Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-25

solving the Brush Electric Company and
appointing ex-Mayor O'Brien, of Chicago,
receiver. The company is entirely solvent
and has assets of $3.50 600.
THE one hundredth birthday of Ed
ward e. Little was celebrated in Marcel.
lus township, Cass County, Mich, recent
ly. The old man is still hale and active.
CONDUCTORS HUGHES and Engineer Con-
verse of the freight train which telescoped
a directors car at Lorenzo, ILL.,, the other
day and caused three deaths, have been
arrested and placed in the Joliet Jail.
IT is reported that a man named Nc
Pherson, formerly of San Francisco, has
set himself up as monarch of one Of the
Aleutian islands. A revenue cutter has
been ordered to arrest him and turn him
over to the civil authorities at San Fran
cisco, as during his 'Teign" he had caused
three natives to be hanged.
A PACKAGE containing $15 600 in gold
has disappeared from the office of the
the Northern Pacific Express Company at
Brainerd, Mimi There was no clew as to
who took it.
A TORNADO passed over Hinkley, Ill,
on the 18th. No one was hurt but many
buildings were unroofed.
FIVE persons perished in the cabin of a
river raft boat which sunR the other night
near Burlington, Iowa. A woman in the
cabin saved her life by finding corner
not submerged where she kept her head
until the roof was broken in and she was
pulled out
WHILE attempting to ford Ephraim
creek in the Cherokee Strip on the 18th a
boomer, his wife and four children were
swept away and drowned.
THERE was a report at Purcell, I. T., on
the 10Th that United States marshals had
fred into a party of boomers attempting
to ford the Canadian river and enter Okla
homa before the legal date. Seven boom
ers were wounded, two fatally, the re-
mainder, numbering thirty, being taken
prisoners. There were reports elsewhere
of serious conflicts with cattlemen.
SYLVESTER GRUBB was hanged at Vim
cennes, Ind, on the 10Th for the murder OF
his sweetheart September Is last.
Two small boys were drowned at Rock
vile, Ind, the other evening while boat
ing.
THE two hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the first paper mill in America
will be celebrated at Roxborough, Pa, in
September, 1889.
THOMAS NJ. DANsBY, a merchant oil
Cleveland County. and Reuben W. Oar
den, planter, of Union County, convicted
in the Federal Court at Little Rock, Ark,
of obstructing the Congressional election
November 6, were sentenced by Judge
Brewer, Darden to imprisonment for two
years and Dansby to pay fine of $500 and
costs. The testimony disclosed that OAR
den had driven a negro from the polls and
that Dansby had interfered with voters.
THREE men died from suffocation at q
fire which burned q cheap lodging house
on Cadillac square, Detroit, Mich, the
other day.
| SERIOUS fires were reported at Depere
| Wis. The loss by the burning of the Mel
senwinkle factory and adjacent property
| amounted to $500, 900. Buckbee, near Ap-
pleton, was wiped out, which, with the
losses near Marion. amounted to $4,000
The steamer Umatilla arrived at Sar
Francisco on the Goth, having on boare
Lieutenant Louis Ripley and twenty inc
INJURED men of the United States steamer,
Vandalia and Trenton.
Two street cars were wrecked by
strikers at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 21s
| and the traffic stopped
| The Central Iowa train was wrecked
four miles west of Abingdon, ILL.,, on tn
| Goth. The train went through a bridge
setting fire to the mail car. One man wa
killed and eight wounded.
THE SOUTH.
| THE Southern stove manufacturers at
| meeting at Chattanooga, Tenn, recentl,
| formed a permanent association and raise
| prices on cheap cook stoves.
THE depot building at Newbern, n. c.
| and it's contents were totally destroyed b,
| fire the other morning.
| . The reports of the forest fires in Patric