Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-30
THE WEST.

r. A. JONES, the CHIEF Justice or WASH
ington Territory, died at Seattle, w. T.,
recently from a compilation of lung and
kidney troubles, aged fifty eight years.
The body was taken to Rochester, Mimi,
for burial.
A TERRIFIC hurricane struck Marquette,
Mich, on the Goth. Houses were unroofed,
telegraph wires blown down and store
fronts badly damaged. The storm was
accompanied by deiuge of wind and hail.
No one was hurt.
THE Burlington railroad has succeeded
in obtaining an entrance into ST. Louis by
contract with the Wabash railway.
JUDGE THURMAN was at Detroit, Mich,
on the DIST, and took boat ride on Lake
Erie.
THE large new brewery of the Hermann
Berghoff Brewing Company at Fort
Wayne, Ind, was on fire on the morning
of the 22d. The buildings cost $500, 900 and
had only recently been finished.
GENERAL CROOK, commanding the De-
partment of the Platte, has sent out de-
tachment of troops from Fort Mckinney.
to investigate the reported characterization
of a party of thirty young bucks from
Pine Ridge agency.
THE Republicans of the Ninth Indiana
district have renominated Hon. Joseph b.
Cheadle for Congress.
RECENT reports say that the White Caps
of Indiana have determined upon disband
ing because of the discovery of their Sc
crets by the authorities.
CAPTAIN KINNEY, head of the Bald
Knobber organization, was killed at For
sythe, fancy County, Mo-, on the Goth by
William Mills, Jr., the anti-Bald Knobber
leader.
THE queer discovery has been made in
Chicago that the captured opium snug
gler, Gardner, added to his enormous
profits by cheating his customers. One of
his trunks contained tin boxes soldered
like opium cans, but containing in reality
only little blocks of wood cut so as to fit
snugly in the pretty tin boxes.
TEXAS fever is playing havoc among the
native cattle near Decatur, ILL.,, and is
spreading fast
THE Berghoff brewery at Fort Wayne,
Ind, was destroyed by fire the other morn
ing, caused by an explosion in the malt
room. Loss, 100000.
JUDGE THURMAN delivered his first great
speech of the Democratic campaign at
Port Huron, Mich, on the night of the ODD.
He met with an enthusiastic reception.
The speech was strongly free trade.
THE coasting steamer City of Chester
| was sunk in collision with the steamship
Oceanic at the Golden Gate, San Fran
| cisco, in fog on the morning of the 22d.
| Thirty-four lives were thought to have
| been lost.
THE Democratic convention at Jefferson
| City on the 22d nominated Mayor D. r.
! Francis, of st. Louis, for Governor of Mis-
souri,. Mr.. Francis was born in Kentucky
on October 1, 1850, consequently he is but
| thirty -seven years of age.
NICoLo FEMMENETTA was hanged legally
at Buena Vista, Col, recently for the muir
der of Michael Casey at Granite, in March
| last.
GENERAL MANAGER STONE, of the Bur-
lington railroad, denies the report that he
is to be deposed and his place taken by
Holdredge.
| ADvICEs from Standing Rock give in
formation that the Sioux Commission is
meeting with marked success in getting
! Indian signatures to the bill to open the
I Sioux reservation for settlement.
FATHER WILLIAM MCMAHON, pastor of
4 st. Bridget's Church, Cleveland, O., has
been appointed National treasurer of the
American Catholic Total Abstinence So
ciety.
! Col, as gold coin counterfeiters turned out
i to be only confidence men, who used q trick
box in casting money.
The Whiting paper mill at Neenah, Wis,
was on fire recently. While watching the
flames, fourteen persons lost their lives
and many others were seriously wounded
by the boilers exploding and scattering
| the walls into fragments. The loss was
$lu0, 900.