Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-04-18

AT Cleveland, O., John Sejhar, a Boz
hemian laborer. shot and instantly
killed Carl Richter and fatally wound
ed Albert Richter, the brother of the
first victim. Two hours later the muir
der was found dead in a cell at the
police station, where he had been
taken.
PRoF. JAMES DWIGHT DANA. author
and scientist of Yale university, died
at New Haven, Conn.,, on the 14th,
aged So.
MRS. WILLIAM BALDWIN, wife of the
foreman of the Choctaw company coal
shaft at Hartshorne, /. T., committed
suicide by the use of strychnine. She
had also administered the drug to her
child, girl of Z years. Mrs. Baldwin
died and the child's life was de-
SPARED Of
In Wilkesbarre, Pa, the oil plant of
the Atlantic Refining Co. was totally
destroyed by fire. Shortly after the
fire broke out one of the large tanks,
containing 1000 gallons of oil, ex-
ploded, but fortunately no one was in
jured. The loss will reach fully $780,
900. The origin of the fire was I'M
known.
ANEW national organization of street
runway mas OSOh 1OTASO III
Cleveland, o., to take the place of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees which, it was
claimed, was practically dead. The
new society will be known as the Ma
tional Street Railway Employees
league. Organizers were to start out
at once and visit all the principal
cities. The resolutions adopted by the
new association said that municipal
ownership of street railways was the
only means whereby the objects sought
could be obtained.
7. T. HUTCHINsoN's big brick four
story wholesale hardware building at
Wheeling, w. Va, collapsed on the
9th, carrying with it w. II. Chapman &
Sons and A. l.. Rice & Co.'S building
on either side. Seven persons in the
Hutchinson building were killed and
Catholic clergyman who was going
up the alley at the side of the building
at the time, was also buried in the
ruins. The buildings adjoining caught
fire, but the fire was Subdued. The
cause of the accident was the defective
construction of the Hutchinson build
ing. The loss will reach $4,000
THE failures for the week ended
April IL (Dun's report were 207 in the
United States against 21s last year,
and 27 in Canada against IA last year.
AT Gainesville, Fla, Grant Griffin,
colored, who murdered William Tibbs,
a negro gam bier, at La Crosse, on No
vember 6, was hanged privately in the
county jail.
AT Scranton, Pa, on the 10th the
jury in the case of Anna Dickinson
against DIR. Underwood and others,
after being out seventeen hours, was
discharged, being unable to agree.
The majority of the jurors, it was said,
favored verdict for the plaintiff.
Miss Dickinson sued to recover $50
600 damages for being incarcerated
five weeks in the Danville asylum in
1891
AT Susquehanna, Pa, the iron bridge
was washed away on the 10th through
the river being so high.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
CHAIRMAN HARVEY, of the Bimetallic
league, has published at Chicago let
ter to Mr.. Cleveland in reply to the
presidents recent letter on the money
question. Mr.. Harvey says Mr.. Cleve-
lands letter does not present the true
merits of the controversy and holds
that the shrinkage in values has led to
a. idi &c sOluIuS O1 OSOGI dLAh Ci1ciC d NCOI
fos $1,000 that 1000 bushels of wheat
would have paid ten years ago now re-
lquires the farmer to give up 1000 bush
els to pay the same debt.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
from Shanghai said that Lii Hung
Changes son-in-law telegraphed that a
peace convention was signed at Shi-
monoseki on the 18th by the plenipo-
Itentiaries of China and Japan.
THE Paris Figaro gave currency to a
rumor that DR.. Nansen. the Arctic ex-
plorer, had found the North pole, and
that it was situated on a chain of
mountains. 1t was also said that he
had planted there the Norwegian haG.
The story was regarded as without
foundation.
DELEGATES from the national board
of trade met at Washington to discuss
improvements in the methods of gath
Iering government crop reports, sta
tistics, etc. The meeting was called to
order by A. c. Raymond, of Detroit.
AN incendiary fire was started in the
livery barn of j. w. Watson, at Table
quah, 1. t.. on the 18th, and before the
flames could be checked two whole
blocks, including eighteen business
houses, four dwellings and about if
teen offices were destroyed. The total
loss was estimated at 100000, covered
by perhaps 10 per cent insurance.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg stat
ed that the Novosti declared that the
minister of finance intended to prepare