Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

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building was wrecked. The ruins TOOK
FIRE and q disastrous loss OF life occurred.
Many of the bodies Of the dead were re-
covered and search was continued for the
missing. It was believed that twenty
persons perished, about that number being
injured. t
II is learned that an intimation has
been made to the members Of the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers in the en-
ploy of the Reading Railroad Company
that it was desired by the company mat
they should either quit the brotherhood
or the company.
BLANKENBuRG & Co.'s large importing
house and other firms were burned OUT az
Philadelphia on the 18th. The loss 1ooteo
up to nearly half a million.
|. FIRE at Riegelsyille, Pa, early inc
other morning destroyed an entlre piocA'
causing $40. 900 loss.
MRS. SARAH E. HEUsTIs, or newton.
Mass, has obtained verdict for $Sooo
against the Michigan Central railway Ior
injuries in an accident.
Z JUSTIN JONES, once publisher OF the
Cleveland Herald and later an editor ana
publisher of Boston. died at CROMWELL
Conn, recently, aged seventy-four.
GEORGE SMITH, aged sixty, foreman OF
gang of laborers excavating for flats in
New York City, was blown to pieces re-
Gently by the explosion of fifteen pounds
of dynamite in the tool box.
THE WEST.
A GANG of Russian Jews engaged in
Illicit distilling in Chicago have been ar.
rested and the revenue. officers are alter
several saloonkeepers and others.
ALBERT and George Avery, OF Youngs-
town, O., were trampled to death near
Rawlins, Wyo, recently by mad cattle.
TIE convention of the American Tariff
Reform Association began at the Madison
Street Theater, Chicago, on the 10Th. The
secretary read letter from President
Cleveland.
The Cincinnati, indianapolis & st.
Louis car shops at Cincinnati burned. on
the 10Th. Loss, 5000, 600.
THE election for the late Congressman
Burnes' seat in the Fourth district Of Mis-
souri, came of on the 10th. Returns indi-
Gated the election of Booher and Wilson,
Democrats, for the short and long terms
over Posegate, Republican.
BISHOP g. ]. BEDELI, of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Northern Ohio. who
has been i'll for over year, has been
stricken with paralysis at Nice, France.
J.H. SALISBURY, a. Chicago letter car
rier, has been arrested and has confessed
having opened letter containing draft
forged the payers name and secured the
money. -
CONGRESSMAN LAIRD, of Nebraska, ex-
poets to be able to go to Washington
shortly his illness having almost worn off.
FLArHEAD Indians in Flathead Lake
valley, above Helena, Mont, were re-
ported threatening grave trouble because
j. E. Clifford of Demosville, killed one of
their number. It was reported that Cliff
ford and one other had been killed.
THE Myers Opera House at GAINESVILLE,
Wis.,. the handsomest theater in Wiscon-
sin outside of Milwaukee, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $50, 900; insurance, S., 600.
Four San Francisco policemen have
been indicted for receiving brides from
keepers of Chinese gambling dens.
A CABLE car containing scores of pas
sengers was struck square in the middle
the other night at Chicago by locomo-
tive and hurled at least one hundred feet.
Only one person, q woman. was fatally
injured.
l. CHARLES j. HULL, a Chicago millionaire,
left his entire estate to his housekeeper,
Helen Culver. He had no direct heirs, but
his next of kin will contest the will.
THE Interstate Commerce Railway As
| ISOLATION (the ''gentlemen's agreement')
was organized at Chicago on the 21st.
Considerable skepticism existed as to its
| continuance. The membership is composed
| of eighteen out of twenty-five Western
! roads.
| WHILE two girls, Mile and Winnie
Peterson. were returning from school re.
Gently in the northern part of Aitki1
County, Mimi, they were attacked and
completely devoured by timber wolves,
few scattered bones and shreds of cloth
ing alone remaining as the horrible testi
mony of the children's fate.
A GENUINE blizzard ragged in Dakota ant
Minnesota to as far south as Kansas ant
| M;co0ur; m ha or and god
FORTY EIGHT children ranging in ag
from eighteen months to three years die,
in and about Wabash, Ind, in the past tw
weeks from diphtheria and membranou
Group. Not a victim escaped.
THE SOUTH.
The laying of the second cable for tn
Mexican Telegraph Company from Coatza