China The disaster was the work of
| mutinous soldiers, who were preparing
to join secret society rebels in an at
tack on an adjacent town.
AT late hour on the Goth a masked
man entered the farm house of Alvin
M. Stone, near Talmadge, o., and COM
| mitted horrible butchery. When he
took his departure Stone and his wife,
both aged people. were lying dead in
bed and Ira Stillson, the hired man,
and Emma Stone, the eldest of three
daughters, were unconscious from
blows dealt by the murderer. Hattie,
with the blood streaming from wounds
in her head, managed to reach a neigh
boris house. The crime was mystery.
THE clerk of the Oklahoma supreme
court has received a telegram from At
torney General Harmon to call a special
session of that court for the purpose of
including what was known as Greer
county, Tex, within the judicial dis
trict of Oklahoma
PULASKI DUCKwORTH. a prominent
farmer near Ben tonville, Ark, on the
goth killed his wife by striking her on
the head with an AK. He then attacked
his four-year-old child and inflicted
fatal injuries, after which he cut his
own throat. dying almost instantly.
Duckworth was undou btedly insane
FRED GORRELL. a molder of West Co
1um bus, O.. aged 21, shot his wife, who
was but II, and then stood before a
mirror and cut his throat with a razor.
The wife will recover. Jealousy was
the cause of the affair.
Two warehouses of the Pleasure
Ridge Park Distillery Co., at Louis
vile. KY, were destroyed by fire re-
Gently with all their contents, consist
ing of upwards of 80. 900 barrels of
whisky. The total loss was about
$425, 200.
THE provisional national executive
committee of the new national reform
party has issued call for the national
convention, to be held in Pittsburgh,
Pa, May 25.
AT least 400 of the 1900 Italian i'm
migrants who were landed on Ellis
island, n. Y, a few days ago, will be
deported, as they have no means to
subsist upon for 80 days. The law re-
quires each immigrant to have at least
$50 or to have some relative in Amer
lea before he is admitted.
AT the Massachusetts, republican
state convention at Boston on the 27th
the boom of Speaker Reed for the nom
nation for the presidency was launched
amid great enthusiasm. The principal
resolutions denounce the present tariff
law and call for new one for protec-
ton and reciprocity; denounce the sill
yer agitation; oppose free silver coin
age: oppose state banks and uphold
national banks; demand the restriction
of Immigration, the entire separation
of church and state. the enforcement
OF the Monroe doctrine and express
sympathy with Cuba.
A New YORK Sun special from In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 25th stated
that ex-President Harrison was being
deluged with letters urging him to be
a candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation and save his party from the
nomination of Mckinley, who repre-
sented the extre me idea in protection.
LOUIS SENEGAL, colored, was recent
" lynched by a mob of 500 men at
Carencro, La, for assaulting farmers
wife.
Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have died at
Port Jarvis. N. Y. from being poisoned
and the daughter, Mrs. Martha Whit
taker, was under guard, suspected of
the crime.
THE failures for the week ended
March % (Dun's report) were $50 in the
United States, against 234 last year,
and 80 in Canada, against AZ last year.
IN several towns in the Indian terri
tory smallpox was prevailing on the
27th in a malignant form and the peo-
pie were greatly excited. The places
were rigidly quarantined and business
was at staudstill.
By direction of the officials of the
| uniform rank, Knights of Pythias, the
arrangements to hold the national en-
campment in Minneapolis have been
declared off and Cleveland has been
selected as the place for the coming
event.
THE clearing house returns for the
| week ended March % for the following
cities were: New York, $500. ESQ, 574;
Chicago. SIT, 3O3, 7O3; st. Louis, 2O,5s2,.
SIS; Kansas City, 50. 1I9, 416; St Joe,
Sl,O3s O96; Topeka, S447.267 Wichita,
1887, 725; Omaha, 81 ,45S, 074.
Two men were buried alive and one
so seriously injured that he cannot live
by the cave-in of the Vega mine, near
Duluth Mimi. 1t will take month to