Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-17

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EIGHT men had been secured ~ Cronil
| Jurors up to the 9Th.
THE Vailed Prophets celebrated at 81
! Louis on the night OF the 9Th.
A. JOHNSON and J. h Boyd have Bee
| arrested in Denver. Col. for sending lot
! terry tickets and circulars through tn
| mails.
JUDGE BAKER has refused to releas
Woodruff, one Of the Cronin suspects. o.
habeas corpus proceedings.
TIE Minneapolis -four market IL report
ed firm.
THE school and library of the Michigan
penitentiary at Jackson were destroys,
by fire the other day, causing $40, 900 loss
OFFICIAL returns from Indianapoli
gives Sullivan (Democrat) 1t79 majority
over Coburn (Republican) for mayor
Swift (Democrat) for city clerk has
majority over Taft (Republican) of /, 253
The Board of Aldermen comprises fiv,
Republicans and five Democrats and tn,
Council ten Republicans and fifteen Dem
ocrats.
JAMES G. FAM has resigned as presi.
dent of the Nevada Bank, San Francisco
). I. Flood was elected to succeed him.
EDITOR REED. for many years connected
with the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
died on a steamer October while en- route
to Europe for the benefit of his health.
The magnificent residence of Mr.. Glen
Studebaker, recently erected at South
Bend, Ind. has been destroyed by fire
Loss, 5000
The Supreme Court of the Chickasaw
Nation has sustained the constitutionality
of an act of the Legislature disqualifyins
"sQuaw' men. or white men with Indian
wives. The latter were much incensed
and threatened to work for the opening OF
the Territory and the abolition of the tribal
system.
PRAIRIE fires were reported making
toward st. Cloud, Mimi, and had burned
their way to within a few rods of the
Manitoba west side tracks and the city
limits. Nothing but heavy rain could
prevent a tremendous loss of property.
A FREIGHT train on the Baltimore &
Ohio road, at McKeesport, ran down two
women and a small boy at the Martins
street crossing. The boy, Willie Jones,
was fatally injured.
EARL NORTH, a blacksmith. viciously
assaulted two men and a woman on the
West Side at Chicago the other night He
was overpowered by a mob, and was about
to be strung up when the police rescued
him.
THERE has been bulge in the Chicago
wheat pit, No. 2 red passing S5c.
THE Woman's Congress adjourned at
Denver. COL, on the 10th after the cleo
tion Of Julia Ward Howe, Of Rhode Island,
president
THE only saloon in Lafayette, O., was
wrecked by a mob the other morning.
Every thing was ruined.
By the burning of Oxby Bros.' large
livery barn at Corwith, Iowa, the other
night a valu bic stallion and five other
horses persisted.
THE crop report of Ohio shows a more
state of affairs now that
wheat has been threshed.
THE president of the Alaska Commercial
Company says that the great increase of
illegal sealing in Alaska has largely de-
stroyed the profits of the company, and
of the lease will not probably be
sought.
JUDGE RALLEY, of Carrollton, o. was
killed recently. He fell from a tree while
picking apples.
EIGHTEEN men were hurt, one fatally, in
a collision between a miners train and a
freight near Martins Ferry, O., on the
18th.
AxrELL won a race at Terre Haute, Ind,
on the 18th, trotting mile in 2:11H.
THE SOUTH
A FEUD as bad as the Hatfield Mccoy is
between the Hall and Brumfield
families in Lincoln County, w. Va.
JOHN c. MCCLURE, aged eighty-f1ve
died at his farm near Summit Point, W.
Va, recently. Mcclure was the last sur
vivor of the John Brown jury save one
Mr.. Rightstone, of Shepherdstown.
The British war ship Icarus was re-
ported aground on Mayne Island, at the
entrance to Plumper's pass Gulf of
Georgia.
THE report that General James r. Chal.
mers had resigned the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor of Mississippi has
been confirmed by letter he addressed
to Captain A. T. Wimberly. collector of
internal revenue. New Orleans. Chal.
mers complained that the right of free
speech was denied him in the State and
therefore it was useless for him to con.
tinue the canvass.
THE Lower hydraulic and Tyler presses
at Savannah, Ga, have burned with 4 500
bales of cotton. There was little salvage
on the cotton.
TYPHOID fever is reported to be raging
in nearly every family in and about
Aurora. w. Va. In some localities there
are said to be scarcely enough well per-
sons to nurse the sick.
EIGHTEEN complaints have been lodged
against cotton planters living in Caldwell
and Hayes Counties, Tex, for importing
cotton pickers from Mexico, and they will
be brought to Austin for trial
AT Davis & Lamar's kaoline mine, near
Atkin, 8. c., mass of clay caved in, fall
ing on Thomas Woolly, the superintend-
emit, killing him instantly.
JOHN BIsENBERGER, the wife beater, has
received punishment of the lash at the
whipping post in the Baltimore city jail.
The Methodist Church South met in an
nual conference at Murfreesboro, Tenn,
on the 9th, Bishop Keener presiding.
GOVERNOR LEE has respited Simon
Walker. colored, of Chesterfield County,
for thirty days He was to have been
hanged for criminally assaulting q white
girl about twelve years Of aga
ADvIcEs received at the Marine Hos
pital state that there are several cases of
yellow fever at Key West, but that there
is no danger of the disease spreading.
The fertilizer factory Of g. Ober. Sons
& Co, at Locust Point, near Baltimore,
Nd, burned recently. The loss was esti-
mated at 500. 600
JAMES GROSS q student, tells q strange
story Of the murder Of another student by
Father Peters in . convent at Marienfield,
Tex.
HALF q million pounds Of tobacco have
been ruined about Flemingsburg. KY, by
heavy frosts.
0ENERAI.
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