Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-28
THE WEST.

THE business portion OF the town OF YER
million. Ill was destroyed by fire recently.
MYRIADs of grasshoppers are reported
in Southern Indiana They are doing much
damage.
TIE Denver Baseball Club has dis
banded.
MONTANA offers a reward Of $500 for the
arrest of and conviction of such of the
train robbers, and the Northern Pacific
railroad offers $500 additional for each man.
In addition to this the Sheriff and posse
of two companies from Fort Custer are
looking for the highwaymen.
THE awards in the Knights of Pythias
drill at Cincinnati were reported as fol-
lows: Hastings, Mich, first; Kokomo,
Dearborn, Chicago, fourth; Lochiel, Elgfn,
ILL.,, fifth; Mama, of Toledo, O., sixth.
MICHAEL RooK. aged eighteen, was
drowned in the Floyd river at Lemar
Iowa, the other night. While swimming
above the mill dam he got beyond his
depth and was carried over the dam.
The other night the Sparta Hotel, at
was owned and occupied by Edward Bow
Ter, whose two children persisted in the
flames. Several men were badly burned
in trying to save the children.
HUBBARD, the Monmouth Qn.) bank
cashier who defaulted for S1l5, 900 in 1885,
died ia the penitentiary at Joliet recently,
while serving sentence of seven years.
A MONSTER verdict in the case of Angus
TIN l. Am bier against Rodney M. Whipple
was entered in Judge Clifford's court at
Chicago on the 18Th. 1t was for 81. 002, 491,
of which S677, 434 was for debt and 1926, 057
for interest. The defense was that the
statute of Limitation barred recovery. This
was overruled and the jury returned the
verdict as above.
AN excursion train from California was
derailed near Peabody, Kan, on the 18th,
and fifteen persons were more or less in
Jured.
distinguished lawyer, died at Chicago on
the 18th.
THE second day Of the National conven-
ton of the Travellers Protective Associa-
ton, at Minneapolis on the Goth, passed off
serenely, the forenoon and afternoon beng
devoted entirely to business.
APPARENTLY well founded rumors in
Chicago railroad circles point to hostile
outbreak In dressed beef rates.
Mrs. Lucy PARSONS, wife of the late A.
R Parsons, the executed Anarchist, was
being driven about Chicago the other
afternoon in a buggy, attached 10 the rear
of which was life-sized crayon of her de-
ceased husband. She was distributing cir
culars descriptive of the merits of Par
sons book, ''Anarchism." A large crowd
followed the conveyance which was led to
the police station and its occupants locked
up.
The third annual convention of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers began at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 10Th.
SAVAGE, SoN & Co., proprietors of the
Empire foundry. San Francisco, one of the
oldest firms on the Pacific coast, have as
signed, with slO0, 600 liabilities ami $3.50, 600
assets.
GENERAL GRANTS farm better known g.
the Dent homestead, of $50 acres and located
twelve miles west of St Louis, was sold
recently by direction of Chancery Master
Depew under mortgage given by Grant
to William II. Vanderbilt during the Grant
& Ward troubles. The property was
bought b. Luther II. Conn, an ex-Confed-
crate. Conn was with John Morgan's men
and is now a millionaire. He paid So 600
for the farm and has already christened it
brentwood"
A NAN named Sanders shot and killed
another named League at a coal mine, in
which both were working, near Cabin
Creek, I. T. The quarrel arose over a debt
of 81. Sanders escaped, but was subse-
qIently captured.