Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-03-28

SECRETARY SMITH has decided the
case of ]. B. Otter and others against
Daniel f. Stiles, involving the town
site of Hartman, Ok. The decision
was in favor of Stiles, and under it
300 or 400 occupants of the site will
have to obtain their title from him.
A CABINET meeting was held at Wash
ington on the 23d, only Secretary Car
Isle being absent. The various COM
plications into which the United States
had become involved were considered.
The session was uneventful.
GENERAL NEWS.
AT Hartshorne, Ok, two miners.
named Lee Bailey and Steve Ellsworth,
were working in the same room of the
Indianola coal mine. Each fred a
blast; one shot went off, but the other
failed. The men disputed as to which
fuse failed to ignite. and Bailey went
to his. Just as he got there the blast
exploded, blowing Bailey's head off,
fatally injuring Ellsworth and serious
1y wounding two miners.
DAN CREEDoN, middleweight of ST.
Louis, has been matched to fight with
Henry Baker, heavyweight of Chicago.
The fight will come off April 1. in Chi
cago.
EVER since non-union men were
brought to Tarentum, Pa, to take the
place of the strikers at G. L. Flaccus'
glass works numerous fights have taken
place, and have eliminated in the
murder OF Mr.. Sutton, a non-union
man, who, in company with three COM
panions, was met by a mob armed with
fence rails and revo1vers. Sutton was
beaten into insensibility and died from
the effects
Ii HUNG CHANG. the Chinese peace
envoy. was fred at by a young Japan
csc at Shimonosekiand slightly wound
ed. The would-be murderer was ar
rested.
ADvICEs state that committees are
Eaising funds for the Cuban insurgents
In all the state capitals in Mexico.
FAILURES for the week ended March
% Oun's report) were 27s in the United
States against PA last year.
AMID scenes of wild disorder the
eighteenth session of the Arizona ter
ritoria1 assembly came to an abrupt
termination at o'clock on the morn
ing of the 22d. The general appropri-
alton bill was taken up and every
scheme to delay its passage was re-
sorted to. A vote was prevented until
after midnight, when the session
lapsed through limitation. Nearly all
territorial officers and institutions are
thus left without funds for the coming
two years. An extra session can be
called only by congress at its next ses-
sion.
FIRE broke out in the yards of the
International Cotton Press Co. at New
Orleans on the 21st and was not extin-
guished until it had destroyed between
$1,000 and 10000 bales of cotton. The
loss will probably exceed $3.50, 900, all
covered by insurance.
GREAT excitement was caused in the
United States court on the 21st at
Guthrie, O.. when decision was rem
dered enjoining the Choctaw, Okla
hOma & Guthrie railroad from build
ing through the Kickapoo reservation.
This I'M JUNCTION prohibits the road en-
tering the reservation, which contains
GOO, 900 acres, and is the most valuable
in Oklahoma, until Secretary Smith
gives his consent.
THE diamond cutters from Holland,
for whom the immigration authorities
had been on the lookout, arrived at
New York on the 21st on the steamship
Majestic. There were 1875 of them.
They were sent to Ellis island. sus-
pected of being contract laborers, and
if that can be proved they will be sent
back in accordance with the decision
of Secretary Carlisle that diamond cut
ting was not a new industry, and that
those coming under contract were to
be treated as any other contract labor
RrS.
JOSEPH JACKSON, prominent politi-
clan and ex-member of the legislature
of Indiana, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head with a
revolver. Dependency over defeat at
the last election was the cause as
signed.
Two deaths resulted from a fire in
the four-story house, los West Twenty
fifth street, New York. John Kurtz
was burned to death and Tony
Ketchum jumped from the third story
window, receiving injuries from which
ne died soon after.