Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-12
THE WEST.


ELI D. KREIGH was shot and instantly
killed and Daniel BRAZIL was mortally
wounded, by three unknown men at Chi
cago on the night of the 3D.. Both men
were watchmen In the employ of the Chi
cago & Alton Railroad Company, and they
were killed by car thieves whom they were
attempting to drive away from a freight
train.
EMPLOYEES of the traffic department of
the Milwaukee & st. Paul road in st. Paul
were officially notified on the 81 that all
salaries of the company's employees would
be reduced 80 1-3 per cent. The company
took this action rather than to dis
charge a third of their employees, who
were not needed during the strike troubles.
The guests and servants of the Adams
House in Chicago were stupefed by smoke
the other morning, but all were rescued
alive. Thirty-three horses were lost.
BY collision on the Chicago q North
western road near Quincy, ILL.,, recently,
both engines and ten stock cars were de-
stroyed and four men injured.
THE Iowa House has passed the bill pro
viding for two cent per mile passenger
fare on railroads in that State.
A. L. FAwCETT, Republican treasurer
for Marion township, Morgan County, O.,
has been missing for some weeks. An eX-
animation of his accounts show shortage
of 81, 500.
ELECTIONS were held generally through
out Illinois on the 3D., but as a rule there
was no special feature. In Galesburg two
OF the striking engineers of the Burlington
road were elected aldermen and the ticket
favored by the strikers was generally sue
cessful.
NEARLY 1000 men employed in the Chi
| cago brewerles met on the 4th and DIS
cussed the question of a strike. The mat
ter grew out of circular recently issued
by the employing brewers, in which they
stated that they would not employ mem
bers Of unions. A committee was APP
pointed to wait on Ernest Bros, the firm
where che trouble originated.
THE Ohio Senatorial Committee invest-
eating the charges of alleged bribery on
he! pact of certain mem bers, has made a
reE>rt completely generating the mem
bers, tiFd the report was adopted.
A CONFERENCE of leaders of the railroad
strikes was held at Chicago on the 4th and
it was resolved to declare all strikes off
with the exception of that on the Burling-
ton.
Four boys were drowned in a creek of
the Cedar river near ST. Ansgar, Iowa. re-
Gently, owing to a wagon upsetting while
crossing when the creek was much swollen
MANY roofs were blown off at Faribault
Mimi, during recent severe wind storm.
The verdict of the coroner's jury in the
Rich Hill, Mo-, mining calamity was that
the explosion was due to natural gas which
had accumulated in the mine because of
the neglect of Keith & Perry. the owners
and the incompetency of State Mine In
spector Wolfe, who had pronounced the
mine safe after he was supposed to have
made an examination.
BY the giving way of a bridge, the west
bound passenger train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad was preci-
pitated into the Wapsie river, near New
Hampton, Iowa, on the morning OF the 5th.
The engineer ana ten passengers were re-
ported killed AMI quite a number of other
persons injured.
THREE children are reported to have died
at Springfield, O., from drinking water out
OF well into which poisoned rats had
been thrown.
THE SOUTH.
A HEAVY hail and wind storm caused
great damage to fruit and broke all the uu-
protected windows in Decatur, Ala, on the
I'd. One building was blown down and
Eckford Cooper, OF Uniontown, KY, was
killed.
EZEKIEL SMITH, of Fayetteville, n. c.,
a prominent Southern colored man, has
been nominated by the President as Minis
ter to Liberia.
THE tracks OF the st. Louis, Arkansas &
Texas railway were completed to Fort
Worth, Tex, on the I'd. making eleven
roads for the town.
THE tax rate in Baltimore City, Nd, has
been increased from 81 60 to 81. 90 per $1UO.
This increase was due to the failure of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company to
pay dividends.
THE other morning two convicts, of con-
Wet train No. 8 on the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio road, tried to escape
near Sheldon, Tex, when the guard, named
Fox, shot Convict J. C. Thomas with fatal
effect. The deceased was sent to the PEN
itentiary from Marioa County with four
years sentence. During the melee the
other convict escaped, with posse in close