Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-10
THE WEST.


Tammany.
THE WEST.
DESPERATE WILSON, one of the gang
of burglars who killed Marshal Will
1iams, was lynched at Missouri Valley,
Ia, by about $50 men, who met at the
| school house at midnight, organized,
went to the Jail and broke in. Wilson
was hanged in the city hall
The Children's home at Temesca,
Cal, was burned to the ground. One
hundred babies and children were
safely removed.
HE Iowa state miners convention
was held at Abba on the I'd. Four
thousand miners were represented.
The delegates stated in advance that a
strike would be ordered. It will affect
5000 men,
OON the Cd a riot occurred at Cleve-
land, o., 6, 900 unemployed workingmen
raided several factories, smashed the
windows and machinery and drove the
workmen away. The mob then raided
a scrap iron yard and armed themselves
and the police charged with drawn
clubs so effectively that the mob soon
scattered The mayor ordered out the
militia ard has issued a proclamation
on the streets
KATIE EARLE. 2:211E, by Earle, died
at the Ketcham farm near Toledo, o.,
on the second. She won more money
in 1898 than any horse on the American
turf, and her owner George 81. Ketcham,
refused $50, 600 for her
AN international conference of the
Y. NJ. c. A. general secretaries of the
United States, Canada and Mexico
convened in Cedar Rapids, Ia, with $50
secretaries present
WILLIAM PENN Nixon, who has been
editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean for
eighteen years, has purchased the con-
trolling interest in that paper from II.
III. Kohlsaat, the price paid being $780,
O00
The miners convention at Abba, Ia,
by vote of IS to SO, ordered strike.
This will take out 9, 600 men.
FIFTEEN hundred Firms struck on the
Meseba range, near Duluth, MINI. Tel
egrams were received from Virginia
that 700 miners were threatening to
loot the stores in that town. At one of
the mines the magazine was broken
open and forty kegs of powder and
dynamite stolen. The sheriff, adjutant-
general and a company of state militia
have gone to the scene.
FIFTY warrants are in the hands of
the United States marshal of Mime
sofa for the arrest of Great Northern
strikers.
THE funeral of Senator Stockbridge
took place at Kalamazoo, Mich, on the
Sd. Beside the congressional commit
tee there We're present Gov. Rich and
the heads of all the state departments
and delegations from Detroit, Grand
Rapids and elsewhere.
BY direction of the assistant secre-
tary of war the few remaining Indians
composing company I, Second infantry,
at Fort Omaha, Neb., and company 1,
Sixteenth infantry, at Fort Douglas,
Utah, have been discharged. thereby
practically wiping out the organiza-
tions and marking another step to-
ward the total abandonment of the
scheme of separate Indian companies
WORD has been received in Denver.
Col, that w. D. Vallandingham and
Tom VIM, miners. were held up in the
La Sol mountains near Montrose and
robbed of gold nuggets valued at $685.
900.
THE jury in the Chief Telegrapher
Ramsey case returned verdict of not
guilty. It was out twenty-five hours
ONE of the largest and richest min
eral bodies ever found in Colorado has
been uncovered in the Golden Fleece
mine at Lake City. 1t is an eight
foot vein of solid tellurium and ruby
silver that will run at least IS, 900 to
the ton.
ILLINOIS prohibitionists, in conven-
ton at Bloomington, nominated DIR.
A. G. Abrigdon for United States SEN
tor.
At the meeting of the Colorado pop
ulist state central committee it was
unanimously agreed that j.. Warner
Mills should receive the nomination for
the governorship and Gov. Waite for
the United States senate and Repre-
sentative Bell to succeed himself.
IN Litchfeld, Ill, all the miners,
about 100 in number. employed by the
Litchfield Mining and Mercantile COM
pany. have gone out on a strike
STRIKING brick-molders in Chicago
threatened to destroy the yards of D..
V. Purington & Co, but were driven
away by officers.
IN Peru, Ill, the City Electric rail-
way has been compelled to shut down.
Owing to the miners strike there is no
coal and not car is moving.