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

YOUNG CASSIDY, who fired the Catholic
-Protectory at White Plains, N. Y, has
been sentenced for ten years.
THE alumni of Cornell University have
elected Frank Hiscock, of Syracuse, trus-
tee. There was only one 9th er cand date,
Clarence Estey of Ithaca Hiscock's ma
jority was sixty three.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON was stricken
with paralysis at Lancaster, Pa, on the
10th. 1t was not thought he could recover
his great age (ninety years) precluding
much hope.
PROF. E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS, of Cornell
University, formerly of Brown alumnus,
has been unanimously elected president
of Brown University at Providence, R l.,
vice DR. E. G. Robinson, resigned.
O'DONovAN Rosa has been arrested at
New York for criminal libel in accusing
T. 8. Cassidy of being British spy. etc.
THE voting in Rhode Island on the Doth
went In favor of repeating the Prohibition
amendment
GOVERNOR BULKELEY, of Connecticut,
has vetoed the Legislatures resolution
authorizing the policy holders to assume
control of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insur-
: ance Company.
A STRIKE or lockout seems inevitable At
the great Homestead steel plant of Carne.
gle Co. It is stated upon the authority
of the firm that no agreement could be
reached with the workmen's conference
committee on the wages question, and that
they will quit work.
DIPHrHERIA is epidemic at Goshen and
Pond Eddy, N. Y. Schools have been
CLOSED.
MUCH damage was done by a terrific
thunderstorm which passed over Scranton.
Pa. on the 21st. Several houses were
struck by lightning and set on fire. Henry
Somers, aged eight years, while lying on
a couch at home was struck by lightning
and killed. George Somers, the boys
father, was seriously injured.
WILLIAM E. HOWARD, the Electric su gar
fraud worker, has been sentenced at New
York to nine years and eight months i'm
7prisonment in Sing Sing.
Two men were killed and three fatally
injured by an explosion of fireworks at
Hover Bros.' establishment Boston, on
the 21st. The damage amounted to 500, OOO
THE Connecticut Legislature has passed
the Secret Ballot bill
THE coroner's jury at Brooklyn, N. Y,
in the case of Mrs. Jessie Duff, who eloped
from Glasgow, Scotland, with DR.. James
-Downie found that her rapid death was
due to arsenic placed in her reach by
-Downie. Downie was remanded for the
grand jury.
WHILE boating in Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia, the other afternoon two
young couples were carried over the dam.
All four were drowned.
HARRY and William lesser, aged fifteen
and seventeen years respectively. living
at No. GLE South Third street. Philadel-
phia, were killed the other day by the ex-
Piosion of an old range boiler with which
they were experimenting.
DURING communion services at ST Cash
,mer,s Roman Catholic Church, Brooklyn,
N. Y, on the 22d. in which sixty little
girls, dressed in fancy white and bearing
lighted tapers, took part the vail of one OF
the children took fire from a taper and a
panic ensued. No one was seriously hurt.
ST. BERNARD CATHOLIC CHURcH. New.
ton, Mass, was burned on the 22d. Loss.
-$43 600; insurance, $4,000 The cause OF
the fire was unknown and was supposed
to have caught from fire in the eensers
used in the service.
THE New York Central Labor Union and
the Federation of Labor are about to patch
mp truce.