Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-02-24

Of the democratic national committee,
tn an authorized interview said that
the next democratic national conven-
ton will reaffirm the position taken
by the convention in 1896 and will
speak out in an unequivocal manner on
the question of bimeta1lism and the
Chicago platform will be Endorsed in
1900.
FRANK VALDEZ and his brother were
found murdered near Floresville, Tex.
NJ. EMILE LoUBET was elected presi-
dent of the French repu bile, to sue
coed the late Felix Faure, by the as
sembly of deputies and senators at
Paris on the 18th. He is 81 years old
moderate republican and his election
was favored by the radical and social
ist press.
CHIEF OF POLICE GRIFFIN killed
Mastyn Brack, a building contractor.
while trying to quell a saloon disturb
ance at Hearne, Tex.
The families of w. c. Woolsey and
]. ). Barton. of Fort Dodge. Ia, had a
very narrow escape from death by
asphyxiation. The fues and pipes of
the hard coal stoves which they used
had become filed with SCOT and began
to throw off gas, and when they
awoke in the morning the members of
both households were Frustrated. A
physician was summoned and he said
that a very little more time would
have resulted fatally to the Is mem.
bers who comprised the two house
holds.
THE agent of the Adams Express
company at Baldwin, o., upon in
structions from the company opened
box that had laid in the Office unde-
livered for Il months to find that it
contained human body. The box
was addressed to DIR. limerick, who
has not lived at Baldwin for a dozen
years and with whom communication
has been lost.
ROBERT HOWARD, co1ored, was
hanged in the county Jail at Chicago
on the nth for participation in the
robbery and murder of Frank c. Mat
cliff, machinist. He was convicted
as an accessory before the fact.
FRANCOIS FELIX FAURE, president of
the French republic, died suddenly at
Paris of apoplexy on the 10th. He was
born January 20. 1S41.
PRIVATE JOHN NOFwIT, company 81,
Seventh volunteer infantry (negro).
having been tried and found guilty of
ny d RCuCTdA lidls
convened at Camp Haskell. Macon.
Ca, was sen fenced ''to suffer death by
being shot" The president committed
the sentence of death to Imprisonment
for life in the United States peniten-
tiary at Fort Leavenworth. Kan.
| A FIRE the other night destroyed the
| immense plants and Office building of
the Thomas Building and Lumber
| company at Akron, o. The property
loss amounted to 500. GOO, largely in
sured. The entire business portion of
| the city was threatened for time.
Sparks and burning embers were car
ried for several miles. Millions of
feet of lumber were destroyed.
j. w. JORGENsON. or "Jack the Hair
| Clipper" as he has been known for the
| last four years. was arrested the other
night at Chicago while in the act of
cutting braid from the head of Erna
| Fransky. Jorgenson confessed that
he had cut the hair from the heads
of 300 girls and women and said that
his strange mania took hold of him
| four years ago after an illness.
| MRS. M. COOLING was burned to
death at Ardmore. L T.. while at
tempting to light fire with coal oil.
MISS EMMA GEPNER, aged Is, living
at Flatonia, Tex, was burned fatally
and died in great agony in short
| time. This made a total of 20 persons,
most of them children. burned to death
| in Texas in two weeks, the majority
having had their clothing catch fire
from open freplaces.
THE snow fell continuously for SO
hours at Cape May, n. j., recently. 1t
was 43 inches deep on the level, the
deepest ever known there.
GREAT excitement prevailed in PEN
dleton, Ind, the other day over the
discovery that James Rigley had been
buried alive. A dispute arose with in
surance companies and the body was
glass cover of the casket was broken
in pieces and other evidences pointed
Enthusiastically to the conclusion that
he had regained consciousness after
being buried and died from suffocation.
CHARLES LEIGH, aged 26, confessed
at Burlington, Ia, that on Novem Der
20, 1889, he murdered Charles Monk
| near Midd1etOwn, La. He was COM
PEELED to confess to free his mind of
the burden of the crime. He was
placed under bonds to appear before
the grand jury on the charge of muir
der
TERRIFIC norther, accompanied by
an incessant rainstorm caused numer.
Gus local floods in Kingston, Jamaica.
The storm swept the north of the is
land from Annette bay to Montego bay,
doing widespread damage to shipping,
wharves, railroads, etc.
CATTLE growers of Ell Paso county,
Col. have suffered severely from raw.
ages of gray wolves and coyotes. One
ranchman said that he had lost over %
head of cattle during the winter, there
being one period when nearly every
night the wolves killed from one tc
three head.
The total exports of merchandise
| from, ha Initial