Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-17

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people had to walk in a pouring rain
| The conductors and motormen went
| IN a strike for regular hours and pay for
| overtime. They had heretofore been
working from X to 16 hours a day.
| The public sympathized with the men.
| A CLEVELAND. o., paper on the 18th
| said that it could state on good author
| ,ty that a pig iron trust was practical
| ~ assured, the chief promoters being
| M. A. Hanna, of Cleveland, and the
Carnegie company. of Pittsburgh, Pa
It will include all the furnaces in Ma
| noning. Shenango, northern Ohio and
| the Pittsburgh districts
SECRETARY LONG has appointed a
board which will visit the cities of Sa-
| vannah, Charleston, New Orleans, Gal
weston, ST. Louis and Cleveland in
search of desirable men for the navy.
| The board has been given authority to
| enlist 1900 men. The secretary an
nounced that probably before they had
enlisted that number they would be
given authority to enlist more.
| In the scheduled 2O-round contest at
| San Francisco on the 18th between
Tom Sharkey, the sailor pugilist, and
Joe Choynski, Sharkey gave disgrace
| full exhi bition of foul fighting and at
the eighth round, the referee, at the
suggestion of the police, declared the
| fight a draw. Choynski clearly out
pointed Sharl1ey in every round and
was only vvorsted by Sharkey's wres-
| ting tactics.
THE business failures in the United
| States for the week ended the 18th
mum bered PAT, according to Brad
streets commercial report. against 227
| in the corresponding week of last year.
! THE trustees of the High Street
Methodist church at Muncie. Ind,
unanimously adopted resolution re-
questing all women to remove their
hats during service.
| FIRE which started from an over
| turned pot of molten Stag entirely de-
stroyed the plant of the smelter at
| Deadwood, S. D., on the 10th. There
| was little fire protection and the build
| ing burned without interruption. The
| loss was put at $3.50, 600, with insurance
of 500, 900. Four hundred men were
thrown out of work.
| A RECENT dispatch from Omaha,
| Neb., stated that a maximum age
limit had been fixed by the new Union
Pacific management. Sixty years is
the limit of employment in the me-
chanical department. Not only are all
persons over that age in the shops be-
1 ing discharged but none will be en-
| p1oyed in the future who are near that
| period of life.
| AN organization to be known as the
Federation of American Railway En-
| ployes was perfected on the 10th at
Chicago 1t is intended to take the
| place of the A. r. L.
THREE small children of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Conner, living at 1920
Clarence avenue, st. Louis, We're
burned to death on the 9th. They had
been left alone by the parents, who
were attending funeral. and it was
thought that the fire that burned
them was caused by an explosion of
| kerosene.
| THREE members of the Robbers
| Roost'' band of outlaws who recently
murdered boy named William Strang
and a Wyoming stockman named VAL
| entine Hoy, were captured in the
| Henry mountains, near Cheyenne,
Wyo.. by a posse of Hoy's friends and
lynched. They were Louis P. Johnson.
j. Bemret and one unknown.
News came from Melbourne. Aus
tralia. on the Sth of terrible suffering
in that place from the heat of the sun.
| Streams were dried up and men,
women and children gasped for
breath. In the country miles of farms
|
started, which blotted out whole
townships
The recruiting officer of the United
States army located in Chicago recent
| ly received telegram from the adju-
| tant general at Washin gtOn to enlist all
desirable applicants fitted for artil-
| lery, heavy and light, and send them
to Fort Sheridan. Within few hours
| after the tele gram had been posted on
the bulletin board over 500 men ap-
| piled for enlistment.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the
Chicago board of trade favoring ma
tiona1 legislation to prevent any de-
ception in cereals, and demandin~ that
all packages containing mixed cereal
products should be branded and
| marked such.
MAJ. JOHN n. BURKE, the noted scout
and former partner of Buffalo Bill,
| recently left Tampa, Neb., for Key
West with 20 picked Cubans- The ex-
act mission of the party was unknown,
but it was believed the men would
| leave an island near Key West for
| Cuba and attempt some important
work which only veterans could be
| trusted to do.
Two papers containing important
contri butions to the gold-bearing re-
gions of Alaska have just been issued
| from the government printing office
OF each of these papers the geological
survey has about 1,200 copies for gen
eral distri button.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, schoo1-children are
to pioneer monument movement for
the sailors of the Maine who are
buried in Havana Pennies are to be
contributed by every school and in this
wav sufficient funds are to be collected