Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-24

THE WEsE.
LKsTKR GREEN, q prominent citizen Of
Bloomington. Ill. has elopsd with the
wife of an engineer named Baker.
Six persons were killed and three In.
jured by an accident on the Mount Au-
burn Inclined railway at Cincinnati ON
the 18th The machinery refused to act
and car was precipitated to the bottom
and shattered to fragments.
GuBERT L LAWS has been nominated
by the Republicans TO succeed the late Mr..
Laird. Congressman from the Second Me-
braska district
II is understood that the Iowa Indians
are willing to take their lands in sever
altv. The Indian Commission will shortly
visit the Kickapoos and the Sac and Fox,
other tribes in the Indian Territory, to in
duce them to accede to the terms Of the
act
The Republican caucas at Pierre, s. D.,
selected Frank Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls
and Judge D. C. Moody. OF Deadwood, for
United States Senators.
INDIANAPOLIS and Cleveland have de-
cIared in favor of Oh icago for the Worlds
Fair.
RrcrrvrR DYER. of the Mormon Church
property, has asked the Utah Supreme
Court to give him q fee of 500 a month
for caring for property worth Il ,0o0. COO
AN infant Of q woman named Mary
Roup fell into a mass of lime at Mountain
Lake, Mimi, and met horrible death.
ELEVEN persons were under arrest at
Ashland. Wis, for taking part in the
Curtis Kim mick prize-fght
By a collision between car left on the
track at Heath, Ind, and a freight train
the other morning many cars We're
II lad n al
others were injured.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers met at Denver, Col, on the 18th.
THE reported railroad collision in COL
orado between Burlington and Union Pa
c;fc passenger trains was found to be
false.
WILLIAM DRAPER and John Olsen were
hanged at Placerviile, Cal. on the 16:h
for the murder of John Lowell on his
ranch March. 1883. John Myers was hanged
last November for the same crime, his two
accomplices escaping for time by taking
an appeal.
The State of Kansas has been awarded
a gold medal for the best agricultural re-
port, also a silver medal for its labor re-
port. Honorable mention" was awarded
to the Conway Springs and Douglass
Sugar Comp mics.
THE accident on the Mount Auburn in
cIined plane at Cincinnati was caused by
a little piece Of iron which got wedged in
the cutoff valve.
ELBERT E. KlMBALz, United States Dis
trict Attorney, died at Kansas City, No,
on the 18th Of congestive chilIs.
THE Mission creek country in Minne-
sofa was ravaged by fires. Much lumber
CAMDEN. O., was badly damaged by fire
on the 10Th.
THE factory and stock of the Pine Door
& Lumber Company of Grants Pass, Ore,
was destroyed by fire the other night
The loss was $50, 600.
AT the meeting of the railway brake
men in Minneapolis Hon. l. S. Coffin, Of
Iowa, advised them to urge Congress to
take action in the matter of safety appli-
ances.
The five Apache Indians who were tried
and convicted at Florence, Ariz-, for MUIR
der have been sentenced to be hanged
Three were charged with the murder of
Diehl two years ago and two with the
murder of Jones.
SENATORS Moody and Pettigrew have
been formally declared elected by the
South Dakota Legislature.
THE people of Indianapolis are refusing
to pay for rides on the street cars which
have dropped the conductors and put back
the old box system.
Two ladies of Frankfort. Ind, were
struck by train at a crossing the other
day and fatally injured.
SOCIALISTS decorated the graves of the
Anarchists in Waldheim cemetery, Chi
cago, on the 18th
THE Missouri Pacific road announces
that it will quote established rates be-
tween Chicago and Kansas City in con.
nection with the Illinois Central and Van
dalia- This opens another line between
Chicago and Kansas City, making eight
in all.
MRS. BRIAN WHITTIER, of the town Of
Greenbush. Mimi, while engaged in fight
ing a fire to save her home was recently
fatally burned. Her husband was some
distance from her at the time the flames
overlook her. He was also engaged in
fighting the fire.
The Rock Island is open for business to
Kingfsher, Ok. The following are inter-
and Mandon.
A DECREE winding mp the Wabash re-
ceivership of General John McNulta was
entered by consent of all creditors and
other interested part ties by Judge Gresham
at Chicago on the 18th.
The Western whisky trust is said to be
scheminR to break up the outside distil-
Ieries. Half a million dollars will be spent
if necessary.
THE inquiry at the Jefferson barracks,
st. Louis. has ended. The dispositions
make 300 pages
AN immense prairie fire was reported
raging few miles from Bismarck, n. D.,
on the 18th. The village of Menokin was
entirely swept away.
JOSEPH PAUL. a Chicago boy, met ar
awful death recently. He was caught
between an immense fywheel and the
betting.
THE SOUTH.
GENERAL II. D. CLAYTON, president Of
the University of Alaba ma, died at Tusca.
| loosa recently. He served with distinction
in the Confederate army during the lat.
war.
ROBERT BERRER. who shot and killed
| his mother-in- law near Lexington, n. c.
| was captured and lynched by the OLE
| lady's friends.
Ar Dothen, Ala. recently, q riot occur
| red between Alliance men and townspeo
| pie which resulted in the death of tw,
Alliance men, the mortal wounding Of tw,
| city marshals and the serious woundin,
of Eve other Alliance and townsmen. TIL
| trouble grew out of the taxation of ALI
| ance property.
THE Farmers Alliance Of Georgia ha
decided to build . huge warehouse at At