Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-03

| FIRE recently destroyed the William
a. Bunge vinegar factory at Chicago,
one of the largest in the west. Loss,
s175, 600
WILLIAM T. POWERS and John Latti-
more, both colored, were hanged in the
| Jail at Chicago on the 2Sth.
The Atlantic express, eastbound, on
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, col
| lided with freight train near Grand
Junction, Col, on the 28th and the en-
gineer and fireman were killed and
several passengers injured.
ALL the journeymen bakers of Fort
Wayne, Ind. struck recently for an in
crease of wages and the use of the
label.
THE secretary of the treasury spoke
at the dinner given to the commercial
clubs of ST. Louis, Chicago and Boston
by the commercial. club of Cincinnati
on the 2Sth. The subject of the dis
course was the tariff and the public
finances and the secretary said upon
the settlement of these two questions
enterprise waited and industry lam
guished, but the future was bright.
An engine and five cars on the Penn
sylvania railroad were derai1ed at
Philadelphia the other night. causing
the death of the engineer and fireman.
NEAR Tecumseh, Ok, John Stibbins
accidentally shot and killed his two
year-old niece. Stibbins had started
out of his dug-out with his gun and
the hammer hit against bed post.
The gun was discharged and six shots
took effect.
THERE was a desperate shooting af-
fray at the little town of Oakman, Ala.
on the 27th. Charles Williams, a ma
chinist. while intoxicated, became
boisterous in Appling Bros store and
was ordered out. He then drew his
revolver and began shooting, in which
the other side joined in. Isaac Appling
and Williams were killed and Andrew
Richards, Montgomery Appling and
William Duncan were probably fatally
wounded.
PRIVATE advices stated that the far
away province of Kweisan, China, was
the scene of an attack upon the Chris
tian missions recently, and that Rev.
Father Mazel, who was in charge of
the chapel at Loli, was murdered. 1t
was feared that other whites were
masSacred.
On the 27th at Webster City. Ia, was
closed the most successful district con-
vention of Christian churches ever held.
The committee on resolutions severely
censured Gov. Drake and the state leg
islature for the part they had taken in
compromising with the saloon element
in passing the manufacturing bill and
making it a law.
A HEAD-END collision between a
freight and passenger train at Ameri-
can Falls, 25 miles west of Pocate1}o,
Ida, caused the death so far as known
of nine men and the serious injury of
eight others. Two of the latter will
die.
Mrs. ELSIE NEUMILLER, of Milwau-
kee, crazed by domestic troubles, gave
her eight-year-old son carbolic acid
and then took dose herself. She is
dead, but the boy may recover, as he
rejected a portion of the dose when it
was given to him.
REPRESENTATIVES, of independent
telephone companies throughout the
central and western states met in Chi
cago recently for the purpose of effect
ing national organization of all the
independent telephone companies in
the United States to combat the Bell
Telephone Co. and to protect the small
er exchanges against any action that
might be taken in the courts by the
Bell company in reference to the recent
Berliner decision by the United States
supreme court.
THERE was a meeting of prominent
grain growers recently at Versailles,
KY, with a view to organizing farm
er's trust, comprising Kentucky, Ten
nessee and Indiana and other states, to
regulate the price of the winter wheat
crop. A convention was to be held at
Louisville, and farmers believed they
could force the millers and get their
own price.
SMELL & BACoN's elevator at Assump.
ton, ILL.,, was burned the other day.
FREDERICK DE LA Tour BOOTH-TUCK-
Err, commander of the Salvation army
in the United States, was convicted Of
| maintaining a disorderly house at the
| big army barracks in West Fourteenth
street at New York on the Goth. Sen
tence was postponed. Complaint was
made by residents of the neigh borhoo6
of the barracks, who alleged that they
were greatly disturbed by the singing
and band playing at the army meet
| ings.
| A LEvEE broke at FL Paso, Tex, or
| the 25th and the waters rushed through
| the streets, flooding the houses O.
hundreds of families. Not less thar
| 100 houses were swept away entirely
| The ringing of the fire bell saved the
lives of many people who were asleeI
and ignorant of their danger.
| WILLIAM T. PITsTICK, a prominen
citizen of Mendoza, Ill, committed su
icide in his store the other day. III,
had been considered an upright man
but it was found that he had been !;
forger and gambler for ten years
WONDERFUL stories were told of
rich gold find made recently by a sane
contractor on the banks of PONY creek
small stream that flows into the Ne
maha river, about$a mile from Fall