Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-15

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ONE hundred recruits have been ordered
to the Department Of the Missouri for as
signment and distribution among the COM
panies Of the Seventh cavalry.
THE President has recognized Carlo
Terra Is Vice-Consul of Italy at Balti-
more, Nd.
A CABINET meeting was held at Wash
ington on the 9Th, all the members being
present except Villas and Dickinson.
THE Secretary of War has issued the Of
anton on the retired list Of the army, his
retirement to date from October % past.
TIE EAST.
FINDLEY & BOWMAN, iron manufacturers
of New York City, have made an assign
ment Assets and liabilities unknown.
HENRY 8. DEWEY, the assignee Of Will
liam D. Forbes, late president Of the Ma
tional Bank of Redemption, Boston, says
that the liabilities can be placed at $2O0, 900
and the nominal assets at from SEQ. 600 to
S75, eco, composed largely Of Forbes prop
erty.
JOSEPH SPINELLY, an italian aged
twenty-five years, fatally stabbed his
mother in the breast at Pittsburgh, Pa,
recently, because she refused to give him
some money.
In the Kettle Greek Coal Mining Com
pany's mines, thirty miles west of Lock
Haven, Pa, the other night an explosion
occurred in q new drift in which twenty
one persons were at work. Seventeen of
the unfortunate men were killed, most of
them being Hungarians or Italians.
WHILE four young mon, James Hayes,
Henry Gormley, William Sellan and
Charles Cogan were sailing in Dorchester
bay, near Boston, the other day their boat
capsized and the three first named were
drowned.
THE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
decided that the Mechanics Lien law Of
that State is unconstitutional.
By the explosion Of q nitro.glycerine
magazine near Shamokin, Pa, the other
morning, great damage was done to sur
rounding property. The magazine be-
longed to the torpedo company of Della
ware, and the explosion was felt twenty
i've miles away. An unknown tramp was
Teen around the building just previous to
the explosion and was not visible after
ward.
SAMUEL RAY pleaded guilty at New
York on the 9th to illegal registration and
got two years and four months in States
prison.
The fifth annual exhibition of horses,
ponies, mules. donkeys, carriages and har-
ness of the National Horse Show Associa-
ton Of America was opened at New York
on the 9Th.
JOHN W. v. CAROLYN, prominent young
stock broker Of New York City, has made
an assignment with $4,000 liabilities.
Cause, long continued depression in bust.
ness.
TIE report that DR.. Hostetter had died
in New York was contradicted later. He
was, however, very sick.
TIE fishing schooner Goldsmith Maid,
with 800, 900 pounds Of fresh fish, was run
into and sunk in Boston harbor the other
night. Peter Landry and Howard Mon
roe, of Shelburne, N. s., who were asleep
in the forecastle, went down with her.
The rest Of the crew escaped.
FIRE started in the City Hall at Haver-
hill, Mass, on the 9Th. The building was
destroyed. Voting was in progress at the
time, bnt the ballot box was saved.
A BOILER in the Lancaster (Pa.) Chem
ical Company's works exploded with ter
rible force recently, completely demolish-
ing the building and killing one man and
injuring five. John Riddle, fireman, was
killed outright
THE New York Euening Post places the
next Congress as follows: Senate-Demo-
Gratis, 81; Republicans, 80. House Of Rep
Observation-Disclosures 1856; Republic
ans, 160.
PHILIP BAER, aged twenty-eight, a sales.
man, tried to board an elevated train in
New York the other night after the gates
were closed and was caught between the
cars and the station railing, fell to the
street and was killed, He was hurryine
to join his family at a ball-a ticket te
which was found in his pocket.
w. II. BARNUM. of the Democratic Ma.
tional Committee, was seriously i'll at his
home at Lime Rock. Conn, on the Sth Hi:
illness was due to overwork in the lat<
political canvass.
SwITCHMEN on the New York Contra
struck at Albany, N. Y, on the 9Th.
THE report that the Clyde steamer Sapi
nav carried arms and ammunition from
New York for the use of the Hayti insur
ge8ts was confirmed by examination O.
papers.
BIZ q rear end collision at FishkiiL NY.
the other morning between q freight ant
an express train, . passenger car wa.
wrecked and one woman killed.
TIE wife of Jay Gould was reported dan
&erously sick on the Sth.
TIE VEST.
ApvICHs from the Indian Territory ar,
Chat considerable excitement has beer
created in the Chocsaw Nation by the &C
ton Of Chief b. r. Smallwood in vetoinf
the bill passed by both houses Of tho Chloe
taw Legislature disfranchising person,
convicted Of criminal offenses.
TIE Monticello Seminary at Godfrey
III, was destroyed by fre recently. Loss
$4,000.
INSPECTOR BoHgULD. OF Chicago, places
little reliance in the story Of the arrest Of
Tascott in the mountains near Lexington
We. He says he has received dozens 81
similar dispatches.