Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-23
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
SHENANDOAH, Iowa, has again been the
scene of q tragic occurrence. During a
row in the Gallup household, neighbors IN
| terfered. The result was that Frank Gal
| lup killed a merchant named Pine and
wounded two other persons. The militia
| was called out, when Gallup killed SOL
| der and was finally killed himself. Pine,
| a few days before, had his little daughter
| outraged by Frank Phillips, who was
| tarred and feathered for it.
A SYSTEM of wholesale letter box robbery
| has been unearthed at chicago Two
arrests were made.
CHARLES CROKER, second vice-presi-
dent of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, died at Monterey, CAL, on the
| 18th. He was born in Troy, N. Y, Sep
| TENDER 49, 1922. He was one OF the Gen.
trail Pacific ''Big Four"
THE merchants of Clinton, Iowa, under
| the influence of the strikers, have been
| boycotting the Burlington by refusing to
| ship goods over it and to receive goods
shipped over it. Officials of the road have
decided to retaliate, and the boycotting
| merchants have been notified that unless
the boycott is raised the road will stop
running trains into the city
| A BALLOON, inflated with natural gas,
was sent up from Anderson, Ind, the other
afternoon. The ascension was a success.
FIRE at Stanton, Iowa, recently destroyed
| over half the business section, causing $50,
600 loss.
| THE National meeting of miners and
mine laborers closed at Cleveland, o., on
| the 18th. w. Y. Lewis, of Shawnee, o.,
| was elected National Master Workman.
CONGRESSMAN STEELE, of the Eleventh
| Indiana district, has been renominated by
reclamation by the Republicans.
THE Minnesota Democratic convention
| was in a fractional row at st. Paul on the
10Th. Before the breakup Wilson was
nominated for Governor, defeating Ames
-233 to 1876.
| INFORMATION has reached Holbrook,
Arizona, of the murder of James Scott,
James Stott, and JEFF Wilson by outlaws
| in the southwestern part of Apache
| County. The affair grew out of the recent
war in Tonic basin between sheep and
cattle raisers. Warrants were issued and
arrests made by unauthorized persons,
| and the prisoners were taken across the
mountains into Yavapai County, where
| they were met by q pre-arranged mob
and hanged.
THE North Chicago rolling mills at South
| Chicago has shut down for an indefinite
| period, throwing out of employment some
| 1900 men. Manager Potter states that the
| suspension of work lis but temporary
| one.
1hE ASSOCidCIOn OI
gineers, at their second session in Mime
| apolis, Mimi, discussed shorter hours for
| firemen, and voted that shorter hours
| ought to be adopted. The association also
| discussed the storage of crude petroleum
and its relation to fires.
IT is reported that the Cheyenne Indians
are ready to sign the treaty for the open
| ing of the great Sioux reservation in Da-
kota.
THE Supreme Court of Washington Ter
ritory has decided the law granting suf-
frage to women unconstitutional. The
grounds for the opinion were based on the
ers. The court took the ground that the
| word ''citizen" in the organic act can not
| mean any thing else than male citizen.
A SPECIAL from Coleman, Wis, says the
new Catholic Church had collapsed, killing
one man and crushing seven others so that
| several may die.
On the Illinois Central railroad at South
Lawn, fifty miles south. of Chicago, on the
10th, an Illinois Central passenger train
bound for Chicago collided with freight
train. The escape of THE 200 passengers
was miraculous. A number of persons
| were more or less injured, most of them
| trainmen, but no one was killed.
GEORGE o. JONES, chairman of the Ma
+ tional Committee of the ,Greenback party,
has issued a call for a National convention
of the party to meet at Cincinnati,
"Wednesday. September II, 1888, to nomi-
President of the United States.