Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-18
GREAT BEND, KANSAS, THURSDAY APRIL 49, 1889

suffocating black smoke from q fire which
broke out in Sanger, Rockwell & Co.'s
factory at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 10th.
Twenty Of the victims had to be carried
home in patrol wagons.
ONE man was fatally and four seriously
burned in foundry at Youngstown, O..
by the explosion of molten metal in a cast
ing form.
JUDGE THAYER, Of the United States dis
trict court at St Louis, has decided that
the tops of mail boxes are not receptacles
for mail, and taking papers from them is
no criminal offense.
THE Braman beef bill to require the in
spection of beef on foot before being killed
was defeated in the Ohio Senate by a vote
of 13 to 16. The bill originated in the
House and passed that body by an almost
unanimous vote.
The Michigan House has passed bill
prohibiting the sale or giving away Of
cigarettes.
AN order to reduce wages on the street
car. lines in Minneapolis resulted in q
strike on the 11th.
Mr.. BEDDINGER, another Dakota prairie
fire victim, is dead. This made six deaths
in Hyde County caused by prairie fires
The total loss in Hyde County was SAC, 600
MISS BEECHLER, who has just been on
trial at Omaha for the killing of H. W.
King. Jr.. expects to sail for Europe soon.
HARRIET's tailoring concern at Detroit
Mich, an establishment for manufacture
ing ladies' silk garments, was robbed the
other morning and about $5, 900 worth of
silks stolen.
OFFICER O'BRIEN is at the point of death
at Chicago as the result of an injury re-
ceived at the Haymarket riot O'Brien
has piece of the bomb in his side.
The United States grand jury at Port
\
indictments against William Harmed
special deputy collector, eleven against
Herbert F. Beecher, ex-treasury agent, and
twelve against Quincy A. Brooks for steal.
ing from the Government.
FIFTY persons in the gen eral offices of
the %" system at Chicago have been dis
charged in order to curtail expenses.
The Ohio Senate committee to investi.
gate Railroad Commissioner CapelIar re-
ported finding him guilty of questionable
conduct both as an officer and in private
life.
MEREDITH STANLEY, of Cincinna att
jumped recently from the bridge on the
Cincinnati Southern railroad over the
Kentucky river, a height of 2S5 feet. With
the exception of coughing up little blood
he was uninjured. He did it to beat Steve
Brodie the New York jumper.
FRANK RINGo, the well-known base ball
catcher, committed suicide at Kansas City
recently after a protracted spree.
AN uproar was caused in the Western
Freight Association by the discovery that
a secret rate existed between the st. Paul
road and the Armours. The other roads
were forced to make the same rate. as the
contract had three years to run. The In
ter-State Railway Association threatened
prosecution, which a general manager
thought mere buncombe.
JOHN d. JENNINGS, q millionaire many
times over, died the other night in his
apartments at the Southern Hotel, Chi
cago. He was seventy-five years old. He
had long been one Of the largest holders of
Chicago real estate and was familiarly
known as ''Corner Lot Jennings"
RECENTLY an attempt was made to
wreck passenger train on the Cleveland,
Lorraine & Wheeling railway near Tippe-
canoe station, o. A heavy log chain was
wrapped around the rails and three or
four cross ties were piled over the rails.
The express train passed over the chain in
safety and came to a stop before reaching
the ties.
JOHN JACKSON, a capitalist and presi-
dent of the elevator on Biddle street, st.
Louis, hanged himself the other morning.
The suicide was due to the hopeless condi-
tion of his business affairs.
By an accident on the Cairo Short Line
near Bellevi!le, ILL.,, recently, thirteen
loaded cars were smashed to splinters and
about $50, 900 worth Of merchandise de-
stroyed. Brakeman Samuel Patten was
fatally and Brakeman Pat Brown serious
ly injured. Engineer Tobin and Fireman
Noble were hurt slightly in jumping 70,
their lives. .. 81
THE steamship Alameda arrived at San
Francisco on the 18th. bringing full par.
ticulars of the terrible hurricane of March
Is, 16 and II at Samoa She also brought
several cadets from the wrecked steame,
Trenton. The disaster to the war vessel,
was due to the fee bleness Of the machinery
the British corvette Cahiope escaping tn.
deadly reef by the sheer force of he1
powerful engines. The Samoans acteo
nobly in rescuing those In peril and caring
for them afterward. The German cruiser
Olga. which had been beached, was foateo
after the storm and reached Sydney, N. 8
W., safely, whore she was docked for re
pairs.