Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
THE WEST.

| Vice President.
| THE WEST.
ONE hundred Republican clubs of Ohio
met recently at Dayton, O.. and made
| preparations for active campaign work.
| Two men were drowned at Chippewa
Falls, Wis, the other night while trying 10
shoot the rapids in boat.
IT is reported from Pierre, Oak, that the
Indians of the great Sioux reservation are
| willing to sell all their superfiuous land.
JOHN A. RICE, proprietor OF the fremont
House in Chicago and noted hotel man.
ager, died the other day.
IT has been found that James Cummings,
| the Dayton, o., agent for r. 6. Dun q Co.,
who killed himself recently, was oyer
| e, 600 short in his accounts.
| JUDGE SAMUEL D. LECoMPTE died in Kan
sas City, Mo-, on the oath, in his seventy
/ fourth year. He was appointed Chief
Justice of Kansas by President Pierce, and
presided at the constitutional convention
held at Lecompton, which place was named
after him.
JOHN B. SwINNEY, the leader of the gang
| that attempted to rob a Wabash train near
| Missouri City, Mo-, on the night of January
| IS last, has been sentenced to twelve years
Imprisonment.
MRS. JOHN DEERE was bound over at La
sale, ILL.,, recently for arson. Her son had
been peddling bills for the Revolution
store, and thinking the proprietor had
cheated the boy she attempted to burn the
building in revenge. She was caught In
the act of heaping wood against the back
door, which was in flames.
The Calumet and Hecla mine at Calumet,
Mich, has been opened at shaft Nc. /. No
fire could be discovered and 1t is supposed
that the fire is entirely out.
A TwELvE-YEAR-O OLD son OF Hiram Car
son, living near Vandalia, Ill, was kicked
by a horse the other day and killed.
The conservation of Bishop Jannssen
took place in st. Peters Church, Belleville,
ILL.,, on the 18th.
N. NJ, who had been on the trail of Joe
Atkins and Frank Porter for two days,
came up with them near San Jose on the
24th. when regular pitched battle ensued,
in which Porter was killed and Atkins
captured.
PRIVATE JAMES WHITE, stationed at Fort
Gibson, !. T., was sent to picket out one of
the officers horses the other morning. and
held the end of the rope halter, with an
IRON picket stake attached, in his hand,
when the horse. becoming frightened,
jumped suddenly and jerked the iron stake
almost through his body. He died in
stantly.
MILE. DECO Miss Annie Wilson, had
terrible fall from a slack wire at Steuben-
vile, o., recently, during a performance,
| the apparatus giving way. She was fatally
| injured.
JOHN TnoRNwALD, a prosperous farmer
| living near Bismarck, Oak, claims to have
found very rich ore near the surface at a
| point within twenty miles of Bismarck,
Oak.
IN a quarrel at Dickinson, OAK, the
| other day over a game of poker, Jasper
Holtz was shot and killed by Frank Chase.
CENTRAL CITY. Oak, has been destroyed
| by fire. Loss S250,000
AN explosion that pitched seventy peo-
| pie into the air, throwing one man fifty
| feet, wrecked seventeen large plate glass
| windows, ruined $35 000 worth of clothing,
| damaged building $4,000 and caused a
| stampede of hundreds of people form the
| upper stories of tall buildings. occurred in
| basement on State and jackson street,
Chicago, the other night. The explosion
was caused by two workmen, who had
| broken gas main without knowing it. No
| one was killed.
| JUDGE GRESHAM, at Milwaukee on the
9th, decided the suit of the heirs of the
| late 5. 5. Merrill, general manager of the
| Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road,
against G. II. Price, for an accounting in
connection with Colorado land transactions
in Minnesota and Dakota, involving profits
supposed to be in the neighborhood of ST.
| defendant
THE Bank of Amigo (Wis.) was robbed
OF 5000 tho other day by some unknown
| person, who went into the back door while
| the cashier was at dinner.
BENJAMIN S. ROBBINS, the assistant
United States district attorney at Denver,
| Col, recently attempted suicide by jabbing
| a knife in his neck. He was in fit of de-
| lirium at the time. He was from Kentucky,
where he had been a State Senator.
The prison shoe shop at Chester, ILL.,,
f! was burned recently. Losss S75, 600.
| By collision between freight and
| construction train near Birnam Wood
Wis, the other morning, ten laborers were
badly hurt.
| A TORNADO, the second one this year.
struck Pratt, Kan, on the evening of the
18th. Mrs. William Fisher was killed and
many others seriously wounded.
| The Indiana Democrats have nominated
| CORTLAND NJ. Matson for Governor Gray
was endorsed for the Vice Presidency.