Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-19
THE WEST.

HENRY POWELL, of Cincinnati, COM
mitted suicide July by jumping from the
steamer Servia while en- route to this
country.
HENRY w. MOORE and Mrs. Norton, who
eloped recently from st. Louis, were ar
rested at Topeka, Kan, on charge of
grand larceny preferred by the husband of
the woman.
FRANK HOOVER, president of the Typo
graphical Union, and William B. Ham
mond, a member of the executive board,
have been indicted for conspiracy in boy
cotting the Saturday EUening Spectator, of
Minneapolis, Mimi.
THE Texas fever has made its appear
ance along the Lake Erie & Western rail-
road in Indiana. Many cattle have al
ready died.
CHAIRMAN HoGE, of the grievance COM
mittee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, and Chairman Murphy, occu-
plying the same position in the Firemen's
Brotherhood, were arrested at Chicago on
the 10th, charged with having issued a cir
cular advising Brotherhood men to secret
ly enter the Burlington service and disa-
BILE the engines. They were held in 81 800
each.
FIRE destroyed eight blocks of Suisun,
CAL, recently. 1t was impossible to esti
mate the loss. Over twenty-five residences
were burned, among them that of Joseph
McKenna, member of Congress-.
THE corner stone of the administration
building of the Soldiers and Sailors
Home two and one-half miles from San
dusky, O., was laid on the 18th with i'm
posing ceremony.
LIVE stock and dressed beef rates from
Chicago to the seaboard dropped another
notch on the 18th. The Erie road reduced
the rate on dressed beef to New York 1-2
cents, and the Pennsylvania and Wander
bilt roads, followed, making the same rates
to New York, and in addition reducing the
rate to Boston from % 1-2 to 20 cents. Live
stock rates were cut one cent to all sea-
board points.
A SERIOUS fire was reported at Alpena,
Mich, on the afternoon of the 18th. Half
a mile of ground, three blocks wide, was
destroyed, involving a loss of $500,
GOVERNOR MOREHOUSE gave Maxwell,
who was to have been hanged at st. Louis
on the 18th for the murder of Preller, a
| respite of thirty days, but refused any
communication of sentence.
FRED REMINGTON, an artist on Hdrpe7''S
| Weekly, who had been sketching mountain
scenery, took morphine recently with sui
cidal attempt and died at Trinidad, Col
Unrequited love was thought to have
caused the rash act.
JOHN ZACHAR, the Caledonia (Wis.) al
leSeQ faster, a1Uer an dDSCenUlOn from 1000
| for fifty-three days, is reported to have
| again started his feed mill.
HENRY NJ. IVES has been indicted by the
Hamilton County CO., grand jury. What
the offense was the court authorities re-
! fused to tell.
| SIXTY Canadian laborers who had been
working at Port Huron and other points in
Michigan and living in Canada have been
ordered to stay out of this country under
| the Alien Labor law.
| THE Lake Shore railroad round house at
Ashtabula, o., and eight locomotives were
destroyed by fire the other night.
! CONGRESSMAN GROUSE, of the Twentieth
Ohio district, has declined a denomination
| because of ill health.
| EBENEZER STANYARD was hanged in the
Ohio penintentiary recently for the murder
of his former sweetheart, Alice Hancox, at
Youngstown March "a, 1887.