Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
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s. G. OLIVER, a Jersey Central station
agent and operator at Ashbary, N. j., has
disappeared, leaving his accounts and
other matters badly mixed.
ALEXANDER BAYTER, foreman of the
Butler (Pa:) Electric Light Company, was
recently thrown upon the belt of a dy
wheel and instantly killed.
ROBERT L. LINCOLN and family and
Andrew Carnegie and family sailed from
New York for England on the 10Th.
INSPECTOR WATERS. of the life saving
station at Newport r. l., reports that a
two-masted schooner was run down and
sunk off Beaver Tail and it was feared her
crew was lost, as a dense fog prevailed at
sthe time the accident occurred.
THE New York Tribune saws: 'Ex-
President Cleveland has rented the house,
<6l6 Madison avenue, for two years with
privilege of purchase Tor 500, ,OOO."
GENERAL ADNA ANDERSON, of New York,
shot and killed himself recently in his
room at the Lafayette Hotel, Philadelphia
-ds was we'll known railroad man. The
cause OF the suicide was unknown, but he
had latterly been drinking heavily.
THE number of saloons in PHILADELPHIA
have been cut down under the new license
law from 5. 773 to 120a
COLONEL FREDERICK GERKER, collector
~of internal revenue for the Philadelphia
district. died recently of apoplexy. He
was about fifty years of age. He was an
pointed collector by President Cleveland
~and assumed the duties of the office in
August, 1885.
ALIEN THoRNDIKE RICE, lately ap-
pointed Minister to Russia, died at New
York on the-16th. the day after he had in
tended sailing for his new post of duty.
He was but thirty-six years of age and
had made a literary reputation as editor
of the North American Review.
AT the South Glastonbury (Conn.) Nav
festival the other night over one hundred
persons were poisoned by eating ice
cream. Physicians in attendance ex.
pressed but slight hopes for the recovery
of thirty y-four of the victims.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
West End Mining Company, a corporation
ownining iron mines in Hunterdon County,
N. j., and in Pennsylvania. The liabili-
ties of the company are reported to be
from $500, 900 to $500, 900 greater than its
=assets.
THE doctors who performed an autopsy
on Mind Reader Bishops BODY SO soon
safter his supposed death have been held
f1n y. 800 each to await the result Of the
scoroner's investigation.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY will next year
begin two years course in electrical en-
=gineering. The course of instruction will
De full and freely illustrated.
SEVENTEEN able-bodied miners heads
of families, recently applied to the Door
board of Pleasant Valley Pa, for relief.
They claimed to be on the verge of star
walton.
1t is supposed that the vessel which was
run into and sunk by the steamer Nashua.
from Providence to New York, between
Beaver Tail and Point Judith was the
schooner Nelson Harvey. of New Bedford.
Mass. There were five men on board and
all were lost.
The steamer Delta from Port de Paix.
Hayti, May 10. has arrived at New York.
dippolyte's forces are reported to have
gained two victories-one near St Marie
and the other in the Neutrality-suspicious. to
May TO-
CAPTAIN JAMES CHESTER of the Third
artillery, U. 3. A., stationed on Cover
nor's island, New York, became violently
insane on the street the other morning.
He was taken into custody and in court
turned over to the military authorities
AT meeting of the Homestead steel
men at Pittsburgh, Pa, the sentiment
was strongly against accepting the aid
ing scale posted by Carnegie & Co. a
strike - considered inevitable if the scala
is insistsd on
THK krandstaud Of the BROOKLYN IN.
VI Base- Ball Club has been destroyed bv
4re.@ Loss &l4000.