Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-02-09
THE WEST.

W. P. SERGEANT, ex-State Senator OF
Minnesota and one OF the trustees OF Al
bert Lea College, was arrested IN Albert
Lea, Mimi, recently, charged WITH settlns
fire to his own store.
GENERAL JOHN L. THOMPSON died at Chi
cago on the 31st from the effects of the rup-
ture of blood vessel at the base OF the
brain. General Thompson was one OF the
most prominent attorneys in Chicago.
TIE ice gorge at ST. Louis, moved out
on the night of the 31st, after damaging
several of the boats. The loss amounted to
about S75, 600.
A SPECIAL from Marietta, O., says the tug
boat Belle MCGOWAN, while steaming up
to the wharf recently exploded one of her
boilers, tearing away the forward part OF
the boat. Fireman Craighead was blown
overheard and badly scalded. No lives were
lost. I
AN open switch at Urbana, O., on the
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & st. Louis caused
collision recently. An engineer and q
fireman were killed, together with Road
master Welsh.
JOSEPH FowLE, city clerk of Socorro,
N M, has been arrested for embezzling
$780, The mayor, it is alleged, tried to sup
press the matter because notorious
woman was concerned in some way
THE International Cattle Range Associa-
ton has called convention of cattle grow
ers to meet at Denver, Col, March 2S.
ABOUT three thousand hands employed
in shoemaking at Cincinnati were locked
out recently. BIacker, Gerst1e & Co. kept
back the wages of twelve girls for some
reason, and their grievance being espoused
by the other hands led to a general lock-
oft. ."J4
FIRE at Las Cruces, N. NJ, recently de-
stroyed the general merchandise store of
Frendenthal & Co., valued at $4,000.
BY the explosion of boiler in wagon
shop in Fairfield, Ill, the other day, one
man was killed and the building wrecked.
The Chicago grand jury has decided not
to bring an indictment against Mrs. Ida
McCauley for shooting her husband Decem-
Der a.
AN epidemic of pneumonia and black
measles has broken out in and about Mont
pelier, Ind, and the doctors are over
worked. The schools have been closed.
THREE men were killed in cut near Nor
rison, ILL.,, recently, by jumping from an
engine. They were under mistaken i'm
preston that a collision was about to oc-
cur when they jumped, the rebound as
they struck the walls of the cut throwing
them under the wheels of their own tram.
THE stove manufacturers in session in
Cincinnati have reelected d. M. Thomas
secretary and have decided to restrict the
number of patterns of stoves hereafter.
The boiler of portable sawmill on John
Bolan's farm near Barnesvile, o., exploded
the other day, killing two men and injuring
four others.
Two miners were overcome by gas in
the Germania shaft near Hurley, Wis, re-
Gently and fell to the bottom, being in
! stantly killed.
THE steamship Belgic arrived at San
Francisco on the I'd with four cases of
smallpox on board. 8t
MOTIONS for new trials for. Coy and
Bernhamer, the convicted Indianapolis tally
sheet forgers, have been made in the Uni
ted States district court.
CHARLES HOAG, the man who named the
village of Minneapolis, MINI, died on the
I'd.
EARLY the other morning several bust
ness blocks, including the post-oftice and
Gazette Office at CORTLAND, O., were de-
stroyed by fire. Half the business places
| in the village were burned and none Of the
contents were saved.
Two freight trains were wrecked near
Chippewa Falls, Wis, the other night.
No one was killed, but much damage was
done ,I-l
TIE Peru zinc mine near Galena, ILL.,,
which has been idle for over a year, IS to
he operated again, zinc having risen in
value.