Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02
THE EAST.

THE nineteenth annual assembly of the
Women's Foreign Missionary Society of
the Presbyterian Church began in Phila-
delphia on the oath.
The mammoth hotel at Rockaway
Beach, near New York, was sold on the
-24th for 500, 900.
The National Reform Association in
Pittsburgh, Pa, adopted a resolution re-
-questing President Harrison to mention
Christ in state papers, especially Thanks
giving proclamations.
ALBERT M. FREY, who had held the pool
q championship for the past three years,
died at New York recently.
The yacht Coronet which has sailed
around the world, has returned to New
York in good condition and with all we'll
on board. r L. Bush, the owner, and his
family were on the yacht. She left Gibral-
ter thirty-two days previously and en-
countered at least half dozen storms
without any serious mishap.
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw gave dinner the
other night in New York to eVhitelaw
Reid, Minister to France. Many notabIes
were present.
ANDREW d. BoGART, a. prominent real
estate dealer of New York City, COM
mitted suicide recently by shooting him
self through the head.
THE New York Senate has passed the
+Saxton Electoral Refo-m bill.
THE gingham mill of the White Manu-
featuring Company, at Rockville, Conn.,,
has been shut down on account of strike
of 150 weavers, and it's other mills will
also close, throwing 400 employees out of
work.
JOSEPH DION, the we'll known billiard
player. has been declared insane by a
sheriff's jury at New York.
THERE was a rumor that Judge Veazey,
of hn
Mr.. Walker on the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
AN accident occurred recently to a
freight train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, causing fatal injuries to the engi-
neer and fireman. The train ran onto a
burning bridge over Roaring creek, near
sWilkesbarre, wreckng forty cars. One
brakeman was dangerously hurt
A LADY, hfty-seven years old. fell from
a fourth h-story window in New York and
was killed.
The business men of Portland Mo
have passed resolutions against any leg.
dslation tending to interrupt the pre- sent
commercial relations with Canada
II. B. SPOFFORD. the historian of Claren.
don, N. H., died recently.
THE Harlem Electric Light Company,s
old shops, wooden church, a Carriage
factory and half a dozen tenements in
upper new Ork ClCy were destroyed by
fire the other night, causing $50. 600
tl6sses.
THERE was a collision on the b & O., at
Baltimore on the 26th. Vice-President
Morton, General Schofield and Foraker,
.of Ohio, were on one of the trains, but
they escaped unhurt The only person
injured was trainman.
The Reading road demands that its en-
ployes shall sever connection with all la
'bor organizations.
THE carpet mill of the Lowell Manufact-
Suring Company, Lowell, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire the other morning after it
%hadbeen supposed a small blaze had been
put out. Loss, S4oO. 900.
THE steamship Orinoco, from Bermuda.
.has brought to New York the captain and
ten of the crew of the ship Richard p.
Buck, which was burned near Bermuda
THE First Baptist Church Society of
Providence. r. L. celebrated it's 25Oth an
niversary on the 2Sth. The present church
building is ever 100 years old.
NEARLY ], 500 saloons of Boston, some OF
sthem old resorts and many kept by sport
ing men, will have to close under the new
3icense law.
THE WEST.
Rev. JAMES MCLEOD, pastor of the Sec,
%ond Presbyterian Church, indianapolis