Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-17

THE blowers and gatherers of the
Anderson Window-Glass Co.'s four fac
tories at Anderson, Ind. struck ON the
10th and it was feared the trouble
would extend throughout the entire
nation and disorganize the Window.
Glass Workers national association.
AN attempt to blow up the residence
of Gov Smith, of the Leavenworth,
Kan, soldiers home, by dynamite was
made soon after four o'clock on the
morning of the 18th. One entire side
of the room in which Mrs. Smith was
sleeping was blown out and her escape
from death was miraculous. Gov.
Smith was uninjured. A dishonorably
discharged veteran has been arrested
for the crime.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and party were
given hearty welcome at Nashville.
Tenn, on the 18th. In the afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinley gave recep-
tion to women in the women's building
at the exposition and in the evening
saw a grand display of fireworks
JAMES M. GoRDY was hanged at
Georgetown, Del, on, the 18th for the
murder of his wife. He protested his
innocence on the scaffold- and scored
| the newspapers numerically. as being
responsible for the people thinking so
i'll of him.
WHILE the canvas men were at work
on the big tent of Ringing Bros cir
Gus at Wahpeton, n. D., the center pole
was struck by lightning and two of
them were killed and four others
shocked.
ANTI-CHRIsTIAN riots have broken
out at Liu Ching, China A Catholic
priests residence was attacked. Three
Christians were killed outright, among
them Rev. Father Mazelie. eight
wounded and four captured.
A MOB of 200 men boarded freight
train at Decatur, Ala, on the 10th to
ride toHuntsvi11e to lynch two negroes
who had assaulted 12-year-old white
girl at Decatur and had been taken to
Huntsville for safety. The conductor.
when ten miles out, sidetracl1ed the
til the mob left and walked back to
Decatur. The mob swore they would
carry out their purpose some time and
militia have been sent to guard the
prisoners.
The jury in the case of John Powell,
the member of the Cleveland baseball
club charged with playing baseball on
Sunday>and exhibiting the same, re-
turned a verdict OF guilty in both
counts. This settles the fate of Sun
day baseball in Cleveland. o.
A CYCLONE struck Lyle, Mimi, on
the 10th and demolished 90 houses,
killed one man and injured 20 others.
All the telegraph lines were struck
| down and box cars on sidings were
! smashed into kindling.
| A wATERsPOUT flooded the country
| around Wray, Col, on the night of the
| 9th, carrying away bridges and drown
| ing stock in the valley. The extent of
damage to growing crops could not be
| estimated, but it was feared that it
| was immense.
WILLIAM ANDREWS, colored, alias
Scuba" was taken from the officer at
| the door of the courthouse at Princess
| Anne, Nd, on the 9th and lynched by a
mob. Andrews had been tried, con-
victed and sentenced to death for felo-
| niously assaulting Mrs. Benjamin l.:
Kelley.
FLORIST and nurserymen from all
/ parts of the country assembled at St.
Louis on the 9th to attend the meeting
of the American Association of Muir
serymen. President Silas Wilson, OF
Atlantic, Ia, read his annual address
| and the reports of officers followed.
A DISPATCH from Kaukauna, Wis, on
the 9th said that the paper mills of the
! Fox river valley will shut down two
| days each week in order to curtail the
output and better the market for their
| product if possible. This movement.
it was reported, will be general
throughout the country.
| MANDY WILLIAMS young woman,
killed,her sweetheart, Dan CASTOR, on
the hills of Mcdowell county, w. Va.
| The victim and his slayer had been
lovers, but fell out, and Miss Williams
sent for CASTOR. When he appeared
she plunged knife into his abdomen.
/ THE Canadian house of commons has
epassed the alien labor bill. The act
| only applies to the United States and
will never be put in force, but may be
a means of getting some satisfactory
arrangement with the United States.
EX-CoNGREssMAN G. w. MURRAY, Oh
South Carolina, addressed large audi
ence at ST. Louis the other night in
the interest of the Negro Protective
association, a society which is being
organized in every state in the union.
A GERMAN, named Count Davier, has
discovered mine Of uranium neal
Deadwood, S. d. The metal is ex
tremely scarce, not being found in any
other part of this continent and in but
one place in Germany.
A JOINT protest by the diplomatic
representatives of the United States a.
London, Berlin, Paris and Brussels
|. aiming at the revocation of the dis
criminatory regulations which these
nations have imposed upon American
cattle and beef, is to be made.
THE young sons of Clarence L. Mel
son, secretary of the Newark On. j.
Gas Co., fought duel in play in theil
home and as result one of the boys il