Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-01-28


24th. ALI the boys were got out safely.
The Northwestern Stove Repair Co. Is
factory at Chicago was destroyed by
fire on the gath, causing loss of $685.
900. The fremen had great difficulty
in getting water the plugs in the neigh
borhood being frozen.
A NEGRO named Pierce Taylor was
taken from the Jail at Tallahassee,
Fla, on the Oath by mob and hanged
to tree in the Jail yard. He had been
arrested for an attempted assault on
woman.
EUGENE WASHINGTON, negro ar
rested for assaulting a girl at Bryan,
Tex, was taken by an Infatuated mob
on the evening of the Esd and hanged
to a cottonwood tree on Main street in
that city.
THE gath was the coolest day in Chi
cago for 25 years. The suffering among
the poor people there was said to be in
tense. In South Chicago five families
were found actually freezing to death.
A DISPATCH from st. Paul, Mimi, on
the oath said the coolest weather of
the winter was being experienced, the
mercury being from 20 to 80 degrees
below zero around that section of coun-
try.
1ANDEhSON. t11C IJ ing OWSoOs
won the woman's six-day bicycle race
follows: Anderson, 246 miles laps;
Farnsworth, 246 miles ~ laps; Allen,
246 miles 6 laps; Baldwin and Christie
pher, tie, 246 miles laps.
SENATOR WoLCoTT, of Colorado, who
has been visiting England in the inter-
est of bimetallism, was reported as not
being satisfied with his progress. Great
Britain will not call an international
conference on the subject under any
circumstances and the continental
powers were equally unwilling to call
a conference, as they believed the
United States, both by its position and
it's Importance, ought to take the in
itiative.
SIR ISAAC PITTMAN, the inventor of
photography, a system of shorthand
writing, died at London on the 22d,
aged "a years.
SEVEN houses were burned in the
business portion of Lindale, Tex, re-
Gently.
THE Iowa millers passed resolution
at their convention at Des Moines ask
ing congress to restore reciprocity
with Central and South American
countries in regard to -four and cereal
products.
THE first snow of the season struck
Oklahoma on the night of the 10th.
A MOB of colored women rescued a
notorious negro who was being taken
to jail at Tallahassee, Fla, from Cen
tervi1le. The women disarmed the two
officers who had the negro in charge,
tied them to trees, gagged and beat
them with sticks until they were inSen-
cih1n nd fha1, 1off loo
counts the women and the negro we're
surrounded in house by a sheriffs
posse and it was hoped they would be
captured without any bloodshed.
THERE was a great revival in gold
mining reported in the section around
Dahlonega. Ga.
THE final proposition of the mine
managers to the striking miners of the
Leadville, Col, district, which was APP
proved by Gov. Adams and E. V. Debs,
was rejected by the miners. This end
ed all negotiations so far as the govern
or was concerned. The miners insisted
on arbitration.
FIRE broke out early in the morning
in the medical college, one of the
buildings of the Bellevue hospital at
New York. A thousand patients were
asleep at the time, but the fremen con-
trol1ed the flames without disturbing
them. Many valuable records and in
struments were destroyed and ID cada-
verS were cremated.
w. A. HARRIS, of Leavenworth coun-
ty, has been nominated to succeed SEN
ator PETER as United States senator
for Kansas. The nomination is equiv
alent to an election.
AN earthquake occurred at Delvino,
Turkish Epirus. Several villages, most
~ inhabited by Christians, have been
destroyed, and it was feared many peo-
pie have persisted.
EX-CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM E. MASON
was nominated for United States SEN
ator at the republican joint caucus at
Springfield, Ill, on the 19th, after one
of the most bitterly fought battles in
the history of the repu bican party in
Illinois.
THE Missouri and Kansas Association
of Lumber Dealers in session at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the Goth elected the fol-
lowing officers to serve during the en-
suing year: 81. c. Taylor, of Lyons,
Kan, president; Jesse Childs, of Rich
mond, Mo, vice president; George d.
Hope, of Kansas City, treasurer. The
directors reelected Harry Gorsuch
secretary and made J. l.. Lane honor
airy secretary.
Four miners were badly hurt at Shaw,
W. Va, by fall of slate and coal.
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