Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09

from In Clinton county, III DrO"n COuHty
and lastly in Adams County. The symp-
toms are drowsiness preceding the fatal
attack several days 1t prevails on farms
almost exclusively.
GEORGE TAYLOR, q prominent 81. Louis
cotton factor, is authority for the statement
| that the jute bagging manufacturers have
| formed pool or trust and advanced the
price of bagging from seven to eleven cents
| per ward, while there has been no advance
| in the raw material. .H.I.
LUKE MULDooN and Pat Flaherty were
wrestling at Cincinnati recently, when
Flaherty got his neck broken.
THE other morning the steamer Belle
view sank to the bottom of the Mississippi
| a few miles below Winona, MINI. There
were ON board over 100 excursionlsts, but
no lives were lost. One of the paddle
wheels broke off, letting in water in great
| quantities.
THE rock nitro glycerine factory, two
miles south of Lima, o., was blown up
recently, having been set on fire by tramps.
1t was thought the tramps were killed.
The preliminary hearing of the alleged
| SO" dynamite conspirators, John Bauer
eisen George Goodin and August Voegel,
was concluded at Aurora, ILL.,, on the 3Oth,
and the defendants were held to the grand
! Jury, which convenes in October. Bail
was furnished and the defendants were re-
| leased.
CONFLICTING accounts of the damage by
| hot winds to the corn crop In Southern
! Kansas have been received.
| HENRY G. GILMORE, lessee of the Grand
Hotel, Cincinnati, is financially embar-
raised, and the hotel has been placed in
| the hands of receiver.
THE Republican Congressional eonven-
| ton of the Twelfth district of Indiana
nominated j. B. White, the present incum-
| bent.
FRANK MOTT, confidential bookkeeper
| for Daniel Stone & Co., Cincinnati, has
| disappeared. 1t was not known whether
he was defaulter or not.
| RICHARD Smith, the owner of the dog
| that bit Mrs. Leighton, who died of hydro
phobia, died himself three days after of the
| same dread disease at his home in Brook
Louis aii ~
JOHN GARDNER, a policeman, was killed
recently by a stroke of lightning while on
duty at Lafayette Park, st. Louis.
SEVENTEEN carloads of Republicans from
Morgan and Brown Counties, Ind, visited
| General Harrison on the LIST. They brought
| with them three brass bands.
| A TRAIN of empty fat cars on a logging
road near Gaylord, Mich, was thrown
| from the track recently by fallen tree
! and several Polish workmen were injured.
| THE meeting of the grievance commit
tees of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
| Rln0cTS, rlT0mCu, DTdkOuch anu oWlOSh-
men of North America, which was ap-
pointed for Kansas City, has been changed
| to st. Louis and the date fixed at Au-
| gust 9.
| LITTLE, CRAFT & Co.'s mills, Evansville,
| Ind, were destroyed by fire the other
night Loss, 100000.
| A SPECIAL from st. Cloud, MINI, says
that twenty houses in all were struck by
lightning during the recent storm. Two of
| 1Is %olI h,~
| Two valuable horses were also killed.
| CHARLES MORGAN, alias "Blinky Nor
| gam" concerned in the celebrated fur rob-
| berries and the murder of Detective Hulli-
| gan at Ravenna, was executed in the Ohio
penitentiary at Columbus early the
morning of the Sd. He left long state
ment asserting his innocence.
| A HAIL STORM on the Sisseton Indian
reservation in Minnesota on the 1st, ruined
| the crops in q section a mile wide and ten
miles long. One man was killed by light
| ming.
THE SOUTH.
| REPRESENTATIVE WHEELER, of Alabama,
| has introduced bill directing the Super
| intendent of the Eleventh Census to ascer-
| tain and publish the birth and death rate
among whites and among negroes, China
| men, Indians, half-breeds or hybrids Of
any description or character of the human
race who are found in the United States.
as we'll as of mulattos, quadroons and
| octoroons.
DIR. ROBERT NORRIS died recently at his
home at La Grange, KY, of paralysis. He
was seventy years old and a native of
Mississippi. He was the poet laureate of
| Masonry. He was past grand master
and the author of nearly hundred Ma
sonic works and poems.
| The first bale of new cotton arrived at
New Orleans on the Both from Meyersville,
Tex. 1t is classed strictly middling. The
first sack of this seasons rice crop arrived
at New Orleans the day before. 1t came
from st. James Parish.
THE local board of steamboat inspectors
at Baltimore, Md, on the 30th decided as
to the cause of the collision between the
yacht CLEAN and the steamboat Joppa in
which Mr.. T. Harrison Garrett lost his life
on June Z, that Captain Tore. Of the
Clean, was guilty of unskillful navigation
and revoked his license.
AS Deputy Sheriff Witt was reading a
warrant to Fred Conway, farmer living
| eighteen miles north of Conway, Ark, re-
Gently, Conway drew a knife and stabbed
the officer in the left side. Conway's wife
and two sons then attacked Witt, who
drew his pistol and fired at Conway, but
the ball struck Deputy Sheriff Lloyd in
} the breast, infiicting fatal wound. Witt
was exhausted from loss of blood, and it
| was SdlQ CnaC neltn0r OIlCer COulQ recover.
THE steamer Edward j. Gay, belonging
to the Packers & Merchants Packet Com
pany of New Orleans, was burned to the
waters edge recently. Loss, 500, 900.
NEAR Bardstown, KY, the other day
John Duncan, colored, was attacked in a
fight by a negro woman whose name could
not be learned, with butcher knife, and
defended himself with a shotgun. She
seized the barrel of the gun and in the
struggle for possession the load was dis
charged, taking effect in Duncan's head.
JAMES o. JOHNSON, an intimate friend OF
Henry Clay and executor under his will
died recently at Lexington, KY, aged
eighty-four.
AT Cannon, a small town in Grayson