Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-11

In answer to An inquiry whether he
would go into tho saloon business, as 70.
ported in . Chicago evening paper. Joe
Nackin, IT, pardoned election fraud
worker. said that he most certainly would
not have any thing to do with the saloon
business but would 60 into the real estate
business which he left when he fed
from Chicago
A SERIOUS accident occurred at Okla
homa City, T.. on the 4th. caused by
the collapse of the grand stand. One hun
dred persons were injured. many of them
seriously, child being instantly killed.
THE delegates to the North Dakota con-
stitutional convention met at the Capitol
building, Bismarck, on the 4th and were
called to order by Secretary Richards
the election of F. s. Faneher. of Jameston,
as chairman, and ]. A. Rea. Of Bismarck, as
secretary.
SEvENTY-FIvE people were seriously
poisoned at Adair, Iowa, on the 4th by
eating ice cream which was made in ves-
sells that had not been properly cleaned.
Several, it was thought, would die and
all were suffering badly.
AN excursion train on the Chicago, st
Paul & Kansas City road while proceed
ing to Twin Springs, thirteen miles from
train on the night of the 4th. A brake
man named Corrigan was instantly killed,
and it was reported three others were se-
riously injured.
THE South Dakota constitutional con-
vention met at Sioux Falls on the 4th.
Judge Edgerton was temporary chairman.
ABOUT $4,000 people participated in
grand demonstration of twin city labor
ing men in favor of the eight hour ques-
tion at st. Paul on the 4th.
AN outbreak of black diphtheria was
reported at the village Of Albany, twenty
miles west of st. Cloud Mimi.
The Montana Constitutional convention
organized at Helena with the election of
Democratic officers. Hon. W. A. Clark
was president.
PRELIMINARY legal proceedings recently
were adverse to the Chicago Board of
Trade in Withholding its quotations from
the public under the pretense of freezing
out the bucket shops.
The principal part of Ellensburg, Wash,
was destroyed by fire on the night of the
4th. The loss amounted to 50. coo, 600 and
many persons were rendered homeless,
two hundred houses being burned.
A SCHEME hatched out atsChicago re-
Gently among certain Irish.Americans to
obtain Lower California or some portion
Of Canada to found an Irish republic.
Money was to be obtained by mortgage to
equip an army and q navy.
A BILL has been filed in the circuit
court objecting to the annexation of the
town of Lake to Chicago as declared by
the recent election.
LOUIS CHERFER. cashier Of the bank at
Houghton. Via. has disappeared with
So. 900 in cash, which was to be used in
paying of the workmen of the Hecla and
other great mines.
SIX men while boat riding on the Mis-
sissippi river At Savannah, ILL.,, overturned
the boat about 500 yards from the Illinois
side. Three we're saved. The others,
Thomas Ragsn, Edward Howard and Pat
rick Flinn, we're drowned.
BAK3kgE1RLD, Cal, was swept by fire on
the - sees ehsssn kaoc.zs being wtrss out.
The loss was 81 ,250, 600; insurance, $780,
OO0
CHARLES IDE and his sweetheart, Miss
Langdon, were drowned while boating
near Minneapolis, Mimi, recently.
THE laboring mems strike at Duluth,
Mimi, eliminated in q fatal riot on the
afternoon of the 9Th. The strikers made
an onslaught on the men working in the
sewer trenches. Revolvers were used and
the result was the killing Of two men and
the wounding of many other persons. sew
eral being policemen. The riot was Quelled
by Company K, State militia.
THE SOUTH.
A FEARFUL accident by which many
lives were lost and q large number of
people injured occurred on the I'd on the
Norfolk & Western railroad mile above
Thaxton's switch and thirty-one miles
above Lynchburg, Va. The disaster was
caused by washout and was aggravated
by the explosion Of the locomotive boiler
and the burning OF the passenger coaches
the usual concomitants Of railroad acci-
dents
PRINCE FILMING and Richard Jordan
were hanged at Quitman, Miss, recently
for the murder of John Taylor. All the
parties were negroes.
DISASTROUS floods were reported in the
vicinity of Fort Worth. Tex. on the Sd.
In twenty four hours seven inches of rain
fell.
JOHN n. MAaINNIs, president of the Ma
ginnis cotton mills. New Orleans, was
killed by q stroke Of lightning the other
day at Ocean Springs. Miss. He was well
known In New York, being son-in-law
of the late William NJ. Tweed. Of that city.
WILLIE OATES. q young man twenty
Oates, Of steamboat fame, was drowned in
Red river, at Texarkana, Ark, recently
while floating q raft of logs down the
river. Tho raft struck q snag. He and
two other men in skif attempted to dis
lodge the raft, when the boat capsized-
Young Oates, being unable to swim. was
carried down the stream.
Two unknown men were instantly killed
recently at Camden Junction by the Chi
cago express on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad. Their bodies were taken to
Baltimore. Md
Ex-CoNFEDERATE veterans from all
parts of Arkansas met at Little Rock on
the 4th and arranged to establish a home
for disabled soldiers
A ROW occurred at Wheeling, W. Va,
on the night of the 4th between Irish,
italian and negro laborers. One man was
fatally beaten. All the police of the city
were required 70 suppress the riot.
some time ago, at Memphis, Tenn,
Frank Brenish's wife left him because of
failure to support her and their two chill
dren. The other evening Brenish met his
wife on the street and on her refusing to
live with him attacked her with a butcher
knife and cut her throat from ear to ear.
She died within q few minutes. Brenish
then cut his own throat
A SPECIAL from Sumter, 8 c., says that
four negroes forced an entrance into the
dwelling Of an unprotected woman in the