Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

party wrscked|and theHov1n badly shaksn
mn. The explosive is-ssupposedS to have
been placed ON the tracks by train wreck.
ers. No one was injured.
TEE stables OF the paving and health
Of Boston were burned on tho
Sd. Ten thousand bushels of grain and
seventy tons of hay were destroyed The
hurt by falling timbers-
THE iron cross ties experimented with
by the Pennsylvania railroad near Jersey
City, N. j., have proved failures.
rHE WEST
BY the explosion of the boiler OF Dush's
single mill near Edmore. Mich, the pro-
prietor was killed and two men fatally in
jured. -
JUDGE G. B. SLEEPER, q noted Mime
sofa iurist and politician, died at Brsinard
recently. gt
THE people of Yuma, Ariz-, are craxed
by reports by Mexicans of rich finds OF
gold in Southern California, and the town
is being depopulated.
THE request for an injunction by the
Anarchists of Chicago against Chief OF
Police Hubbard and others who refused to
allow them to hold meetings was referred
by Judge Shepard to Master in Chancery
Windes 10 take testimony. The finding OF
Windes was that the Anarchists had
constitutional right of assembly. but his
conclusions were not altogether salts
factory to the Anarchists.
APPLICATION was made recently at Gin
cinnati for a receiver for the Cincinnati,
Washingt on & Baltimore railroad. Judge
Peck appointed Colonel Orlando Smith,
the president of the road, and Henry G.
Yergason, q banker, as joint receivers.
ANDREW SQUIREs, the Cleveland lawyer
who went to London to secure OO.OOO
which Thomas Axworthy, defaulting
treasurer, had deposited in q bank there,
has returned with the money. Axworthy
will remain abroad until he can enter the
United States without fear of arrest.
JOHN MATTHEW'S, the recaptured Bald
Knobber, was reported quite sick in Jail at
Ozark, Mo.
The Richardson Drug Company's build
ing and other premises at st. Louis were
burned on the morning of the 1st. The
loss was $3.50, 600. The Waterman was
thought to have been burned to death.
Several exciting escapes took place.
CHARLES SWIFT nnd Jacob Reislock,
pupils at the institution for the deaf and
dumb at Columbus, O., were drowned re-
Gently by the breaking Of the ice on a
pond. s. Dresbach, another pupil, was
rescued.
THE dry house of the Roger Wheel Com
pany at Cincinnati was burning furiously
on the morning of the Sd.
The Missouri Legislature convened at
jefferson City on the I'd.
ALL the -four mills in St. Louis, ex-
cepting one, have closed down for January
under the agreement entered into by the
Millers' Association at it's late convention
at Milwaukee, and the one running will
also shut down as soon as it fills two or
three important orders on hand.
P. j. E. CLEMENSON. boot and shoe
dealer of Minneapolis, MIMI, made an as
signment recently with $84, 53S assets and
$40, $50 liabilities.
A GRAVEL train on the Canada & st.
Louis railroad jumped the track near CO.
lon, Mich, recently, while backing up at q
speed of thirty miles an hour. Brakeman
Frank Matthews, of Middleburg, Ind, was
instantly killed and six other men serious
1y injured.
THE warrant for the pardon of Benjamin
F. Hopkins, of the broken Fidelity Bank.
of Cincinnati, which was signed by the
President December 26, was sent to CO.
lumbus. O., ON the I'd, having been over
looked in the Department. of State.
CHARLES r. WHITE, the noted Detroit
theatrical manager, died recently of
peritonitis.
By fire in Mrs. William Gera1d's house
at Terre Haute, Ind. the other day a four
year-old son was burned SO that he died,
and the mother is in q critical condition.
One of the fremen was overcome while
rescuing the boy. m
The cracker bakers Of all the Western
States began a long conference on trade
matters in Chicago recently.
The Richardson Drug Company, burned
out at St. Louis on New Years day. has
wound up it's business affairs.
SEvENTY-FIvE delegates attended a state
hood convention at Ellenburg. Wash T.,
recently. A long address was adopted
declaring that the Territory had popu-
lation of 240. 900 and was eager for state
hood.
A DELEGATE convention to push the
Statehood project for South Dakota, has
been called for Huron, OAK, January 16.
A LARGE number Of persons were
poisoned New Years day at the house OF
Charles Wilson, north of Creston, Iowa
meat having been sailed in a zinc vessel.
POSTMASTER SHELLEY, of Kansas City,
| Mo-, has been removed by order of the
President. Shelley accuses Congressman
| eject Tarsney of being the cause of his re-
moval, much bad feeling having developed
| between them during the late election.
| THE SOUTH.
| WILLIAM PRICE, a wealthy farmer living
near Athens, Tenn was assassinated by
| an unknown man the other night.
| By a collision near Pennington, Miss.
the other night, the propeller H. c. War.
moth was sunk and a colored passenger
| drowned.
III. M. SMITH & Co., manufacturers o.
and dealers in agricultural implements
Richmond. Va, have assigned with $50,
000 liabilities aud assets estimated a
$4,000
LEoNARD's saloon and eleven new build
ings were destroyed by fire at Decatur
| Ala, recently. Two men were seriously
burned. Loss, $50, 900.
THIRD mysterious murder at Birming
ham, Ala. developed on the 1st. the body
of a well Dressed young man being fount
concealed in pile of brush. He had beel
dead for some time.
CAL ToLLIvER, a cousin OF the famous
outlaw, Craig Tolliver. who was killet