Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-22


The Woman's Home Missionary Society
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church, met in
New York On the 18th.
CHABLEs JOHNSON was hanged at Water-
loo, N. Y, on the 18th for the murder OF
John Walters, a guard in the Jail in which
johnson was confined for horse stealing.
II was reported at New York on the 10Th
that the weaker trunk lines had with
drawn from through west bound business
rates.
THE Vermont House has defeated the
Woman Suffrage bill by 1872 to 81.
THE WEST
NINE buildings In tho business section OF
Brandon, Wis, were destroyed by fire the
other day. Loss, $50, 600; insurance small
ton, was assassinated on the night of the
10th. Serious trouble was expected to fol-
low.
ssHoNEsr ToM'' AxwoRTHY has been
heard from in Montreal. In Q letter to
the mayor of Cleveland, O., he claims that
his assets will meet his liabilities.
THE Supreme Court of Missouri has re-
10CC00 young Dill w 6lk01-S 0PP00As w AsA
this rejection would go the appeals OF the
other Bald Knobbers. The court fixed
December % for the hanging.
The Detroit wrecking steamer Don M.
Dickinson was entirely destroyed by fire
the other night. Loss, $40, 900. The crew
of seven barely escaped.
THE result of the election held by the
Oklahomites in No-Man's-Land was
largely in favor of territorial government
k1~h hill n n
Chase was elected Delegate to Congress,
together with the entire Territorial
Council ticket favoring the Oklahoma BILL
GOVERNOR JOHN A. MARTIN. of Kansas,
issued his thanksgiving proclamation on
the 18th.
THE Knights of Labor met in annual
convention at indianapolis, Ind, on the
18th.
ABOUT 100 brakemen on the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago railway struc
recently at Lafaye cite, Ind, for an increase
in pay to cents mile, the present rate
being $40 mile, and for three men to
each train instead of two.
AN epidemic of scarlet fever is raging
at jamestown, OAK. and the churches and
schools have been closed in consequence.
A DISPATCH from Escanaba, Mich. of
burned off Poverty Island last night. The
~
Pilot Island reef.
INcENDIARIEs destroyed 5000, 900 feet of
lumber in Weed & Co.'s yard at Black
River Falls, Wis, the other night. Loss,
$40, 900.
PRAIRIE fires about Aberdeen and Gary
and in Sanborn and Beadle Counties, Oak,
destroyed a large amount of hay and grain
and several fine tree claims. Many farm
ers lost every hing they possessed.
MrcS RrrYr Rprnrurrr foachor in q
school near Streator, ILL.,, was killed re-
Gently by kick from boy whom she
was attempting to discipline.
THE sixteenth annual convention of the
Association for the Advancement of
Women began at Detroit, Mich, on the
18th.
AN engineer and fireman were fatally
| injured recently on the Burlington road,
near Downer's Grove. Ill. A freight train
run off the track at frog and plunged
into the engine of the unfortunate men.
THE 'longshoremen at Cheboy gan, Mich. !,
have struck for an increase of Is cents per
hour in wages. Their demand will proba-
| bly, be granted, as the river is full of yes
sells.
JOHN MAHONEY. the notorious dance
| house keeper, of Ashland. Wis, who was
shot by Edward Lindsay recently, died
leaving an estate worth 100000.
The third annual convention Of Christian
| Workers of the United States and Canada
| began in Detroit on the 10th.
The offer of reward of $4,000 for the
! arrest of Tascott. the murderer of million
aire Smell, of Chicago, has been extended
by the family until january II.
ERIC LARSEN, prominent farmer living
near Fergus Falls, Mimi, has left for Can
ada with over $1,000 in debts and no as
| sets. fs
| ALBERT REvo1R, a farmer of Star
Prairie, near New Richmond. Wis, recent
ly shot and fatally wounded James Nc
Donald, neighbor, without known
| reason.
ABOUT forty manufacturers of straw
| wrapping pal er from various parts of the
| country were in secret session in Chicago
recently endeavoring to arrange a pool or
rust.
THERE is a theory at Elgin, ILL.,, that the
| Whitechapel murderer is an escaped lu-
natic from the insane asylum there named
Hutchinson, who had a mania for slaught-
ering and had murdered a woman of the
town in Chicago.
THE SOUTH.
The report of five men being killed in a
political quarrel at Lexington, KY, is
said to be untrue.
The official returns make Cleveland's
majority in Georgia &C, 600.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand persons wit
messed the military display and sham bat
tie at the Augusta (Ga.> Exposition on
| the 18th. Governor Gordon and General
Wade Hampton reviewed the troops.
The Tullahoma (Tenn.) wooden factory
was destroyed by fire recently. Loss
$1O0, 200.
BOTH candidates for Congress in the
Fifth Maryland district claim their cleo.
ton by small majorities.
HEAVY frost occurred at Decatur,
Ala, on the 18th, and though five
cases of yellow fever were reported, all
were reported mild. Refugees were re.
turning.
GOVERNOR GORDON was inaugurated al
Atlanta. Ga, on the 18th for his second
| term. His inaugural address dealt WI i'll