Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-09-02

WILEY JOHNSON, a negro. was hanged
by an infatuated mob at Mooreville,
Tex, for an attempted assault on a
white woman.
SENATOR JOHN NJ. THURsToN, of Ne
braska, has publicly announced that
he intends to retire from politics and
would not stand for reelection to the
United States senate.
THE G.. A. r. encampment at Buffalo,
n. Y, settled down to business on the
27th by finishing up the election of
officers and hearing reports of com nit
tees A service pension was recon-
mended to all veterans who had
reached the age of 90 years. The COM
mittee on textbooks urged an improve
ment in those that relate to the war of
the rebellion and denounced the his
tories used in southern schools. The
encampment of 1897 then adjourned.
WHITE river above and below Mount
Adams, Ark, for miles was lined with
pearl hunters on the 27th and wagon
loads of campers were reported as ar
| irving there hourly.
THE first national convention of the
American party, a new political organ
| ization, met at St. Louis on the Goth in
| answer to a call issued by Col E. 81.
Sellers. of Detroit, Mich. The plat
form favors the demonstration of gold
and silver and the substitution OF
| treasury notes, the issue of low rate
interest-beariug savings certificates
| for popular investmen MT, the control OF
all pu bile conveniences by the govern
ment, an income tax law, the election
of president and senators by direct
vote of the people. the initiative and
referendum and the adjustment of
trusts and monopolies.
JOSEPH FIFE, a negro youth, convict
ed of attempted assault on Mrs. Marks,
widow, and who subsequently con-
fessed to two other like crimes, was
hanged in the yard of the Jail at Rich
mond, Va, on the Goth.
| THE house of Rev. Elliott w. Brown,
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
church at Dubuque, Ia, was burglar
lied the other day. AS Mr.. Brown and
family were away the burglar had
plenty of leisure. He took a wash in
the bath room and then donned Mr..
Browns best suit, leaving his rags be-
hind. He also had good nights sleep
in the pastors bed.
| A STRANGE disease among the chill
dren of Hackensack, n. j., has thrown
the people of that town into state of
nervous excitement. The sufferers
have an absolute paralysis of the
throat. The physicians do not know
how to handle the trouble.
J THERE were 300 delegates present at
| the American Bar associations conven-
ton at Cleveland, O., on the 25th.
President J. NJ. Woolworth, of Omaha,
Neb., delivered an address, reviewing
1 a l.
the last year in different states.
THE boarding house of the Union
Consolidated mine at Weiland, Cal,
night and Mrs. Craighead, wife of the
proprietor, and two of her grandchi1-
1ren. aged eight and ten years, per-
shed in the flames.
| AN Omaha, Neb.. dispatch on the 25th
stated that all roads were practically
blocked with grain trains moving the
| cereal east and railroad men said the
ines could not move the crop even at
| that rate for three months.
CHINAAdEN were dragged from their
laundries. unceremoniously removed
from the kitchens of private houses
and ferreted out from different places
in st. louis the other day and taken
to the custom house. 1t was the first
raid of the Chinese ever made in ST.
Louis under the Geary exclusion act.
Fourteen not possessed of the requisite
credentials were sent to Jail pending a
preliminary examination before their
deportation to China.
The power house of the Federal Coal
Co., at Federal, Pa, was destroyed by
fire shortly after midnight of the gath.
1t was thought to have been incen-
diary, as the operator had made him
self unpopular since the miners strike
by threatening to import colored men
and start his mines.
AL HAWKINS, the widely-known
sporting man. was killed on the 25th
at Chicago by the collapse of "a folding
bed. He had seated himself on the
edge of the bed, when it unexpectedly
closed and his neck was broken.
ELINoRA ROHDA, aged IL, of Milwau-
kee, was choked to death by peanut
| she'll which lodged in her windpipe.
THE American Window Glass asso
} citation is the outcome of the meeting
held by glass manufacturers at Chica-
go on the gath. There are 1,600 pots in
, the country and the new association
will CON troll 800 of them. The price
of glass will be raised.
The business portion of the town OF
! Ina, ILL.,, was wholly destroyed by fire
ON the night of the Esd.
WHAT looks like systematic plot tc
defraud the soldiers home of funds has
been unearthed and exposed at Wash
: ington. Balances of pension money
, due to deceased inmates are payable
to his legal heirs if claimed within
three years. Otherwise the money
escheats to the home. 1t was noticed
|. that firm of attorneys in Washington
were building up quite business il
pressing such claims. and it was dis