Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21
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the entire section. All bridges on Big and
| Little Cabin rivers were washed away
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas road lost
| three wooden bridges and one iron bridge,
also several miles of track near Blue
| Jacket station.
FIRE the other night destroyed the works
| of the Indianapolis Veneer Company and
the fancy cabinet ware factory OF d. E.
| Stone & Co. The aggregate loss was about
| $780, co., with $53, 500 Insurance.
| DURING a storm recently lightning struck
| the house Of Beerlet Gunderson, living four
miles south of Clarkfield, Mimi, and killed
! two children and shocked the remainder OF
| the family severely.
The three-mile race between Kennedy,
of Quincy Ill, and Plaisted, of Portland,
| Me-, on Lake QuinsIngamond was easily
won by the former, who took the lead at
| the start and finished thirty lengths ahead
in % minutes, ~ seconds.
RABID cur created a great disturbance
in the Town of Lake, near Chicago, the
| other evening, biting several men and chill
dren, besides a number Of dogs and horses,
before the police succeeded in killing him.
| Two OF the children bitten were terribly
| lacerated.
| Police OFFICER TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, who
was one of the detail which stood the dam
| age of the Anarchist bomb at Chicago.
May 4, 1886, died recently. He received
which supervened gradually Slapped his
| strength until death ensued.
| A CLAY bank in q brick yard at Menoml-
| nee Mimi, caved in the other morning.
| Beneath it were seven men. Two brothers
| named James were taken out dead and ter
ribly mangled. Ole Hottie and Ole Hecker
| lived only a few hours. Knute Knutson,
Ben Farmstad and Nels Swenson had
broken legs or arms and received internal
injuries.
| NINETEEN persons were poisoned at Kas-
sola, Mimi, recently by eating poisoned
| cheese, which was found to have been
| manufactured in Wisconsin. Many Of the
victims became insenslble after suffering
spasms, but all recovered.
The sixth annual convention of the Mis-
souri, Woman's Christian Temperance
Union commenced at Kansas City on the
18Th.
SOLOMON q. CoMsTocK has been NOM
mated for Congress, TO succeed Knute Mel
| son, by the Republicans of the Fifth Min
nesota district.
Waller L. HAYES has been renominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the Sec
| ond Iowa district.
The negroes of the Chickasaw Nation
are making elaborate preparations for
general exodus to Oklahoma, where they
| contemplate farming. Numerous colonies
are entering lands and making permanent
Z
saw Tribal Senator, is assisting the colored
| people in this move.
RECENTLY published statistics Of the
Chicago Union Stock Yards Company, and
Of the Chicago Board of Trade, show that
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
is still leading all other lines in the num-
Der of cars of live stock aud grain brought
to that market. This fact indicates the
| rapidity with which the road must have re-
f-oY 70 ntl lob t~n,1 h md
furnishes additional evidence of the eff
cient manner in which the management
| handled the recent strikes of employees on
| its lines. Evidently, from business stand
| point, the road IS in able hands.
| A HEAVY wind storm passed over Tiffin,
| O., the other morning, blowing down the
| wal S of the Beaver Falls glass factory and
gas well dericks. Thousands of dollars of
damage was done to fruit and grain.
| A CURIOUS fact has developed in the Pro-
hibtion nomination for Governor of Mis-
souri, The nominee, Frank M. Lowe, of
Kansas City, is only twenty-eight years
old, when the law requires the Governor to
be at least thirty-five.
THE Supreme Lodge Knights Of Pythias,
at Cincinnati on the 14th, elected the fol-
lowing officers: Supreme chancellor. Will
liam Ward, of Newark, N. j.; supreme
vice-chancellor, George D. Shaw, of Eau
| Claire, Wis; supreme prelate, Charles 7.
Bragg of Bangor, Me-. supreme keeper of
the records and SEALS r. NJ c. White, of
| Nashville, Tenn; supreme master of arms.
Robert Newell of Little Rock; supreme
outer guard. John w. Thompson, of Wash
| 1ngton; supreme master of the exchequer,
Stansberry j. Wiley. of Wilmington. Del.
| MISS MOLLIE GARFIELD, daughter of the
| murdered President, was married to J.
Stanley Brown at Mentor. O., on the 14th
At the same time and place, Henry Gar
| field, Mollie's brother, was married to Miss
Belle Mason, daughter of the late Hon.
James Mason. of Cleveland. The wedding
was quiet affair, newspaper men being
excluded.
AN electric storm played havoc at Mil
waukee. Wis, on the 14th. The telegraph
and telephone systems were greatly dam
aged. In Cheboygan County farmer
named Cooper was killed by lightning.
THE International Typographical Union,
| lately in session at Kansas City, elected
Edwin T. Plank, OF San Francisco, presi-
dent. The new constitution provides for
biennial meetings.
A DISPATCH from Superior, Wis, OF the
14th says the damage by the floods in
Northern Minnesota would amount to $780,
900. The boom at Cloquet gave way, caus-
ing the loss Of several million feet of logs.
THE SOUTH.
GENERAL FELIX G. AGNUs, publisher OF
the american, has undertaken the task of
raising $500. 900 for the erection of an ex-
position building in Baltimore, Md.
THE six days walking match for women,
came 10 close at Baltimore, Md, on the
9Th. The finish was very exciting. The
score was: Tobias, 315; Cleveland, 313:
Kilbury, 303; Macbeth, 275.
THE other night nine miles south of
LongvIew, Tex, in difficulty about a
trivial matter, Walter Roson, aged eight
cen, shot and killed Fletcher WEIGH, an
old man.
| DENNIS WILLIAMS, colored, who shot and
seriously wounded Superintendent McCor-
mick at Tallahassee. Fla, recently, was
taken to the woods by mob and lynched.
HE body OF I. Harrison Garrett, the Bal
timore magnate, drowned in Chesapeake