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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21
THE LATEST.

EMPEROR FREDERICK, OF Germany, died
at Potsdam on the morning OF the 18th,
fourteen weeks after the death of his
father, Emperor William. He was con-
scious to the last and was surrounded by
his Empress and other members of his
family. His end was unmarked by any
signs of acute suffering. He was born in
the palace 10 which he died October Is,
1881.
COUNT RICHTER, who was destined to
succeed Count Piper as Swe fish Ambassa-
dor to London, has committed suicide at
Stockholm by shooting himself with re-
volver.
The Senate was not in session on the
18th. The House considered several pri-
vate bills, but the attendance was exceed
ingly thin.
GENERAL SHERIDAN was reported con-
siderably improved by his physicians on
the night of the 18th.
HEAVY thunder storm passed over AL
bany, N. Y, on the 18th. Lightning struck
English & Best's hotel The loss reached
500, 900; partially insured.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union ended its convention at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 18th. Mrs. Clara Hoffman, of
Kansas City, was elected preside Mt.
LAWYER DUNN, of New York, has been
found guilty or grand larceny in the first
degree in receiving from Teller Scott the
bonds stolen by the latter from the Man
haitian Bank. Sentence was postponed
pending argument on a motion for q new
trial
SERIOUS floods are reported IN Southern
Minnesota and Dakota, consequent upon
heavy rains of the 18th and 14th. Much
damage has been done, the downpour
being accompanied by heavy winds.
A COLLISION occurred on the Pennsylva-
MIA road near Fifty-second Street Phladel-
phia recently, by which twenty freight
cars were wrecked. One car was loaded
with refined oil, which caught fire from q
hot box and the cars were almost entirely
destroyed, with the greater part of their
contents. Loss, $50, OOO.
CLARA WEED, aged eighteen, was struck
by lightning the other night near Aber
deem, OAK, and killed.
GEORGE s. HASKELL, of Rockford, ILL.,,
has been elected president Of the Ameri-
can Trade Association.
ALL the window glass factories of the
West have shut down until September !
and possibly longer unless an agreement
as to wages is reached.
The French Ministry propose to intro
uuce bill to tax saccharine as sugar and
to prohibit its sale as such.
ROBBERS attacked train on the M K
q L. near Muscogee, L T., on the night of
the 10Th, killing one man anu wouudlng
Two others. but only getting s. in booty.
An active pursuit or the ruffians was i'm
mediately organized.
BUSINESS fai ures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended June II, numbered for
the United States, 2O9; Canada %; total,
252; compared with $50 the previous week
and BIB the corresponding week last year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21
TRAIN ROBBERS.

A Train the NJ, X. = T. Attaeked-The
Robbers Kill Ben Tarver and Wound the
Mail Clerk and Train Boy.
MUscoGEE, L r., June 10 The south
bound express on the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas was robbed at Verdigris bridge,
eight miles north of here, at nine o'clock
last night. There were seven robbers,
who only got eight dollars out Of the safe.
The robbers shot the mail clerk in the
arm, also the train boy. and one ball fired
into the smoker struck Ben Tarver in the
neck, causing instant death. Officers here
are loading their horses on the cars to go to
Lhe scene of the robbery.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21
THE EAST.


By the upsetting of a boat near Vinal
Haven, Me-, recently four men were
drowned.
ORANGE JUDD GREEN, post graduate of
Cornell University, was drowned at Ithica,
N. Y, recently while bathing. His home
was in Alfred Center, N. Y.
CHARLES Cross, the jockey who was
thrown from horse at Jerome park, New
York City, the other day died the next
night from his injuries.
The twelfth annual convention of the
Millers' National Association began in
Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th.
MRS. WHEELING, of Philadelphia, has
confessed to poisoning her husband and
two children after insuring their lives.
ABOUT ten persons were injured and one
man was killed by fire in q tenement at
Second street and Second avenue, New
York, on the morning of the 18th.
IT is reported in Pittsburgh, Pa, that
the great Carnegie iron works will be run
independently of manufacturers and
workmen's associations alike.
In the Rhode Island General Assembly
Jonathan A. Chace was reelected United
States Senator by q majority of both
houses The Legislature has adjourned
until next January.
TIE works of the Salem (Mass.) Lead
Company, 2O0x100 feet in size and four
stories high, together with its contents
and machinery, were burned recently.
Loss, 500, GOO; fully insured.
A BRONZE equestrian statue of Israel Put
nam, the revolutionary hero, erected by
the State, was unvailed at Brooklyn, Conn,
on the 18th. Hon. Morris W. Seymour
made the speech OF presentation and Gov
ernor Lounsbury the address receiving it
on behalf Of the State.
Rev. w. W. NICHOLS, OF Philadelphia,
has been elected Assistant Protestant
Episcopal Bishop OF the Cleveland, o.,
diocese.
Mrs. ANNA LEE, of Rochester, N. Y, has
been awarded So, 900 damages for the death
of her husband in the naphtha explosion in
that city last December. = e
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21
WASHINGTON NOTES.

PRINCE ROLAND BoNAPARTE, grandson of
Lucien Bonaparte, was in Washington re-
Gently paying visit to the President
The Postmaster-General has sent to
Congress an additional estimate of appro-
priation for the free delivery service for
the next fiscal year of 81, OBJ, 200. This
additional amount, the Postmaster-General
says, IS necessary to carry out the provls-
ions OF the act extending the Eight Hour
law to letter carriers.
TIE President has pardoned G. L.. Weber.
of Montana, sentenced in November, 1885,
to twenty years for murder.
SENATOR CHANDLER has introduced by
request bill approprating $3.50, 600 for the
development and encouragement of silk
culture in the United States. 1t creates a
division of silk culture in the Department
of Agriculture.
THE Commissioner OF Fish and Fisheries
recomme nds that fish cultural station be
established near Neosho, Mo.
THE President has nominated Varnum
NJ. Babcock, of Wisconsin, to be receiver
of public moneys at st. Croix Falls, Wis.
TIE National Republican, of Washington,
suspended publication on the 18th, after q
career of twenty eight years. The paper
has been merged into the Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21
Troonship Wrecked.

OMAHA, Neb., June 1.-The steamboat
General Terry, from Bismarck, Dak.,.
with five hundred men Of the Fifth regiment
bound for Texas, struck an old pier above the
Union Pacific Bird e and sank in shallow
water near shore, about half mile below
this city last evening. All the passengers
went ashore on the gang plank, but the
clothes and household goods of the officers
and men and their wives went down. The
loss is estimated at S35. 000. The Helena,
OF Omaha, which conIaiand the rest OF
the regiment will continue down the river
while the General Terry'r pass engers will
continue their journey by rail.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21

PHILADELPHIA, June 16-A collision oc-
CURED on the Pennsylvania road near Fifty
second street yesterday afternoon by which
twenty freight cars were wrecked. One
car was loaded with refined oil which
caught fire from hot box and the cars
were almost entirely destroyed with the
greater part of their contents. The loss
ives $50. OOO on which there was no insur-
ance. No one was injured.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21
window GIas. rsctorIe. Close.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 15.-All the win
dow glass factories in this section OF the
West will close down tonight in accordance
with q resolution adopted at the recent
convention. The shut down will continue
until September ], and longer unless The
workers and employers agree on wage
scale for the next fire. BY the shut down
here about 300 men will be given a vaca-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21

Ex-WARDEN J. A. REID, OF the Minneso-
a penitentiary, has been given $4,000
iamages for libel by Warden Stordiek, his
successor.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21

THE Emperor of Brazil has completely
recovered from his recent illness.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21

Knowlton & Dolan, manufacturers of
mill machinery, Logansport, Ind, have
assigned with heavy Liabilities.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27

instant death at the point Of the bayo-
net II they did not return to work.
That he claimed 81 to be sufficient for
any wOfkingman for q days wages;
that while employed by the railroads
as their attorney, receiving q large
salary TO cause the strike TO be broken,
/ he posed rs friend Of the strikers In
the capacity of the chairman of a citi-
zen's committee for the purpose of de-
ceiving the citizens and the strikers;
that while playing the part of a traitor
he was receiving the salary of S. per
day as the captain of a militia company
to shoot the strikers; that he gave a
receipt for $50 for four days wages,
which is now on file in the Adjutant
Generals Office; that he received for
five days service as attorney for one of
the railroads $1,000, and his sworn
affidavit appears in the federal court
room to the effect that his services for
that period are worth 81 900, while he
claims that 81 per day or S5 for five days
is enough for a wOrkingman; that
he acted In the capacity of prosecutor
OF the strikers for which he received
an additional fee; that he prosecuted
one man who was not in the city and
knew nothing of the strike, and Mr..
Harrison was obliged to manufacture
evidence upon which to criminate him.
The above letter has been read by the
executive board of district assembly
lO6 X. Of L., who have directed it to be
forwarded to you with a request that
you reply, saying by what method you
will agree TO select committee to ex-
anime the original testimony now in
possession of this board.
For the executive board.
EDWIN F. GOULD,
District Recording Secretary District
Assembly 106 K. of L.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27
THE HOME MARKET IDIOCY.
A Few Tracts to Ponder When Free
of"Magnetie" Influences.
lChicago Times.l

The high takers are administering
home market talk to the farmers in
big doses. One dose of it they ad-
minister in their platform, wherein
they say "would effect all needed re-
duction of the national revenue by
such revision of the tariff laws as will
tend to check imports of such articles
as are produced by our people,"
They seem to mean to have the
farmer understand by this that they
would give him the home market to
himself by keeping out foreign pro-
ducts. Now let the farmer consider a
few facts before he swallows this
With the exception Of tea, coffee, sugar,
and some articles which our farmers do
not produce at all, or only in. small
quantities, our imports are not farm
products to any considerable extent. 81
The farmer, therefore, has the home
market pretty much to himself now.
But he furnishes more than 10 per
cent. of all cur exports. In the census
year the total value Of our farm pro.
ducts was 81, ,2lS, ,5O2, ,564. OF this total
$546, ,476, ,704, or nearly 25 per cent. was
exported. This surplus above the
home demand was nearly 25 per cent
0fhis total product.
Now, If he had been confined to the
home market, what would he have goi
for this extra rs per cent. that the home
market didn't want? And how would
. the value of his total product have
been affected If he had glutted the home
!, marketgw surplus of 25 per cent
above the demand? And as he him.
self consumes about one-half of his pro
Duct, he may judge for himself about
how much his home market would
have TO be enlarged in order to absorb
his rs per cent. surplus at remunera
live prices. HewOuld do. well to pom
der such facts as these before swallow
ing the magnetic" talk he hears aboul
the home market. ~
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27

Cleveland over Harrison ..... ............ 1887
1t is needless to make the application
to Connecticut, New Jersey, and
Indiana. But it will be interesting to
make the application as to Michigan,
even without reference to the enormous
gain shown by the prohibition party in
Maine, gain of $50 per cent.
al
Add per 3,853-196, ,522
FOR cleveland. 1S9, 36l
Add per cent :. E. .............. 9,468-199, ,S29
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27
w. &J. fletcher Testify.

That in their neighborhood, (Psrshalville,
Mich.) Brant's Extract of Blackberry has
and summer complaint which physicians
had failed to cure. One case in particular, old
Mr.. Downs, supposed chronic diarrhoea,
confined to the bed and unable to help or
control himself, expected to live but short
time, was cured by using one bottle of Brant'a
Ext. of Blackberry.
Cures almost instantly. Unequaled TO,
summer complaints, etc., of children.
25c bottles warranted to cure or money re-
funded by Saur & Balsley. If
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27

have been bothered with catarrh fol
about twenty years; had lost sense Of
smell entirely for the last fifteen years
and had almost lost my hearing
My eyes were getting so dim 1 had tc
get some one to thread my needle
Now | have my hearing as we'll as
ever had, and 1 can see to thread as
fine needle as ever ] did, my sense Of
smell is partly restored and it seems to
be improving all the time. I think
there is nothing like Ely's Cream Balm
for catarrh. Mrs. E. E. Grimes, 81
Valley st., Rendrill, Perry Co., Ohio.
2t
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27

The result of the recent election in
Maine affords the Chicago Times op-
portunity to do little figuring on pro-
liabilities, to-wit:
At last we have the truth about the
Maine election:
Republican plurality in 1884, 10, ,7GG
Republican pluralityin in 1888 s8s.............1S,49 40;
This loss is profoundly significant, as
an analysis of the figures will show. II
means, if it means anything, that
Cleveland will hold every state he had
in 1884, and that upon the same ratio
of Democratic gain he will have the
electoral vote of Michigan, with pos
sibilities both in Minnesota and in H.
linois.
We now have the complete vote, not
the jubilant estimate of Blaine as teIe-
graphed to Harrison on the night of the
election. Let us contrast it with the
vote cast in 1884:
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27
"a DOLLAR A DAY"
KNIGHTS OF LABOR PROVE THE
CHARGES AGAINST HARRISON.

They Meet the Bluff of His Indianapo-
lis Organ With n Large Array OF
Positive Testimony and De-
mand the $4,000 Alleged
90 Have Been Pnt up
A Scorcher for
the Grand
son.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27

The Republican gain on its own vote
is plus per cent. The Democratic gain
in its own vote is plus per cent. In
the figures presented above scattering,
for convenience, including labor, pro-
hibition, and greenback votes. All
these taken together suffer loss as
compared with the vote four years ago.
Putnam, the Democratic candidate
in Maine, led a forlorn hope under
circumstances of peculiar disadvantage.
He was between the devil of the
fisheries and the deep sea of a tariff bill
proposing free lumber. Maine is the
seat of the American fisheries and the
center of great lumber trade. The
Presidents retaliatory message pointed
to Names chief port as a possible great
sufferer by policy of drastic reprisal.
Putnam himself had been one of the
commissioners who made the treaty
rejected by the senate. His campaign
was conducted in an admittedly Re-
publican state, where the great national
leader, Blaine, held command in
person. Yet the Republicans suffer a
loss of 1900 on their plurality. and
while they gain a fraction more than
per cent. on their own vote, the Demo-
Gratis gain fraction more than 5.
Take this result as basis of calculat-
ing the outcome in November and what
will be shown? In 1884 New York cast
563, ,0S4 votes for Cleveland and 562, ,0Ol
votes for Blaine. If Harrison gain
per cent. on Blaine's vote and Cleve-
land gain 5 per cent. for himself the
result will be
HarrisOn - ...... 5r13 241
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27

The many remarkable cures Hoods
Sarsaparilla accomplishes are sufficient
proof that 1t does possess peculiar cura-
Aive powers.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27


The application of the Maine ratio
would not of itself give Minnesota to
Cleveland, but it is we'll known that of
all the western Republican states, that
is, all the western states except Indiana,
the sentiment of tariff reform is strong
est In Minnesota.
The claim hastily and disingenuously
made by Blaine and the application
sought to be enforced of the estimated
figures invite this comparison made
upon figures as they actually are,
Their philosophy teaches that taken in
connection with Vermont, where there
was also Democratic gain larger than
the Republican gain on the totals of the
respective votes, there is steady Dem
ocratic gain in the northern states
whereby New York, New jersey, Con.
necticut, and Indiana are Democratic
by increased majorities, and Michigan
will keep them company.
We have here an indication that ex.
cessive taxation is not as popular as its
proponents fancied. The criterion Is
one set up by themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
Eureka.

The motto of California means, Il have
found it. Only in that land of sunshine,
where the orange, lemon, olive, fig and
grape bloom and ripen, and attain their
highest perfection in mid-winter, are
the herbs and gum found, that are used
in that pleasant remedy for all throat
and lung troubles.
SANTA Abe the ruler Of coughs,
asthma and consumption. The Good
man Drug Co. has been appointed agent
for this valuable California remedy aud
sells it under a guarantee at 81 a bottle.
Three for $3.50.
Try CALIFORNIA CAT-R-CURE,
the only guaranteed cure for catarrh.
o., BY mail sl.l0.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
Err OWN DARLING.
A Senator Who AbandOns His Wife or
Committee Work

A good deal of amusementis furnished
this spring by the wife of IA certain sena-
tor who always calls her husband Oar
ling" says the Washington correspond
ent OF tn e Memphis Avalanche. He
isn't such a one as the term would be
ordinarily applied to, being big and
burly and not very nice about the per-
son, but she seems to think it is n pretty
pet name, and uses the term of endear-
ment on all occasions. Whether she is
addressing him in private or public or,
whether she speaks of him TO others,
she always says Darling" and does it
so frequently hat when Darling" is
referred to o everybody knows who is
meant.
Darling has such a bad cold" she
said to another senator's wife the other
day, that am going to put HIM TO bed
when he comes home"
Darling went 10 the capitol early
this morning. she remarked to an
other, ito attend one of those hOrrid
committee meetings. What dreadful
things they are! | positively hate
them. Why, Darling says if it wasn't
for his committee work he could spend
lots of time with me-"
The other senators have ''caught on -
so to speak, and now seldom allude TO
their colleague by any other term-in
his absence Of course. Que senator
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10

her garter was cut up and the pieces dis
tributed among her maids of honor, in &C.
cordance with an old German custom.
Benjamin Smith and Annie Jones were
married not long ago After the ceremony
was over the bride was Annie mated and the
groom Bonnie fitted.
Miss Leoline Daniel, Of Athens, Louisiana,
while preparing for her wedding became
suddenly i'll, and died about the hour she was
TO have been married.
Mrs. Frank Leslie SAYS she declines an
average of two offers of marriage daily.
Must be the boys are trying to work her by
making bogus proposals.
A man named Blessing he asst been mar
ried in Harrisburg. In this case the groom's
father gave the bride the Blessing, instead
of the BRIDES father giving it to the couple.
A South Carolina girl was married five
times in seven weeks, and is now bothered
TO know which one of the chaps is her true
husband. She has been sent to Jail to think
IT over.
"Mr. Dusenberry, you were ~outrageously
cheated in buying that suit. You are too
easily satisfied" Eyes, dear, that's what my
mother told me when she heard / was going
to marry you"
a woman who refused to marry him and has
grown so attached to it that he refuses to
give it up to the mother, even under threat
of legal proceedings.
True loves most signal triumph over pow
erty and age must be in the recent marriage
in Devonshire between a spinster of seventy
five and a bachelor of sixty, both in receipt
of parish assistance.
Mrs. Helen Hoosted, of PENNSYLVANIA, is a
very much unmarried woman. She has out
lived six husbands and been divorced from
eight others. Helen is q candidate for mat
rimonial honors again.
A notable wedding occurred at Livermore,
KY, recently. G.. A. Algood of this city, who
is only four feet in height, was married to
Miss Minnie Dewitt, of Llvia, KY, who is
several inches shorter of stature.
Not one hundred miles from Boston lives
an energetic farmer and milk peddler. The
day before Fast day he was married. Fast
day morning he carried his bride to the rail
way station on his milk wagon and pade her
an affectionate adieu as she started on her
three weeks wedding journey alone.
"A young woman rushed in upon a wedding
party in Paris before the marriage and pre-
sented the bridegroom with a baby, scream
ing: Coward, take charge of your off
received and the bride tainted. But a mo-
ment later the intruder said: II really beg
pardon; / made a mistake. This is not the
father of my child.n
A gentleman who had been in the habit of
beating his wife one day had his photograph
taken, and thus called attention to it:
Come hither, my Jane, see, my picture is
here,
DO you like it my love! Don't it strike
you!"
81 can't say it does at present, my dear,
But 1dare say it Willis so like you"
He loved her once; or so he thought,
But now he stays away.
She could not possibly be taught
10 keep from saying, "Sayln