Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07
THE WEST.


ernor Church. of Dakota, and the Terri
torial Legislature. It all turns on the ap-
pointments for the next two years. and the
Legislature being Republican wishes to
prevent the appointments being made by
the present Democratic Governor.
THE Rockport and Cannelton accommo-
dation train, on the Louisville. Evansville
g. st. Louis railroad, was thrown from the
track the other morning between Lincoln
City and Chrisney, Ind. There we're
thirty six passengers in the coach, and all
were we'll shaken up. but none killed.
GEORGE w. DoHNER 6, Co., dealers in
glassware and crockery, at 1874 and 1856
Wabash avenue, Chicago. have made a
voluntary assignment, The company's
liabilities are $4,000, and the assets the
same
AT a school house near Williamsburg,
O., the other night, while a crowd of
people were passing out from the build
ing. mischievous boy pulled the bell rope
the house on the crowd below, killing
William Wacke and seriously injuring
G. w. Mount and Spar Kidd.
THE Grand Opera House at Duluth,
Mimi, and adjacent buildings were burned
on the 2Sth. Loss, $500. 900.
THE advertising bargain" swindler at
st. Paul. MIMI, has been arres~sd. He is
an old offender named Arthur Pomeroy
and is we'll known as crook in Chicago,
Springfield, Mo-, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
THE wall of the burned Opera House at
Duluth. Mimi, fell on an adjoining
building and killed a merchant named
Chamberlain. Another man was supposed
to be in the ruins of the crushed building,
which Immediately took fire.
JOHN E. SULLIVAN, county clerk of Ma
rion County, Ind, has failed in his private
business. He claims that the expenses of
the campaign two years ago bankrupted
him.
IT is reported from Chamberlain, OAK,
that the Indians from the Lower Brule
and Crow Greek agencies are preparing
petitions to be sent to Washington asking
that the lands be opened to settlement
SEVEN residences, two livery stables and
two business houses were destroyed bv
fire at Marietta, O., the other morning
Loss, $4,000.
Two school children named French were
frozen to death twelve miles east of Hitch.
cock, Oak, during a recent cold snap.
They had attempted to reach home with
an elder sister unaided and were out all
night When discovered the two children
were dead and the sister badly frozen
A STRONG anti Pinkerton police bill has
been introduced in the Illinois Legislature
by Representative O'Toole.
The Pheips-Clunie recount in the Fifth
California district has resulted in fixing
the majority for Ciunie, Democrat at 80.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever is raging
in Lake View and other suburbs along The
Michigan lake shore to the northward in
the direction of Edgewater, near Chicago,
MRS. MEcKIE RAwsoN, the wife of the
millionaire banker, who in open court shot
his lawyer nearly to death was acquitted
on the ground Of insanity at Chicago on
the Goth.
The latest phase Of the fight between
Governor Church and the Dakota Leeis.
lature is the proposal that the Legislature
repeal the laws creating the Offices OF
Auditor. Treasurer, Attorn ey- General and
Railroad Commissioner.
The lockout of the 1000 miners near
Spring Valley, ILL.,, has ended in a vicrory
for the companies, the men concedihs the
right of their employers to hire and dis
charge mon as they pleased.
COLONEL PRoUrY, the veteran Kansas
newspaper man. died in Topeka on the
31sk He was born in New York State
July 81, 1885. and set type in the Herald Of
Freedom Office at Lawrence, Kan, at the
time Preston b. Plumb was foreman.
THE National Furniture Manufacturers
Association at its annual meeting at Grand
Rapids, Mich, refused strongly to or
ganize . trust