Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-03-21

An explosion IA paint shop on Ludlow
street, New York. oefiously injured the
two proprietors and wrecked many win.
dows in the vicinity.
THE Constitutional Prohibitory amend
ment in New HAMPSHIRE was defeated on
the 18th by q large vote.
HARRISON & Co.'S rolling mill at Port
land, Me-, was destroy cd by fire the other
night Loss, $1O1 900
ALL the great pipe mills at Reading,
Pa, were closed down on the 18th.
AT Renova, Pa, tho other night. Philip
Paul. tho chief OF police, was shot dead by
Charles Cieary Is he went to unlock the
door of the Jail.
THREE oilers at the ST. Nicholas colliery,
Mahanoy City, Pa, exploded recently. A
child was killed by fragment OF iron and
Ave or six other persons seriously injured.
TIE Western Union telegraph directors
met in New York recently and declared
the regular quarterly dividend Of IL per
cent payable April 8 The surplus for
the last quarter of 1888 was $396. s07.
THE Pennsylvania Railway Company
has purchased 9, $50 feet of shore front on
New York bay for terminals.
HENRY BERGH has been removed from
the presidency of the New York Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
too domineering to suit the board of man
ayers.
AT Marlboro, Mass, recently Walter and
William White, aged eight and sixteen
years, saturated a box of powder with
kerosene and applied q match to it caus-
ing an explosion by which both were fatal
ly injured.
A NUMBER of miners were imprisoned
by a falling of rock in the Black Diamond
mine at Shamokin, Pa, on the 18th. It
was hardly thought they could be rescued
alive
A BATTERY of boilers exploded at the
West Point boiler works, Pittsburgh. Pa,
on the 14th, killing five or six Of the work.
men and injuring many others.
The strike of the weavers Of Fall River,
Mass, has been made worse by the shut
ting down of mills employing 1000 persons
in other departments.
THE WEST.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has purchased the
Valley railroad, running between Cleve-
land, sixty miles north, and Mineral
Point fourteen miles south of Canton, o.
1t has been known for a long time that he
owned the Lake Erie & Southern road
WHILE Allen Gregory, his hired man
and wife were in . sleigh the other even
ing trying to cross the railroad track at
Chicago junction. O.. they were struck by
the Baltimore & Ohio express and all three
instantly killed. sg +
Two men, supposed to be the ones who
robbed the Southern Pacific train near
Pixley, Cal, last month and killed two
men, have been arrested at Bakersfield,
Cal.
GRoTrKAU, the Milwaukee Socialist
sentenced to a year in the workhouse,
won his appeal in the Wisconsin Supreme
Court and all prosecution ceases.
THE Union Pacific switchmen's strike at
Denver, Col, has been declared off.
THE annual meeting of the Missouri Pa
cific Railway Company was held at St
Louis on the 18th. The old directors were
reelected. The report was considered,
comparatively, a favorable one.
The joint convention of coal miners and
operators held a short session at Colum.
bus. O., on the 18th, at which the Indiana
operators gave notice that they would
withdraw from the convention.
By the capsizing of the towboat Kan
CARGO at Spottsville. Ind, the other day,
the owner and the cook were drowned but
the rest OF the crew were saved.
ON complaint of Rev. DR.. Bilbrook,
Methodist, Judge Ruddick of the circuit
court at Waverly, Iowa, issued a tenn
porary injunction to prevent the agent of
a st. Louis brewery from delivering beer
on orders.
JOHN TUssING was killed and much dam
age done by an explosion recently at the
Standard oil refinery at Lima, O.
FIRE in Denver, Col, the other dav
caused 500, 900 loss to Knight Mcclure &
Co.. music dealers, and $45. 900 loss to
other tenants.
THE Interstate Beef Combine confer
ence met at st. Louis on the 18th with rep
resentatives in attendance from Missouri,
Texas. Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Min
nesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and
Illinois. Senator Gillett, of Kansas, was
chosen temporary chairman, and Thomas
Cook. of Nebraska, secretary. After per-
manently organizing many resolutions
| were offered and referred.
THE colored people of Springfield, ILL.,,
have decided upon the erection Of a monu-
ment to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
William II. Seward. Charles Sumner,
Wendell Phillips, John Brown and soldiers
OF the late war, to cost SOC, 900.
In rounding q curve near Fairview, n.
NJ. the other day. an Atlantic & Pacific
| freight engine and fifteen cars were
wrecked and Brakeman Oliver Ferguson
was fatally injured.
HON. MOSES w. FIELD, the original
Greenback advocate in Michigan, the man
who called the Greenback movement into
| political prominence in the United States
| and suggested the convention which nom
mated Peter Cooper for President died at
Detroit, Mich, on the 14th.
| AFTER two days. discussion the Inter-
State Miners and Operators joint con-
vention. at Columbus. O., ended in the
dissolution Of the agreement The effect
| on wages will probably be bad.
S. E. GROSS the we'll known real estate
| man of Chicago, has been nominated for
mayor by the Labor party.