Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-08

plOSlOn OF natural gas In 0cQuItAoiS tSu-
merry killed John Schulthels, Peter Klein
and James Hubbard. Schulthels was
burned to death; the others crushed by
falling walls.
SoME time since the rectiders of st.
Louis rebelled against tho manipulation
Of the whisky trust and formed . company
for tho purpose of establishing an indie
pendent distillery there. One hundred
thousand dollars was subscribed and paid
in. Now the project has boon abandoned.
THE braker.sn Of the Santa Fe system OF
Southern California struck on tho LIST, the
grievance being promotion Of now men
over old men. General Manager McCool
was endeavoriug to settle the trouble.
THE military academy at Highland Park,
Ill. was destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
$50, 000.
THE Santa Fe has issued . joint COM
modify tariff to Texas junction points from
Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison and
st. Joseph. The new tariff makes very
few changes, from the old tariff, except
that it does not make . special rate on
whisky in car loads and less than car
loads and on ice.
A TORNADO struck Laporte, Iowa, the
other night, demolishing Union Hall and
other buildings. Loss, $75,O 900.
ROBERT d. FOWLER, the well known
Chicago pork packer, has been held on a
charge Of perjury. He had made contra
dictory statements with reference to the
ownership Of his property in two separate
suits.
A HUNTING party has returned from the
mountains north Of tho Grand river in
Colorado and reported the discovery OF q
wonderful waterfall hitherto unknown.
FRED AEscHLAG, now under sentence Of
death for q double murder near Los An
geles, Cal, has confessed third murder
and implicated George Stenger and Henry
Burder. Stenger has been arrested.
INSPECTOR BoNFIELD, of Chicago, places
little reliance in the story of the arrest of
Tascott in the mountains near Lexington,
Va. He says he has received dozens of
similar dispatches.
ADv1CEs from the Indian Territory are
that considerable excitement has been
created in the Choctaw Nation by the ac-
ton Of Chief B. F. Smallwood in vetoing
the bill passed by both houses of the Choc-
taw Legislature disfranchising persons
convicted of criminal offenses.
The Monticello Seminary at Godfrey,
ILL.,, was destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
$50, 900.
IDA BowMAN won her suit for divorce
against Frank Bowman, the st. Louis
lawyer. The trial came of at Chicago and
turned on the question of common law
marriage. bowman u0O Oc0n EQrOuRQ 3
similar experience before this.
Bo1H stages between Santa Barbara,
Cal, and Los Olives were robbed the other
day. Several mail packages and Wells
Fargo express boxes were broken open,
but nothing was obtained from the boxes.
The passengers on the stage bound to
Santa Barbara were robbed of about $50.
FIVE lives were lost in the recent prairie
fires in Sioux Valley township, near Jack
son, MINI.
THE Santa Ee officials have received no.
tice that the strike on the California South
ern had ended.
TEE SOUTH.
MISS ANNIE OAKLEY, the champion wing
shot, defeated Fred Kell, local marks
man, at Baltimore, Md, the other day in
a pigeon match. Each shot at % birds
Miss Oakley killed q and Kohl Is. 81
JUDGE PARDEE, in the United States
Court ut New Orleans, has granted the
application of bond and stockholders to
restore the Texas & Pacific railroad to the
management of the company and relieve
Governor Brown of the receivership, the
order to take effect at once. IU
DICK ROACH alias r. G.. Raymond, a
noted sporting man of Little Rock, Ark.
pleaded guilty in the United States court
there OF attempting to sell counterfeit
money, ana was fined $500 and sentenced
to ninety days. imprisonment.
L. B. OHINS, special depot officer Of the
Sante Fe railway at Temple, Tex, who
the Missouri Pacific at that place, died
later Holmes is out on 81 900 bonds.
THE federation scheme was discussed at
length by the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers at Richmond, Va, on the 3lst
and finally q cooperative plan was
adopted which expresses friendship for
and sympathy with and where practicable
provides for assistance to those organize
tions whose duties are closely allied to
their own motherhood.
THERE were ffty-six new cases Of fever
at Jacksonville on the LIST, sixteen white
and forty oo.ored and two deaths-Mrs.
George Wetmore and James Harris
By the burning,of the old wooden Jail at
Greensburg, La, recently, q negro boy
held for theft lost his life.
JENKINS. HUTCHINSON & Co., wholesale
notions and white goods, Baltimore, Md,
have gone into a receivers hands. Their
assets are placed at $685. 600.
The president and the secretary Of the
Georgia Board Of Health positively deny
that there has been any yellow fever in
any portion of Georgia.
A COW derailed;a train on the Louisville.
New Orleans & Texas railroad recently
near Vicksburk, Miss. Two train men and
tramp were killed. Two others were
seriously injured.
TFE United States express on the New
Orleans q Northwestern was robbed GA
the d1 fifty miles from New Orleans. The
work was done 6y,One man, who boarded
the Car. and after antimidating two men in
charge took $40 coo or $50, 200 and escaped.
REV. JOHN s. Foley was econsecrated
nf d.
Md, with imposing ceremonies on the 4th.
SEVERAL cars ON the Santa Fe road we1e
demolished and three persons kadly in
1ured in a freight wreck near Sang er.
Tex, the other night
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