Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-20

FRED HoELMAN was hanged at Pax
ton. ILL.,, on the 14th for the murder of
Mrs. Weiblke Geddes.
! THE westbound Southern Pacific pas
senger train was held up by masked
men $50 miles west of San Antonio
Tex, on the 18th and the two safes in
the express car were dynamited and
the contents secured. The amount Sc
cured was thought to be about $4,000
The express car was badly wrecked.
THREE negroes, who had been con-
fined in the Jail at Rosebud, Tex. on
charge of attempting to assault a white
girl, were taken from the officers of
the law, who were taking the negroes
to another place for, safety. and hanged
to a tree by d mob of ], 600 masked men.
BRADsTREET's agency reported 251
business failures throughout the United
States for the week ended the 14th,
against 265 in the corresponding week
a year ago.
A PITTSBURGH, Pa, dispatch Of the
18th stated that manufacturers of wire
nails, wire and rods were about to
form a grand combination to control
the market for all three products.
The policy outlined will only include
a moderate advance in price of each
product. If the new combination is a
go, it will practically drive out all
competition in the manufacture of
wire nails.
THEODORE DURRANT, under death
sentence for the Emanuel Baptist
church murders. through his attorneys,
asked Gov. Budd on the 18th to pardon
him on the ground that the real MUIR
derer of Blanche Lamont had at last
confessed his crime. John Rosenberg,
a convict in San Quentin prison, has
| made sworn confession that he killed
Blanche Lamont at San Francisco at
the instigation of stranger and in
consideration Of the payment of $7O0
| for his work.
THE new tipple or ore dump at the
| mines at Pinckney. Tenn, so feet high.
| fell and killed ten white men and boys
outright and seriously wounded sew
eral others. The dump was a new one
| and had been tested.
| AN Omaha dispatch stated that the
Nebraska grand lodge Ancient Order of
United Workmen has exonerated SUI
preme Master Workman Tate from
| charges of malfeasance in office, pre-
ferred by his local lodge.
| A sAwMILL boiler exploded on Reels
river near Tiptonville, KY, killing Ed
| Patterson and Dink Hodges, white, and
| two colored men, whose names could
| not be learned. Three other men will
die.
| A NoRTHBoUND cattle train jumped
the track mile north of Eufaula, /.
T., on the 18th, the engine turning bot
tom up and ten cars of cattle being de-
rallied. Four men were injured and a
colored boy killed. There were prob
ably so head of cattle killed and others
so badly hurt that they had to be
| killed.
| THERE was perfect fusion of the sill
yer forces of Iowa at the meeting at
| Des Moines of the democratic, populist
and silver republican committees and
June 2 was chosen as the date for hold
ing three separate conventions to nomi-
nate full state ticket.
A REPORT reached Guthrie, Ok, from
Lincoln county that two travelling men
attempted to ford the Deep Fork river
| and were carried down in the swollen
| current and drowned.
RICHARD COKE, ex-United States sem
ator, died at Waco, Tex, on the 18th.
A DISPATCH from Auxerre, France,
| the center of the wine-growing district,
SAYS a general frost on the 18th de-
stroyed crops and vines, fruits and veg
etables to the amount of 81, 900, 900.
| The inhabitants were in CONSERVATION.
ELMER CLAwsoN was hanged in the
| county jail at Somerville, n. j., on the
18th for the murder of Harry Hodgett,
a farmer. The victim was shot be-
cause he refused to re-employ Clawson,
which caused a quarrel.
AT daybreak on the 18th the bodies
of Mollie Smith and Amanda franks,
two negro girls, were found hanging
on trees on the side of the road lead
ing from jeff, Ala, to Huntsville,
Tenn. They had been lynched during
the night. The girls were suspected
| of poisoning the family of Joseph
O'Kelly at jeff. Amanda Franks is
said to have made a confession.
SAN FRANCISCO had a run of fires on
the night of the 18th. The tannery of
Patrick & Co., was destroyed, entail
ing a loss of over $500, 200, with insur-
ance of 1865, 900. Almost Simultaneous
ly five tenement houses were burned
and the inmates barely escaped with
their lives. Another blaze destroyed
four cottages and grocery store was
wrecked by an explosion of gas.
i THE steamship Tentonic arrived at
New York on the 18th with another
batch of young women from Ireland.
Mr.. BOoTH-TUCKER, commander of
the Salvation army, was indicted by
the grand jury at New York on the
18th for maintaining a nuisance and
disturbing the peace at the barracks
of the army on West Fourteenth street.
The offense is a misdemeanor, punish
able with fine or Imprisonment CT
both.
THE tea importers at New York have
not waited for the passage of the tariff
bill, with its proposed duty of ten
cents a pound upon, that commodity,