Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-30

n. K. TO pittsburgh, Pa, was won Dy
George E. Williams in the remarkable
time of 20 hours and 81 minutes.
PRESIDENT DEBs, of the American
Railway union, was before the strike
commission again on the 25th at Chi
cago. In reply to question he said he
did not believe compulsory arbitration
would prove universally satisfactory in
the settlement of labor troubles Sam
ue1 Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, scored President
Cleveland for not noticing telegram
sent to him asking his aid in the settle
ment of the strike. Mr.. Gompers
thought strikes did good in calling at
tention to the fact that laboring men
would not be driven further down into
poverty. He also said that he did not
expect the strike commission would ac-
complish much good. Tt was too much
like an inquest over corpse.
A REPUBLICAN who was active in
Kolbs interest during the recent cam
pa1gn in Alabama is authority for the
statement the Kolbites will meet in
November, when the regular legisla-
ture meets, convene a legislature of
their own, elect United States sena-
tor to succeed Morgan, who will, it is
They will then let their senator con-
test with Morgan, who will be re-
elected by the regular legislature, for
the latter's seat. The Kolbites figure
the republicans will be in the majority
in the United States senate next year,
and hope thereby to have their man
seated. This will, it is thought, be the
extent of the dual government of the
Kolbites, as they cannot hope to pre-
vent Oates from being governor.
Two masked men held up freight
train at Deerfeld, Ill, and shot and
robbed a detective in the cabooSe, and
a few hours later, while being chased,
shot a policeman at Mayfair. They
were finally surrounded and captured
in the woods, after i six hours chase,
and the exchange of fully hundred
shots. Both the deSperadOeS were shot
before being caught by the police. and
then the officers had to draw their re-
volvers to save the prisoners from be-
ing lynched by the excited crowd who
had joined in the chase.
A MEETING of about forty Pullman
mechanics was held to consider the
project of moving in a body to Kansas,
where it was claimed work had been
offered them. 1t was stated at the
meeting the men believed they would
be given employment in car works to
be built especially for them by a CAPT
talist at Hiawatha, Kan. The leaders
announced to the men the only step
necessary for ex-employes of the Pull
man company wanting work was to
secure recommendation from the fore
men of their respective departments.
A SPECIAL from PetOskey, Mich, on
the Goth stated that Wetzel1 village, on
the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad,
burned at a loss of $50 900. The big
woodenware mandatory was in ruins.
A FRIGHTFUL boiler explosion took
place at Frankfort, Ind, in which two
men were killed outright and six in
jured, the majority of them seriously.
JOHN EGAN, strike manager of the
General Managers association, APP
peared before the federal strike com
mission at Chicago on the oath. He
was asked if it was the policy of the
railroads to settle strikes by force and
he replied in this case it was. He de-
MED in an angry manner that he used
and employed railroad men to burn
and destroy railroad property during
the strike. Superin tendent of Police
Brennan gave an account OF how the
police handled the disorder growing
out of the strike. Several other wit
nesses gave unimportant evidence.
WKII.E a number of tourists were
viewing the Black Sand basin. which
is a portion of'the Upper Geyser basin,
in the Yellowstone park, they were
startled by rum bling noise and new
geyser broke forth within so feet of
them, the water being thrown over a
radius of 200 feet square.
THE American consul at Shanghai
has ordered the Japanese living in that
city to discard the Chinese costumes,
and advised a majority of them to re-
turn to their native country.
GEN. ANTONIO EZETA and his fellow
Sa1vadorean refugees were made pris-
oners by authority of the United States
district court at San Francisco on the
23d
THE American Bar association, of
which Judge Cooley, of Ann Arbor,
Mich, is president, began it's seven
teenth annual meeting at Saratoga, N.
Y, on the 22d.
FAILURES for the week ended August
"a (Dun's report) were 234 in the United
States. against 410 last year; in Canada
90. against 20 last year.
at New York has issued the prize list
for the annual exhibition, which this
year takes place on November d3 to II,
at Madison Square garden. The CLASH
fcation is most complete, there being