Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-20
Summary OF the Daily News.


IN the Diss Debar trial at New York ON
the 9th the deluded lawyer, Marsh, said he
still believed Nine. Diss Debar was by far
the most powerful medium in the world.
Testimony was taken showing that the
General and the Madame were in the habit
of buying artists materials.
THE accounts OF NJ Il. Liehtenstein. late
~ secretary and treasurer of the Perpetual
Building and Loan Association, of Will
mington, Del, shows shortage of S33 $50.
Lichtenstein had a good record in both bus
mess and political circles here running
back more than twenty years
THERE is much excitement all through
Sussex County, n. j., over the bursting of
the pipe line of the Standard Oil Company
The lands of Henry Sammis, in Vernon
township, are ruined. The oil has spread
over acres of rich farm land, and great
damage has been done to growing crops.
THE II. o. Bernard Company, large
straw goods manufacturing house of New
York, has received extension of time from
creditors. Liabilities, 500, 600; assets,
e4s,OO0
THOMAS p. McELRATH, the publisher OF
the first New York Tribune, died recently
of old age.
THE other morning a southbound train
on the New York q Northern railroad ran
into gang of seven laborers at work on
the track near Moshalu avenue, New York.
Joseph Tracy and Frank Paulagagtindo
were instantly killed. James Roman and
Passaeli Manchi each had q thigh frac-
tured.
TAMMANY HALL and Tony Pastors Thea.
ter, on East Fourteenth street, New York.
were destroyed by fire on the morning Of
the 9th. Tammany delegates at the st.
Louis National convention were the reclp-
tents OF much sympathy on account OF the
loss of their home.
FIRE broke out IN the dry kiln of Taft q
Morgan's sash and door factory at Bur-
lingtoD, VT, the other morning. The fire
at once communicated to the Baldwin Re-
frfgerator Company's Office and the Shep-
ard & Morse Compsny's retail yard and
later to the planning mill also The total
loss was $780, 900; insurance, $3.50, OO0
The Boston Herald alleges that one Of the
largest printing concerns of that CITY has
lost 500, 900 by entertainments during the
past twenty years.
A LARGE number OF the members of the
Anti-Cleveland Club of 1884 and other Irish
Democrats OF prominence met at Clarendon
Hall, New York, the other night and or
ganized under the name of the Irish
American Protective League, the object
being to continue the opposition TO Cleye.
land.
A CARRYING pipe of the Standard Oh
Company sprang a leak at Greenpoint
avenue and Oakland streets, Long Island
City, the other morning and a spark from
blacksmith shop ignited the oil; the pipe
broke, and the burning fluid spread rapidly
over the ground, threatening destruction
OF property. The flames were extinguisbed
after hard fight.
MAYOR HEWITT, of New York, refused
permission to the County Demo racy to
fire cannon in honor of President Cleye.
lands nomination.
The town hall Of Westminster, Vt, was
destroyed by lightning on the 9th. The
hall was built in ITO and was the building
in which the first State Legislature met.
THE Amalgamated Association recently
in session at Pittsburgh Pa, refused to ex-
tend fraternal greetings to Knights of
Labor iron workers.
THE General Synod of the Reformed
Church in America, in session at Catskill.
N. Y, has uttered ON emphatic protest
against the traffic in Intoxicating liquors
as now carried on by civilized and nomi-
nally Christian nations with heather lands
DIR. LEIGHTON COLEMAN. OF Sayre Pa
has been elected Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal denomination in the Diocese Of
Delaware, to succeed Right Rev Alfred H.
Lee.
FIVE men were horribly burned by the
overturning of a ladle of molten steel at
the Bessemcr mill Of the Pennsylvania
steel works at Steeltou, Pa, recently. VIII
son Shaefer died in an hour and Samuel
Searfoss could not live. The others were
seriously burned
EZRA 81. BAKER, of Boston, president of
the American Loan & Trust Company and
Union Paciic director, died the other
night of blood poisoning
The commissioners of Allegheny County,
Pa, have been notified by County Comp
troller Speer that there was a deficit of
SO, $50 in the accounts of ex-Sheriff Joseph
Gray.
ALICE WooDHALL. extradited for forgery
and taken to New York for trial was ac-
quilted of the charge bat detained in
custody on another complaint Her coun.
sci complained bitterly of her rearrest
asserting that she was under the protection
OF the British Government, the charge for
which she was extradited having fallen
through.
REV. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, the noted
Unitarian divine, died at Jamaica Plains,
Boston, on the Sth, aged seventy eight.
RHEUMATISM in. the back continues to af.
fiict General Sherman.
WALT WHITMAN, the poet, was reported
dangerously i'll at his home in Camden, Pa.
By the explosion of retort in the new
fuel gas works in Pittsburgh, Pa, the
other day one man was fatally, one
seriously and several slightly injured.
BY the burning of a tenement house at
Lowell, Mass, the other night, Eugenia
Vallerand, aged eighteen, Peter Vallerand,
aged eight and Della Vallerand, aged five
persisted. Another of the family and an
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tally hurt. The house was death trap.