Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12


FL MORTIMER owner of the Mortimer
apartment house at Minneapolis, Mimi
which was destroyed by fire lew weeks
ago, has made an assignment
A PASSENGER coach ON the Sank Center
& Northern railroad was thrown down q
ffteen-fooc embankment near Sank Center,
Mimi, recently, and the wreck was set on
fire by the overturned stoves. Miss Aman-
da Thornouist was badly burned, and a
man named Morrison was injured in the
back and head, while number sustained
lesser injuries.
DaS DUNCAN. the South Chicago con-
tractor indicted for defrauding the Cum
mins school district out OF large sum OF
money, was arrested on the I'd.
TIE great objective lens has Deen
mounted at the Lick observatory in Cali
fornia.
THE other night as C. P. Collins, fireman
on an engine on the Chicago & Atlantic
railroad, at Lima, O., was under his engine
cleaning the firebox the engineer, not
knowing he was there, started the engine
and cut Collins body in two.
A GENERAL court martial order has been
issued from the headquarters OF General
Miles fixing the sentences OF the i've regu-
IarIv eplisted Indian scouts who mutinied
at San Carlos last June, respectively TO
two, ten, fifteen and twenty years con-
finement at hard labor at Fort Leaven-
worth.
TIE first train crossed the international
bridge at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, on the
last night of the old year, and it was found
to be in fine shape.
THE Sixty-eighth General Assembly OF
Ohio convened on the I'd.
SALIDA, Col, was swept by fire on the
Cd Every thing was destroyed from the
Presbyterian Church to the post Office on
the main business street. The loss was es-
timated at between s15O,Oo0 and FOO, 900.
J. s. Edwards was killed and II. V. Young
seriously hurt by a falling wall.
The Detroit Marine Hospital is reported
overcrowded with patients owing TO the
injuries inflicted upon lake sailors by the
recent blizzard.
THE Minnesota & Western railroad tun-
mel near Galena, ILL.,, 9, AGO feet long and 70
feet high, has been completed.
The st. Louis & San Francisco road has
sent notice TO the Southwestern Associa-
ton that on January Is it would reduce
rates on corn to St. Louis, five cents from
all stations in Kansas This action. it was
thought, would lead to a general cut.
JUDGE VINToN, of Lafayette, Ind, has
decided that telephone companies must
furnish instruments to any persons de-
handing them at legal rates.
THE four Chinese highbinders were re-
leased at st. Louis on the Sd, the prosecu-
ton finding itself unable to proceed fur
Their on account of the insanity of the CHIEF
witness.
The creditors of George L. Meade & Co.,
the big wholesale fruit firm at San Francis
co, at meeting recently received detailed
statement of assets and liabilities, as fol
lows: Assets, s615, 419; liabilities, 1928, 142;
excess of assets over liabilities, 1887, 2T.
Arrangements were made to resume bust
ness. t..-
THE famous Haddock murder case at
Sioux City, Iowa, ended on the 4th by the
cases being dismissed.
A BAD freight wreck occurred on the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad at Beloit,
Wis, on the 4th. The trains were regular
and extra, both going north. The engine
of the extra was badly wrecked. The ca
boose of the extra was smashed into splin-
tiers. Several other cars were wrecked.
No one was hurt.
CoLoRED and white soldiers from the
Jefferson barracks, st. Louis, were in
fight on the night of the 81. The trouble
commenced by drunken colored soldier
running after a white girl, and before it
was ended many were seriously wounded,
the men being desperate and full of liquor.
A "CAsE of leprosy'' reported from
Springfield, Ill, recently turned out to be
only slight eruption on mans skin.
FIRE in Vandalia, Mich, recently de-
stroyed a large portion of the business
houses, causing $50, 600 loss.
SAM FlKE, the dog catcher of Albu-
querque, N NJ, died in frightful agony from
hydrophobia recently.
THE cut in rates started in Illinois some
time ago by the Chicago & Alton was ex-
tended to the Missouri river on the 5tb.
AMMI BALDWIN died suddenly at Cincjn-
natl on the 18th. Baldwin was under indict-
ment for completely in the Fidelity Bank
frauds. There were rumors that he had
committed suicide, but his death was due
to paralysis.
A FIRE in Los Angeles, Cal, on the night
of the 5th caused loss of $20o000. In
sured.
Two spans of the new central viaduct at
Cleveland, o., fell on the 5th. Two of the
workmen were killed and several injured
THE SOUTH.
For the first time In fourteen years a
Democratic mayor and Democratic Board
nj lAarmQn hayo haau al OF