Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-06-14
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

THE steamer Ocean collided with the
barge Kent near Sister Island light,
Lake Ontario, and both vessels were
sunk.
The tube works at McKeesport, Pa,
were taken possession of by strikers on
the 5th and the non-union workers
driven out, the men fleeing for their
lives, those that were captured being
severely used.
The Ohio Central discontinued freight
service on the 5th from lack of fuel,
and within three days will stop passen-
ger traffic if no coal can be had. The
Lake Shore road has laid off nine
freights in three divisions, and is burn
ing cord wood and old ties.
AT Cripple Creek, Col, on the 5th the
outlook for peace was not SO favorable
as on the day before, the strikers look
ing upon the movement of deputies as
an indication the agreement would not
be adhered to and they were angered
in consequence. A body of strikers be-
gan a march in a heavy snowstorm to
meet the deputies and SOC remained at
Bull hill to meet the expected main at
tack, while other parties went to other
points.
A MOB of strikers attacked the Du-
quesne, Pa, tube works on the 9th and
drove all the men at work out of the
plant, drew all the fires from the fur
naces and ran the hot metal out on the
floors. There were probably 800 men
hurt during the rioting, some Of them
seriously.
THE prospect of settlement of the
miners strike by joint conference COM
mittees meeting at Columbus, O., has
come to naught, so far as the Pitts
burgh, Pa, district is concerned.
PREMIER RosEBERY's colt Ladas won
the English Derby on the 9Th in a can
ter by a length and half in 2:45 As.
The Derby is worth S25, 900 in gold coin
to the winner. 1t is a 3-year-old race
over \ mile course.
THE big rolling mills at Newburg, o.,
have closed down for want of fuel. 1t
is estimated that between 5000 and f.
600 men are idle as a result of the shut
down.
THERE was battle at Titles coal
mine, near Pekin, Ill, on the 9th, be
| tween a sheriff's posse and a gang OF
strikers. Two men were killed ano
| several wounded. 1t was feared thai
a number of miners in the shaft were
suffocated. The sheriff was forced tc
retreat. Pekin was reported wild with
| excitement.
BY an explosion of gasoline in the
| Troy steam laundry at Portland, Ore.
| five Cinnamon were burned to deatl
and four others seriously injured, one
! fatally The building and all its con
tents were burned.
| The Boot and Shoe Workers Inter
national union have voted to hold thu
next convention in Boston. The plat
form adopted by the American Fedora
ton of Labor at it's Chicago convention
| was Endorsed.
The city of Chicago has fled twenty
eight suits against as many railroad
for amounts aggregating more thar
81, 900, 600 for damages resulting from
the construction of yiaducts over vari
Gus streets.
THIRTY thousand miners on the isl
and of Sicily on the 18th We're reported
starving and hopeless of an improve
ment. They were threatening to burr
the crops on the various estates, ant
declare that if they are condemned t.
die of hunger others shall share Shei
fate.
A DISPATCH received from Vienn;
saws that a terrific hailstorm on tn,
QcVdSGdtcQf JI0 J<.Ih OCV
eral people were killed and many in
jured during the storm.
THE United States revenue cutte
Bear was reported on the 18th as bein;
fast on the rocks at the entrance of tn
harbor of Sitka, Alaska, and was bein,
rapidly battered to pieces by thu
waves.
JUDGE WINTERS. of Indianapolis, Ind
has declared another dividend of 10 pc
cent. in Iron Hall affairs
The German national bank, of Der
yer, Col, did not open its doors on tn
eth It was one of the oldest banks i
, the city. AT one time the banks stool
sold for $685. share. The bank wa
closed during the panic last summer
but subsequently reopened on an agre<
) ment with the stockholders
THREE hundred CON
posed of Poles, Bohemians and Aa:
J TRANS, started from Chicago on the =
for Washington The aggregation wa
commanded by Joseph Rybaizowsk
, who claims to be a Russian nobleraaE
The army was escorted from the cit
by detail of police.