Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-05-14

a boat on the lake at Chicago and Mr..
Welsh and Miss Berry were drowned
and the other two were only saved
after an exciting struggle in the water,
The overturning of the boat was due
to the hilarity of Welsh, who persisted
in rocking the craft in fun.
NEAR Eastman's Mills. Ala, Redden
FL Williams a prominent white farm
err, was lynched by a mob of 40 masked
white men for making an assault on
his 16-year-o.d daughter. The man
was being taken back to jail by an OF.
icer, after preliminary hearing. when
the mob took the prisoner from him
and hanged him to tree.
No CARS were run at Milwaukee Oh
the 10th and there was no rioting. The
strikers, nearly 1000 in number, pa
raded the streets in the morning. The
strike was believed to be practically
over, the company having all the meD
it required to operate its cars and re
fusing to treat with the strikers in any
way.
THE steamer Monowai has brought
news to San Francisco of the whole
sale massacre of traders and mission
aries by natives of the islands of Man
ming straits and Solomons The mas
sacre was followed by acts of canni
balism. Many missions have beeD
abandoned as the result of the atroci
ties of the natives
HALF million dollars worth of mill
ing property and lumber went up in
flames at Ashland, Wis, on the 10th.
It is presumed that spark from some
employees pipe started the fire. Three
men were burned in the fire and their
bodies afterward recovered. A fourth
man was also thought to have been
burned.
A SEVERE storm passed over Clark, S.
D.. recently. j. II. Lindland's house,
12 miles south, was taken up by the
wind and carried distance Of so feet
aud destroyed. There were ten per.
sons in the house. and Mrs. Lindland
was killed. while other members Of
the family were more or less injured
Upwards of two inches of rain fell in
three hours
Fl. 81. HOLMES, the murderer recent
ly hanged at Philadelphia, was buried
on the sth in cement, his tom being a
solid wall of rock in the Holy Cross
cemetery.
MRS. RoxBY. of Lexington, Ok,
while filing lamp spilled consider
able oil on the floor and on her
clothes. When she struck a match to
light the lamp, her clothes took fire
and she was burned to death
AT Butte, Mont, $50 miners, COM
prising all the employees of the Rarus
mines, struck because the foreman re-
signed on account of dislike for Time
Keeper Apologize. General Manager
Heinze put new men to work and the
strikers drove them from the mines
with threats of violence A threat was
made to hang the new forman, Glib
bons, and he was forced into a carriage
and driven away. Trouble was feared.
FAILURES for the week ended the sth
were, according to Dun's Review, 23s
in the United States, against 227 last
year, and "a in Canada, against "a last
year. 90
The carpenters of Detroit, Mich, de-
cided to strike on the 18th for an eight
hour day.
At the Methodist general conference
at Cleveland, O., the lay delegates
showed their purpose to curtail the
powers vested in the ministers and
make the conduct of the church more
democratic
JOHN WALDRIP, who, while serving a
term in Coalburg penitentiarv for
larceny, Drained fellow convict, Jas
per Thornton, with a coal pick, waa
hanged in the jail yard at Birming-
ham, Ala, on the sth- Waldrip de-
clined to make any statement while on
the scaffold and died without fear.
The sheriff stole march on the news
papers by having it an hour earlier
than customary, so that nobody was
present but few officials. 3'sis5 t-f-
IN Greenbrier county, w. ". jeal-
Gus butcher quarreled with. his wife
and the son Joined in It ended by
the two. men shooting. each other to
death, the woman being also slightly
wounded. *fn t-@ 90 =
The Indiana repu blican convention
at Indianapolis on the 9Th instructed
its delegates for Mckinley, the ex-
pected tussle between the Harrison
and Mckinley factions not taking
place. Gen. Harrison did not visit the
convention. The platform declared
for sound money, favoring bimetallism
on an international basis and condemn
ing the free and uni limited coinage of
silver at sixteen to one. ~
AT Rome, N. Y. John Watson Hill
dreth, one of the boys who wrecked a
New York Central express train, was
convicted of murder in the second de-
gree and sentenced to life imprisop-