Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11
TILE WESC.

THE WESL.
MANY retail dealers Of Chicago have ad-!
rvanced the price of bread because OF the
recent Hutchinson corner in wheat.
THIRTY prisoners in.the refoSm school at
Pontiac, ILL.,, escaped recently by cutting
q hole through the floor.
THE Kansas State encampment, q. A.
R., commenced at Topeka on the I'd, very
large attendance being noticed.
THE Traders Bank, of Chicago, made an
assignment on the I'd. The liabilities were
81. 600 600. Improbable business and the
sickness of President Rutter were the
causes of the collapse. Assets fair.
Bishop WILLIAM TAYLOR, OF Africa, who
has been visiting in Springfield, ILL, does
not think that there is any present cause
of alarm as to Henry III. Stanley's fate.
THE American Bankers Association met
on the Cd at Cincinnati.
MRS. SIDNEY SMITH. wife of the assistant
ticket agent of the Pennsylvania railroad
at Chicago, was found dead in her bed the
other morning by her husband. She had
been suffering from dependency and had
committed suicide by placing the tube
from an open gas jet in her mouth. This
was the third suicide in this manner within
two weeks.
A NATIONAL. association Of railroad
freight agents has been formed at St
Louis with L. W. Crawford, Of Chicago
as president and j. j. Ranlich, Of st.
Louis, as secretary
F. ALLEN & Co., of st. Paul, Minn> have
assigned with about $50, 900 assets and liza
bilities.
| THE miners employed by the CONSOLE
dated Coal Company, of st. Louis, in it's
Illinois pits have decided to strike for half
| a cent per bushel more wages.
P.D. WIGGINToN, of California, has been
unanimously selected by the executive
committee of the American party to fill
| the vacancy occasioned by Judge Greer's
declination of the Vice-Presidential nOmi-
nation.
The following formal notice has been is-
sued by Collector of Customs Hager at
San Francisco: s1No Chinese return GER
| tificates will hereafter be issued and the
Chinese bureau will remain closed to the
public from this date"
| Two Mexican stage robbers stopped a
| stage from Florence, Ariz., the other night
and secured the express box and mail
| pouch.
Two farmers living near Evansville,
I Ind, were struck by lightning and killed
| recently while standing under trees.
PRAIRIE fires and frost have completely
ruined the farmers north and east of Ayr,
Oak. The losses aggregate $50, 900.
THE excitement in wheat was again i'm
| tepsified in Chicago on the Sd, the Decem-
| Der option being the main point. No fail.
I ures were announced on the board, but it
was felt that serious effects would follow
the bulge. The excitement extended TO
| New York, st. Louis and Kansas City.
l TIE lake propeller, Wilson, for whose
safety great alarm was felt at Cheboygan
Mich, she having been last seen with her
| spars gone, has reached Alpena, Mich.
nzrr dc
Muskegon, Mich, from Tiffin, o., and from
Jay County, Ind, were received en- masse
by General Harrison at Indianapolis on
the 4th.
! The reception to Mr.. Blaine at Adrian,
Mich, on the 4th, was bonanza for pick.
pockets and robberies ranging as high as
$500 were reported The police by mis-.
| take arrested John Richie, of the Chicago
bureau of the Associated Press, and Frank
Crawford, Of the New York World, on
I suspicion.
J POLICE INSPECTOR BoNF1ELD, Of Chicago,
has been awarded St, 600 damages for libel
against DR.. George B. Cunningham in cons
| nectiou with the shooting Of DR.. Thomas
! Waugh in September, 1885.
1 AN appeal has been received by Mayor
Smith, of st. Paul, Mimi, from the settlers
| of Ramsey County, OAK, who are in great
I distress because of the ruin caused by
| premature frosts.
The schooner Albatross, for whose safe.
ty considerable feaS had been felt, was re.
j.! ported safe at Ludl hgton, Mich.
A TERRIBLE wreck was reported on thu
Chicago Sc Atlantic near Kouts, Ind, OF
the night OF the 18th. A fast freight col.
! lided with a work train and forty laborer
were said to be killed, but the officials
| would give no information.
A YOUNG man named Clark, an employ,
of che Thompson Electric Light Company
Of Chicago, was instantly killed recently
He was testing one Of the arc lights will
| q stick when his bare arm happened t,
touch the wire and he fell dead.
THE SOUTH
THERE were six deaths from yellow feve
at Jacksonville on the 3Oth. At Decatur
Ala, two deaths were reported.
The Southern Wooden MANUFACTURER.
Company of Louisville, KY, II. S. Carley
president, and A. 8. Gilmore, secretary
has assigned. The liabilities are abou
$50, 600; assets about equal.
HENRY FITCH, Democratic nominee 70
State Senator from Oxford, N. C., wa
thrown from his wagon recently and hi
neck was broken.
THE remains Of Alonzo Lewis, . New
York city salesman, missing for som
| *inN ha hoan found moor Virn;n;o Roo ~,