Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-24
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efH0c OF Missouri at Jeners0n City on the
l4tA. His address touched upon matters
Of general interest to the State and Ma
tion and was well received. The new Gov
ernor was attended by an influential DELI
egation from St Louis.
LYMAN U. HUMPHREY was installed as
Governor of Kansas at the State Capitol,
Topeka, on the 18th. In his inaugural adj
dress he spoke Of the wonderful progress
which the State had made under ex-Gov-
ernor Martin. He said that Kansas rep
resented the highest type Of civilization
and paid an eloquent tribute to the intel
ligence and enterprise of the people.
WESLEY BARNETT, the most noted des-
perado of the Indian I erritory, was killed
by Indian Policeman Wallace McNac. near
the residence of John s. Porter, five miles
east of Okmulgee recently.
THE Mason City & Fort Dodge Rail-
way Company of Iowa has defaulted on
the interest on So ,250, 900 bonds held by the
New England Loan and Trust Company.
PASSENGER train No. 8, bound for New
York. on the New York, Pennsylvania q
Ohio railroad, while running fifty miles
an hour struck freight train near Tall.
madge, O., on the 14th and eight persons
were killed and many more badly injured.
AN explosion of dynamite due to care
lessness-the sixth in the past two months
has occurred at Duluth, Mimi, and a
lady was made insane from fright. Little
damage was done.
The King Harness Company, one of the
leading manufacturing concerns of Ohio,
has made an assignment The liabilities
are from StOO, 600 to $125. 600 and the assets
10000.
JUDGE TULEY, of Chicago, denied the
application for an injunction to restrain
the police from interfering with the meet
ings of the Arbeiter Bund. He did this on
receiving assurances from officials that the
meetings would not be interfered with.
THE famous Sutro tunnel near Virginia
City, New, was sold recently under de-
cree of foreclosure for 81, 325, 600 to rep
resentative Of the Tunnel Company of
New York. s,tt Ffs
BY a ruling of Judge Woods recently in
the Federal court at Indianapolis Ind,
it was thought no Indictment would be
made against Dudley for violating the
election laws.
THE public schools at Albert Lea, Mimi,
have been closed because of an epidemic
of diphtheria.
Legisl ature have unanimously agreed to
re-elect j. N. Dolph United States Sena-
tor.
The murderers of Byron Dennis and
John Goodwin in the Indian Territory have
been arrested.
DIR. ABELARDE LEBANON, United States
collector of customs at st. Paul, Mimi,
died recently of heart disease
WILLIAM BRENNAN, a religious crank Of
st. Louis, has been arrested for writing
over fifty letters to women CT the town
threatening them with deaths similar to
those inflicted by the Whitechapel fiend
of London.
MISS BELLA MOORE, once a noted young
actress. died in Cincinnati recently of con-
sumption. She had married and retired
from the stage last February.
THE eighth annual convention of the
National Association of Baggage Agents
began in San Francisco on the 10Th.
THE Democratic members of the Illinois
Legislature have selected John NJ. Palmer
as their candidate for United States Sena-
tor.
LYMAN U. HUMPHREY, the new Governor
of Kansas, sent his first message to the
Legislature on the 10Th. The message
covered many subjects. Executive super
vision of State institutions was wanted,
Prohibition was advocated and changes
were desired i'll the death penalty.
Railroads, banks, alien ownership,
public debts, labor legislation. trusts,
education, apportionment, length of ses-
sion and other matters were also venti-
lated and improvements suggested.
Ex-SHERIFF PINo. of Valencia County,
N. NJ, who left Las Lunas January with
$500, has not been seen since January 8,
when he was in Albuquerque, and there
are fears that he has been murdered.
CHARLES c. TINKER, the youthful for
ger of Cincinnati who obtained SIS, 900 by
his bad work last September and was ex-
tradited from England, has pleaded
guilty.
THE recent advance in the freight rates
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compelled the three large trunk factories
| in Racine, Wis.,, to shut down for an in
definite period, aud 300 hands are thus
thrown out of employment.
HUGO GoLLMER, secretary of the execu.
tive committee of the North American
Turner Bund and one of the oldest mem
bers of that society, died in st. Louis re.
Gently, aged fiftynine.
PERRY S. WEsTFALL, editor and proprie-
tor of the Saturday Evening Mail, Terre
| Haute, Ind, died recently, aged fifty-five
The other night heavy wind blew g
freight car from q side track to the main
track Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St
| Paul at Sylvania, Wis. Two men were
| fatally and another seriously injured.
ENGINEER ED DIETz an old empoye Of
! the Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad, wa:
discharged recently for alleged color blind.
ness, when his fellow employees threatened
| to strike.
FATHER HYNEs, of Pierce City, Mo-, was
suspended for five years by the eccle.
siastical court held at Kansas City on the
18th for disobedience. Hynes said he
| would take no notice of the ruling of the
court, as he had appealed to the Pope. He
would not give up his church at Pierce
City.
|, GENERAL W. D. WAsHBURN has beer
selected by the publicans of Minnesots
to succeed Senator Sab;n.
THE SOUTH.
THE Board of Health of Jacksonville
Fla, have officially declared the town free
from all infectious or contagious diseases
The West Virginia House and Senate
met on the 14th but the deadlock was not
broken. In the evening the Republican
Senators held secret caucus and declared