Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-24
THE WEST.

A DYNAMITE bomb OF the most approved
pattern and deadliest size has been found
In the house lately occupied ny d. j. Tob-
man, of Chicago.
BY the misplacing of a switch at Supe-
rior, Wis, recently, a Northern Pacific en-
CINE and several cars were wrecked and
much wheat destroyed.
FITZGERALD & Co.'s large candle factory
in Chicago was destroyed by fire recently.
Loss 100000.
BILLY HUTCHINSON, one of the most des-
perate of Chicago crooks and murderers,
has escaped from the insane asylum at
Kaukakee, Ill.
TIE schedule OF the condition of II. b.
Baird, an extensive real estate agent. of
Minneapolis, Mimi, who recently assigned,
shows assets 81, 523, 526. direct liabilities,
S549,3S4 contingent liabilities, S577, SSS
There were a nunber of heavy Eastern
creditors.
COLONEL j. 81. WooLFoRD, who issued
the bonds of the Confederacy during the
war, died at Madison, Ind, recently.
DIsCoURAGING reports regarding the out
look for crops have been received from all
parts of Indiana. In many counties hay
and oats have suffered severely from
drought, while in the southern half of the
State corn fields are being devastated by
the cut worm.
TWENTY representatives of large export
ing flour mills from st. Louis, Minneapolis,
Milwaukee, Buffalo, Chicago Cleveland,
Terre Haute and other points met at Chi
cago recently and formed com animation.
OHIO Democrats have made the following
nominations: Secretary of State, Boston
G. Young. of Marion County; Judge of the
Supreme Court, Lyman r. Critchfield, of
Holmes County; Board of Public Works,
James Emmett, of Pike County. The plat
form Endorsed the National Administration
and the Mills Tariff bill and expressed sym
pathy for Ireland.
The Missouri Republicans have nomi-
mated State ticket headed by Ebert Err
win Kimball, OF Vernon County, for Gov
ernor.
the 10th, the joint committee laboring In
the interests OF harmony was reported as
being unable to agree upon common plat
form. The platform adopted by the Union
Labor party practically excluded it from
affiliating with the United Labor party.
The night express on the Rio Grande
railroad from Denver to Leadville, Col,
was wrecked near Salida recently. The
wreck was a terrible crash ind several
persons Were more or less injured, but
marvelously to relate no one was killed.
l.. RICHARDSON'S inter or decoration
works, Clevela nd, O., were destroyed by
fire the ether morning. Loss. S6O,OO0.
The United Labor party at Cincinnati on
the 18th nomina' ed Robert II. Cow drey of
Illinois, for President and w. H T. Jake
field, of Council Grove, Kan, for Vice
Presidenf.
A BREAK occurred in the Sny 1evee, two
miles be.ow the Hanniba (Mo.) bridge on
the 18th. The territory covered by tn.
hoodswas forty five m les lon g:and 4 miles
wide. The damags was immense ana could
not be computed.
WILLIAM GEORGE was executed at the
peniten,iary annex at Columbus O., on The
18th, in the presence of a limited number
OF spectators. Georges crime was the
murder of james Scott, in Muskingum
County, on the night of July Is, 1887.
THE court house of Sydney, the county
seat of Fremont County, Iowa, was burned to
the ground the other night, and the records,
except the trelsurers, w, re DESTROYED Anf
attempt was made few years ago to blow
up this bui ding and destroy the records to
cover up shortage of the officials, but
failed. The fire was incendiary.