Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22
THE WEST.

RUpoLpH HELLER was found in dying
condition in his house at FIndlay, O., re-
Gently with his wife and eighteen-months-
old baby lying dead by his side. The case
was believed to be murder and suicide
A FALL of ground from pillar In No. 3
pit OF the Cleveland mine, ut Ishpeming,
Mich, recently, killed Thomas Mort hey
and injured Mike Kippels, Henry McKoe
and Matthew Antells. Mckee loses one
foot, and is considered in a serious condi-
ton. few days before five men were
KILLED in the same pit.
THE main building and workshop of the
Buckeye Buggy Company, located in the
north part of Columbus, o., burned the
other night. The building was 62x175 feet
deep and seven stories high. Loss, $50, OCO;
insurance, 100000.
FIFTY pounds of dynamite exploded again
in the cut in Duluth, Mimi, were several
men were killed recently. The city was
shaken and much glass broken. but no one
was hurt.
THE Witter trial at Denver, Col, ended
on the 18th in the acquittal of the prisoner,
Mrs Witter, charged with poisoning her
husband.
THE Grand Detours pillow works at Dixon,
Ill, were destroyed by fire the other night
causing 500, 600 loss. Two men were badly
hurt by the falling smokestack.
CALIFORNIA w ne merchants are reported
10 DC ROOuS 1SdSI az pi CoSA'
in order to take advantage Of the present
low freight rates.
THE Sagendorph Roofing Company, of
Cincinnati, has made assignment with
So, 900 assets and $4,000 liabilities, nearly
all secured.
AT Ration, N. M, recently George w.
Cook, deputy sheriff, shot and killed Frank
Catlin, deputy United States marshal The
affair was the finish of an old grudge. Cat
Of he yiaSf mo in
and hero of the Lincoln County war in
New Mexico.
THE boiler in the saw mill of George Duer,
at Burlington, Ind, exploded recently,
blowing two brothers-Moses and Frank
Whltsell-employed at the mill into IN
recognizable shape, and killing Ed Ever
man, a young man but recently married.
THE ice in the Missouri river at Fort AS
sinaboine, M. T., broke up on the 18th.
The Ohio crop report is not flattering.
A. II. DANFoRTu, president of the Colo
RADIO Coal q Iron Company, and Charles
Brade, formerly purchasing agent for the
same company, have been arrested and
placed under bonds for unlawfully cutting
timber the public lands. The timber
was cut In Las Animas County, Col.
THE Republicans of Cincinnati have NOM
mated Judge William II. Taft for another
term on the Supreme Court bench.
JUDGE o. N. DENNY, of Portland, Ore,
for the past three years Inspector General
of Customs for Corea and private legal ad-
visor of the King of Corea, has resigned
and will return to America.
NEAR Cotton, Cal, on the Southern Pa
ciic, the other night, freight train was
derailed by running into some cattle aud
Conductor Maguss and Brakeman Van
Mater were killed. The wreck took. fire
and seventeen cars loaded with freight
were burned.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred in a large
building occupied by Atkins, Ogden & Co.
| and another firm at Milwaukee, Wis, on
the 18th. The loss amounted to $3.50 0O0
During the tlre wall fell on several fire
| men. killing two and injuring several more.
THE engineers and firemen on the extern
sive Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe system
| struck on the 18th because the road was
| exchanging business with the Burlington.
Travel was completely stopped, not a man
returning to his post. Much pub bile incon-
| venlence resulted and greater was expected
as it was asserted that strikes would also
| follow on the Missouri Pacific, the Union
Pacific, the Atlantic & Pacific the Gulf
and other roads.
Two Mormon Elders were tarred and
feathered near Brier Ridge, O., by a num-
| Der OF angry citizens recently and chased
across the Ohio river.