Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04

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circular saw in . mill at Evansville.
Ind. the other day.
JOHN RArH was killed and his wife and
q neighbor badly injured near Madison,
Wis, the other day by being struck by q
train while riding on q handcar.
TIE entire people of Arizona are up in
arms against the proposition to remove
Geronimo and his Apache murderers from
Florida to Arizona
THE principal development on the 18th
I'm the Cronin case at Chicago was the
alleged to have seen to the execution of
the death sentence pronounced by Camp
20. a
A COMBINATION Of the knit goods men
in the territory west of the Alleghanies
and north of Memphis has been practically
effected by meeting of a number of
manufacturers at Chicago.
CoMNENCENENr day at the Lake Forest
University. at Lake Forest ILL.,, was a
regular jubilee, becau Sc of the fact that
$780, 600 had been added to the endowment
teen graduates.
BEN MARKS and Eddie Horton, boys,
were recently drawn into the shute of an
elevator at Lima, o., and smothered to
death.
GEORGE and Fred Saniskey, brothers,
were drowned recently in the river at
Des Moines, Iowa.
GREAT damage was done to winter wheat
rye and corn in Winona County, Minn.,
recently by hail and rain.
COLONEL A n SAxToN, one Of the orig
inal settlers of st. Joseph, Mo-, died on
the 9th. He was born in Ohio, February
II, 1921.
THE publishers Of the Chicago city di-
rectory estimate the present population of
the citv at over 100000.
The new quarters at the new military
post, Fort Logan. near Denver, Col, ha, Q
been completed and accepted.
GEORGE p. MURRAY has been given a
twenty years. sentence in Judge William
sons court at Chicago for abduction and
criminal assault on Mamie Freeman, aged
fourteen years. Murray was foreman of
the Legal News and was married, having
a wife and four children.
JAMES HARVEY, agent of Chicago
dressed beef company, was arrested at
Valparaiso. Ind, recently on the charge
of violating a new law prohibiting the
sale of fresh meat unless inspected on the
hoof within the county. He was released
on a writ of habeas corpus by Judge
johnson on the ground that the law re-
quiring such inspection is unconstitu-
tional.
BorH houses of the Michigan Legislature
have agreed to the Damon bill fixing the
liquor license at $500.
A PASSENGER train struck q cow twenty
miles below Cairo, Ill. the other day and
was ditched. Six passengers were slightly
hurt and an old negress fatally crushed.
THE people of Albuquerque, N. NJ, have
aised $75. coo. to be given as a bonus to
the Atlantic & Pacific railroad if it will
build thirty-ive miles Of track this year
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Two attendants in the State Insane
Asylum at Rochester. Minn., have been
sent to the penitentiary for killing a
patient. s1.s
THE assassination of DIR. Cronin was de-
nounced in a mass meeting held at Chica-
go on the night OF the 2Sth.
ACCORDING to the figures of the just
completed directories the population of
the twin cities (St. Paul and Minneapolis)
is now close to half million.
A STORM swept over Southwestern Ohio
on the afternoon of the 28th. The south
bound train on the Ohio & Northwestern
run into a washed-out bridge just south
west of Batavia, fatally and seriously in
juring several persons.
PART of the Burton block, Clinton and
Van Buren streets, Chicago. was burned
the other day. Loss, 5000. 600.
AN extensive prairie fire recently
u.
were reported lyst
The funeral of the wife of ex.President
Hayes took place at Fremont, O., on the
2Sth.
A REPORT from Blackfoot, Mont, of a
rich discovery in an artesian we'll, whole
sale claim jumping and fears of massa-
crewas totally without foundation. There
was no claim jumping of any consequence
nor was there any unusual excitement in
the Orc Fino district.
THE Academy of Music Cleveland, O.,
was burned the other night. It was the
oldest place of entertainment in the city.
The crop prospects in the Northwest
have been damaged by hot winda- Con-
tinuous rains are also reported to have in
flicted considerable damage in Illinois.
AN Indian giving his name as Olaf, OF
the Omaha tribe. was taken from Jail al
Bedford, Iowa, the other night and
lynched by citizens. He had been caught
attempting an outrage upon the wife OF
Frank Glasoman. a farmer.
The Cronin grand jury on the Goth re-
turned indictments against Martin Burke,
Patrick Cooney, John F. Beggs, Daniel
Coughlin, Patrick O'Sulivan, Frank
Kunze and Frank Woodruff. Alexander
Sullivan was not Indicted.
UNDER orders from DIR. McChesney, In
dian agent at Cheyenne, a man named
Waidron has been driven from the Sioux
reservation by the Indian police. His Of
tense consisted of trying to persuade In
dians from signing the treaty opening the
reservation TO settlement.
A cLoUDBURsr swept the mining camp
: OF Hermosa, N. NJ. recently, destroying
half the place.
THE SOUTH
A SPECIAL from Buckner Ark saws that
j. GLADDEN., proprietor of the Buckner
Hotel. died suddenly of congestion and
his wife, upon. seeing his lifeless body,
dropped dead by his side, both deaths oc-
curing in ten minutes.
A SERIOUS faction feud existed at Whar-
ton. Tex, caused by the killing of .'Red''
Gibson. Governor Ross ordered the Vic
toria rifles to the scene of distur urbance.
SHERMAN c. McRAE, aged eighty-four