Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-29
JOHN RAP, a wholesale liquor deal


er at Chicago, was shot and killed by
| his former confidential clerk, ID. W.
| Braunschweig, who afterward put the
revolver to his own temple and killed
| himself. Raap had got warrant out
for Braunschweig for being short in
{ his accounts.
THE paper mills at Ellsworth. Ind,
were totally destroyed by fire entail
| ing loss of SIS, 900.
AT special meeting of the national
| executive committee of the Western
Window Glass Co. and the Pittsburgh
| Window Glass Co. at Chicago an adj
| vance of five per cent. was declared on
all window glass in all parts of the
country. to take effect May 5.
THE man who was hypnotized and
| buried in the ground for three days at
Simcoe, Ont, was disinterred when the
time had elapsed and great crowds fol-
| lowed the box to the opera house. It
| required five men to control the sub
ject in his struggles while he was be-
ing brought back to consciousness and
| the box was smashed to pieces
FRANK kLOss was hanged at ST. Quen-
tin, Cal. on the Esd for the murder of
| William Deadly.
FIRE broke out on the 22d in the
town of Pottersville, near Homestead,
Pa, and SO houses were burned. Pot
tersville is within the Carnegie yards
and consisted of about 400 frame
dwellings, which were built at the
time of the strike in 1892 The place
is the home of about 800 or 400 families.
and has a population of about 1000.
No household effects were saved by
the residents.
THE Paris Journals correspondent
at Odessa, Russia, telegraphed on the
22d that all the necessary measures
had been taken at Sebastopol for the
| eventful intervention of Russia in the
| war between Turkey and Greece.
| TIE corner stone of the Transmissis-
sippi exposition arch of the states was
laid on the 32d at Omaha. Neb.. after
| long parade of military and civic soci-
cites. Grand Master Phelps, of the
Nebraska masons. officiated. Addresses
were made by Mayor Broatch, Lieut..
Gov. Harris and eX-Secretary of Agri-
culture Morton.
THE governor of Colorado vetoed the
bill regulating the manufacture and
sale of oleomargarine.
| A FIRE which broke out at 1926 Ash
land avenue, Chicago, partially de-
stroyed three dwellings and the flames
spread so rapidly that many of the oc-
cupants barely escaped with their lives
AS it was. John McCleast and a boy
named John Coyne lost their lives.
| The latter was claSped in the arms of
the former, showing that McCleast had
persisted in an attempt to save the boy.
AN appeal to the omen of the world
for monetary aid has been issued by
the Union of Greek Women, under the
presidency of Queen Olga. to be used
| f1oa Of he fl,ear
with the Turks.
Gov. RENFROW, of Oklahoma. has
been prevailed upon to recommission
all his territorial appointees for two
years. The incoming repu blican adj
ministration will now have to remove
them in the courts.
| PAPERS were read by recognized ex-
ponents of FroebePs system at the
meeting of the International Kinder
garten union at st. Louis on the goth.
The morning session on the 21st was
devoted to business and the 115th an
niversary of Froebels birth was cele-
brated at the evening session.
THE Home Protective Building, Loan
and Savings association at Davenport,
Ia, with membership confined main
ly to Roman Catholics, has gone into
the hands of an examiner, who has
temporarily closed the office John J..
Ryan, secretary of the company, has
been missing for several days and his
whereabouts was unknown.
r. J. CARSON, of Montezuma, Col,
went to New Orleans to recover his
son, who mysteriously disappeared
from Durango in 1885, and was thought
by most people to have been drowned.
The boy, it turned out, was kidnapped.
and information as to his whereabouts
was received through Catholic priest,
to whom the woman who was instru-
mental in stealing the child made a
!, deathbed confession.
4 TRAIN struck vehicle while it was
crossing the railroad tracks near South
5 Lyon, Mich, and Harry Clark, a stu
, dent of Ann Arbor university, and Miss
, Sarah Fisher We're killed and Miss
/ | Ethel just had one foot crushed.
A SPECIAL from Nashville, Tenn, on
, the 21st said that five lives had been
lost in the flooded lands of Lake coun.
, | ty. A skiff was upset, causing the
: drowning of Joseph Cans and his en-.
: tire family, wife. two sons and a
, daughter.
, THREE men visited a fortune teller
, at Cincinnati the other afternoon and
bound and gagged her and then re
, moved diamond rings and other jewelry
. | from her person worth 5000.
THE paymaster of the Pleasant Val
ley Coal Co., was held up at Castle
Gate, Utah, by two mounted men and
, compelled to give over 81, 500 he had
!. to pay the company's men,
THE Greek quarters in Omaha, Neb..
, was the scene of a riot the other after
noon. When the police arrived on the
, scene a number of Greeks, Turks
Syrians and Arabians were suffering
from knife thrusts and clubs. The