Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-16
THE WEST.

gains for the Repu blicans where politics
figured in the contest In some of the
larger towns high license was the issue,
and in most cases the saloon candidates
were defeated.
WHILE crossing the Michigan Central
tracks at Kalamazoo recently a street car
was run into by a switch engine. The re.
suit was the horrible mangling to death
of six of the passengers, all ladies' Two
other lady passengers were injured while
the only two male passengers escaped
unhurt
Mat RAsr and August Young were
crushed between two sections of packet
train at Champion, Mich. recently.
Young was instantly killed and Rast died
in half an hour.
TWENTY-FIVE acres of ground closely
built up with small dwelling houses were
swept by fire in the suburban village of
Moreland, near Chicago, on the Sth and
seventy families were rendered homeless.
THE National Association of Lumber
Dealers held its twelfth annual meeting at
Chicago on the Sth. There were about
fifty members present
The town of Spaulding, Mimi, of 500 in
habtants, was half destroyed by fire on
the 7th. Three hundred people were rem
dered homeless. No lives were lost
WHTEcAPs have notified Rev. George
Jacob Schweinfurth, who is worshiped
as Christ by the Beekmanites of Rock
ford, Ill, to leave the city in ten days. If
he does not go they say they will break
into his house, take him to the woods, tar
and feather him, and roast him alive.
THE Northwestern Miller reports the
-four market improving.
RESPONSIBLE parties from Samedor
Mont, report that a large party of Pine
Ridge Sioux, led by Grasshopper, have
come into the Tongue river agency for the
purpose of getting up sun dance anon &
the Cheyennes. An outbreak was feared
IT has been decided to hold the next con-
vention of the Y. II. c. a. at Kansas City,
Mo.
ABOUT LOO employees in the great Pull
man shops at Pullman, ILL.,, have been laid
off temporarily because of lack of orders
THE Florissant (Col.) outlaws have been
captured. They gave their names as Jim
Hunter and a. Floyd. a hitherto re-
spected citizen named A. n. King living
eight miles north of Florissant is impli-
Gated in the robbery.
THE Whitecap warning received by
Schweinfurth. the Beekmanite leader of
Rockford, ILL.,, has resulted in the insur-
ance companies canceling all policies on
his home known as Heaven" and the
structure is now at the mercy of the
Whitecaps and the elements.
NEAR Wingate. n NJ, On the Atlantic
& Pacific, q quarrel arose between four
Zuni Indians and four cowboys. but for
the time being nothing serious happened
Later on the quarrel was renewed, when
pistols were drawn and a pitched battle
ensued. resulting in the killing of all four
Indians and the serious wounding of one
cowboy. The whites were arrested.
The lake steamer Chemung, of the same
line as the Owego, has made the trip from
Rn al 70 in,
beating the Owego's record
THE condemned Bald Knobbers, John
Matthews, Dave Walker and Bill Walker.
were executed at Ozark, No, on the 10th,
under distressing circumstances. the ap-
paratus not being properly adjusted.
necess itating the dropping Of Bill Walker
q second time.
GREAT damage was done to fruits, gar
den truck and flowers about Belvidere.
ILL.,, the other night by a fierce hail and
rain storm.
A BAND of robbers recently ambushed
Paymaster Wham and an escort of eleven
| soldiers on their way to Fort Thomas.
Eight of the escort We're wounded, the
robbers securing S29, 600 and escaping to
| the mountains.
AN Indian Territory special says the re-
fusal of Chief j. b Mayes to convene the
Cherokee Legislature at Tahlequah will
5000 900 acres known as the Cherokee
Strip by the United States There was
great opposition to the sale and excite.
ment was running high.
| A YOUNG man has died of yellow fever
| in Wood County, O. He was recsntly from
the South
| RKv. Dr.. CLurE has been chosen presi.
dent of the Michigan State Agriculture
| College at Lansing Mich. He was pasto
1 N
| THE SOUTH.
REPoRrs from ali sections in Southern
| Arkansas are that the farmers are con
| siderably alarmed by the ravages of Gu
| worms. In many places in Drew, Brad
ley and Desha Counties farmers hav,
planted cotton as many as three times
and each time the plant has been destroy et
| by the worms. Merchants are apprehen
sive and business is paralyzsd.
| THE Scotch Irish Congress opened a
! Columbia, Tenn, on the Sth. The exer
cises were opened with a mastery oratioI
by Proctor Knott, Ex-Governor Of Ken
tucky. He was followed by short speeche
from DR.. John Hall, the eminent New
York divine: Hon James F. johnson, o
Alabama, and Judge Scott, of Illinois.
The pallium was conferred upon Arch
bishop Janssens by Cardinal Gibbons il
the Cathedral at New Orleans on the Sth
GOVERNOR GORDON, of Georgia, wa
rendered a reception at Elizabeth. n J.
| recently by the Drake Zouaves and othe
veterans of the Union army.
DISPATCH from Little Rock, Ark. says
Deputy Sheriff Oliver I. Bentley. Thoma
c. Hoovey. Charles Wsrd, Fred Gunter
John Heard. Thomas and William Well
have been brought in Under arrest from
Morrilton. They are charged with impli
cation in the ballot box robbery at Plum
merville on the night of November & Tn
arrests created something of a sensation
SPOKANE won the Kentucky Derby a
Louisville on the 9th: Proctor Knott
Once Again, 5: time, 2:34k; distance. on
and half miles.
GENERAL WILLIAM s HARxEY dad a
Orlando, Fla, on the 9Th in his eighty
ninth year. He was the Oldest West Poin
| graduate.
| JOHN p. SALISBURY. Secretary Of Stat
OF Delaware, died on the 10Th at his hom
IN Dover. He had been i'll since his re
turn from the New York centennial cele
. bration- He was the eldest sen of Chan
cellor Willard salisbury. who was Unite
States Senator from Delaware during tn
war.