Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02

on the oath gave orders to drive them out
FREDERICK EBERSOLD at one time chief
of police, has been appointed by Mayor
Cregier, Of Chicago, to be inspector of
police vice John Bonfield.
A RAILROAD official at Chicago states
that he does not anticipate any strike on
the Western roads this year.
THREE men died of congestive chills in
one night on claims near Oklahoma City.
A MAIL route has been established be-
tween Guthrie and Lisbon, in Oklahoma.
IN the Pacific Derby at San Francisco
on the 23i the Gar made a mile and one
half in 2:36, the fastest Derby ever run in
America, beating the record of 2:36H
made by Ben Ali in 1886 and that of c. H.
Todd at Chicago in 1877.
The workingmen of Minneapolis were
taking steps to start line of herdics in
opposition to the street car line Capital
lists were behind the scheme.
THE directors of the Chicago gas trust
have appointed a committee to investigate
the feasibility of supplying Chicago with
natural gas.
BY premature explosion of dynamite
near Homer, Mich, Connor James and
Harris James were killed. The explosion
occurred on the latter's land. The two
left home to blow out stumps and had
twenty-five pounds of dynamite. Their
bodies were found five rods from the ex-
plosion.
FREDERICK SCHULTZ has sued August
Michel for s., 500 damages at Minneapolis,
Minn., for covering him with a coat of red
and black paint while he slept and after
ward calling in fifty other boarders to
laugh at the sight He was awakened by
their shouts of laughter.
DIR. LAWS, president of the State Uni
versity at Columbia, Mo-, has resigned.
The lower house of the Illinois Legisla-
ture has defeated an election bill provid-
ing for a system similar to the one in use
in Australia.
HON. ELIJAH M. HAINEs, ex-Speaker of
the Illinois House and prominent figure
in State politics, died recently. He was
the author of several works on Indian
lore.
A TANK of naphtha in the Chicago, Mill
waukee & st. Paul railroad yards ex-
ploded recently at Chicago, blowing a
man fifty feet, killing two horses and do
ing other damage.
The Belle Prairie convent near Little
Falls, Minn., took fire recently. The
twenty-four children had a narrow es-
cape, being saved with great difficulty by
the Sisters in charge.
The Iron Mountain railway. part of
the Missouri Pacific system. has given no.
tice that all unnecessary Sunday train
be discontinued on that road and that only
trains conveying livestock or persha BILE
freight will be permitted to run on Sun
day.
THOMAS HINCH, a Wisconsin pugilist,
while training at Iron Mountain, Mich,
for a match was drowned by the capsizing
of his boat.
Ex-Governor BISHOP, of Ohio, and
others have been sued for $270, 900, said to
have been illegally drawn by them as
trustees of the Cincinnati Southern rail-
road. 0
COLONEL ID. B. DYER, formerly of Kan
sas City, was elected the first mayor of
Guthrie, ]. T. The differences betMeen the
rival town site companies at Oklahoma
City were reported settled and Captain
Couch elected mayor.
THE fast mail and an east bound freight
train on the Lake Shore rood, collided at
Rolling Prairie, seven miles east of La
parte, Ind, the other night. Both engines
were wrecked. A tramp who was stealing
a ride was fatally injured.
THE SOUTH.
THE Morg antown (W. W female semi
nary was destroyed by fire recently. All
the inmates escaped. 1t will not be re-
built.
JOHN WAYS and wife and Jnmes M.
killed recently while driving across the
track at Newport, five miles south of Will
mington, Del.
GEORGE NJ. MCNEIL, formerly of Iowa,
employed on the Oak levee near Baton
Rouge. La, and two colored women,
Colly Norton and frankie Romero, were
drowned the other night by the upsetting
of skiff.
THOMAS MAD1aAN, plumber, was killed
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trio shock while repairing a pump. To
steady himself while standing on the
pump he grasped a wire, thus forming a
ground connection and bringing the cur
rent into his body.
DURING a storm at Atlanta, Ca. recently
a wall was blown down, killing two fire.
men and injuring others The wall be-
longed to the Jackson building destroyed
by fire.
The Sanford (Fla.) yellow fever case
(Mrs. Charles Dement) ended fatally.
BY a collision between freight trains,
near Glen Mary, Tenn, the other day two
trainmen were killed and three others in
jured. The forgetfulness of an engineer
was the cause.
The Supreme Court of Texas has re-
versed the decision of the lower court in
the case of Richmond, a railroad con
ductor, who sued the Missouri Pacific for
list a conductor discharged for care
lessness. The Supreme Court held that
| the case was not actionable for libel for
absence Of express malice in the publica-
! ton.
| WHITE laborers have taken the places of
most of the striking negro workmen in
| the tobacco factories of Danville. Va.
1HE colored farmers of South Carolina
| have organized union for the advance
| ment of the race in education and other
! respects. 1t is to be strictly non political
EDITOR WEBER, of the Republican, of
Little Rock. Ark, attempted to shoot Gen :
eral Powell Clayton the other morning
| while in a saloon. Political differences
were said to be at the bottom of the
trouble. Both Webber and Clayton were
arrested.
JONEsBoRo, Ark, met with disastrous
| conf1agration on the 9th, the principal
| business houses being destroyed. The
! loss reached $500 900.
| The old town of Bladen shurg, Md, was
recently inundated by a freshet
GENERAL.
VICE-PRESIDENT ROBINSON. of the Santa
| Fe system, denies emphatically the charge
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