Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-13

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damages.
THonAs THOMPSON, Of Rockpors, Mass.
. pensioner Of tho war Of 1912, died re-
Gently, aged nine-four.
Four men and ono woman committed
suicide in New York City on the 9th. Three
of tho victims were German and ono man
and the woman were French.
TIE front Of Henry Dick . seven-story
malt house, corner Niagara and Maryland
streets, Buffalo. N. Y, fell out recently,
burying Anthony Anse aud Fred Meyer.
Anse was rescued . few minutes after tho
disaster unframed. Meyer was killed.
THE WEST
TEE general managers Of tho roads be-
tween Chicago and St Louis and the At
lantic sesboar1, after . two days session
BIZ . colliHion between an accommoda-
ton and freight train near Bismarck,
Dali, recently both engines were wrecked
and seven trainmen injured.
THE Atlantic e Pacific Railroad Com
pany. Of California, recently notified all
employees except the train and yard and
motive power mon that those drawing
wages over $50 per month would be reduced
10 per cent dating from November ]. A
strike was threatened
SPECIAL news has been received that tho
u
ing and decided 70 shoot the officers il
further attempts are made 70 evict them.
AT tho regular weekly meeting Of the
Methodist Episcopal Association. Chicago.
tho other day, resolutions were passed
condemning Sunday newspapers and
practically asking their Pensioners to
boycott them by refusing to read or advex-
tise in them.
THE detectives investigating tho last
Calumet mine fire think the blaze was
started by one of the miners.
WILL SCHRIEBER, the absconding teller
Of the First National Bank of Columbus,
Ind, has returned several thousand dol
lars to President Lucas OF tho bank in
Windsor, Ont. and secured immunity
from arrest.
BIZ an explosion in q mine at Newcastle,
Col, recently one man was killed and
eight seriously wounded.
In shooting at q burglar in Chicago the
other night Policeman Ensor killed Matte
Olsen, . domestic. The thief escaped.
TIE commission appointed to treat with
the Southern Utes for their removal to the
new reservation. completed their labors at
the Durango, Col, agency on the 4th by
giving the Indians barbecue dinner.
The official canvass Of Nebraska is: Har.
rison 1nS, 425, Cleveland sO;552, Fisk e.429,
Streeter 1925.
The leading plug tobacco manufacturers
OF the United States held a secret confer
ence in Cincinnati on the 4th.
By q collision between two trains on .
curve near Youngstown, O., the other
morning, one man was killed. two ia ally
injured and q fourth badly hurt. Both en-
gines and ten cars were wrecked.
INCENDIARIES set fire 20 Woods, jerks &
Co.'s lumber yards in Cleveland, o re.
Gently and five acres OF sawed timber were
destroyed. causing q loss Of $50, 900.
THE attempt to consolidate the Federated
Miners with the Knights Of Labor at
Columbus, O.. was reported . virtual
failure on the 9th.
Four Chinese highbinders are dead as
the result of their recent factional fight at
Portland, Ore. Another was also reported
dying.
"OLD HUTCH" of Chicago, has been
robbie of $4,000 by an ex-clerk whom he
had trusted.
THE stage from Mendocino to Ingrams,
CAL. was robbed recently, supposed for a
large amount.
The widow Of the millionaire Smell, who
was murdered by Tascott in Chicago last
February, has increased the reward for
the arrest Of the murderer to $50, 600.
There was report on the 9Th that Tascott
had been arrested, which report SneIls
SON. law Stone was inclined to believe.
ABOUT 1000 squatters. principally Poles.
in the vicinity of the High bridge, st.
Faul, Mimi, are to be evicted. Some have
| been living there twenty years.
The bill leasing "the Strip to the c. s.
l.. s. A. has passed both houses of the
= erokee National Council and is only
awaiting the approval of Chief Mayes to
become law The bill releases to the asso-
citation the entire Strip for a period of fl 20
a Of
The strike of the Montana Union road
has been settled. Master Mechanic Ross.
| whose discharge the engineers demanded,
was laid OFT and the engineers returned to
work.
E. GRUMBAcH, . fur dealer of Duluth.
MIMI, has disappeared leaving debts
running we'll up into the thousands.
The Board Of Trade OF Great Falls,
Mont, has taken the first step toward :
| statehood movement in Montana.
THE SOUTH
AT Hopkinsville, KY, on tho I'd 122 col
ored converts to the Baptist faith were
baptized in a mill pond The time occu-
pied was only one hour and ton minutes
Rev. John Williams officiated.
BY the burning of the cabin OF q negro
| woman near Lexington, Ga, tho othe,
day, three small children persisted. The
| mother was visiting at tho time.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has de-
cided that the capital OF . bank invested
| in United States bonds 10 liable to Statx
! taxation.
GENERALB- E SPINNER, formerly United
States Treasurer, is said to be suffering
from cancer. He is living at Pablo Beach
Fla, and is eighty years old.
WILLIAM F. OREIsMAN, of Ell Paso Tex.
has sued the Government for his share Of
the reward for the capture Of JET Davis.
| r. r. HOUSE has been arrested for thu
murder IF his fourteen-year-old daughter
whose body was found in the lake q
Eastiake, Ala, recently. It was though,
he had also murdered the girls mother
as she was missing. and he had married
another woman the day he was arrested
THE joint session Of the Nrtional AND