Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-07-08

United Mine Workers of America in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, West vir-
| ginia and Illinois has been ordered for
July by the national executive board,
whose headquarters are IN Columbus.
To-, and also by the district presidents.
A SWEEPING reduction has been made
in the wages of the employees in the
shops of the Santa Fe-Pacife railroad
from Albuquerque, u: NJ to Les
Angeles. Cal. The reductions we're
accepted by the men.
HEAD-END ealHsien occurred on
the Vandalia line ear4S the sther
morning at vandalia. III. wbieh re-
suited in thee death eff two men and
the serious injurlpe af two others
One Of the engineers had naisread his
orders.
JACOB LEVI was crushed By the cars
at Cairo. FL. the ether night He was
an cid nan and made his bed under q
car and it was moved by o switch
engine,
THOMAS J. kENSTx. naasteP-atsarms
of the hattleshin Indiana, was mnf-
dered the other night on the ship as it
lay at It's meerines at the BROOKLYN
navy yard, by Philip Carter. a marine,
who. without "a word of warafag,
plunged hayenet blade un to its hilt
!
ing oand was severely feerimandea.
This led to the murder.
THE fiscal court of T'ranl5ia county,
KY, has purchased the LaeVren &c burg
and Frankfort turnpike for 81, ooe and
1.-The SAG1byville and Frankfort read for
So, 500 and the tellgates have been re-
moved. The sales of the reads were
{ forced by the turnpike raiders. who
have fred and edynanitea many Of the
toll houses and threatened the keepers
| GES. WEYLER expects to tight a great
| pitched battle upon the plains of Cam
Eaguey. Cuba. when he meets Gen. Gar
Ella, the result OF which may be the
| turaiae point in the war.
+ Is q drunken quarrel at Carbonate,
8 Gel, William MeAlvey shot and dan
: gerously wounded I'll. L. McFadaen and
badly injured William Pau1ey. Meal
i vey then deHed arrest and citizens puf-
sued him and he was finally killed
7 Mrs PAULINE WEIFbEIER and her
! daughter committed suicide together
at owensbore, Ky, by taking carbolic
acid. They were ia comfortable cir
| cunstanees.
{ THE Indian governments steamer
I steamer Alden, from Yokohama for
r
was totally lost off the island of So
cotra at the eastern extremity of
Africa, on the morning of June 9. The
Mayo saved nine of the Aden's passen-
gers and three Of the white and 33 of
the natives of the steamers crew, but
3 the rest were lost.
THE state convention of the liberty
I fprehibitien1 party at Lincoln, Neb..
I on the 3gth nominated Mrs Sarah A.
] Wilson. of Lincoln. associate justice of
t the supreme court
/ A P1TTsBURGH, Pa, dispatch said
I that all the union iron mills in Al
4 degheny county, the tin plate plants
and sheet mills, would close and re-
main closed until the wage scales
! were settled.
/ Two women delegates to the Chris
! tan Epdeavor convention were killed
and about 2S others injured in arear-
I end collision on the Chicago & North
western road at West Chicago. An
unknown man was also killed.
| The democrats in state cenven ii on
| at Columbus, O., on the 39th Nominated
4 Rabere L. Chapman for governor. The
| delegates were for John e. Mclean for
| senator.
SCHEAEDHH. the reputed divine
/
Neb., would be his home for an inaefi-
mite period, and that he would heal
the ailments Of 10000 people before he
left. q
A DYNAMITE explosion blew up the
business block of Leon Olchofski and
/ several dwellings at South Scranton,
Pa, on the 29th and the wrecked build
ings took fire. The shock was felt all
over the city and many houses had win
dows blown out and plaster torn from
the walls. Several persons were badly
hurt. The cause of the explosion Gkas
unknown, but Olchofski alleges that it
| was the work of enemies he had made
in certain troubles at the Polish Cath
olic ch,arch.
The house of George Copeland at
Cadillac. Mich, was struck by light
ming on the 3Oth and his wife, his sis
| ter and her little child were killed.
JUDGE THOMAS NJ. COOLEY, the noted
authority on constitutional law, has
become a hopeless invalid at Ann
Arbor, Mich, and his loss of memory
has been followed by deep melancholy.
/ ARTHUR GARDINER, of Chicago. in the
races of the national bicycle meet at
Springfield, Ill, on the Goth broke the
| worlds one mile handicap record, his
time being 2:05 LIS, the worlds previ-
Gus record being 2:05 S-5.
THE National Grain Dealers associa-
ton met i'm annual convention at Des
Moines, Ia, on the 30th. At the night
session FL. B. Hiatt, of Hiattville. Kan,
made remarks on the grain trade in
that state.
THE New York. journal and Adver-
tiser announced that John L. Sullivan
recently got on drunk and that Null
doom, his trainer. was very much dis
gusted and put out over it. Sullivan
contended, however, that he would be
in good shape to meet Fitzsimmons on