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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-18

ADoLPH REICH, the New York City wife
murderer. has been sentenced to be banged
November 80.
THE American party in convent N at
Albany, N. Y, has decided to put out no
State ticket this year.
MARY GRIFFIN, fifty five years old, died
at the aImshouse at Meriden, Conn.,, re-
Gently after fifty five days OF voluntary
starvation. She took nothing but water
during that time and could not be forced
to do otherwise. She was crank on TINS
subject.
A NOTION was made in the Supreme
Court at Buffalo, N. z, on the 11th for q
commission to take the testimony of
President Cleveland in a suit of Rev. DIR.
George 81. Ball against the New York
Eceninq Post for libel. The motion was
denied. The SUIT grows out of Rev. Balls
scandal charges in the last Presidential
election.
F1FrY-FTvE lives were lost in the disaster
on the Lehigh Valley road at Mud Rum
Pa. on the night of the 10th. Forty others
were seriously injured, several fatally.
It was thought the engineer OF the colliding
train was to blame.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-18
sMfscellaneoue.

4d6 eAPIOSAOA OI q ShSOllAC O1OVO OS
napths engine in tho steam launch Sun.
flower, on the Kaw river at Wyandottee
the other afternoon resulted in the death
of p. A. Pound, coal merchant, J. D. Nc.
Grew, the owner of the boat, and G. N.
Speckham, his son-inslaw, were badly
burned about the head, arms and hands.
THE other night a colored tramp entered
a new tenement just completed by J. D.
Hustled at Brighton Hill, an addition TO
Kansas City (Kan.), kindled . fire in the
CRATE and went to sleep. He was awakened
to find his clothes on fire and the house so
filed with smoke that the could not get
out. He was rescued in an insensible cone
dition and fatally burned. The building
burned to the ground. The building cost
8, 800 and was insured for 81 400.
In the case of the city of Topeka VS..
Fred Zufall the Supreme Court recently
reversed the findings of the lower courts.
ton of the city ordinance in selling GER
tain fluid called peach cider which it was
claimed contained about six per cent. of
alcohol, and was therefore an intoxicating
beverage. A conviction was secured in
the police court, and an appeal to the dis
trict court resulted the same way, upon
which an appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court which held that it is error for the
trial court to instruct the jury as a matter
cent. of alcohol it is intoxicating within
the meaning of the ordinance, as this is q
matter of fact to be determined by the
jury under proper instructions. 1t is not
fact of common knowledge that the
presence Of certain per cent. of alcohol
makes compound Intoxicating.
II. G. Cross, of Emporia, and George A.
Eddy, of Leavenworth, have been ap-
pointed receivers of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas railway by Judge Brewer, of the
United States District Court. Mr.. Eddy
has been q resident of Leavenworth over
thirty years and besides being owner of
the leading wholesale drug house in Kan
sas. has occupied many positions OF trust
and honor. Mr.. Cross has been q resident
of Kansas over twenty years, and for
seventeen years has been president OF the
First National Bank of Emporia.
+ A MILD winter is predicted.
FRANK ARNOLD, prominent citizen and
retired druggist OF Leavenworth, rose
from the breakfast table the other morning
and told his wife he had pain in his side,
and before she could reply fell back in his
chair and died. He was sixty -one years
of age and mad lived in Leavenworth
twenty-eight years. Apoplexy was the
cause of his death.
THOMAS MOORE, Of Wyandotte, an en-
ploye of the cable road. recently went
home with chill and took twenty-five
grains of quinine at one dose. He slept
for twenty hours afterward and when he
awoke he was delirious and his condition
was quite critical. =
. THE of6cars and members Of the soldiers,
home at Iseavenworth, recently sent
$1,000 to the yellow fever spferers.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-18
Flood Not Dead.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12.-Condicting ru-
mors were in circulation yesterday and
last night regardin & the condition of Mil
lionaire James c. Flood. Rumors of his
death could be traced to no reliable source.
Up to late hour last night Floods son
had received NO news of his fathers death
A private telegram received in the evening
stated that he was better.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-18
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
CONGRESS.

In the Senate on the 9Th the resolution
providing for joint committee to inquire into
the contracts and work on the Washington
acqueduct tunnel was adopted. After other
minor BUSH mess the Senate Tariff bill was taken
up and Senator Allison spoke in favor OF it,
After an Intellectual effort to have day
fixed for closing the debate, Senator Vance
spoke in opposition to the substitute
for the Mills bill. Senator Hiscock obtained
the hoor and the Senate adjourned. In the
House the Senate bill for the disposal OF the
Fort Wallace reservation i'll Kansas passed:
also a bill to constitute Lincoln, Neb., port OF
entry; also bill to reimburse J. W. PATTERSON.
late postmaster at Humboldt Kans for certain
moneys stolen from his ONCE; also the bill ap-
propr1ating 900 to suppress infectious dis
eases. Mr.. Wheeler, of Alabama Stoke on the
tarin and the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 9th the conference
report on the Deficiency bill was presented and
after Senator Edmunds had inquired why the
item paying to the widow of Chief Justice Waite
the balance OF his years salary had been
struck out the report was agreed to. The
bill as to the counting of the electoral vote
was passed; also the bill TO consti' ute Lincoln,
Neb-, port OF entry Senator Edmunds intro
duced a bill to pay the widow OF Chief JUS
tice Waite sS,745 as the balance OF . years
salary. It vase referred Co the Judiciary
Committee which immediately reported it for
passage. Che Tariff bill then taken up
and Senatos Hiscock addsessed the Senate
Adjourned. :. In Che House ~ unanimous con-
enforce the Ehiness Exclusion bilA
passed. The bill approriating $4,000
to secure % the Cherokee freedmen
their portion o. certait proceeds q lands also
passed. The oOnfersnco report On the bill to
allow persons who have relinquished home
stead entries 80 mike another was agreed to.
Pending consideration Of che conference report
on the Deficiency bill, the point OF po Quorum
was raised and the House adjourned.
- In the Senate on she 10th q numbes OF
resolutions were intrpduced end adopted after
which the bin to pay the widow OF Chief Justice
Waite &c, AIS. Che balance Of years salary,was
taken up and passed. Two otaer bills Of . local
nature were passed when the Tariff bill was
taken up and Senator Bate addressed the SEN
ate in opposition to Che Senate substitute. Ad-
journed. The House agreed to che conference
report ON the Deficiency bill, which disposed OF
all appropriation bills; also she conference &C.
port on the bill granting the eight Of way to a
railroad through the Ynkton reservation. and
adjourned until Friday.
The Senate on the Nthpessed the House
bill approprating $50, 900 for the enforcement OF
the Chinese bill. Senator Mitchell addressed
the Senate on his bill to reduce letter postage
90 one cenG and when the tariff bill was taken
up Senators Cnllom and Hatt spoke in favor of
It. Adjourned. .ssThe House was not IN aeS-
sion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-18


CARROLL TILTON, oldest sozs OF Theodore
sTilton, of Beecher scandal fame was mar
ried in Brooklyn the other night TO Miss
Miriam Alice Blauvelt. Mrse Tilton was
one Of those present. So
Q FRANCIS We WuLIASass senior member
ofthe well known banking house Of Will
Hams, Black s. Co, committed suicide at
the Grand Union Hotel, New York, re-
Gently. The firm was squeezed in the
/. Hutchinson deal in Chicago and suspended
September %, but rallied and opened for
business October l.
HEAVY snow storm was reported
throughout Northern Vermont and New
York ON the 9th.
THE charter election held at Newark, N.
j.. on the 9th showed o Democratic gain
'l'on the general ticket Of about ZOO For
/, the first time in thirty years the Demo-
Gratis carried the city at the charter cleo
tion previous to the Presidential election.
HEAVY floods are reported in the st.
Croix and Aristook rivers in Maine, great
damage being done.
{ TIE National Union Veterans in annual
encampment at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
10th elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: Commander-in-C Chief, Rob-
-erf Alton, Of Washington; first deputy
commander, Robert A. Frederick, of To-
peka, Kan; second deputy, 81. McEowen,
OF Titusville, Pa; surgeon general Dr.
W. H. Smith, of st. Clair. Mich.
+. A .sERIOUs disaster occurred at Quincy,
ILL.,. on the night of the 10th, during the
annual celebration, caused by the collapse
Of theslarge amphitheater erected for the
occasion. About 5000 persons were pre-
cipitated in q confused mass, of whom 500
we're more or less injured, q lawyer named
Albert Wells fatally. 1t was feared the
injuries OF others would result fatally.
The sheriff has seized the property of
the New York Star upon attachments Sc
cured by George F. Perkins, paper dealer,
In a suit Cor SIG, 600.
THE call for the annual convention of
the American Federation has been issued
from Pittsburgh, Pa. It will be held in st.
Louis December IL.
THE general railway time convention
.Yas.ia sessionyat the Hoffman House, New
York, on the 10th. Eighty companies
we're represented
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-18

THE bottom OF the Robert B. Carson, an
Ohio river cattle steamboat, collapsed The
other night and the vessel sank near
Evansville, Ind The crew escaped. -
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-18
WASHINGTON NOTES.

( AT conference of several Democratic
members Of the Copmittee on Ways and
Means on the sth 10 was decided that it
would noe be polite under the present
conditions FOR the House 60 send any
resolution Of adjournment to che Senate.
By an error in preparing for publication
che additions to the free list contained in
che substitute Tariff bill 1eported by the
Senate Committee on Finance 1T was made
to appear that opium fog smoking had
been freed from duty. AS a matter of fact
the substitute bill expressly prohibits che
importation of such opium. The item adds
ing eggs to the free list was also mistake.
Eggs are at present on che free list and
the committee is considering about placing
a duty upon them.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER Cook the oath snd
his seat on the Supreme Bench at Wash
ington on the Sth.
THE passage of che Deficiency BILL makes
; final adjournmeNT of Congress possible az
any time.
IS SENATOR. HALE'a report ON the civil
service was presented on the 10th. The
report severely censures President Cleve-
Aand and the administration for alleged
violation of the principles Of the civil
service.
The President has sent to the Senate a
message vetoing bill for the relief of Josh
Maddox, for losses by seizure Of tobacco
during the war. He refers to the fact that
the claim was decided upon adversely by
the courts, and that it had been presented
to Congress. regularly since the Forty
second Congress, passing now when 'fas
vorable conditions" exist.
ARGUMENT was begun fm Che Supreme
Court at Washington on the 18th in case
Isl, William G. Asher, plaintiff ia error,
VS.. the State of Texas, we'll known IS The
Texas drummer tax case.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-18

ONE hundred persons were killed in re.
cent disorders at Port an Prince, Hayti.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-05-19
The Best Way to Clean the Teeth.

There is not one of my patients
out of ten," said wcll-known dem
tist, who does not inquire anxious
ly as to what is the best method of
cleaning and preserving the teeth.
| tell them all the same thing, and
and that is to use nothing but wa
ter. More good teeth are ruined
by so-called dentifrices than by all
other causes put together, and the
reason is that these preparations
contain strong alkalis, so that with
very little rubbing the teeth will
look clean and white. But these
take the enamel off, and before long
the teeth are utterly destroyed.
There are many dentifrices, how
ever, which are not so bad, and
many reliable druggists have prep
arations which are not so harmful,
but the5 do not produce the same
rapid effect as that of which Ispoke
first, consequently many ignorant
people do not consider them so
good. But after all moderately
hard brush, plenty of cold water
and nothing else will keep the teeth
in excellent condition. Sweetmeats
are bad for the1eeth; so is smoking
and the taking of very hot or very
cold drinks. But the worst thing
of all is the so-called dentifrice.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-05-19
OFFICIAL RED TAPE.
The Work Caused by the Return Of a
Two-Cent Stamp.

A letter signed with initials and
mailed at the Washington post
Office was received the other day at
the Postoffice Department. The
writer enclosed a two-cent stamp,
with the following explanatory re-
mark for the benefit of the Post
master General:
II received q letter through your
Office yesterday. The canceling
stamp failed to cancel the stamp.
| tore the stamp off and used it.
Now my conscience has got the
best of me. You will please find
enclosed a two-cent stamp to go to
the conscience Fund.-"
AS it was not money the stamp
was sent to the Treasury Depart
ment, where there is special fund
for the benefit of those who are
overcome by the pangs of con-
science. The letter was sent on the
official and as much ink and good
paper was consumed in recording
its reception in the department and
final disposition as if it had been
$4,000 instead of a sickly two cent
stamp. 1t was first of all recorded
in the book of letters received in
the Postmaster Generals Office, and
was then sent, as indorsed by the
chief clerk, to the Third Assistant
postmaster r-General, and when it
reached the latter office it was re-
ferred by the Third Assistant Post
master-G General to the finance di-
vision. Another record was made
in the book of the office of letters
received and jacketed. Then it
found its way to the finance divis-
ion. The chief of that division
pasted the stamp on the letter, drew
two cross marks through the stamp
with his pen and marked under it
the word Cancelled" and signed his
name. This operation was wit
messed by a clerk, who affixed his
name as witness, and then the letter
having reached the end of its red
tape journey, was duly and prop
erly deposited in the files, where it
will remain as evidence to future
generations that this petit larceny
upon the government was regularly
and officially atoned for In case
the citizen whose conscience was
disturbed wishes to establish the
fact that he has made restitution
he can refer to the documents in
the case, which the Postohice De-
partment will kindly preserve for
him without charge.-Star.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-05-19
WOMAN's QUICK WIT.

A woman's quick wit makes her,
when she has the courage to act
upon it, valuable aid in an emer-
gency. Some years ago, when road
agents abounded in Montana, a
woman was travelling by coach to
join her husband. One day a fell
low-passenger said to her:
Il have $1,000 in my pocketbook
and feel uneasy about the road
agents. Would you mind conceal
ing it in your dress and returning
it to me at the end of your journey? /?
II the highwaymen do stop US they
are less liable to search you than
me"
She acceded to his request, hid
the money in her dress, and the
stage drove on without meeting a
road agent until toward evening.
Then the shout, "Throw up your
hands!" was heard. The driver
promptly pulled up as four men on
horseback, with masked faces, ap-
peared in the road and covered
him with their pistols.
Two ofthe highwaymen then rode
to each side Of the coach and or
dered the passengers to give up
their arms, which they did promptly.
NOW. shell out! !" said the rob-
bers,
The passengers handed out their
pocket-books; even the man who
called in the woman's aid gave up
a few dollars.
He was cQngratulatinG himself
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-05-19
Teaching the Crew a Lessen.

On recent cruise of the United
States man-of-war Michigan, SAL
or, who is a Chicago man, attempted
to throw an exhausted quid of to-
bacco over the rail into the water.
His aim was bad, and the quid fell
on the deck. An officer observed
it. He would not allow the sailor
to touch it, but ordered the entire
crew to rig up Il gun tackle. The
gun tackle is hawser three and
half inches thick and weighs 25OO
pounds. Being seldom if ever used,
Ii was slowed away in the hold and
covered up. To get it on deck and
rig it up is q long, hard task. But
the gun tackle was rugged up, and
the commanding officer attached
to it a silk thread. He made a
loop in the thread, lassoed the quid
of tobacco, made it fast, all hands
gave a long pull and a strong pull,
and the quid of tobacco was hoisted
overheard. Then the gun tackle
was taken down and slowed away
in the hold. 1t required eleven
hours of hard work to get the to-
bacco overheard, and it is the opin-
ion of the commanding officer that
no more guilds Of tobacco will be
thrown on the deck of the Michi-
gan for some time to come.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-05-19
Bachelor Drill.

"Fall in" love with some good
and industrious young woman.
Attention" pay to her faithfully
and respectfully. Right face" in
popping the question like a man.
"Quick march" to her parents and
ask their consent. ''File right"
with her to the church, and go
through the marriage ceremony.
Halt" and reflect seriously upon
the new duties you have assumed.
and then perform them. "Riglt
about face" from the haunts YOU
have frequented when single. ''Ad-
vance arms to your young wife
when out walking, and never leave
her to trail behind. "Break off"
staying out at night and all other
bad habits if you would have q
happy home.-Tid- Bits.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-05-19
KETcHUM ALTURAs COUNTY, IDAHO SATURDAY NAY 49, 1883

upon his caution, when he hearo
the woman say in quiet way:
II have got $1,000 but suppose
| must give it up"
Suiting the action to the woro
she handed over the mans roll o,
greenbacks.
The robbers rode away, and then
the man gave expression to his
feelings by abusing the lady, and
accusing her of betraying his trust
from sheer fright.
She smiled mysteriously.
"You will see, sir; but l can't
explain now"
At the end of the journey she
asked him to stop at her house all
night, and said her husband would
be glad to see him.
"Yes. ma'am l will come to your
house." he answered, in the tone
Of an injured man. 'It's the least
you can do, ma'am, seeing that you
have left me without a cent in the
world"
At the lady's house he was treated
as a distinguished guest, but neith-
er host nor hostess offered him one
word Of explanation that night, and
he went to bed a sad, irritated man.
The next morning, as he entered
the dining-room, the host shook
hands with him and said:
Here is your $1,000, sir, which
my wife ventured to borrow in an
emergency. She had $4,000 which
she was bringing to me concealed
In her dress. She thought by Civ
ing up at once the $1,000 intrusted
to her by you she would save her.
self from being searched by the
robbers.
"Her quick wit saved me from a
heavy loss, and l am much obliged
to you for the use of the forced
loan"
Breakfast was a far more cheer
full meal to the man than the sup
per OF the night before.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-05-19
Snake-Eating Snakes.

A letter just received from Mr..
Pringle, of Louisiana, the we'll
known American snipe shot, whose
wonderful bags were reported some
time since in your paper, contains
the following: / was walking
across a very boggy marsh, where
there was a good deal of water, and
was stumbling along not with my
former youthful agility, when |
came near stepping on a snake in
coil, what is called cotton mouth
moccasin.' whose bite is not fatal,
but somewhat poisonous. There
being no stick at hand to kill him,
l stepped back and shot him, cut
ting him not quite but nearly in two,
and exposing his 'innards,' as the
negroes say. My man Caesar ex-
claimed, Massa, he got another
snake in him!' and 80 he had
one nearly as long as himself. l
pulled the swallowed snake out,
and held him by the tail along side
the other. The swallower was about
80 inches long and very thick. and
the swallowed II inches shorter,
only that the latter's head and neck
were doubled, so as to be forced
into the other. Did you ever know
of one snake eating another? They
say that dog will not eat dog, but
it seems that snake will perform
that operation on another snake" !"
London Field.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-05-19
A Eeartless Slander on the Sex.

There is mining company in st.
Louis composed entirely OF women
who own NINE in Colorado. If
there are any pockets in that mine
nobody but the women will ever
find them. A woman's pocket is
safer than box in deposit vault;
nobody can ever find it except the
woman herself; and very few wo-
men, indeed, know where their own
pockets are located, as is clearly
shown by the fate that so many Of
the dear creatures are obliged to
carry their pocketbooks in their
hands.-Boston Transcript.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-05-19

when the second man went
away" said Sheridan, in great glee,
II had rothing to do but to put on
the odd boots, thus making this
handsome pair, which your Royal
Highness has been pleased to ad-
mire, each messenger having left
an odd boot, right and left; and.
finishing my toilet, l walked down
here, and, | rather suspect, have
made 100 guineas, if I could only
collect them, by the adventure"
This self-confessed and accom-
plished cheat, the renowned author
of "The School for Scandal" was
at that time the "hail fellow well
met of princes, noblemen and
great commoners; was a member
of Parliament; had been Minister
of the Crown, millions of money
passing through his hands as Treas
urer of the navy, and as a member
of the Privy Council of George III,
had Right Honorable" prefxed to
his name.
The utmost familiarity existed
between the two Sheridans, father
and son. On one occasion, when
the father happened to be annoyed
at something the son had said or
done, he angr.ly exclaimed: 'pll
tell you what, Tom, I shall make
my will and cut you off with shil
ling" The hopeful heir, thus threat
ened with disinheritance. replied,
with great nonchalance and a thor
ough knowledge of his parents or
binary impecunious condition, DO
you happen to have that shilling in
your pocket now, father?"
AS he had not, he had to laugh
at the tilial retort, and put his pa
rental Indignation on the shelf.
They were precious pair.
Fancy Sheridan, who really pos
sessed vast amount of the bright
est wit, remained in bed the greater
part of the day, inventing and pol
ishing bright little bits in prose and
verse which he intended to intro
duce as sudden thoughts of the
mind when he would dine with the
Prince of Wales that same evening.
Thomas Moore declares that this
was Sheridan's frequent trick OF
trade in his latter da st. S. Bow
ditch in Troy Times.