Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-24
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The formal order remanding Kemmler
the Buffalo wife murderer, to the pris on at
Auburn, N. Y, for execution by electrici-
ty has been fled
In case of an adverse decision in the
New York State Supreme Court the sugar
and other trusts will probably apply for
receivers and take other steps to bring
the combinations within the pale Of the
law.
GEORGE and Richard Hankins, brothers.
while trying to capture a tame decoy
duck on Cayuga lake New York. the other
morning. were accidentally wounded by
a hunter. who shot at the duck.
EDWARD BENNETT, employed in the
powder mills at Schaghticoke, n. Y, was
killed by an explosion the other day. He
was the only man in the building.
CONGRESSMAN NEWTON A. NUrTING died
at his home in Oswego, n. Y, ON the 18TH
The American Forestry Congress met
in convention at Philadelphia on the 18th.
THE Association base ball pennant fell
to Brooklyn.
II. B. SCHoEH & Co, importers of dry
goods, n. z, have failed. Liabilities,
So, COO
The New York Board of Education has
decided against permitting the teaching
Of typewriting in the public evening
schools. The vote was 12 to 4. The OPP
posing commissioners gave as a reason
that it wonld put too many young ladies
in the typewriting business.
The victims Of the my sterious poisoning
at Morgan's boarding house, w oodbury,
n. j., were all in fair way of recovery.
The oyster soup was being analy zed to de-
termine the nature of the poison.
A Boston dispatch says the entire plant
OF the Blush Electric Company has been
sold to the Thomson Houston Electric
Company for a cash con sideration of So .
$50. CO.,
G. b SQUREs, Of Brooklyn, N. T.,
special agent Of the General Land-ofice,
has been dismissed. Squires was formerly
private secretary to Pension Commis.
sioner Tanner.
THE United States man-of.war Peusa-
cola has sailed from the Brooklyn navy
yard for Angola, Africa. She carried
twenty scientific men on q general explor-
ing expedition, the main object of which
is an observation of an eclipse of the sun
The Loyal Legion met at Philadelphia
on the 18th when ex-President Hayes was
reelected Commander in Chief
GENERAL HAEIRANFr, Ex-Governor of
Pennsylvania. died at Norristown on the
18th from a combination OF kidney
troubles.
The American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions in session in New
York elected officers as follows: Presi-
dent r 8. Storrs, d. D.; vice-president
Z W. Latchford; recording secretary,
Henry A Stimson; assistant recording
secretary. E n. Packard; treasurer
Langdon s. Ward
Ex-MAYoR LEWIS. of New Haven Conn.
proposes as q Worlds Fair feature to re.
coznize the 40oth anniversary of the dis
covery Of America, by lighting great bon.
dres simultaneously on the hiiltops al
over the country.
OxE man was killed and three fatally
injured by the fall Of Q scsfolding at thu
new water works At Bethlehem, Pa, re.
Gently.
AMOS }. CUMMINGS, the well.known cor.
respondent and member OF the editoria
sta0 OF the New York Sun. has beer
nominated by Tammany to I'LL the vacancy
IN the Ninth district caused by the dealt
Of .Sunset" Cox
TIE Atlas line steamship Athos, which
has reached New York after q terribl,
voyage, reports that Hippolyte, Of Hayti
vas busy preparing for his election
THREE cases Of smallpox were reported
In Boston recently. the first in over . year
SUSAN b ANTHONY and Mary 8. An
sbony have begun action against tn
American Glucose Company of Buffalo
q. Y, to recover $125, 600 in stocks AM
back dividends- The defendants CLAIM
that they never issued to Colonel d. q
Anthony and his sister the stock in ques
fion.
TIE first Of the series for the world
baseball championship between Brooklyl
and New York was played at New Yori
On the 18th and was won by Brooklyn b,
q score Of II to 10
TIE coffin containing the remains o
Ralph Waldo Emerson has been placed il
. securely bound box, which has in turi
been deposited in . grave composed o
blocks of granite, cemented together an,
securely fastened with granite covering
TIE cotton oil trust has fled application
at Trenton, n. j., to increase its capita
stock to $s1, 600, 900 and form q corporation
thus avoiding the legal penalties to whicl
II vas liable in Eew York