Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-05
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

The Catholic Bishop OF Derry, Ii Si6no,
died on he LIST.
The Reading (Pa.) iron mills resumed
partial operati. rs on the I'd
John A G,eep, well known newspaper
man of New York City, is dead
Hog cholera has made its appearance
at Britt, Iowa, in most violent form.
The new cruiser Philade phia is to be
launched by the Cramps September Z.
Services of the Armenian Church were
held for the first time in Boston on the LIST.
Mrs. May brick has been placed in the
infirmary of the prison at Working, Eng,
because of i'll health.
A member of the Chickasaw Legisla-
, ture named Benjamin Cunning Chubby
has been assassinased
The San Diego (CaL) Water Company's
works have been sold to an English
syndicate for S., a 10000.
Secretary of the Navy Tracy and As
sistant Secretary of State Blaine have re-
turned to Washington.
Five persons were killed in the City OF
Mexico the other day by the falling of the
wall of private residence.
Colonel r. N. Hudson, a leading Indiana
veteran, editor and politician, died at
Terre Haute, IndL, the other day.
The thirty fourth general convention OF
the German Roman Catholic Association
assembled at Cleveland, O.. on the LIST.
A cave Of unknown sizs has been dis
covered by well diggers near Rome, Ga.
1t promises to surpass the Mammoth cave.
James s. B. Berry, charged with COM
plicity in the killing Of Captain Nat Kim
ney. the Bald Knobber chief. has been ac-
Quilted
Three boys Lave died on the United
no, hi ro af
Newport, r. l.. the past week. The vessel
Is being dislnfected.
DR.. j. Fl. Hazen, one of the sailors with
Commodore Perry during the battle of
Lake Erie. died at Marshall, Ill.,, the other
day, aged ninety-one.
LIE Steele anrou ices that Boulanger has
decided to ubmit to arrest the week after
the election in order to avoid seizure at
Paris before the election.
A carelessly thrown cigar stump caused
the burning of row of stables on the race
track at Oskaloosa, Iowa. Durango P,
valued at S. 600, persisted.
A young negro was recently captured
near Monticello. KY, tied to a stake and
burned, coal oil being thrown over him.
He had been guilty of rape.
John Grass, the chief of the Blackfeet
Indians, was reported dying from the
eH0C'S OF q SuDStFOk0 ana supposed pol.
son administered by his enemies.
Joseph Armstrong jumped from the
board walk into the water at Atlantic
City, N. j., the other day and broke his
neck by striking the sandy bottom.
George Durham, a brakeman whose
relatives live in Kansas City, was hurled
from a car by cow bridge near Fort
Gibson, L T., Il g other day and killed.
Business failures (Dun's repor) for the
seven days ended August 20 numbered 211,
compared with 2O6 the previous week and
226 the corresponding week of last year.
By ths upsetting of ladle of hot metal
in Carnegie's steel works at Homestead,
Pa, recently two men were instantly
killed and seven others severely injured.
Mrs. Catherine Sullivan, mother of John
L. Sullivan, the pugilist, died at Boston
on the Both after long illness. She was
fifty-two years old, and a native of Ire
land.
A tramp was lied, another badly in
jured and fourteen cars wrecked at the
crossing of two roads near Fremont, Neb.,
recently by a collision between freight
trains.
Affairs on the London Stock Exchange
were quiet during the week ended August
81. American securities were firm. Dull