Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-10

EDGAR HARRIS. 1etter-carrier at
Baltimore, Md. shot and killed his l2-
| year-oid son and his youngest daugh-
| ter, wounded his 14-year-old daughter
and then turned the pistol on himself,
| indicting a fatal wound. He fred at
his nine-year-old son, but the little fell
| low escaped Harris was thought to
have been mentally unbalanced by the
recent death of his wife.
THE English Derby for three-year-
| old horses was run at Epson on the I'd,
j. Gubbins' Galtee More being first,
Lord Rosebery's Velasquez second, and
J. S. Harrison's History third.
| THE strike at Jones & Laughlin's
iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa. spread
to all the departments on the I'd The
engineers, polishers and shippers went
out, swelling the number of strikers to
| $500.
LEROY BROWN, Is years old, met his
, death at Peoria. ILL.,, as the result of
removing the insulation from a live
electric light wire. He was in tree
at the time. and after receiving the
shock fell to the ground, his head
striking upon the curbing and being
split open.
AT Philadelphia on the I'd the inter
national commercial congress was
opened by President Mckinley. $50
delegates being present. In the even
ing banquet was given, nearly 1900
persons participating. Mr.. Mckinley
| answered to the toast of 1.-THE Presi-
dent of the United States"
| DURING quarrel at Charles City, Ia,
! between Frank Wiltse and Jerome Dow,
| brothers-in-law, Wiltse threw a stone
at Dow, missing him and instantly kill
NJ L
ming away. The murderer gave him
self up.
THE Turks promised to sign the ex-
tension of the armistice at dawn on
the Sd and it was expected that peace
negotiations would begin promptly at
Constan tinople. King George, it was
understood had yielded several points,
with a view of Fastening the negotia-
tions and of bringing about the Turk
ish evacuation of Thessaly.
Rock ISLAND, ILL.,, was selected as the
permanent headquarters by the order
of Modern Woodmen on the I'd and j.
III. Frat, of Racine, Wis, was elected
head banker. Kansas City was chosen
as the next place of meeting of the
head camp.
SOME time ago J. p. Crocker was
found dead in his front yard at At
lanta, Ga, with bullet hole in his
temple, and the case was passed over
as one of suicide. The administra tor
on the I'd found in the cellar of his
house an iron safe, the locks of which
were rusty with age. Inside was S2O,-
900 in gold, beside valuable papers.
The theory of death now is murder at
the hands Of burglars.
JUDGE SIMoNToN, of the United States
circuit court at Charleston, has filed a
decision restraining South Carolina
from preventing the sale of liquors
brought into the state. This decision
will have the effect of rendering nnga-
tory the state dispensary law. Under
the decision of Judge Simonton, any
person, may import and sell liquor in
original packages. The decision is
based on the interstate commerce law.
DETECTIVES recently searched the
trains leaving Chicago for two or three
days in hopes of capturing George
Taylor, who escaped from Jail at Car
rollton, Mo-, while under sentence of
death for the murder of the Meeks
family. They had received informa-
ton that he had arrived in the city
and was going to leave for Rock Island.
Their search proved unavailing.
A DELEGATION of full-blood Cherokee
Indians, representing $4,000 full
bloods, recently left Tahlequah, 1. T.,
for Washington to protest against
pending changes about to be made by
the Dawes commission which would
do away with tribal government.
WHITECAPs in Lamar county, Ark,
recently whipped two negro women
within an inch of their lives and shot
to death a negro named John Hayden,
whom they mistook for another negro
who had incurred their displeasure.
PRESIDENT WooDMANsEE has issued a
call for the annual convention of the
National Republican league at Detroit,
Mich, for July Is.
The coal miners of the Baldwin, Col. ,
mines resumed work on the 1st. the
differences having been adjusted by
the state board of arbitration.
GEN. DANIEL RUGGLEs died at his
home in fredericksburg, Va. on the
1st, aged 81 years.
LARRY FRALEY, a switchman was in
| stantly killed in the Vandalia yards at
| East ST. Louis, ILL.,, by, switch engine.
| He was coupling train when he slipped
| and was ground almost to pieces by
| the wheels.
THE other night two masked men
| bound Peter Seth, who was in charge
| of the mill at the Providence mine, at
| Nevada, Cal, broke open the safe and
stole large quantity of amalgamate.
| The loss was estimated at $40, 900.
| NOTICE was received at the stock
| yards at Kansas City that the recently
enacted sheep dipping order had been
rescinded and commission men and
shippers were greatly pleased.
| MIR. j. III. WHITE and his wife went
for visit the other night, leaving
| their five children in bed in their farm
house at Welsh, w. Va They returned
| to find the house in ashes and their
/ children burned to death.