Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-03-28

| been acquitted In New York City OF the
willful poisoning OF her three children
| year ago.
Tar trial OF the alleged whitecaps of
Great harrington. Mass has begun. one
OF the vietims Identified several OF the
party.
JUDGH wHHHI.ocK q. VEAxEY. OF the
Supreme Court OF Vermont Is prominently
mon toned for the next Commander-in-
Chief of the q. A. r.
rHE WEST.
MKrHuDY b MEYER. lumber dealers OF
St Louis, have made an assignment.
Their liabilities were not known, but their
assets were $24S.0 900.
CHICAGO Republicans have renominated
Mayor Roche. The Democrats have NOM
mated De Witt C. Cregier.
THE Barrett boys sentenced to hang for
the murder Of Tol:efson, q street car
driver Of Minneapolis, Mimi. on the their
trial tried to prove an alibi and denied the
crime. They have now confessed.
THE loss by the burning OF the copper
works at Anaconda. Mont, was estimated
at over a million dollars as about half the
machinery was q total loss. Hundreds Of
men were thrown out OF work.
By the explosion Of q boiler in q saw
mill at Pond, Wis. recently two men
were killed and five badly injured.
destroyed Comstock & Avery's large
| four story brick furniture store, causing
500, 900 loss.
TIE Mojave river bridge near Barston,
Cal, has been destroyed by high water.
| JUDGE BATES. Of the Ohio Supreme
Court, has decided that the State law inn
| posing fine on restaurant keepers for re-
fusing to feed colored people is unconsti-
| Iutional
/ Hrrp iu - kn %y~a
Sweet Grass Hills, near Big Sandy, Mont.
| THERE is said to be much opposition to
the confirmation OF Lewis Wolfy as Gov
| ernor of Arizona and it is reported that
charges have been made against him.
SMITH BRoTHERs' mill. salt works and
lumber yard at Bay City, Mich, burned
| recently. Loss, $75, O0Q
MAMBRINo PRINCE. the noted trotter,
died at Lebanon, No., recently.
HALF the business portion Of Colfax, III,
| was destroyed by fire recently. The losses
aggregated $4,000
| Two young stage robbers, T. G. Cuff, of
Arkansas, and N. G. Stutson, of Kansas,
were sentenced at San Luis Obispo, Cal ,
recently to San Quentin for fifteen years
| each. This was their first crime and the
express box only contained $l3.
FOUR desperadoes robbed a passenger
train at Canyon Diablo, near 4Vinsow,
Ariz., the other night. Only small
| amount was secured by the robbers
| A BOTTLE of sulphuric acid was thrown
4 at w. p. Rand the other evening at Chi
cago as he stepped out of his house. Rand
recently declined the nomination for city
treasurer on the Labor ticket and severely
criticised the mode of conducting the pri-
| maries
GOVERNOR COOPER, of Colorado, has
signed the Cattle Inspection bill
MUCH suffering was reported on the 21st
among the emigrants awaiting the open.
ing of the coded lands. General Weave,
telegraphed the fac to Secretary Noble
THE SOUTH.
GOVERNOR WILSON. OF West Virginia
has decided to call an extra session Of thu
Legislature about June to settle the Cru.
bernatorial muddle and act on importan
matters.
TWELVE buildings in the business par
: of Orange Court House. Va. were destroyed
by fire recently. Loss, $50, 0oo Cause, in
cendiarism
NORTH CAROLINA negro preachers ar
urging the negroes to colonize in Arkansa
and Mississippi Meetings are being he'll.
nightly, at which speeches are listened t.
by thousands OF negroes, advising then
to go.
LAST fall the seventeen year old idioti
! son of Abraham McMasters, of Weston
w. Va, was sandbagged by robbers. IL
was unconscious three weeks. then becam
as a new born infant He has lost al
remembrance Of his'past life and acts lik
a baby. His mind is apparently all right
DETECTIVE BALDWIN and an arme,
. posse were reported on the 18th entrappe,
by moonshiners in the wild regions O
West Virginia.
TIE new international bridge at e
Paso, Tex, will soon be completed, tn
Of lvy hv
JEFFERSON DAVIS writes to Rev. Will
lam Jones, of Atlanta, Ga, denying state
ments recently made that officials of tn
|, late Confederacy meditated union o
Church and State.
RECENTLY the pavement in front Of tn
burned Mammoth building at Louisville
KY, gave way and dropped to the floor o
, the cellar, a distance of seven feet, carry
ing with it about twenty men. Severa
were seriously hurt
Nicely BRYANT, aged seventeen, ha
been sentenced to two years. in the peni
Tertiary for killing his father during
quarrel near Bonham, Tex.
IT il reported that the Republican Nom
bers OF the West Virginia Legislator,
, have entered into an agreements to refus
to obey the call Of Governor Wilson for Al
extra session. on the ground that he is no
} the lawful Governor and 10 therefor
without authority to issue such call.
A CLOUD burst in Dayton, Tenn, tn,
other night caused the death Of Alexande
Vaughn, washed away several houses ant
did great damage to the railroad and irol
furnaces.
II CHANCELLOR CoBD, OF Alabama, has do
cided that tho East Tennessee. Virgini,
4 Georgia road has no right to vote sh
stock OF the Meusphis & Charleston roas
and that tho formsrss control OF tho latter
ID illegal.
II. H CHKEK, an emigrant agent ha
boon put In jail at GSeensboro. n. c., TO
inducing negroes to 60 West
The large estate Of the late W. A
Thomas, Of kichmond, Va. has beel
placed in the hands OF . receiver. This
the latest legal move In the CO 50 I'm which
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