Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-07-14

at Huntingdon, Ind, bombarding il
| with fireworks Several of the soldiers
were severely burned
WILLIAM PITTN, chief of police Al
Pineville, KY, was killed in ouarre,
by Lucius Smith at a picnic.
SAM FRAZIER and Rienzi Kennedy
young men. were drowned while bath
ing In the Ouachita river. near Cam
den, Ark
JOHN JONES, workman, was terribly
scalded at the piano plate works
Springfield, O., falling into a vat OF
boiling water with one of his legs
WILLIAM CAPMAN, aged ~, a veteran
of the rebellion, was killed by Lake
Shore train at Brimfeld, near Goshen.
Ind
In an interview William A. Pinkertou
declared that Carnegie had decided tc
close the mill at Homestead until non
union men are allowed to peacefully &c
to work and hold the county for all
damages that may result from the ae.
ton of the strikers
The eleventh international Christian
Endeavor convention was called to order
at Madison square garden, New York,
on the 7th Ten thousand delegates a*-
tended
THE supreme court of Tennessee has
decided that h. Clay King, the well
known jurist, must be hanged for the
murder of D. 81. Poston, prominent
Memphis lawyer. The murder grew
out of the sensational case in chanoery
of the widow of Gen. Gideon Pillow.
THREE children were found starving at
Brooklyn, N. Y. Their mother had sold
the furniture to buy whisky.
THE town Of Arcola, Miss, has been
consumed by fire.
PoCoMoKE CITY, Md. has been burned
Loss, 500, 900.
A FIRE caused by melting pitch de-
stroyed bridge over the Ebro at Tor
tosa, Spain. Two workmen were
drowned, sixty-fve of them having to
jump into the river to escape the flames.
CANADA has imposed duty of five
cents per dozen on eggs.
The real cause of the suicide of
William Tyler. president of the Vim
cennes, Ind, bank, who shot himself on
his daughters grave, was because his
bank was involved in injudicious specu-
lations in Tennessee lands.
ONE of the robbers who held up the
Santa Fe train in the Indian territory
has been captured. He had in his pos
session a large sum of money and the
watch taken from the express messen-
ger.
AN immense conhagration broke out
in st. Johns, n. F., on the Sth. Thirty
thousand persons We're rendered home
less The finest buildings in the city
were destroyed.
ARMS have been sent to the guards
protecting non-union men at the Coe ur
d'Alene, Idaho, mines.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended July showed an average in
crease of 1917 compared with last year.
In New York the increase was 1877.
DUN & Co. IS weekly review reports
general trade much larger than year
ago.
FIVE sudden deaths occurred at Eas-
ton, Pa, one day recently, all due to
heart failure.
THERE was a circus riot at Fargo, N.
D. Twelve heads were cracked, one
fatally.
A WALL about 400 feet long fell upon
some standing railway cars at Memphis,
Tenn, caused by soddened ground ow-
ing to rain. Three persons were killed
SIMON NALING's Touring mill at Hope,
near Columbus, Ind. q, has been destroyed
by fire.
BERG SHORT, who shot Henderson
Denkins and Lee Simmons near Chat
tanooga, Tenn, was reported making
for the mountains armed with Win
chester.
A New YORK landlady recently put
James Watson out of her house and
held his baby for arrears of board. He
complained to the police.
The Grand Trunk of Canada has Sc
cured line to Ottawa, Ont.
THE corn crop in the vicinity of Deni-
son, Tex, will be enormous.
ONE of the imprisoned Wyoming cat
tlemen, it is said, has lost his mind.
STRINGENT miscegenation laws are
preparing in louisiana The marriage
of Chinese and negroes will be among
the prohibitions.
THERE was jail break at Morrillton,
Ark. Two prisoners escaped.