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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
q ST.. JOHNS College, Washington, was
dedicated on the 22d by Cardinal Glib
bons in the presence of large crowd.
THE President has appointed Frank
Hitchcock, of Illinois, to be United
States Marshal for the Northern dis
trict of Illinois.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has directed Indian agents at the Kiowa
and COmanche agency in the Indian
Territory to promptly remove cattle
found grazing on the reservation with
out the consent of the Indians. 1t is
learned that several herds, aggregating
about $4,000 head, are trespassing on
} the reservation.
SECRETARY BLAINE and the men,
bers of the Pan-American Congress
are having some trouble keeping out
men accredited as delegates by careless
Governors of States. South Dakota
gave the most trouble.
SECRETARY BLAINE is reported to be
engaged in negotiations for an interna-
tional copyright treaty with France
with Count. de Keratry, representative
of that country.
Mr.. TERRY, brother of ex-Judge
Terry of California, who was recently
shot by Neagle, United States deputy
marshal, intends to lay his side of the
case before the Department of Justice
at Washington.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
THE LATEST.

A GRAND charity ball was given in
the City of Mexico the other night for
the benefit of the American Hospital.
1t was a great success.
JUDGE COLLINS, of the Chicago cir
| cult court, has refused to order the AT.
rest of Mayor Cregier for contempt of
court for occupying the lake front in
defiance of injunctions.
A LONE highwayman robbed the
stage few miles from Redding, Cal,
the other night. The treasure box con-
tanned little, but several registered let
tiers were secured.
SECRETARY BLAINE has been con-
fined to his home in Washington by an
attack of lumbago.
KING LEOPOLD, of Belgium, has sent
a message to Henry NJ. Stanley, invit-
ing him to visit Brussels to receive
personal congratulations on the COM
pletiOn of his task.
FOUR little girls, children of Hugh
Dunn, found key of powder recently
at ElliOttsville, w. Va, and in some
| way set it off. All four were blown to
pieces. The mother has gone crazy.
THE Russian Government has abol-
ished the provincial council of mobiles
of the Baltic provinces and substituted
ordinary assemblies, colleges and pri-
vate committees, whereby the aris-
| tocracy, which has hitherto ruled the
populace independently of the Govern
ment, will be suppressed.
The general international committee
| provided for by the silver convention
has elected General A. J. Warner, of
! Ohio. chairman, and Lee Crandall. of
Virginia, secretary. The chairman
was authorized to name the time and
| place for holding the next convention
and to appoint an executive committee
of nine members to conduct the silver
campaign.
FRANCE has recognized the Brazilian
Republic.
RUMORs have reached Green Bav.
Wis, that the propeller Hudson has
been lost in the storm on the lake. She
had a valuable cargo.
| FIRE in Keyport, N. j., recently con.
sumed five stores, causing $50, 600 loss.
Jacob Leyrer was burned to death and
his wife and son injured.
THE Caspar Haehnle brewery, Jack.
son, Mich. has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, SEC, 200; insurance, $50, 900.
F. E. IsOR and j. B. Feasor have
been arrested at Denver, charged with
killing Sheriff Cross and four deputies
| in No-Man STAND in July, 1885, In
that terrible battle one of the Feasors
was killed, making six in all.
sOLD HUTCH has been badly
squeezed in the Chicago wheat pit.
UPPER, the well known English
] poet, died recently.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
THAT FATAL TORN ADO.

rhe North Carolina Cyclone Worse Than
1t First Reported-Thirteen Killed and
Many Woundsd-Lake Disasters.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. Lone of the
most disastrous cyclones ever known
in the history of North Carolina passed
over portion of Buford County Thurs
day. So far thirteen persons are re-
ported killed and some twenty or thirty
lady injured. The cyclone began in
the upper or northern portions of
the county ard carried away every
thing before it like the winds
driving chaff. Houses were
blown to atoms, and trees that
have withstood the winter blasts for
half century gave up, and were
carried for several hundred yards. Men,
women and children, all along the
path, fled when they heard its thunder
ing approach, but the family of Wesley
Edmund3 could not escape, and all
persisted. They lived in farm house
Although they heard the noise of the
approaching cyclone, they did not con-
slider it more than All ordinary storm,
until its crash came upon the house,
tearing it into hundreds of pieces. The
family consisted of Wesley Edmunds,
his wife and children, the oldest being
daughter not quite out of her teens.
The youngest was d son of eight years.
Miss Ellen, the daughter, was to have
been married Friday to son of a
neighbOring farmer. All arrangements
to celebrate the happy event had been
completed, but the entire family were
carried ava y ON the bosom of the cy-
clone. Friday their bodies were picked
N h,.r in6
large paItitioned coffin. On about two
miles farther the cyclone blew down a
factory The hands fed, but Joseph
Emerson and Thomas Collins were
over taken and killed 10y falling timbers.
More than Il dozen Others were badly
hunt, and three or four will die. Miss
Matte e. Levy, n pretty young gi1l,
was caught up in the cyclone and car
ried far up into the air 10y the angry
torrent. She was returning from a
neighbours house and failed to escape
the cyclones path
J. w. Mayo, who lived six miles from
Aurora, was in the field hauling hay.
He saw the cloud and heard the roar,
and at once unlocked his horse. lie
saw one of his tenant houses twisted
into bits. 1t was occupied by nine ne
groes and six of them were killed out
right. The nearest body found to the
ruins was 200 yards away. Parts of the
house were carried twelve miles.
LAKE DISASTERS.
EAST TAwAs, Mich, Dec. 1.-Two
barges, Mears and Midnight, went
ashore off Fish Point Wednesday
night. The crews were taken off yes
terday.
Mate Powers of the Midnight had a
leg broken, and Daniel Mowatt, a
sailor OH the Mears, has died from the
effects of exposure. All the men suf-
fered terribly. Both barges will be- d
total loss.
The steam barge Wilhelm. which
was towing them when the line parted,
was badly damaged and lost most of
her deck load of lumber. The barges
ID" Peck" and Wesley" are ashore
near Whitestone Point, and the rest
named will go to pieces. The vessels
putting in here report terrible weather.
Captains of vessels arriving at Port
Huron report the storm on Lake Huron
the worst in years. SANDY" Mitchell,
cook on the schooner Mary L. Breck,
was washed overheard and drowned
Wednesday,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
EVIDENCE AL IN
The Evidences I'm the Croniu Trial An g.
and Arguments Commenced-Bad For
Coughljn.

The Evidences I'm the Cronin Trial An IN
and Arguments Commenced-Bad For
Couehlin.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3O.-At the afternoon
session of the Cronin case yesterday a
number of Keepers and frequenters of
saloons were examined in regard to the
opening of certain saloon on the
night of the murder Then the de-
tense rested, and States ATTORNEY
LOngenecker said:
IF the court please, we have some
evidence that has come to our knowl-
edge, about ten o'clock or little be-
fore ten, which we have not had the
time to look into. Of course it will be
evidence in chief. probably. Not hav-
ing come to our knowledge until this
morning, we feel like asking the court
to let us introduce the evidence at this
late hOur.''
After some objection by Mr.. Forrest
the court called the States ATTORNEY
into private consultation, at the close
of which Judge Mcconnell said:
II take it that the evidence which
the States Attorney has ought to 60
In the case. L have decided to allow it
to go in. 1t will not delay the opening
! OF the case to the jury. If allow it to
go III do not see that it ought to in
terfere with the opening of the address
to the jury, and if you, Mr.. Forrest, de-
sire time to answer it, will give you
the time. 1t is matter which can be
disposed of at any time"
Police Officer Flynn was then called
to the stand, and in response to ques-
tons testified as follows:
when Daniel COughlin was arrested
was ordered by the lieutenant, Eli
oft, to take him to the Harrison street
station, which I did. When we got
there searched him in Captain Bar
| trans Office. These two knives which
1 have in my hand found in his pos
session. 1 took the knives and a re-
vOlver from COughlin, took them back
to headquarters, went upstairs to FL
liott's office, and then took them down
to my box in headquarters and locked
them up. They were there until the
18th or 18th September, when ]
took them to the Fidelity vault, where
| they have since remained. Lastn night ]
called the attention of Captain Schuet-
tier to them at East avenue station. ]
did not disclose the fact that had
them to any one prosecuting the case.
EX-Captain Bartram knew I had the
knives, but up to last evening did not
call the attention of any one else to
them"
This closed the direct examination,
and Mr.. Forrest moved to exclude the
evidence on the ground that the knives
had been in the possession of the State
ever since Coughlin's arrest. The mo-
ton was Overruled.
T. Il. Conklin, the man with whom
DR.. Cronin lived, was then called to
the stand. He identified the knives as
having been carried by DIR. Cronin
when alive. The smaller one the wit
ness had himself carried for two years,
and he then gave it to DR.. Cronin.
The larger one, the witness said, he
had found in the street. If they were
not DR.. Cronin's knives they looked
exactly like them. DIR. Cronin carried
the smaller. knife in his vest pocket.
This ended the evidence and States
Attorney Longenecker began his adj
dress to the iury
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
ClfpDfug s.

Chauncey NJ. Depew is not at an
afraid that this country will he over
crowded through the rush of immigra-
ton. He says that 1.-The area of arabic
acres in the United States is twenty
per cent. larger than that of China,
which supports population of nearly
400, 600, co.,"
Two young men were recently found
guilty of robbery at Chicago and SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life. The
jury, believing them guilty, was COM
PEELED to fix their punishment at life. as
they had twice been convicted for like
offenSes.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
Sun day Unsettled.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 1.-The
chances are that as Sunday of the
Pittsburghs is fearful of the Players
League he will be released from his
agreement by his associates. Sunday s
case is one of pure weaken" He went
into the scheme with full knowledge,
as letters from his pen will show. Di-
rector Palmer O'Neil, of Pittsburgh,
tells people that Calvin, Miller, Beck
ley, Staley, Sunday. Maui, Carroll and
Kuehne will he with the Pittsburgh
National League team next season,
and all but Sunday have signed Bro
thprhOod contracts,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
GENERAL.

CLAUS SPRECKLES again announces
that his new refinery is ready to start.
Raw sugar has been received and every
thing is in readiness.
THE News Letter of Belfast, Ireland,
has published an apology for libelling
Thomas Sexton, the Parnellite leader,
and has paid him $500.
DISTRICT MASTER WORKMAN Ross,
of the Knights of Labor, says it is pro-
posed by the Knights of Labor, Farm
ers' Alliance and American Federation
to unite in memorial to Congress re-
questing the passage of a bill restrict
ing immigration in the interest of the
eight hour law.
The grand jury at st. Johns, N. b.,
has indicted Mcdonald on charge of
murder. He was accused of sending
poisoned candy through the mails.
THE italian Parliament was opened
on the 25th.
THE Canadian Parliament has been
called to meet January 16.
THE Turkish journal, Saadet, of Con-
stantinople, has received reports that
the steamship India, with 500 Moham-
medan pilgrims on board, has sunk in
passengers alone survive.
HON. GEORGE H. PENDLEToN, ex-
Minister to Germany and we'll known
figure in American political life. dead
at Brussels on the oath of apoplexy. He
had been ill for several weeks.
A DISPATCH from Emin Pasha, dated
at Molala August %, has been received
by Sir William Mackinnon. 1t saws:
Thanks to all subscribers to the com
mittee for their generous help, which
has saved a handful of forlorn men
from destruction.
KING CARLOS, of Portugal, has had
the Necessidades Palace, Lisbon, pre-
| pared for his great uncle, Dom Pedro,
| ex-Emperor of Brazil.
The Spanish Cabinet is to be recon.
| structed as soon as Premier Sagasta
shall have cOnciliated the dissident
Liberals.
The Pan-American Congress has re-
ceived a formal notice from Delegate
Peirera, of Brazil, declining to serve as
delegate in the conference. The con-
| ference proceeded to the consideration
of the report of the committee on rules,
but without reaching final action ON the
rules, adjourned.
SENIOR FERNANDO Cruz, Guate.
mala's delegate to the All-American
| Congress, has written to the State De
partment his THANKS for the late excur-
sion. All he saw surpassed his dreams
and the affection of the people was
more gratifying than all else. DIR. Cruz
is a poet of reputation in his country
THE National silver convention ad.
| journed sine die at st. Louis on the
18th. The delegates were given a
Thanksgiving dinner at the Merchants
Exchange in the evening.
The dock workers of Bristol, En-.
gland, struck recently because the mer.
chants threatened to discharge the tim.
Der runners who refused to work with
foreign crews.
TAYLOR and Duren, Americans un.
der sentence of death at Guaymas
Mexico, for train robbery, escaped re-
Gently, but Taylor was recaptured.
THE Mexican Senate has passed a
bill for the coinage of $500, 900 worth OF
copper cents.
NEW manufactures in the State OF
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, are to be guaran-
teed twenty years. exemption from con.
tributiOns and taxes.
NJ. GAUTIER, chief of the detectives
of Belgium, has been dismissed for EN-.
plOying men to induce striking miners
to commit outrageS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
A North Carolfna Cyclone.

CHARLOTTE, n. c., Nov. 30.-A very
destructive cyclone passed over a por-
ton of Beaufort County Thursday do
ing great damage. Houses were blown
down and trees torn up by the roots.
The residence of a farmer near Wash
ington, the county seat, was blown to
atoms and the entire family, con-
sisting of father, mother and four
children, were killed instantly. The
grown daughter was to have been mar
ried yesterday and all preparations
had been made to celebrate the happy
event.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
Supposed Train Robbers.

GAINESVILLE, Tex, Nov. 29.-Nine
men were arrested here yesterday
charged with the Santa Fe train rob-
berry near Berwyn, I. T., Monday night.
All the parties are gambler, seven
Of whom were arrested il Ard
more and two in Berwyn. The Of.
6cers are reticent, but the inference u
that they have a strong case. A reward
of 81. 900 each is offered for the arrest
and conviction of the robbers. Other
arrests are expected to follow at any
moment. The officers refuse to diyulGo
the names of those arrested
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
Harry Hall Recaptured.

LINCOLN, Neb. Nov 30.-Harry
Hall, the life prisoner who escaped
from the Nebraska penitentiary Janu.
airy 5, 1888, has been captured at Provo
City, Utah, by Warden Hopkins. Hall
had been closely Swallowed ever since
but the authorities were never able to
put their hands on him previously. AT
the time of the escape r. w. Hyers
was warden, and this led to trouble be-
tween him and Governor Thayer.
which resulted in his removal. Halls
parents live in st. Joseph, Mo-, and are
wealthy and respectable.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05

THE Guthrie News publishes q pri-
vate letter from Secretary Noble, in
which he says he considers his course
towards the cattlemen in the Strip a
public duty, and that he hopes the
present Cherokee Commission will be
successful in its negotiations.
WILLIAM BALEMOUsKY, aged thir-
teen, was smothered to death in a grain
bin in the Schlitz brewery, Milwaukee,
Wis, the other day.
THE National silver convention as
sembled at st. Louis ON the 18th. Nine
teen States and Territories were repre-
sented.
ELECTRIC lights were turned on in
Guthrie, Ok, for the first time on the
26th. A public banquet was given- A
street car line is to be finished in ninety
days.
LANDLORD LELAND, of the Chicago
hotel which bears his name, and other
property owners of Michigan avenue,
Chicago, propose to push the fight fol
the clearing of the lake front of the
Exposition and other buildings.
A DECISION has been rendered in the
Illinois Supreme Court adverse to the
chicago gas trust. Inc parties lnCer-
ested were endeavoring to reorganize a
new trust on lines that it was thought
might stand.
The Cherokee Nation gave Thanks
giving dinner to the United States Com
mission, all the Senators and Council
men being present. General Fair
child, in response to the toast, 1.-the
United States," said that the Govern
ment desired nothing detrimental to
the best interest of the CherOkees.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
SRfa RohhAd

FORT WORTH, Tex, Nov 2o.-It is
made public here that last Monday
night some one, having a icy to
the door and the combination of the
safe in the Office of the Pacific Express
Company, at the Union Depot, entered
the Office, opened the safe, TOOK there
from Sc, 500, and departed without mo-
lestation. The matter Is as much Of a
mystery as the recent bank burglary
here, when 5000 was taken, and
there is no more clew TO this than
the other deed. Only three persons
were supposed to know the combina-
ton of the safe, and they are all
trusted employees of the company.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
Suicide of u Judge.

ATLANTA, Ga. Dec. Judge r. 3.
Trippe committed suicide yesterday,
blowing out his brains with a double
barreled derringer. The cause of the
act was dependency, due to i'll health.
lie was thirty-live years of age and had
been judge of the city court of Carter
vile before he came to Atlanta and was
afterward Assistant United States Dis
trjct Attorney.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
Satollf,s New Mission.

ROME, Nov. 29.-The assertion that
Mgr. Sato1li will be dispatched on
mission to Ireland upon his return from
America is confirmed by the statement
that Father Hewlett. a young Irish
priest who was formerly in a pulpit at
the Academy of Mobiles in Rome, has
been designated to accompany him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
The Martin Monument.

An address to the people has been IS
sued setting forth the plan for the erec-
ton of a statue and monument to the
memory of the late Governor John A
Martin. The address says that the
price for the pedestal is S15, 900. Tho
expectation is that the gifts will be
small from each person, but that many
thousand Kansans will cheerfully con-
tribute.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
Kansas Wins Blue Ribbons.

Secretary Mohler of the Agricultural
Department says that Kansas can safely
challenge the world on agricultural
products. An agricultural display from
this State took the first premium at the
Southern Exposition at Montgomery,
Ala, and it also took the first premium
at the Alabama State Fair at Birming-
ham. II. II. Kern, who owns one of the
finest farms in Kansas, near Bonner
Springs, is the gentleman who made the
display.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
To Be Laid Before Congress.

Judge j. w. Gregory, of Garden City,
was in consultation with Governor Hum
phrey recently for the purpose of agree
ing upon plan for bringing the sub
ject of irrigation in Western Kansas be-
fore the next Congress. It has been
demonstrated that the rainfall in that
section is inadequate, and without re-
lief by irrigation agriculture can not be
success. A committee will be sent to
lay the matter before Congress.
Alleged Crooked Real-Estate Deal.
Frank S. Rowland, of Greeley, is in
trouble. 1t is alleged that he disposed
OF his property more than once.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
THE SOUTH.

THE SOUTH.
JOSEPH A. SMITH, of Hopkinsville
KY, who killed w. T. Williams, was
lynched the other night.
THE bodies of Captain J. w. Blanks
Clerk S. S. Hanna, and several othe1
victims of the explosion of the steam
boat Corona, two months ago, have
been found floating at Plaquemine, La
SAMUEL WHITE, an aged citizen OF
Spartanburg County, S. c., being left
alone the other day, fell into the fire
and was burned to a crisp before dis
covered.
THE Pittsburgh Southern Coal Com
pany has cut the price of coal delivered
at New Orleans four cents per bushel
to prevent the competition of smaller
operators.
A PASSENGER train was wrecked on
heavy down grade curve west of
Greenville, Tenn, the other morning
and the engineer fatally and express
messenger and four passengers badly
injured. The postal car was burned.
THE Governor of South Carolina, in
his annual message to the Legislature,
recommended separate accommodate
ton on railroads for whites and blacks;
the amendment of the civil rights laws
passed by the Republicans in 1876, and
the collection and preservation by the
State of all Confederate flags.
PRoTRACTED rains and floods have
disheartened Virginia farmers. Cot
ton is rotting in the fields and the
ground is so wet it can not be hauled
out.
THE safe of the Pacific Express Com
pany at Fort Worth, Tex, was opened
the other night by some one who knew
the combination and sc. 800 taken.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
The Cherry vale Gas-weu.

tested. and proves as strong as first re-
ported, making blaze thirty feet high.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
The Topeka Meat Inspection OrdInanc
So Declared BY Judge Brewer.

The Topeka Meat Inspection Ordinance
So Declared BY Judge Brewer.
TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 3o.-Judge
Brewer yesterday decided that the To-
peka meat inspection ordinance was
illegal.
The decision was given in test case
brought by Swift & Co., the Kansas
City packers, whose agent was arrested
fined 800 and sentenced to imprisOn-
ment for thirty days, for selling a car
load of dressed beef to Topeka markets
in violation of the inspection Ordi-
nance.
Judge Brewer delivered his opinion
orally, saying that while the ordinance
on the face of it declared it was en-
acted for the purpose of providing pure
meat for the citizens of Topeka, it was
than to prohibit the sale of Kansas
City dressed meat here. This, he said,
was clearly in violation of the commerce
clause of the Constitution of the United
States.
While he conceded the right of city
to prevent the sale of impure meat to
citizens, it could not blockade COM
merce by requiring that all the meat
sold to its citizens must be slaughtered
within one mile of its city limits, as
this ordinance provides. The city could
prosecute the Kansas City packers if
impure meat was sold, and it might re-
quire that all their meat be inspected
before entering the city, but it could
not refuse, as it had done in this case,
to allow the meat to be inspected and
thus bar it from the markets.