Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-19
THE EAST.

FARMER, of Concord, N. d, who had q
farm for sale was induced by alleged pur-
chasers to draw %, 500 from the bank and
when the robbers found they could not
get him into game of cards, q revolver
was used to persuade him to give up his
money. He did so.
THE great Thomas iron works at Hoken-
dagua, Pa, has been sold to an English
syndicate for So, soc, 600 cash.
THIRTY acres Of land near Plymouth,
Pa, settled alarmingly recently. Several
mules in the mine underneath were killed
and the workmen lost their tools
ABRAHAM II. TAPPEN, of the Twenty
fourth Assembly district, has been elected
Grand Sachem Of the Tammany Society in
place of Sheriff Flack, resigned.
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw has returned from
Europe.
EUGENE d. MANN, editor and proprietor
of Town Topics of New York, has been
Tombs in default of s.. 600 bail on an in
dietment for criminally libeling DR.. Allan
McLane Hamilton in an article ON the
zRobert Ray Hamilton case. SO
AT Buffalo, N. Y, DR.. Bartlett finished
This effort to beat DR.. Carver's record of
breaking go, 600 glass balls by rifle shots in
six days. He broke 90. OFT in all
The Phoenix Wooden Mills Company of
East Greenwich. r. L, have offered to
cents on the dollar.
JOSEPH MATE, an Italian fruit vender of
New York City, in trying to clean a gutter
i'm front of his place, caught q "live"
electric light wire in his hands and was
instantly killed.
MRS c. H DUNsFoRD. the wife of
leading citizen OF Reading, Pa, died the
other day after being thrown into spasms
while laughing heartily at theatrical
o~fiG o;n knof
missed and a post norton examination
developed the fact that she had swallowed
them They were found lodged in her
stomach.
The business part of Dandy. N. Y.
burned the other day. Cause. no fire ap-
Eraratus. Loss $3.50
FIVE hundred miners at Clarion and
sCiear Run. Pa, have struck for an adj
vance. The strike was in cooperation
with the striking miners of Adrain and
Watson.
f. w. GESSwEIN, the millionaire i'm
porter and manufacturer of jewelers.
supplies and tools, was shot dead at New
York recently by Christian Dehle, an old
German, who said he committed the crime
because Gesswein had robbed him of his
patent and left him penniless.
A CATTLE disease. either Texas fever or
black toni que, is reported ravaging the
herds near Scottdale, Pa
Hon. A. E. ToUzALIN, Of Chicago, pres
ident of the Chicago. Burlington & North
ern railway, died at Bennington, Vt, re.
Gently. He had been out Of health for
some time.
ALDERMAN CHRISTIAN GoETx, of New
York City, has been acquitted of the
charge of having bribed voters at the last
election.
THE town of Medina. N. Y, was badly
damaged by fire on the 10Th. which origin
ated in Ives & sons pail manufacturing
establishment. The loss was $500. COO
THE portraits of General Grant and
Sheridan which were painted by order of
George w. Childs for the United States
Military Academy will be formally pre-
scented to that institution October 3 Gem
-eral Horace Porter will make the address.
The three. masted schooner Phineas w.
Sprague, of Thomastown. Me-, from PHI
adelphia for Boston with coal was wrecked
at Pollock Slip, Mass. The crew were
saved by Captain Gould's life saving crew.
THE WEST.
THE Burton building on Van Buren,
street in Chicago. recently burned and
lust rebuilt, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
THE nephew Of Averill. the man " nched
some time ago with s'Cattle Kate'' in Wy
oming, died suddenly recently. The cor
oner found every evidence that he was
poisoned.
The approximate gross earnings of the
Atchison railroad system for August were
81 317 81, against s., sos, 9O4 for the same
period in 1888.
THREE boilers in the California sash.
door and blind factory at Oakland, Cal,
exploded recently, killing four men out
right and inju ing several Others. two
probably fatally. Two others were sup
posed to be buried in the ruins.
NEARLY all the packers in the flint glass
houses in the Ohio valley have struck for
zan advance in wages.