Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-06

delivered G00 a0OI0SS Oh We1COm0s :
THE County Democracy of New York
held a mass meeting the other night at
Cooper Onion, to consider the fisheries
question, and finally adopted long resolu-
lions com mending the attitude taken by
the Presid ent. Senator Gray, of Delaware,
| was the pF incipaI speaker.
HORACE BISHOP, aged fifteen, and Charles
McApplebee, aged sixteen. living near New
Haven, Conn, died soon after drinking soda
water at drug store. Investigation showed
that tincture of aconite had been mixed with
| the soda water instead of syrup. Robert
j. Lama. the clerk who made the fatal err
rOr, was arrested.
CALvERhY's statue Of Robert Burns was
| unyailed at Albany, N. Y, recently in the
presence Of 1000 people.
THE WEST.
| FREEMAN G. CAREY, founder of Farmers
College, Where General Harrison began
| his literary studies, died in Cincinnati on
| the 9th.
The adverse decision of the Washington
Territory Supreme Court in the woman
| suffrage case has been appealed to the
United St tes Supreme Court.
| LAWRENCE HUTCHINS, q little boy, was
kidnapped recently from Evanston, Ind.
| but was rescued at Chicago. His caDtors
escaped. .
| A DISASTROUS wreck was caused at The
crossing Of the Toledo, Kansas City & st.
| Louis and the Cincinnati, Jackson q Mack
NAV roads at Enterprise, ten miles west
| of Delphos, O., by the Cloverleaf train be-
| ing broken in two and both ends running
| together, knocking the engine into the
Mackinasy engine, which was standing on
! the crossing.
! AwEsr bound freight, extra, on the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, col
| li6ed with the rear end of construction
| train at Rock Creek, nine miles west of
7 Fairfield, Iowa, on the 9th. G.. A. Roses
| of Burlingto road master, Patrick Ready
| and Patrick Griffin, section men, were
| killed. and John Kelly and Timothy Muir
ply injured.
! 'CoNGRESsMAN MILLS, of Texas, Wilson,
of West Virginia, and Lawler, of Illinois,
visited the Union Stock Yards at Chicago
on the 9th and were given dinner at the
Transit House. They went to the Ex-
change bui lding, where 1000 people listened
| to brief addresses on the tariff.
KLEIN 81 Sons stocking factory at Gin
cinnati was burned out recently. Loss,
$1OO, 900; insured. %
By collision between freight train
and a special containing a military COM
pany at Lima, O., the other morning, both
engines and two cars were wrecked and
four persons slightly hurt
| II. j. BENJAMIN and +. A. Bates, bank
rupt Milwaukee stock brokers, have been
arrested on the charge of conspiracy in
defraudina Mrs. Helen Warner of, $50, 900
in minin deal.
THE railroads leading East from Chicago
regretted their action in cutting grain rates
to interior points, and at a meeting of the
freight committee of the Central Traffic
Association on the 28th the question of re-
storing these rates was discussed. No
action was taken, but it was decided to
meet again for the purpose of further con-
sidering the matter.
The State conference of farmers and
labor organizations in session at st. Paul,
Mimi, recently nominated Ignatius DON
nelly for g overnor.
IT is reported that cholera is raging
in the upper Presque Isle: country, Mich,
and people are dying like sheep with no
doctors in the immediate vicinity. Nine
persons ha We diedsin one day. While the
reports ma y be exaggerated, it is known
that short time ago people were suffering
with bowel trouble.
The Papal brief appointing Rev. John
S. Foley r oman Catholic Bishop of Detroit
has been received by Cardinal Gibbons,
but ecration VIII not take place before
THE De- p Water convention met at
Denver, Col, on the 2sth. Governor
Evans was made temporary chairman.
THE Min tn Indiana district COMPRESSION
al convention has nominated Hon. James
McCabe, Of Warren County.
CoNGRESsMAN j. G.. BURROWS has been
renominated by the Republicans of the
Fourth Michigan district.
| THE re port from Ashland, Wis., that
work on the Duluth. South Shore & At
lantic rail way had been stopped because
of the Presidents retaliatory message is
positively denied by officials.
| AN epidemic of malarial or typhoid fever
with OverItwenty-f five deaths and seventy
! five sick persons is raging at Caldwell, o.
l. NEBRASKA Democrats have nominated
Hon. John A. McShane for Governor.
The q MON Labor party of Kansas
has nomi mated P. p. Elder, of Ottawa, TO,
Governor. ..
TROUBL e is brewing on the Shoshone
reservation, Fremont County, Wyo. T.
The Sioux visitors of the Arapahoes are al
the botto "a of the trouble. Two white
men were found dead near the Rattle
, snake mountains on the reservation, where
they We're doubtless murdered by the
Sioux, who donned war paint after being
ordered of the Shoshone reservation.
FIRE at Lancaster, Wis, recently de.
stroyed eight business houses and their
contents, causing $4,000 loss.
A. j. THOCKMORTON,- nephew of ex-Gov.
ernor Tho ckmorton. OF Texas, committed
! suicide in a cheop lodging house in Denve,
recently. Cause. liquor and lack of money
A sHoR TAGE. of s., 100 has been found il
the accounts of the late City Treasurer
McGeochen, of Lafay cite, Ind, who dice
recently.
c. j. CbsGRovE and G.. W. Gerard have
been nominated for Congress by the Dem
ocrats of the First and Second Ohio dis
f tricts respectively.
THE SOUTH.
5 THOMAS LEECH, Louisville Ky.
switchman, caught his foot in a frog tn,
i other night and was run down and man.
s gled by d locomotive.
THE son of Rev. Jesse Pratt, the oldes
Baptist minister in Arkansas, was on tria
for assattlting q woman at Little Rock re