Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-03-14
THE WEST.


Tax bill unfavorably.
THE WEST.
Ex-JUDGE DAVID TERRY, who was com.
mitted to the Alameda (CaL) Jail Septem-
Der g. 1888, by Justice Stephen j. Field for
contempt Of court, has been released,
having served his full term of six months.
THE will of B nanZa Flood showed an
estate of 81 ,2o0. 600.
TIE strained relations between Governor
Hovey and the Indiana Legislature have
been intensified. The Governor threatened
to take legal proceedings il the Legislature
took away his appointive powers. This
caused the ma ority to seek retaliation by
dropping the General Appropriation bill.
NEWTON WATT, the life convict in the
Joliet GILL penitentiary, died of consump-
ton recently, declaring his innocence of
the murder of EXPIRES Messenger Nichols.
NJ. w. GERsA, grain commission man
of Minneapolis, Mimi. has assigned and
offered to compromise for fifty cents on
the dollar.
ALBERT r. WALKER. q clerk in the
registered letter department of the Minne-
apolis post-ofice. has been arrested for
robbing the mails of $500.
+. +. WHEELER and Lucius 8 Fisher,
stockholders of the Pullman Iron and
Steel Company, fled q bill in the Illinois
Supreme Court recently asking Tor the
appointment Of a receiver. The company
was formed in 1883 with q capital stock OF
$500, OOO
s. J. HooT. janitor Of bank building,
Las been elected mayor OF Waterloo,
Iowa, creating much disgust in certain
quarters.
DENVER. Col, is excited over the ex-
ploits of an individual who styles himself
"Jack the Choker." Three women garotted
by the scoundrel are in q serious condition.
THREE ssrustlers" were hanged by set
tiers at Springfield in the Neutral Strip
recently. The rest of the gang of eighteen
fed.
Two.men were terribly injured recently
by a falling elevator at the Enterprise
carriage works, Cincinnati, the box going
down six floors. -
CHARLES WELLS was killed and George
Shoop was seriously injured by prema-
ture explosion of a cannon at Elizabeth
town, ILL.,, on Inauguration day.
j. II. BAKER, a man employed to make
public exhibitions with q self. acting fire
escape, fell from the Ryan Hotel, st. Paul,
Mimi. recently and was fatally injured.
The Haymarket monument which is to
be dedicated May 4, the coming ami
of the Anarchistriot, will not bear
the names OF the policemen who were
killed by the bomb.
White Bear Beach, Mimi, was run over
by train while walking on the track in
cut recently. A companion escaped.
CAPTAIN CHARLES RUSSELL, for twenty.
one years a citizen of Minneapolis. Mimi,
suicide recently on his return
home from winters trip. Cause, insanity
produced by illness.
THE Farmers'Union, mercantile firm of
Livermore, CAL, has failed with $145 600
liabilities and unknown assets.
The late Hiram Kelly of Chicago left
$4,000 to the Chicago library and $40, 600
each to the Home of the Friendless, Orphan
Asylum, st. Luke's Hospital, Old Peoples
Home and Illinois Humane Society.
MRS. WALTERS, living on a ranch near
Bozeman, Mont, was found dead in her
bed recently with her throat cut and her
body horribly mangled. Her husband and
eldest son have been arrested.
The employees Of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company have struck because
of an order for reduction of wages.
The funeral of Newt Watt, the brake.
man who died in prison, took place from
the Langley avenue Methodist Church,
Chicago. The pastor bitterly reproach ID
the detective system for securing the con-
thought innocent of the murder Of Ex-
press Messenger Nichols.
MISS ADA FULLER, living near East St
Louis. Ill. is reported to have eloped with
her fathers negro farm hand.
By a vote of SO to 80 the Minnesota House
Of Representatives refused to submit to
the people an amendment in favor of pro-
hibition Of the liquor traffic.
By the ditching of q passenger train
near Coshocton, O, the other night, a
dozen persons were slightly injured.
The British vessel Port Gordon was
wrecked on the coast of Washington
Territory recently and four of the crew
lost. The survivors were cared for by the
Indians.
THE SOUTH.
WEST VIRGINIA on the 4th presented the
spectacle of three persons claiming the
Governership. Governor Golf, the Re-
publican candidate, took the oath of
Office. but was refused possession
by 8. w. Wilson, who had filed
the position the past four years. Pres
ident Carr. of the Senate, also demanded
the Office, but was similarly refused.
SENATOR BECK, of Kentucky, who is still
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