Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-06-21


living Just over the Kentucky line. %
miles from GAINESVILLE, Tenn, has been
poisoned by drinking water from their
we'll in which, in some mysterious man
ner, poison had been placed. 1t was
feared all would die.
CHARLES KENDALL and Dave Smith
met horrible death at Louisville, Ky,
recently. Smith, a colored vault clean
er, had been lowered in a bucket and
was overcome by the noxious gas In
trying TO rescue him Kendall, who was
white. failed to secure the rope about
his body and when overcome was help
less. Both were dead when their
bodies were recovered.
THE deputy city collector of Louis
vile, KY, William P. WEIGH, while
fishing in the reservoir met a tragic
death. He had gone out on bridge
and had on a pair of. rubber boots
reaching to his hips He slipped from
the bridge in the deep water, and the
heavy rubber boots filing with water,
he sunk like rock.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June Is showed an average de-
crease as compared with the CORE
spending week of last year of 1915; in
New York the decrease was 800; out
side, 9.s.
ERAsTUs WIMAN was found guilty of
forgery in the second. degree at New
York.
Two hundred Coxeyites captured a
freight train at Big Springs, Col. They
were oyertaken by deputies and arrest
ed and taken to Omaha, Neb.
DUN's review of trade for the week
ended the 18th said that wooden mills
were closing, having scarcely any or
ders. Wheat was a fraction higher.
At New York boot and shoe shops
were stopped, but shipments from
there are 10 per cent larger for June
thus far than last year.
In Cincinnati the striking carpenters,
by decisive vote, have declared off
the strike which has paralyzed the
building trades here for five weeks
A MOB of 500 strikers stopped train
on the Youngwood branch of the Penn
sylvania road at the point of guns and
forced the engineer to take the train
back to Stricken mines, the starting
point They then partially destroyed
the Hecla and Youngwood bridge.
after which they attacked a party of
non-union workmen, badly beating
two of them.
1HE ICT JAc week OHOSI un0
Is were 232 in the United States. against
313 last year, and 40 in Canada, against
81 last year.
ABDUL AZIZ has been officially pro-
claimed sultan of Morocco.
AN explosion took place in the
Franziska mine at Karwin, Austria,
causing the deaths of 100 miners. This
was followed by four other explosions
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killed and rescue party of ten men
which decended into one of the pits
also persisted. The ventilator shafts
of several of the pits were destroyed
and the fire spread in all directions.
| The galleries of the mines are still on
fire and it is believed that the major
| ity of the bodies of the victims will be
| consumed.
TEN. boats, containing $50 Montana
Coxeyites, arrived in Bismarck from
Helena, Mont, recently, having trav-
eled by the Missouri river. The city
refused to provide food and the men
threatened tc leave their boats and
make their way over railroads.
IT was reported in Wall street that
the national banks will in the near flu
ture furnish all gold for export. The
last gold furnished by the banks wa:
during the month of April.
A PROVISION of the Indian appropria
ton bill prohibits all Indian children
from attending any school more thar
40 miles from their reservation unit
they have gone to the school provided
for them at home four years. Thi
provision, if it is enacted into law
will have the effect of reducing tn,
number of Indians sent away to east
ern schools and very materially in
creasing their home education.
As THE end of the fiscal year is onl,
few days distant, treasury official
are able to give a fairly accurate es
innate of the net results of the treas
ury's operations for the year. Up t.
the 18th the receipts aggregate 1882,
2O4, 721, and the disbursements 1856, 1877.
337, leaving a deficit for the clever
: and a half months of S74. 992, 6I5.