Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-05
THE WEST.

THE Governor of Illinois has removed the
quarantine restriction in Cook County es-
tablished July last.
SIXTEEN Mormons have been sentenced to
short terms in the penitentiary and to pay
fines at Provo, Utah, for living with more
than one WIFE
A STATEMENT made by William 6. Bartle,
an ex- pork packer of st. Louis, before the
Agricultural Committee at Washington
that Jacob Dold and other packers were in
the habit of using diseased hogs for meat
products caused much hard feelings and
vehement denials by the parties implica-
ted. Bartle later stated that dispatches
had misrepreseEted what he said.
JOHN MATHEWS, Wiley Matthews and
William w alker, three of the Bald Knob
bers, convicted at Ozark, Mo-, of the muir
der of Edens and Green, have been SEN
fenced to be hanged May Is.
CHIEF OF POLICE HUBBARD, OF Chicago,
says there is nothing in the Tascott story
from British Columbia. A similar report
reached him some weeks ago and he sent
an officer to investigate. After a hard
chase the man was found. He was not
Tascott Officers were still securing the
Northwest. Chief Hubbard also received
a telegram that the man who committed
suicide near st. Paul was not Tascott.
DISTRICT assembly "a, Knights Of Labor,
Chicago, it was announced recently, had
given up It's headquarters, owing to lack OF
funds. The district machinery was cap
tured by the anti-Powderly faction at the
last election, and the membership had
fallen off rapidly. There are now but little
over 1000 members, while in 1855 there
were % 000
d. l.. JONES, of Mulberry Grove, Ill, has
been lodged in Jail on the charge of cruelty
whipping a seven-year-old child. Besides
beating the little one, he held it's feet on
a red-hot stove until they were literally
roasted.
RICHARD F. CAREw, clerk for the whole
sale dry goods firm Of Burnham, Aspel &
Co., of Detroit. has been arrested for steal
ing several thousand dollars worth Of dry
goods in the past year.
BANK EXAMINER STONE has found that
the depositors of the Commercial National
Bank of Dubuque, Iowa, will get seventy
five cents on the dollar.
THE fast express on the Michigan Cen
trail met with an accident near Burnsides
the other night. Twelve of the passengers
were injured, five seriously. The disaster
was caused by a Wabash freight plunging
into the express at the crossing.
THE five story building at the corner OF
Peoria and Lake streets, Chicago. burned
the other night, causing a loss of Sis. 600;
insurance on the building aud contents
aggregate $50, 000 Davis & Rankin, manu-
facturers of creamery supplies, occupied
the structure jointly with the Zimmerman
refrigerator factory. Both establishments
were destroyed almost completely.
THE remains of the late Chief Justice
Waite were laid to rest at Forest cemetery,
Toledo, o., on the 18th.
THE striking Burlington engineers and
switchmen ditched a freight train and
created q riot at Chicago on the 29th. The
trainmen and their Pinkerton guards were
beaten. For a time matters were extremely
threatening, but at nightfall acquired a
more peaceful aspect.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in Keith
& Perry's No. 6 mine at Rich Hill, Mo-. on
the 29th. Five men were taken out dead
and fifteen others seriously injured. 1t
was believed that others were in the mine
whose rescue alive was despalred Of The
disaster was the worst of it's kind ever
known in the West.
THE laborers of all kinds on the great
lakes propose to organize a marine trades
council with headquarters at Chicago.
MRS. JOHN GARLICK met a shocking death
at the auction and storage house of Ezekiel
q Burnham, Cincinnati, recently. She
attempted to step off before the Car stopped,
fell, and her head was caught between the
elevator car and the floor. She was hor-
ribly mangled and was instantly killed.