Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25


proved.
HARRY GILMORE. a burglar with SO
confessed robberies to his credit,
walked into the police station at Dam
bury, Conn. and gave himself up. say
ing that he had been plying his trade
for month. but was starving with it.
He located the hiding place of stolen
goods to the police and was held for
trial.
GEORGE BoGART. eX-city clerk of Ev-
anston, Ill, pleaded guilty on the 10th
to having embezzled funds from that
city amounting to IS, SOL
THERE were 235 business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 10th, according to Bradstreet's re-
port, against 800 in the corresponding
week last year.
AT Dayton, O., on the night of the
18th Oscar Gardner and John Van
Heest fought 20 rounds to draw.
A TRAIN on the Chicago & Indiana
coal railroad loaded with 500 miners
was wrecked near Coal Bluff, Ind,
two cars leaving the track and plung-
ing over an embankment into several
feet of water. Over 90 men were in
iured, three of them fatally.
7. w. HARRIS, editor of the Waco
brother. on one side, and Judge G. B.
Gerald, prominent citizen. fought a
duel to the death on the street at Waco,
Tex. on the 10Th. w. A. Harris was
shot dead, j. w. Harris wounded IA
tally and Gerald was shot in the side
and may die. The trouble was the
outcome of the mob bing of w. c. Brann,
publisher of the Iconoclast-
WHILE gambling for pecans negro
named Gen. Chatham was stabbed
twice and killed at Bryan. Tex. An
other negro, Tom Sweat, was arrested
for the crime, hut was taken from his
guards and strung up to the limb of a
tree The vigilan ties were said to have
been negroes.
THE annual report of Secretary of
the Interior Bliss was made public on
the 18th. He stated that there. were
200, 600 more pension claims awaiting
adjudication and it was estim ated that
half of them would be finally ad
mitted. Speedy action is recommend
ed in securing proper legislation for
the coming 18th census. The Indians
and the Dawes commission, the condi-
ton OF Alaska and the Nicaragua ca
nal were also touched upon in the re-
port.
OSCAR GARDNER, the Omaha Kid, was
defeated at Buffalo, n. Y, on the 18th
by Billy Rotchford, of Chicago, in 90
round bout.
A TERRIFIC prairie fire passed through
Lubbock, Hale and Crosby counties,
Tex, doing great damage to the
ranges. The flames made a fire ten
miles wide which travelled at lightning
speed. At least 400 square miles of
territory were burned. Cattle were
burned to death and north of Emma,
5000 sheep were burned in one flock.
Many farmers lost their winter feed,
fire burning it in the stacks.
THE town of Loreto, Ecuador, was
| nearly destroyed by a hurricane, the
loss of life being heavy.
THERE is probability that the case
of Capt. Dreyfus, the Frenchman con-
victed of being traitor to his coun-
try, may be reopened.
JACK MOORE was sentenced at Dali
las, Tex, to 80 years in the peniten-
tiary for the murder of Deputy Sheriff
Pate.
C. A. BRAND, a conductor on the
Rock Island railroad, fell between the
| cars in Des Moines Ia, the other night
| and was instantly killed.
Two negro boys set fire to the Jail at
| Way cross, Ga, in which they were con-
| fined and managed to escape, but an
| other inmate was fatally burned.
AT Carrollton, Ala, Leona Barnes,
an 1S-year-old white girl of progresses
! ing appearance. was convicted on the
charge of miscegenation and was given
| two years term in the penitentiary.
Last March Miss Barnes eloped with
| Andy Beard, negro laborer on her
| fathers farm. The affair created a
| big sensation and a mob pursued the
| couple and Overhauled them and Beard
was shot to death in sight of the girl.
COLORADO college vanquished the OF
| tawa Kan.) university football team
| by the score of five to four at Colorado
| Springs, Col, on the 10th. There was
| binding snowstorm and the mercury
was down to freezing.
| A FIGHT took place at the edge of
Knox and Clay counties, KY. between
| John Smith and Fred Hark1er over a
| debt. Both parties drew revolvers and
| fired instantly and the two men were
| dead in an hour.
The Ohio supreme court has decided
that the Clark law passed by the last
| legislature, requiring that in filling
| appointive county and city Offices pref
erence should be given to honorab1y
| discharged union soldiers, is invalid.
| THE International League of Build
| ing and Loan associations held it's
annual convention at New York the
| other day, about so delegates being
| present
| FRED HORN, aged Is, was convicted
at Ell Reno, Ok, of numbering an old
soldier named Trip, in order to get
$3.50. and was sentenced to the peni-
| Tertiary for life.
| A FARMER at Cushing, Ia, named d.
Spickler, killed his wife and then blew
| out his brains The couple were sep