Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-06-18

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six months the ex-champion of the;
world has been so much under the in
! auence of LIQUOR that his three-round
bout with Paddy Ryan has been little
more than a farce. What he will now
do for living he does not himself
| know, nor do any OF his associates.
Financially, as well as PHYSICALLY, he is
dead broke
AT ten o'clock on the night of the
18th 500 striking quarrymen marched
out of the village of Bergea, near Cleve-
land, O., bound for North Amherst.
The strikers were accompanied by ten
wagons loaded with provisions and
other supplies, and it was their pur-
pose to lay siege to the North Amherst
ouarries and induce the men there to
quit. large force of deputy sheriffs
has been sworn in for duty at North
Amherst.
1T was reported at Canton. O.. that
Congress lake, 90 miles north of that
city, had broken through its banks
and flooded the adjacent territory.
The report said many people were
killed and injured and the towns of
Middlebranch and Oval City swept
away. Details could not be obtained
as telephone and telegraph communi.
cation was cut off. A report over
railroad wire said over 200 people were
killed.
THE attorney of Wisconsin
has brought suit to have the franchise
revoked and a receiver appointed to
wind up the affairs of the National
Manufacturing Co., of hartford, as it
is creating, he alleges, a lum Der trust
extending over Wisconsin,, Minnesota,
Iowa, Missouri Illinois, Ohio and Kan
sas.
A DISPATCH from Bombay stated that
the British warship Bonaventure,
while making passage from Colombia.
Ceylon, to Pondicherry. capital Of the
French settlement in India, lost 20 men
by sunstroke
The boiler of the Michigan salt works
at Marine City, Mich. exploded, kill
ing William Mowbray, night foreman,
and John T. Haley. Peter Booth, a
fireman, and Cyrenius O'Neill were
badly injured. Flames broke out after
the explosion and the property was de-
stroyed. Loss, $4,000
THOMAS WHITE, after brief quarrel
at Chillicothe, o., with Miss Edith Nc
Kelvey, his sweetheart, shot b err fatal.
ly and then killed himself.
A TELEGRAM from New York on the
18th stated that the six leading manu-
facturers of fireworks in the United
States were planning trust to save
themselves from ruin because prices
had gone below cost.
BILL WEST. the notorious Indian ter
ritory murderer who escaped from jail
at Topeka. Kan, while under sentence
of death, was killed at Illinois, Ok,
while resisting arrest.
Az armed mob overpowered the iailer
at Bryan, Tex, and hanged George
Johnson, Louis Whitehead and Jim
Reddick, accused of criminal assault.
The two former confessed, but the lat
ter protested his innocence to the last
A DISPATCH to the London Times
stated that the Turks had invaded
Acrotiri and Kydonia in the island of
Crete and desecrated the churches.
The Turks had also destroyed villages
in the western district and 5000 refs
ugees had fled to the mountains and
were suffering extreme privatlons.
AS soon as it was known that Har-
ward had defeated Princeton at base
ball there was a roar that shook every
window at Cambridge, Mass, and fire..
works and horns made the night hide
Gus. The police finally arrested three
students, when the rest mum boring
about 3, 600. attempted to rescue them,
but the police managed to get their
prisoners to the station house. For an
hour the 3, 900 mad students surrounded
the place. clamoring for the release of
their comrades and refused to disperse
until they had been released on bail,
when they carried them off on their
shoulders.
AN old man named Gastin was found
hanging from joist in his house near
Robertson, L 7. His family claimed
that he committed suicide, but the
neighbors believe he was hanged by
by his son-in-law and daughter. who
had quarreled with him the evening
before.
AS an Illinois Central train pulled
into Webster City, Ia, the other morn
ing policeman saw a man apparently
stealing ride on the blind baggage
car and tried to drive him off when it
was discovered that the man had been
murdered. A tramp, it was thought,
had committed the crime.
ONE hundred and eighty cans of dyna-
mite exploded about mile below Lilly,
Pa, with frightful results. One man
was killed and six others fatally in
Jured. The men were getting ready
to make blast when the explosion oc-
u