Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
THE WEST.


ton strike on the 5th. There was gather
ing of Brotherhood officials at Chicago to
discuss the situation. At Kansas City
strike took place lasting a few hours on the
Rock Island under a mistaken impression
that the road was handling Burlington
business.
THE Anarchist case has been docketed in
the Supreme Court of Illinois again on a
motion filed by Black & Solomon, counsel
for Fielden, Schwab and Neebe The mo-
ton asks for correction of the record.
which is alleged to recte the presence of
the defendants in the court when the order
in each of their cases was made, while they
at the time were not present either in per-
son or by attorney.
A LAW has been enacted by the Ohio
Legislature requiring that convict made
goods in other States shall be marked a
such before being offered for sale in Ohio.
L. M. HAYS, a switchman in the railroad
yards at Albuquerque, N. NJ, recently had
one of his thumbs mashed in coupling cars
and was being taken to the hospital at Las
Vegas when as the train reached Wallace
| he was awakened by the arrival of the
southbound passenger train and probably
| imagining he was in the yards switching
seized the conductors lantern and jumped
out in front of the passing train, which
struck him and killed him instantly, his
| body being horribly mangied.
| Two brakemen, Williams and Furguson,
were fatally injured, and two engines and
| nineteen freight cars were totally wrecked
in collision on the Iowa Central railroad
near Mason City recently. The dispatcher
at Marshalltown was at fault, fol getting
| The wild train that was running north from
| Marshalltown.
| THE Citizens Bank block at Ligonier,
Ind, and five adjoining brick buildings
were burned with their contents the other
| day. Jacobs & Co., bankers, and Jacob
| Baum, groceries, were the heaviest losers.
| Total loss aggregates $4,000; insurance,
S35, 900.
| CAPTAIN A. II. BoGARDUs, of Elkhart,
| Ill, the champion wing shot of the world,
| says he will not again compete for cham
| pionship honors Advancing years and do
| mestic affection are the reason.
THE Standard Oil Company has COM
| menced preliminary work for the building
| of an immense pipe line from Lima, o., to
Chicago, distance of over 200 miles, for
| the purpose of Transporting oil. both crude
and refined, to the Western metropolis.
GEORGE II. DELANEY, stockman of Ok
! lahoma. and some of his cowboys are re-
ported to have murdered three squatters
| and a woman. A deputy United States
| marshal has been searching for Delaney. A
| report existed that citizens had caught two
of the cowboys and lynched them.
d. R. BRIEFLY & Co, traders on the Chi
cago regular and open boards of trade,
| have failed. Briefly had recently cut a
wide swath on the big board as a plunger
| in corn.
IT was reported at st. Louis the 9TH
that the bitter rate war which had been
waged between the Chicago & Alton and
| the Wabash Eastern roads had been settled
and that prices would be advanced to near
| ly the rates which prevailed before the war
began. The figures agreed upon between
st. Louis and Chicago were: 3S IS Is, Il
and for the five classes, and So. 80 per car
for live stock.
AFTER important evidence IN rebuttal,
the tally sheet trial at Columbus, o., on the
9TH was brought to a stop by the non-ap-
pearance OF Myers, who was wanted as a
| witness. The court issued an attachment
for him. His disappearance created excite
ment bordering on a sensation.
A SHARP shock of earthquake was felt al
Los Angeles, Cal, on the 9TH, being the
severest for eighteen years. No damage
was done, but houses were badly shaken
| and people ran into the streets in fright.
A DISPATCH from Elko, New, of the Sth
says that the east bound passenger train
on the Central Pacific had been wrecked al
Fenelon the previous night with fatal re-
suits. Cause, broken rail.
ROBERT L. CARUTHERs, the we'll known
base ball pitcher, was married in Chicago
the other night to Miss Mamie Danks