Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-09-20

gress in the Seventh kentucky district.
A plurality of 800 was claimed for his
opponent, Owens. Breckinridge's fol-
lowers accepted his defeat and many
were taking off the Breckenridge
badges and putting on Owens badges.
THE Peary Arctic expedition has re-
turned to ST. Johns, n. f. Several
members of the party have been FROST
bitten, but all were alive. Very little
had been accomplished, owing to the
frightfu1 weather.
A FRIGHTFUL runaway accident Oc-
Cured at funeral near Alliance, O.,
on the 18th. Fifteen people were in
jured, four of them fatally.
THE first anniversary of the opening
of the strip was celebrated at Enid,
Ok, on the 18th. The Rock Island rail
road stopped a passenger train there
for the first time and the citizens went
wild with delight.
AN attempt was made to wreck the
NJ. K. & T. passenger train just north
of Muslzogee, I. t., ties being placed
upright on the trestlc along the Arkan-
sas river. The engineer saw the OBJ
struction in time.
j. w. STAENGELE, a civil engineer,
shot and killed Mrs. Mabel Colvin at
Portland, Ore, and then blew out his
own brains, the cause being that the
woman would not accept his attentions.
GEORGE MEIRs and Charles Richard
son, while descending the rapids in the
Ohio river in slxiff near Jacksonville,
Ind, struck reef and were fatally in
jured by their bodies coming in con-
tact with the sharp-edged rocks.
A SCORE of the members of company
81, Ninth regiment, of the national
guard of Pennsylvania, who attended
the encampment at Gettysburg, were
down with typhoid fever in it's worst
form at Wilkesbarre on the 10th. Pri-
vate Nelson Tear1son had died and Pri-
Yates Siles and Hardy were not expect
ed to live. The men were supposed to
have drunk polluted water at Gettys-
burg.
AN extensive fire visited the business
portion of Scranton, Pa, on the 18th
Loss, $3.50, 900.
ENoCH DAVIS, the wife murderer, was
executed at Lehigh Junction, Utah, on
the 18th. He was placed in a chair
and blindfolded and at signal six sol
diers shot him, firing through loop
holes in a tent. He died in three min
utes.
DELEa ATEs of thirty-fve labor organ
izations met last night in New York
and adopted platform on which labor
proposes to enter the political cam
paign at the coming election. A reso-
luton was passed instructing every
delegate to recommend to his organ
ization that it's member be requested
to join the peoples party organizations
in the assembly districts.
THREE negroes, two men and wom-
an, went to the house of Sa1oonist
George Woehlhueter, in the heart of
Akron, o., the other morning and de-
manded breakfast. Mrs. Woehlhueter,
who was alone, prepared the meal.
Later the men returned to the house,
broke in the street door and going to
Mrs. Woehlhueter's room beat her in
sensible, bound and gagged her and
threw her into the cellar. Carpets and
bedding were saturated with oil and
the house fired. Except for the timely
discovery of the flames all trace of the
crime would have been obliterated.
Mrs. Woelhueter's condition was criti-
cal. Police and citizens were search
ing for the villains.
THE bitterest fight of the republican
state convention at Denver, Col, oc-
for state superintendent of public in
struction. Finally Mrs. A. J. Peavy,
OF Denver, was nominated for acclama-
ton after friends of Warren E. Knapp
and Prof. w. A. Habgatt had with
drawn their names.
The $50 men at work on the new
Marquette building at Dearborn and
Adams streets. Chicago, struck on the
18th against eighteen union Edison
company electric workers. The latter
were attacked and forced to flee to
avoid bloodshed. The Building Trades
council had notified the contractor to
discharge the men.
The southwestern Mediterranean
towns of Spain were recently visited
by severe storms. The towns OF Gaia
and Javea have been flooded, many
lives have been lost, a number of houses
have been DESTROYED and several yes
sells in the bay of Gaia have been
wrecked.
WILLIAM APPLICABLE created conSid-
cradle excitement before the Lexow
Investigating committee at New York
on the 18th by his plain statements of
bribery of police officers. He was the
confidential man of Green Goods
King" McNally, and claimed that he
paid 500 to Capt. Price on behalf of
McNally.
FROM noon on September 3 to noon
on September 10, throughout the Ger
man empire, thirty-six new cases of