Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-27

QUITE violent shock of cart hquake was
felt in Was hington and Warren Counties.
N. Y, on the 18th. No damage was done.
OVER two hundred cases of diphtheria
are reported in the counties of Lancaster,
Berks and Lehigh, Pennsylvania.
JOHN MYERS DOREMUs was hanged TO.
Gently at Hackensack, n. j., for the muir
der of his son, John Bogert Doremus, June
Z. The son was protecting his mother
from his drunken fathers abuse when he
was stable to death.
DURING the revision Of the excise laws OF
New York State, by commission, Rev.
DR.. Howard Crosby denounced the foreign
ers who sought to overthrow the Sabbath.
EDWARD MEREDITH, one of the assailants
Of gambler DAILY in q New York fat re-
Gently, has been sentenced to eight years
and ten months in the States prison and
Herman, his confederate, to six years and
eleven months. The cases OF the woman
have not been heard.
THE annual ca, alogue Of Harvard COL
lege will show the total number of students
to be 1850 against ], 900 last year. This is
rise of 245 against 22S last year.
THE jury at Boston in the case OF Mrs.
Prebe against Bates and Valley, stock
brokers, to recover SCI, 900 alleged to have
been lost in speculation by her son, have
agreed upon a verdict IN favor Of the
plaintiff for $34, 772. nkaAA
THE WEST.
THE Liberal Committee (anti-Mormon)
of Utah has issu d circular protesting
against the admission of the Territory as q
State under present circumstances.
Two French hunters who left Helena,
Mont, October Is, on an expedition up the
Missouri river. have been found drowned
in the upper river.
CHARLES GORDON & Co., wholesale deal
ers in furniture and carpets, Chicago, have
failed with unknown asse and alb lities.
THIRTEEN loaded coal cars were wrecked
near Battle Greek, Mich, recently, on the
Cincinnati, jackson & Mackinaw railway.
Conductor Lincoln was fatally hurt.
MRS. ANNA SHOOTS, of GAINESVILLE, O..
who had been on trial at Cambridge for
two weeks was acquitted of the charge of
poisoning her little daughter. Two other
indictments for murder are still pending
against her.
AN entire business block in Iron Mount
ain. Mich was destroyed by fire the other
morning. causing loss of $So, 900 10 seven
firms
The Minnesota official returns are: F r
Decentralization, 142, 492; Cleveland.
1O4, 1855; Fisk, 1871; Streeter, LOOT. For
Governor Republican, 1874 1856;
Wi son, Democra', 11O,251; Harrison, Pro-
hibition, 17,026; Paul Labor, 3S5; sea ter
l1Ss SAs FOUA c01 . dSO OAd1Ac' . P1OIdt'Gy
was 1920; now Harrison's plurality is
49, 1O7. The Republicans gain three Con-
gressmen.
LEE r. SANBoRN & Son. lumbermen of
Alpe ma, M ch., have made an assignment
with $40 600 IiaLi tiles.
THE officers OF the order OF Railroad
Conductors deny that the California re-
volt is Of any Importance, and state that
the new order is OF ganized to affiliate with
hro ioh hol; i,,c or
REV. ISAAC EnRET. edi Or in chief of the
Christian Standard of Cincinnati, and an
intimate friend of the late President Gar
field, died recently.
The fire in the great copper mine at
Calumet, Mich is out, but the shaft is still
closed because of gas.
The Ostrander Manufacturing Company
OF Ostrand,r IT. Wis, has made an assign
ment with $50 600 liabilities.
CHARLES WHITE s residence in Haugh-
vile. Ind, was wrecked recently by an ex-
plosion of natural gas and Mrs White
ia ally burned.
The execution of the condemned Bald
Knobbers has been postponed to February
Is next Governor Nor. house ordered the
postponement at the solicitation of Judge
HUI bard, who tried the cases.
The only request General Harrison made
Of the committee in charge of his inaugu-
ration was that the veterans of his old In
diana regiment should act as his body
guard.
PRESIDENT THOMAS, Of the suspended
California National Bank of San Fran
cisco. has issued q statement. showing as
sets of $71S, O0J. He claimed the liabilities
amounted to the same figures.
THE two small children of Mrs. staff
| colored, living in Indianapolis, Ind, were
burned to death tho other morning during
| the absence of their mother.