Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
THE EAST.

the EplScOpdl Cnurcn OIL the HOLY
Spirit, New York, has given up his
pulpit and is succeeded by Rev. DR.. r.
Heber Newton, at $20, 900 a year.
THE certified returns at hand of the
recent election in New Jersey show
that the plurality of Albeit, Democrat,
= for Governor, is IA, 253, which, with but
one exception, is the largest plurality
ever given in the State to any candi-
date. The exception was in 1867 when
Joel Parker received 1857 plurality.
The total Prohibition vote was 1858.
IsIDOR II. SULTZBACK, retail clothieI
of Philadelphia, has assigned with
500, 900 liabilities and unknown assets
LIEUTENANT SCHROEDER, one of the
inventors of the Driggs-SchrOeder gun,
denies that his invention has been sold
to England and also that it is unappre-
ciated in America. The navy is already
using it.
THE North River Sugar Refining
Company, of New York, has appealed
from the Supreme Court decision dis
solving the firm.
LEECHBURG, Pa, was visited by a
fire on the 26th which rendered twenty
families homeless and destroyed $780,
600 worth of property.
A TERRIBLE fire visited Lynn, Mass,
on the 26th, burning for eight hours
and destroying about SIC, OOO, 600 worth
Of property. 1t was the third largest
confagration in New England, being
eclipsed only by the great fires at Bos-
ton and Portland.
THE Court of Appeals in New York
has decided the United States Express
Company must pay taxes to that State
under the corporation tax law.
AT meeting in Philadelphia resolu-
tiOns looking to the betterment of Rus
sian exiles in Siberia were passed, and
steps will be taken to reach the Russian
Government through the approaching
prison convention in St. Petersburg.
THE United States championship
skating contest will occur at Newburg,
on the Hudson, January Is.
THE New York grand jury has re-
turned an Indictment for murder in the
first degree against Mrs. Hannah B.
Southworth, who shot and killed Ste
phen Pettus. Later she was arraigned
and pleaded not guilty.
JOHN MCCARTY, the convict who in
the Rhode Island State prison murder
Ously assaulted murderer LaCoste,
hanged himself in dark cell. LaCoste
will recover.
/ Boston suffered by disastrous con-
flagration on the 2sth, commencing in
the granite building owned by Jordan,
Marsh & Co., Bedford and Kingston
streets, adjacent to where the great
fire Of 1872 started. Two acres of
buildings were burned over. The loss
wasput at 81 600, 900; insurance, s., 6OO,-
600. Seven or eight persons were Sc
riOusly injured during the progress of
the flames.
By landslide at the entrance to the
tunnel near Pattenburg, N. j., recent
1y an engine house was destroyed, the
engineer killed and the railroad blocked
for twelve hours.
THE great football match between
Yale and Princeton took place at Berk-
ley Oval, New York, on Thanksgiving
day. 1t was a hard-fOught game which
finally resulted in favor of Princeton by
a score of 10 to O. There were about
10000 persons present on the ground
and the enthusiasm and excitement
was something tremendous. One OF
the players named George, of Prince.
ton, was quite seriously injured, the
ligament of his left ankle being broken
THE WEST.
THE Santa Cruz Athletic Club OF
San Francisco has decided to offer q
purse of $50, 900 for a finish fight be-
tween Sullivan and Jackson, to take
place on the beach at Surf Side, Santa
Cruz. Instructions to make arrange
ments with the principals have been
telegraphed and mailed to a we'll known
New Y DIRK ex-pugilist.
THE season of the California Base
Ball League closed ON the oath, the
Oaklands defeating the San Franciscos
in the final game in that city with a
score of 5 to 4, and winning the pen
nant. Fully $1,000 people witnessed
the game. San Francisco takes second
place.
THE Appellate Court of Illinois has
decided that the mayors of cities have
perfect right to forbid obnoxious pa
rades by Salvation Army people.
THE south bound Santa Fe passenger
train was robbed at Berwyn, small
station in the Chickasaw Nation, /. T.,
on the night of the 25th.
THE real estate firm of Fredericksen
g. Co., Chicago, have been engaged in
extensive swindling operations in the
Northwest. Fredericksen has fed, his
cashier, BidgoOd, is in Jail. The defal-
cations were put at 81 ,OOO, 900.
By collision between a work and a
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