Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20


the field of Getty sbuBg on the 18th. Gem
eral L. s. Trowbridge, Governor Luce and
War Governor Austin Blair were the
speakers.
THE Sangamon river in Central Illinois
was reported beyond it's bank, had broken
four levees and had flooded thousands of
acres of farm lands.
AT the recent meeting OF the National
Millers' Association in Milwaukee, Wis, a
resolution was adopted asking President
Harrison to appoint George Balm, of ST.
Louis Consul to Glasgow.
The bank of Wahpeton, Dak., has as
signed as the result of a heavy run. The
assets and liabilities were unknown.
THE Iowa Republican convention will
be held August IA. at Des Moines.
THE State took control of the relief oper-
ations at Johnstown on the 18th, with
General Hastings in charge.
THERE is mnch destitution among the
locked out miners and their families at
Spring Valley, ILL.,
THE Socorro County Bank, of Socorro,
N. NJ, has suspended payment with $40, :
600 liabilities and no assets. Nearly all
of the depositors had been duly warned.
By fire in Leadville, COL, recently,
caused by the overturning of lamp dur
ing a drunken spree, Edward Crawley
and another man were burned to death.
FIRE in West st. Paul, Mimi, recently
destroyed three dwellings, a small hotel,
the ice house of the st. Paul Ice Company
and stable, causing SAC, 600 loss
The Chippewa Indians of Mile Lac,
Minn., went on the war-path after q big
dance and drunk, numbering three Swede
families. The Indians were excited by q
rumor that their lands were to be taken.
Immediate steps were taken by the mill
itary to suppress the hostile bucks.
A TERRIBLE fire was reported sweeping
the Wisconsin forests near Superior. Loss,
$500, 900.
A DISPATCH from Columbus, o., saws:
w. B. Brooks & Son. among the largest
operators in the Hooking valley, assigned
recently. Assets, $3.50 600; liabilities,
$780, 900.
ALL the mechanics engaged in building
trades at Peoria, ILL.,. have organized a
trades council, the principal feature OF
which is that no trade shall go on a strike
without the consent of all the rest, thus
averting frequent and enforced idleness.
jim CHALTY chief of the Snake river
band of Chippewas, has conferred with
Captain Stanch He said that the recent
trouble was caused by whisky, and there
would be no general uprising, as the In
dians desired to maintain peaceful re-
lations between themselves and the w hites.
1t was stated that only one white man
was killed.
ILLINOIS has officially quarantined
against Southern cattle in order to pre-
vent the Introduction of Texas fever il
possible.
GEORGE and Charles Sherwood, sons OF
a railroad conductor, were drowned re-
Gently near Chicago while trying to swim.
AN unknown man was beheaded by
cable cars in San Francisco the other day
the third fatal accident in a week.
JUDGE WILLIAM s. ALLEN, of the United
States court for the Southern district OF
Illinois, is reported critically ill at his
home in Spring field, Ill.
JUDGE TULEY ordered the release OF
Alexander Sullivan on the writ Of habeas
corpus at Chicago on the 14th. He held
that the evidence connecting Sullivan
with the murder Of DR.. Cronin was toe
weak. Sullivan's bond was fixed al
$4,000.
THE Michigan Legislature has formally
relinquished all rights to the Northern
Peninsula railroad lands recently de.
clared forfeited by Congress.
The first formal council between the
Sioux Commissioners and the Indians a
the Pine Ridge agency in Dakota was helG
on the 18th, ex x-Governor Foster and Major
William Warner speaking.
A REoENT confession of the horse -thie1
Woodruff accuses Alexander Sullivan o.
being at the head of the plot to murder
Cronin, with 'Melville," ''Williams,'
Coughlin and Sullivan, the iceman, a.
principal accomplices. A sensational re
port was that the bloody clothing of DR.
Cronin had been shipped to one of the con
spirators in London, England.
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