Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-11


ALLARD & Sons, fine art importers of
New York and Paris, are accused of ex.
tensive smuggling operations. A dis
charged empioye of the firm divulged the
crime and the New York manager was
placed under arrest, when evidences of
smuggling were discovered.
Downs & FINCH, extensive manufac.
turers of fine shirts, of New York, have
failed Liabilities between $500, 600 and
$500, 200. The failure was caused, accord
ing to reports, by an attempt to corner
the trade.
LEWIS HAYDEN, after lingering illness
with Bright's disease, died at Boston re-
Gently. He was a we'll known colored man
and active in the cause of the abolition of
slavery, having been himself q slave from
Kentucky.
HUBBARD's axe and saw factory, Pitts
turgh, Pa, burned the other day. Loss,
$500. coo.
FOUR of the members of a Knights of
Labor Assembly have been accused by the
confession of a walking delegate named
sons brewery building, Tenth avenue
New York, on the night of February 8
last
THE WEST.
A SECTION of a freight train broke loose
the other day and ran back on the second
section, wrecking the second locomotive
and nine cars and killing two tramps.
LATER reports of the destructive prairie
fires in Dakota show that several lives
were lost. The farm property destroyed
was immense A wind storm accelerated
the flames which proved so destructive
LATER returns showed the election of
r. L. Cofran. Democrat, for mayor of To-
peka, instead of Metsker, Republican, as
first reported, by 204 majority. A Demo-
cratic councilman was also elected.
In fight few days since. near Flag
staff, Ariz-, between a sheriff's posse and
robbers, who held up the Atlantic & Pa
ci6c express about two weeks ago, Ed
ward St. Clair and R s. Wilcox, deputy
sheriffs, were killed.
THE posse engaged in the evictions on
the Des Moines river lands in Iowa were
fired on by concealed parties with Win
chesters as a warning. No one was hurt.
GENERAL JACOB SHARP has resigned as
governor of the Soldiers Home at Mil
waukee, Wis and General KiIburn Knox
has been elected his successor. Ill health
was the cause.
FOREST fires have been raging around
Courtenay, Oak. One hundred families
were deprived of absolutely every thing.
The loss reached fully $150.000
Two freight trains collided the other
morning near Reno, New. Harry Wilson,
a brakeman, and j. II. Mysegarder, a
farmer, were killed and fourteen cars
were wrecked.
Ex-GovERNoR CROSBY, of Montana. re-
Gently threatened to sue Russell B. Har-
rison, son of the President and in 1887
president of the Montana Live Stock
Journal Company, for libel. Harrison
promised to retract the charges.
SwIFT's packing house, Chicago, took
fire on the morning of the 9th, resulting
in loss of 800, 600.
DANIEL BAUGH, a pioneer of Seymour,
Ind, has reached the age of one hundred
years. His health is almost perfect.
IT is positively denied at Albuquerque,
N NJ, that there is any truth in the report
of a deadly fight between officers and train
robbers in Arizona The officers never
even struck the trail of the outlaws.
IT is thought that troops will be needed
to suppress the settlers threatening dis
orders on the Des Moines river lands.
By an explosion of gas in Halliday's
coal mine near Duquoin, ILL, the other
evening, several men and boys were
severely injured-two probably fatally.
AT the Mormon conference in Salt Lake
on the 7th the first presidency was organ.
ized, with Wilford Woodruff as president
of the church and George Q Cannon and
Joseph T. Smith as coun seiors. Lorenzo
Snow becomes president of the twelve
apostles.
The anti-polygamous Mormens met il
conference at St. Joseph. Mo-, on the 9Th
THE doors Of the First National Bank o
Anoka, Mimi, have been closed, P. F
Pratt, the cashier, having fed to Canada
His defalcations were put at 500, 600.
THE Miami Valley Paper Mill Company
ment with S65 600 liabilities and $40. .O0
nominal assets