Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-03

finally sold to Croft & Co, Chicago
house wreckers. for ss7, 500 Their re-
moval will begin in few days
MoNTANA's Industrial army was capt
ured by federal soldiers at Forsythe,
Mont, and the leaders placed under
arrest on the charge of grand larceny
in stealing train.
A TREMENDOUS effort is being made
to convince the people of the Lexing-
ton, KY, district that the verdict
against Col Breckenridge in the Pol
lard case was due to the unfair charge
of Judge Bradley to the jury. Thou
sands of circulars asserting that the
charge and verdict were unjust are be-
ing distributed. In Woodford county
the friends OF Breckenridge were so
aroused that big meeting was to be
held at which Judge Bradley was to be
burned in effigy.
ALL efforts for a peaceful settle
ment of the Great Northern Pacific
strike were declared off on the Goth,
and the company and the American
Railway union have begun to test their
strength. The result. when the road
begins to run its trains with new men.
will be war to the knife
SAM VAUGHN was hanged at Fayette-
vile, Ark. on the 27th for the murder
of w. A. Gage.
FAILURES for the week ended April
81 were $50 in the United States,
against 215 last year; in Canada, %
against % last year.
THREE young children of Philip
Schneider, living at Scranton, Pa,
were burned to death during fire
which entirely consumed their home.
DAN CREEDoN, of Australia, defeated
Dick Moore, the American middle
weight, on the 27th at Minneapolis,
Mimi, knocking him out in the ninth
round.
STRIKERS were reported on the 27th
as being in possession of every coke
plant from Connelsville to Fair Chance,
Pa, except Oliver, where another at
tempt was being made to run
FOUR more of the Boyce assassins
were captured and about two miles
from Tallulah, Miss, 200 mounted men
overpowered the officers, took the four
assassins to the place where Boyce was
killed and hanged them.
HENRY NEWMAN & Co., importers of
clothing supplies, at New York, have
made an assignment The firm is the
largest in the trade. and the failure is
said to involve 81, 600, 600.
| The conference between the Amer
lean Railway union officers and Presi-
dent Hill, of the Great Northern, has
fallen through and every union man
on the road has been ordered out.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire has occurred at
Tahlequah, L T., fourteen business
houses being destroyed and thirty
horses cremated. Loss estimated at
$50, 600 to S75, eco; insurance perhaps
S1O,O
SENATOR PETER has introduced a
bill to provide for a collection of the
debts due from the Union Pacific Rail-
road Co. The bill authorizes the sale
of the road and provides that in case
no bid is made equal to the amount of
Indebtedness the government shall
take the property and operate the road.
CROWD of 100 men battered in the
doors of a saloon at Burlington, Ind,
emptied the liquors into the cutters
and burned the furniture
JIM ROBINSON and Benjamin White
were hanged in the Jail yard at Man
assas, Va, for assaults on two white
women.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April 81 showed an average de-
crease as compared with the CORE.
spending week last year of 20. 6; in New
York the decrease was 81. 4; outside,
1876.
The strikes of the miners iron work
ers and others in Russian Poland con
tinue to spread and are accompanied
by great disorders Fatal encounter:
have occurred between the troops an6
strikers at several places.
THE "a, 900 strikers in Vienna will
be joined by 40, 900 men from the build
: ing trades, who have demanded higher
wages. Socialists have combined tt
make a great demonstration on the
Prater on May day. This will be at
tended by the strikers and violence is
l feared.
A MOB of 500 unemployed miners
paraded the streets of Iron Mountain
Mich, on the 27th carrying a red flag
and demanding food or work.