Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

The Aurora chair factory and the
Wymond cooper shop at Aurora, Ind,
were destroyed by fire on the 2Sth.
The loss on the former was $40, 600 and
on the latter $4,000. The two fires
threw 500 operatives out of employ
ment.
ERNEST HERM, who was infatuated
with school-teacher at Nebraska
City, Neb., asked j. d. Chapman for an
explanation of some remarks the latter
had made and in the quarrel which
followed Herm was fatally shot.
FIVE floors of the Shinkle, Wilson,
kreis & Co.'s wholesale grocery store
at Cincinnati crashed into the cellar
under a load of 1000 barrels of sugar.
The Waterman was crushed to death
and two other men were injured.
In the six-day bicycle race which
ended at Chicago on the 27th the scores
were: Schinneer, 1,7ss miles laps;
Miller, 1,764 miles 1 lap; Ashinger, l.
727 miles; Lawson, 1,TO7 miles 1 lap;
Hansen, 1,603 miles laps.
LOUIS CRAZY and Eugene Ralston
were blown to pieces by an explosion
of nitro-glycerine near Pittsburgh, Pa.
The stuff had just been shipped and
they approached it to put it in a ware
houses were damaged by the concus-
sion.
A YOUNG negro named Charlie Brown
attempted to assault a farmers daugh-
ter at Soddi, Tenn, and when posse
attempted to arrest him he fatally
shot a deputy. The mob then strung
up the negro and riddled his body with
bullets.
RUMoRs of a probable war between
Spain and the United States caused
great excitement at Jacksonville, Fla,
and the arrival of the cruiser New
York for coal and the hurried depar-
ture of the Newark and Vesuvius to
join Adm. Bunce's squadron added
strength to the war rumors.
The senate at Olympia, Wash, passed
the bill for an amendment to the con-
stitution comforting elective franchise
on women, the question to be submit
ted in the next general election, in No
vember, 1898. AS a bill of similar pur-
port has passed the house there is every
reason to believe that this bill will be
agreed to by the house without serious
opposition.
SOUND money men from many cities
recently gathered at New York to at
tend the conference of the National
Sound Money league. It was proposed
to have an executive committee of 81
members and to divide the country
into II districts, at the head of each
to be one of the vice presidents.
George E. Leighton, of st. Louis. was
elected president.
The Columbus, Hooking & Toledo
railroad has gone into the hands of a
receiver.
A TRAIN on the Southern railway ran
into a wagon filed with people near
Tenn, on the Gath and
seven persons were killed.
M. NICHOLSON, under sentence of
death at Tallahassee, Fla, for murder,
suicided by taking laudanum.
G. w. DEvINE, switchman, caught
his foot in a frog in the yards at Nash-
vile, Tenn, and was mangled to death
by train.
A RESOLUTION was introduced into
the lower house of the Oklahoma legis-
lature calling for a convention of all
free silver states at Denver, Col, on
September 10 to discuss a proposition
to issue state bonds of SO, $40 and $50
and to boycott national bank notes.
The resolution was referred.
THE New York Sun on the Goth said
that Col. John J. McCook had positive
ly declined to enter President McKin-
1ey's cabinet as secretary of the inte-
rior.
AT Little Rock, Ark, on the 25th,
Robert Cox, convicted of rape, and a
negro known as ''Crazy Jim" convicted
of murder, were hanged.
The cornerstone of the Theosophical
temple, or s:school for the revival of the
lost mysteries of antiquity" was laid
at Point Lomax, Cal, with imposing
ceremonies, under the charge of Mrs.
Katherine Ting1ey, the leader of the
movement, and prominent theosophists
from all parts of the world.
DAN STUART has announced that
women will be admitted to the Cor
bett-Fitzsimmons fight at Carson City,
New.
A CORRESPONDENT at Puerto Principe
telegraphs a paper in Havana that it is
reported that the president of the Cuban
republic, Salvador Cisneros, died re-
Gently from sickness.
AT North Coal Gate, five miles from
Lehigh, I. T., three children of Jack
Goslin, aged four, eight and ten years,
fell into an abandoned pit filed with
water and were drowned.
EDWARD BAILEY was driving in a
buggy at Williamsport, Pa, and had
a rope around his body tied to two
horses behind when he was jerked out
of the h1J ocu and dra over a T,reci-