Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-04


bezzlements amounting to $168, 600 His
whereabouts was unknown on the 9th,
although Pinkerton detectives were put on
his track His method Of swindling was
similar to- that employed by Bedell-forged
certificates of mortgage.
MISS MARYCAMPBELL SCHOFIELD, daugh-
Ger Of General SchofieId, was married to
Lieutenant Avery D. Andrews, of the
Fifth cavalry, u. s. A. &c New York re-
Gently.
JOHN K. LEMON, an aged Aad respected
citizen of Allegheny, Pa, was swindled
out of SIC, 900 recently by two bunco men,
who made good their escape.
TIKI WEsE.
A GENERAL. strike Of the street car men
Of North end w est Chicago was recently
threatened unless wages and hours were
reaTanged.
THE attorneys Of Thomas Broderick, the
Burlington engineer arrested last summer
az Q dynamite plotter, have issued an ad-
dress from Chicago denying that he 10 q
detective.
In q sham battle at Fort sully, Oak, on
the 26th between companies A, B, c and
D, hot blood arose and the men got into
such close quarters that several were So.
yerely injured, three being in the hos.
pital with wounds received. The officers
drew their swords and Lieutenant Aughm
received q severe wound in the arm.
In the course Of an address TO delega-
lions recently General Harrison advocated
using q large portion of the surplus now
In the treasury in repaying the direct tax
levied during the war.
AN incendiary fire which started at
Wabasha, Mimi, on the Doth in q business
block on Main street swept the street as
far 40 the Diamond Joe DOCKS The Mil
waukee railroads elevator was among the
buildings burned. The total loss was este
mated at $150,00O.
JAMES w. aBROwN, the notorious big.
amist recently ON trial at Detroit, Mich,
was convicted and sentenced to fourteen
years and six months in the penitentiary.
He was said to have married thirty.three
women, fifteen Of whom appeared in court
The National Anti Horse Thief Associa-
ton met in annual convention at Mexico,
Mo-, on the Goth. Many delegates were
present. Ottumwa, Iowa, was selected as
the next place Of meeting.
CHIEF REFS, Of the Milwaukee police de-
partment, has been suspended for incom-
potency. Serious charges are made
against him.
FIRE at Canton, OAK, recently destroyed
q block Of business houses, causing q loss
placed at 500, ZOO.
BIZ a collision at crossing near Galena,
Ill., the other day, q workman was killed
ana several seriously injured.
The steamer Menominee sank in the riv-
er near Winona. Mimi, the other night.
No one was lost.
FIRE broke out in one Of the sheds. Of the
West Side Driving Park at Chicago during
the racing on the 9th. Seven or eight
thousand dollars worth Of buildings were
destroyed. There was nearly serious
panic in the grand stand, and several
ladies tainted.
Ir 10 rumored in Minneapolis, Mimi,
sporting circles that the man who struck
the deadly blow that killed Fulljames in
the fight at Grand Forks was an Eastern
pugilist travelling under the alias Of Bar
nett.
A DEADLY riot took place over the count.
ing Of the returns of the Republican pri.
mary at San Francisco on the 9th. I'm the
shooting that took place David Donohue
was killed and A. Christensen mortally
wounded. Two others were shot but not
fatally.
THE Hutchinson corner on cash wheat in
Chicago was a complete surprise on the
shorts. It was developed on the 9th,
| when settlements were made at $1.25. The
wheat pit was intensely excited, predic-
tons being made that the cereal would
reach So before the collapse occurred.
The Archbishop's pallium has been con-
| ferred on Bishop Ireland, of st. Paul.
The new white lead trust, recently
formed at st. Louis, is said to be closely
allied to the linseed oil trust, which has
proved so expensive 70 the paint and oil
| trade.
A BRITISH coal laden ship from New
South Wales was reported ashore off Point
Fermin, Cal.
FREIGHT traffic on the Illinois Central
railroad from Centralia to Cairo was re-
| Gently tied up. owing to strike Of the
| switchmen in the yards.
THE SOUTH.
THE north bound passenger train on the
| Arkansas Pass road was wrecked near
Bernes Tex, recently. The engine ran
over q cow on an embankment and one
passenger coach was derailed. Mrs. Mary
| q. Long was killed outright. Her son was
| seriously injured, as were other passengers
| whose names were not learned.
/ JACKSON, Tenn, has quarantined against
the States of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
pi and the city of Memphis. No trains
from those places will be allowed to stop
within Eve miles of the city.
l IT was reported at Galveston, Tex, that
a Mexican mob had attacked Rio Grande
City, demanding the surrender of United
| States Inspector of Customs Seebree who
had shot Mexican editor named Garsee.
MAX HELD, wholesale grocer and liquor
dealer, Little Rock, Ark, has assigned
with $4,000 assets and $50, 900 liabilities.
PLANT CITY, Fla, is reported free of
FEVER and people have been admitted to
the lace for the first time in sixty days.
| ENCOURAGING reports were received
from Jacksonville, Fla, on the 25th. Only
i've deaths from yellow fever had occurred
chat Day and most of the new cases were
mild.
The monument to the Confederate dead
| buried at Staunton, Va. was unyailed on
the 10th in the presence of 5000 persons.
By the cavipg in of huge bank of earth
! at Little Rock, Ark, the other day one
man was killed and two others seriously
injured.
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