Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-02-16
THE WEST.

THE Methodist Church at Fremont, O.,
was DESTROYED by fire recently and Two
persons in the parsonage adjoining were
injured by falling walls. Loss, S33, Ooo.
By the explosion OF IA burr stone or corn
mill at Broadhead, Champaign County, Ill,
recently. two men were killed and two
fatally hurt.
SENSATIONAL feature of the failure of
the Metropolitan Bank. of Cincinnati was
the arrest on the 9TH OF Hon. William
Means. its president. Other arrests were
expected.
The North Chicago rolling mill at South
Chicago resumed work OH the 9th after
two months idleness.
THE lockout of the Cincinnati shoemakers
has practically been settled by the giving
way of the employees under the persuasion
of the district master workman.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
firm Of E. A. Spyer & Co., wholesale teas
and coffees of Chicago. The principal
cause OF their embarrassment is said TO be
the recent decline IN the coffee market.
The liabilities have not been made known.
TWENTY-FIVE prominent persons of Chi
cago have taken steps to erect crema-
tory.
OIL was struck at Lehigh, l. T., recently
at depth of OH feet and is flowing at the
rat of barrel an hour.
BY the derailing of an accommodation
train near Athens, Ill, the other night,
eight passengers were injured and six
freight cars ditched.
THE people of Albuquerque have sub
scribed $40, 900 in cash 10 the Rio Grande &
Utah railroad.
THE striking Cincinnati shoemakers have
been ordered to return to work.
THE Territorial miners convention at
Helena denounced the Northern Pacific.
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stove dealers, schedule shows assets, So
262 and liabilities, IS, 296
TIE Springfield, O., Manufacturing Com
pany has been placed in the hands of re-
ceiver.
THE National Convention was in session
in Cincinnati on the Sth.
AGENT K1NNEY's Dakota blizzard stories
have been again contradicted.
THE Manitoba railroad bridge across the
Missouri river at Great Falls, OAK, has
been completed. 1t is 800 feet long.
D. R. LOCKE, Petroleum V. Nasty" of
the Toledo (O.) Blade, was reported on the
Sth to be dying Of consumption.
A DISASTROUS cable accident occurred at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the night of the Sth,
on the incline at the Union Depot, caused
by the grip breaking. Two persons were
fatally injured and seven others were
hurt, one quite seriously. The incline
had been noted for several bad accidents
previously to the late disaster.
A PHASE in the railroad war on the Sth
was cut of $500 in the passenger rate
from Chicago to Kansas City.
THE American Newspaper Publishers
Union held its annual meeting in Indlanap-
oils, Ind, on the Sth.
AMOS S. SHELL capitalist worth So, 000,-
600, was murdered by burglars in his resi-
az lav nr6 90
on the morning of the Sth. One arrest was
made. What the robbers succeeded in
taking away was not known, excepting
that with the property was a check for
So, 900 made by A. j. Stone, Snelps SON. in
law
THE Oklahoma convention met in Kansas
City, Mo-, on the Sth at the Board of Trade
Hall with large attendance, Governor
Morehouse, of Missouri, occupying the
| chair. memorial to Congress was
adopted as well as resolutions looking to
the opening of the Indian Territory and
favorlng the Springer bill for the creation
of the Territory of Oklahoma.
FIRE in Cleveland, O., the other day,
caused 500, 600 damage to j. L. Hudson's
clothing store. Cause, electric light wires.
BENJAMIN EGGLEsToN, ex-member of
Congress and one of the most prominent of
Ohio political leaders, died recently in Gin
cinnati, aged seventy-two.
j. c. EVANS, of Harlem, Mo-, has been
elected treasurer and Parker Earl. of Cob
den, ILL.,, president of the American Horti-
cultural Society.
THE Andrew jackson Club, of Chicago
has taken steps to call a meeting of Demo-
cratic Clubs OF America in Chicago June L.
FIVE cases of trichino sis have occurred
in the family of William Man, a resident of
Toledo, o. All five were in a dangerous
condition.
BENsLEY Bros, OF the Chicago Board of
Trade. failed on the 9th. Liabilities were
| not definitely known, but were thought to
amount to S300,OOO.
THE Columbia Theater, of Chicago, Is re-
| ported in financial difficulties.
THE SOUTH.
DIR. E. MILES WILLETT, supreme medical
examiner of the Catholic Knights of