Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-11

mere that the operators at Gar Don Hill
are planning to import Chinese labor
ers to take the place of the strikers in
the mines. The company will build
stockade to inclose both houses and
j shaft. As soon as the company can
get ready to receive them 600 China
men will be shipped, and if this ex-
pertinent proves success other oper-
ators will follow 1t.
| THE Georgia senate on the 5th de-
feated a measure which, if passed,
would have had the effect of making
Georgia a prohibition stute.
| THE official count of the ballots cast
| in the election in Maryland leaves no
room to doubt that the repu blic;.ns
will control both branches of the legis-
lature and that repu b1ican will sue
coed Arthur p. German in the United
States senate.
| AT Golden. Ill, James Saddler, a
boy partly deranged, attempted to
| shoot his mother, but the breech pin
| Of the gun blew out and struck him in
the forehead, inf1icting fatal wound.
JAMES BOSWELL fatally shot Mrs.
Smith and James Barton and then
blew his own brains out at East Dali
las, Tex. Jealousy was the cause.
The agreement entered into between
the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Dawes
commissions at Atoka last April has
been ratified by the Choctaw council
at Tushkahoma, L. T., and approved
by the governor. A bill was passed
creating a commission of six members
to wind up the affairs of the Choctaw
nation.
EDWARD HAMILTON at Worcester,
Mass, shot and killed his wife and
young daughter, wounded his infant
son and then fatally shot himself. He
had been suffering from neuralgia and
had practically lived on opiates for
many weeks and was supposed to have
gone insane.
A MAN rang the door-bell at the resi-
dence of Thomas Hoebler, contractor
at VanceburF, KY, the other night
and when Mr.. Hoebler came to the
door the man broke a bottle of vitriol
over Mr.. Hoebler's head, terribly cut
ting him and burning his eyes out.
The villain escaped.
Two car loads of Missouri mules left
Kansas City on the Sd for Johannes
burg, South Africa.
AS the Buffalo, New York and Bos-
ton limited express on the Wabash
railroad left Litchfeld. Ill, the other
night two men without masks boarded
the chair car and at the muzzles of
cooked revolvers demanded that the
passengers give up their valuables.
The robbers got between $40 and $50
and a gold watch and then escaped.
WHILE Mrs. John Henry, a wealthy
woman was alone in her home in
Clifton, O., the other morning, Lind
say Neighbert, gardener whom she
had recently discharged, entered the
room and began firing. Neigh bert
then fed to the woods, where later he
was found dead with a bullet through
his head.
PINCoNNING, Mich, was visited by a
destructive fire on the I'd. Buildings
on both sides of q street for three
blocks were wiped out Loss, $50. 900.
THE Seventh-Dsy Adventists of Bat
tie Creek, Mich, were said to be ex-
cited over the prophesied coming of
Christ. They have received q special
communication from Mrs. White, the
prophecies" and they are commanded
to go out into the highways and
hedges and give the last call to sup
per-"
The Cook County Business Mems as
ISOLATION was organized at Chicago ON
the Sd. They are banded together not
| only to fight department stores, but to
resist unequal taxation, suppress child
labor and cooperate with trades
unions for the betterment of wage
earners
WHILE 65 men were on a scaffold
| working on the Wabash building at
St Louis, which was recently de-
stroyed by fire, a section gave way and
| carried down eight men into the mass
of debris. Two men were fatally in
| jured and four others seriously hurt
JAMES 81. JORDAN, postmaster Of Dem
yer, Col. died from the effects of an
overdose of morphine pills, which he
had taken, supposing them to be ca
! thartic pills.
THERs recently arrived at Seattle,
Wash, over the Northern Pacific rail-
way 2so dogs, which are to be used in
hauling provisions int the Yukon rold
fields.
DURING row at Guthrie, Ok, over q
game of craps, involving SO cents, Bob
Howard shot and killed Tom Capers
and fatally wounded Burt Henderson.
All were eolored.
NEAR Perry. Ok, George and Jack
son Eleue, two brothers, fought with
knives. over 9 girl with whoa both
were in love. Both will probably die
| IRON the injuries received.
JOHN DAvIa, colored, was taken TO
Cincipnati on the Sd from Brown coun-
ty, O., to escape lynching. His crime
was shooting and fatally woundinE
Judge John Al. Markley, of Brown
county common pleas court. in George
| town.
AN seronaut employed in 9 winter
circus at Chicago drifted far out over
| the lake on the Sd and v,sa .,o~o..d
to have been drowned, as the life
saving crew was unable to find any
| trace of him.
The three-story wooden block occu-
pied by the Central hotel at Marlboro.
| Ind, and a block adjoining were conn