Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-09-09

JOHN d. RocKEFELLER has sent to the
American Baptist Missionary union and
the American Baptist Home Mission
ary society, at Boston, his check for the
balance of the $3.50, 900 promised by
him on condition that the two societies
would raise $780, ZOO.
| PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and party went
TO Columbus, O., on the Sd'as guests OF
the Ohio state board of agriculture.
After luncheon the president went
TO the fair grounds, where he addressed
! the school children from many parts of
| the state, all of whom had been invited
by card.
! On the Sd the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers
agreed to recommend to the striking
| miners a proposition from the Pitts
burgh operators for a straight price of
| s. cents a ton, to continue in force
until the end of the year, and a circu-
Tar has been issued to that effect, call
ing for delegate conven ton of all
miners who have suspended work to
meet at Columbus, O., September s.
This proposition, it was thought, will
end the coal strike.
CALL for a convention of all labor
organizations has been issued to meet
at Chicago on September 81. This was
made in pursuance of the action of the
recent labor conference at st. Louis.
SHERIFF BAGLEY, with the regular
police force and eight sworn deputies,
made a raid on the tramps and over
400 were driven out of Arcola, Ill.
They had caused much annoyance in
plundering gardens and fields of eat
ables.
THE Madison elevator at Madison.
ILL.,, was destroyed by fire the other
night, entailing loss of about 500, 600.
DIsARRANeEMENT of the block signal
system led to freight train running
head on into passenger train stand
ing at Floral park, on the Long Island
railroad, and four passengers were
| badly injured.
WORD was received by Mrs. John
IsBrechtel on the Sd at Tacoma, WASH,
from her husband at Sandon, B. c.,
| that the people were fleeing for their
lives from the town on account OF
cholera.
ROBERT HENRY, colored, was hanged
at Jacksonville, Fla, on the I'd. for the
murder of his wife in February, 1896.
The New York vestibule train on
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
railroad, which left Syracuse, N. Y,
at nine o'clock on the morning of the
I'd, jumped the track at Blodgett's
Mills and plunged through the station
buildings. The locomotive, baggage
car and two coaches went entirely
through the structure. Mrs. j. FL. Nc
Quillan. of Philadelphia, was killed
and II other passengers were more or
less injured. The accident was caused
by broken rail.
THE principal point brought out in
the trial on the Sd of Luetgert, the
Chicago sausage-maker accused of MAX
| ing away with his wife in one of his
watts, was his Indifference at her disap-
pearance and his not having reported
any thing to the police or assisted them
| in any way in clearing up the mystery.
JIMMY MICHAEL broke the American
hour paced record on the I'd at Detroit,
Mich. The broken record was 81 miles,
| LOGO yards and ten inches and was made
by Lesna at Boston. Michael covered
80 miles and ], 900 yards.
| THE surface of the MisSisSinewa
river at Somerset, Ind, was reported
to be covered with dead fish, the stencil
| from which was almost uncomfortable.
| The mortality among the fish was sup
posed to be due to paper mill refuse
dumped into the stream above.
| J. r. CORN was found dead in bed at
Decatur ILL.,, on the I'd. He was almost
| so years old. He was grand master of
the grand lodge of Illinois in 1867 and
1868 and was the Oldest living past
grand master in the Masonic order.
| SMITH KELLUM. a prominent stock
man of Greer county, Ok, was shot
and killed by sheepman who claimed
his range. The latter was shot by
Kellum, but will recover.
HERMAN MACK, who is charged at
New York with the murder of William
Guldensuppe, has made a statement in
which he says that his wife has been
making living for years through IL
legal operations involving the murder
of children. He said that she was q
so-called midwife, but that she never
had diploma.
SETH Low has been nominated fol-
mayor of Greater New York by the
Citizens union.
A GUTHRIE, Ok, dispatch on the Isl
said that the Otoe and Missouri tribes
of Indians had had the Sac and Fox
tribe for their guests for week past
and had just closed a grand green corn
dance, which had been in progress six
days and nights During the progress
of the dance number of braves went
through the tribal divorce ceremony
and divorced themselves of their sur
plus wives in order to comply with the
territorial law, which prohibits then
from having more than one wife.
ROBERT WILSON and u. r. Hall, stock
men living in the western part of Gus
ter county, Ok, quarreled over tn.
boundaries of their ranges. The Ii,
was passed and both drew weapon.
and fired. Wilson was instantly killed
and Hall was placed under arrest.