Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-05-26

house at Enid, Ok, the other night
broke up in riot. The difficulty oc-
CURED between the whites and blacks
and more than so shots were fred
The negroes shot first into crowd of
white men, wounding three men, all
innocent bystanders- Thewhites fired
and fatally wounded four negroes and
several others slightly.
AS the result of a meeting of the
coal mine operators, the state board of
arbitration and United Mine Workers
officials, an agreement was reached
which will settle the long drawn out
struggle at Pana, ILL.,. between the
union miners and operators. The
agreement gives the union recognition
and provides that all negro miners
shall leave the city and only union men
be employed.
RESOLUTIONS petitioning the peace
conference at The Hague to take initial
steps in establishing supreme court
of nations and asking the senate to
ratify an arbitration treaty with Great
Britain were adopted at public meet
ing held at Philadelphia on the 18th
under the auspices of the Evangelical
alliance and the National Reform
league.
THE National Reform Press associa-
ton in convention at Kansas City. Mo-,
Endorsed the report of the national or
ganization committee of the peoples
party and adopted its address denounc-
ing fusion.
AT Long Acres curve three miles be-
low Tamaqua, Pa, a passenger en-
CINE jumped the track and collided
with a coal train. Samuel Grier, en-
gineer of the passenger train, was
killed, and Lot Kershuer, his fireman,
was SO badly hurt that there was little
hope for his recovery. The fireman of
the coal train and several passengers
also suffered severe injuries.
A MISSOURI requisition was honored
for Willism Lowry, alias Ross, con-
fined at Moorhead, Mimi, under in
dictment for completely in the Great
Northern hold-up last October. He
was identified as William Lockridge,
Missouri convict, who escaped while
out on bail pending a supreme court
decision on his appeal. He was con-
victed of bank robbery at Savannah,
Mo-, in February, 1896.
AS result of the recent torn ado
which passed over Delaware county,
Ia, four people were killed and three
others were fatally injured. Every
farmhouse. in the track of the storm
for a width of 40 rods was wrecked.
THE first annual reunion of the So
ciety of Rough Riders will be held at
Las Vegas, n. NJ, June a. Gov.
Free entertainment will be given the
rough riders.
A CABLE from Gen. Otis on the 18th
announced the death of William II
Young, chief of scouts. Young had
been with Lawton's column and his
bravery in the capture of Balinag was
commented on in press dispatches a
short time ago. With Is men he en-
tered the town on the heels of the 500
flying insurgents and rang the church
bell to notify the American forces that
the town was taken.
THOMAS EVANS was driven out of
Worthwhile, Mich, by indignant citi-
zens for misusing his children.
THE business portion of jerome,
Ariz., was wiped out by fire on the 10Th.
THE latest consolidation of business
interests to be announced is that of the
wholesale drug houses. Ninety-one
jobbers in the drug trade, east of the
Rocky noun tains and north of and in
Guiding Memphis and Richmond, whose
invested interests are estimated at
SIT, 600, 600 and whose annual sales ag-
gregate $50, ZOO, 900 have been invited
to join. Seventy-five per cent. of these
favor the project and have promised to
come in.
JAMES CLEMMER was hanged at Nor
ristown, Pa, for the murder of Mrs.
Emma Kaiser, at the instance of her
husband, to get her life insurance
KaiS anrr,r,oittod ioi6 ~,
jail afterwards.
AN electrical storm accompanied by
torrents of rain passed over central
Illinois on the 18th. Fruit trees were
damaged considerably, but no lives
were lost.
A COAL and fuel famine was reported
imminent at Princeton, Ind, on account
of the miners strike, the supply being
nearly exhausted on the 18th. The lit
tie wood was beyond the means of the
poorer classes.
HUMPHREY TAYLOR, a negro, suspect
ed of the RoSenStein murder at Slidell,
Md. shot and killed police sergeant,
wounded another policeman and kept
a posse at bay from the loft of house
for two hours on the 18th. Dozens OF
shots were exchanged and the prisoner
only surrendered when preparations
were made to burn the place.
A COMBINATION of the largest manu-
facturers of lamp chimneys in the
world and controlling absolutely the
output of the United States has been
practically completed, a dispatch from
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th stated.
The combin alton will have an annual
output of 5, 600, 600 dozen lamp chimneys.
AT Brigham City, Utah, Judge Hart
pronounced sentence of death on Abe
Majors, convicted of killing Captain of
Police Brown, of Ogden, on April so.
The prisoner elected to be shot and the
sentence will be carried out July Z.
A RECENT special from Akron, o.,