Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-26
AT st. Louis on the Goth No. red
wheat sold for 81 a bushel.

| who shot and Killed Premier CanOyaS
del Castillo at the baths Of Santa
Agueda, Spain, August s, was put to
death by the garrote on the Goth.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN win run as an in
| dependent candidate for mayor of Bos-
ton in the fall, with the avowed inten-
ton, if not elected. of defeating Mayor
Josiah Quincy, who will be the regular
democratic candidate for reelection.
| The body of a man on whose coat
was a tag on which was the name &c.
w. Kirton, Wisner, Neb..' has been
| found near the summit of Pixies peak,
Col, with a bullet hole in the back of
his head. ALI his valuables were gone
aud it was thought he was murdered
for his money.
A CALL has been issued by the ma
ton executive board of the United
! Mine Workers for conference of the
representatives of organized labor to
meet in ST. Louis on August 80. At the
| meeting all labor organizations will be
asked to join issues with the miners
and stop work. so as to effectively cut
off the supply of coal and bring the
mining strike to a crisis.
| THE coal operators, at a meeting
held at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the goth,
| issued a statement to the public in
| ford, of the miners union, of trying
to dodge the issue and of being insin-
cere in his efforts to settle the miners
strike.
AN unknown tramp entered the
house of Mrs. Pauline Fenske, wife of
German farmer in Schiller park, a
suburb of Chicago, and seeing only her
and the children round, struck her
over the head with a revolver and at
tempted to assault her. The children
ran screaming out of the house and
gave an alarm and a posse, with Mr..
| Fenske, chased the rascal through the
cornfelds and woods, both sides ex-
changing shots. Finally the man fell
and his pursuers then literally riddled
him with bullets.
IT was positively announced that
Mrs. Margaret Ferris, widow of the
builder of the Chicago wheel, had
been married at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 18th to Francis Schlatter, the ''di-
vine healer of Canton, o.
AT the second days session of the
American bankers convention at De-
troit Mich, the principal address was
made by Comptroller of the Currency
Eckels. He declared that in the end
we would be possessed of a banking
and currency system so strong as to
make impregnable the country's credit,
but its coming might be attained at
terrible loss to capital and injury to
| labor.
II was said on the 10Th that the Off
GERS of the United Mine Workers pro-
posed to call conference of all feder-
ated unions to secure their co-opera-
ton in plan to tie up traffic on rail
roads, SO that the supply of coal would
be cut off and the operators be forced
| to negotiate for a settlement of the
coal strike.
POLICE raided the pool rooms at st.
| Louis on the 18th and arrested about
coo men and boys.
THE republicans of Iowa nominated
L. Nj. Shaw. of Crawford county, for
governor at the state convention at
Cedar Rapids on the 18th. J. C. MILL
man, of Harrison county, was selected
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Judge Water
man, of Sioux county, for supreme
| judge; c. L. Davidson, of Sioux county,
for railroad comptroller, and HI. Ii.
| Barrett for superintendent of instruc-
ton.
THE Utica mine at Angels camp, the
largest gold-producing property in
| California, was on fire on the 18th, sup
| posed to be from spontaneous combus-
ton. 1t produced $500, 900 worth of
| gold a month.
| AT Chad's gap, near Pineville, KY,
James Felt, Caleb Hatfield and Joe
Ma1ard camped out all night, drink
ing and playing cards. Before morn
| ing Hatfield and Mallard had won all
of'Felt's money. When they arose to
cross the mountains Mallard threw
some liquor in Felt's face when he
drew his pistol and killed both NAL
| lard and Hatfield.
MISS MARY SHERIDAN, of Louisville
KY, has been officially informed of the
death of the supreme president of the
| Catholic Knights of America, John Nc
Golf. Miss Sheridan was vice president
of the order and now assumes the duty
of supreme president.
The American Bankers association
convened at Detroit, Mich, on the
nth. Gov. Pingree made a brief speech
and suggested that to increase the
worlds coined gold a tax might be put
on manufactured gold in the shape of
jewelry. etc President Lowry after
| wards gave his annual address.
NEAR Barton, Ark, negro made an
assault on a colored woman, and after
wards on a colored girl. AS soon as the
news was known a posse got after him,
overlook him and, on his refusal to
surrender, another negro shot and
killed him. The negro who did the
shooting surrendered to a magistrate,
| was examined and acquitted.
SIX hundred striking miners, eight
abreast, marched into Coffeen, Ill, on
the nth, despite the amazed deputies
The guards were ordered not to shoot,
but they began to make arrests as fast
as possible. The invasion was for the
of ind no 0rlr
in the mines there to join the strikers.
| ARoITT zoo bicycle riders who took a