Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27

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Four young men were reported drowned
| in Salt Lake. Utah. recently by the cap
| sizing of pleasure boat
| A BOY named Snider, thirteen years old
living at Hig ghland, Vermillion County, Ind.
was murdered the other day by four bows
whose ages range from nine to fifteen, two
| brothers named Pearman and two named
Douglas. The body was found in a creek.
He had been stabbed and shot. All the
boys are under arrest
GREAT CONSERVATION has been created
among the farmers of Marion Ind, by the
appearance of a small green bug that
threatens to demolish the wheat oats and
rye crop. The pests appear upon every
head by hundreds and sap the life out of
the grain.
GOVERNOR FORAKER, of Ohio, denies
positively that he will be a candidate for
another term and declares he will not take
the nomination if it be offered him.
CHICAGO brickmakers have inaugurated
a strike for eight hours.
THREE postal cars were wrecked, three
men killed and several others injur ed by an
accident on the Panhandle road, near
Steubenville, O., on the 10Th.
The Michigan Legislature has passed
bill making passenger fares grade from
two cents up in proportion to the gross
earnings of the roads.
JUDGE PRENDERGAST has rendered his
decision in the matter of the investigation
into the Cook County insane asylum, based
on a petition to release Dora Willard from
the asylum. He says the asylum is rem
dered worthless by politics and he recon-
mends its removal.
AT a business meeting of the Iowa Holi-
ness Association held at their camp
grounds at Des Moines, tho other
| morning all the names of members known
to he professors and practitioners of the
so-called Christian science were dropped
from the list with others who have for
feited their membership in various ways.
FRED ROCHE. the foreman of the sewer
gang, who found DIR. Cronin's body in the
catch basin. has not been paid the reward
| of S2, 900 promised him by the committee
of DR.. Cronin's friends. Roche says that
the committee told him he would receive
the $1,000 but payment has not been
made.
THE Democratic State Central Commit
tee of Ohio has formally expelled J. Dow
dali, of Columbus, who prepared
| minority report on the expenses of the last
campaign, inferentially charging Chair
| man Townsend with embeZzling about
$40. 900 of the campaign fund.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, and surrounding
region were visited by damaging rain
and wind storm the Goth. The pontoon
OTluR0 dCTOSS Inc M1SSOurl river was DlOWn
to pieces and sixty boats were swept down
stream.
The semi-annual meeting of the South
| Dakota Farmers Alliance was held in
Huron on the Goth. The grangers dec ared
| themselves in their platform as resolved
| to have hand in the government of the
State. They also asked for the adoption
OF the Australia system of voting. A
free trade resolution was voted down.
way has commenced the survey of the
| Detroit, Wabash g. Chicago railway, a
| connecting link between the Wabash
Western and Wabash system. The line
| extends from Wabash to Laketon, con-
Meeting at that point with the Chicago &c
Atlantic for Chicago and Wabash Western
| for Detroit
| ident, was stricken with paralysis at Fre-
mont, o on the 21st Her entire right
side Nas affected and she was uncon$ $cious.
| General Hayes was in Colum bus, but re-
| turned home imm mediately.
| BENJAMIN KLINGER and Robert Howick,
| two prominent citizens of Mercer County,
| O.. were killed by lightning recently, just
as they stepped into a stable to escape a
| passing shower.
| MISS JENNIE ELMBLAD and Miss Hilda
Carlson were boating in the Desplaine;
river at Desplaines, ILL.,, the other dav
| with three friends, when the boat capsiz ed
| near the dam and the two young ladies
| sank almost instantly. The others were
| rescued.
| The village of Quijotoa, ninety miles
| west of Tucson, Ariz., has been destroy ed
by fire.
The Illinois Board of Agriculture esti.
| mates that the wheat crop will not aver
| age more than thirteen bushels per acre
making the total yield Of the Illinois cror
| &c, 669, $40 bushels. The quality is fully VI
| to the average.
| A DISASTROUS timber fire was reported
| in progress one mile west of Stevensville
| Mont.
| AREPREsENTATIvE of the Chicago Board
| of Trade was at Fostoria, O., recently ex.
| amining growing wheat The heads OF
the grain were found affected by the sam,
| green insect that has made its appearance
| in Indiana and Illinois.
| THE SOUTH.
A woRKMEN's train was wrecked near
Birmingham, Ala. recently, while pro-
ceeding to the Serratt mines. Two mer
were killed and 100 more or less injured.
HARDY HAMILTON who in February last
killed Joe Lee. q Chinaman, was hanged
at Rome, Ga. for the crime. Ten or twelve
thousand persons came in from the sur
rounding country but only the county
officials and newspaper reporters were
allowe inside of the jail whore the execu'
tion took place.
NEAR Clinton, Ark, the other nigh
during fearful rainstorm a farmer
named Emerson lost his wife and seven
children. He succeeded in saving two OF
his children and himself, standing in the
water several hours before help arrived.
GENERAL w. N. TAFT. ex-postmaster o.
Charleston, s. c., Republican leader, i.
dead.
STATE TREASURER ISAAC s. BAMBERG, oi
South Carolina, fell dead at his home il
Columbia recently.
j. A HoUCK, aged twenty-seven, q tell.
er of the Traders National Bank OF Balti
more, Md, committed suicide by hanging
the her night. He was suffering frou
an attack of nervous prostration.