Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30

showed terrible wounds and the BODY was
naked with the exception of a religious
charm hanging to his neck.
News from San Francisco is to the ef-
feet that while there is reason to believe
that the new cruiser Charleston will ulti-
mately succeed in fulfilling the contract
requirements, much remains to be done
upon the vessel, and probably at the Gov
ernment's expense before this expecta-
tion is realized.
Ice formed in pools and the ground was
frozen stiff in the interior of Wisconsin
the other night by a cold snap. The straw
berry crop, which promised to bs very
large, is ruined.
THE celebrated Carter divorce case end
ed at Chicago in favor of the husband. the
wife being adjudged guilty of unfaithful-
ness.
THE National Association of Veterans
of the Vicksburg campaign held its first
meeting in Indianapolis, Ind, on the 22d,
Governor Hovey presiding.
THE Governor of Michigan has issued a
proclamation quarantining against South
ern cattle until November.
FRANK l. and Howard g. Loomis and
Edwin s. Jewell. officers of the Century
Book and Paper Company, of Chicago,
have been indicted by the grand jury for
conspiracy to defraud.
A MAN and boy were instantly killed
at Dundee, Ill, recently by the collapse of
q barn which they were moving.
THE special meeting of the transmits
souri, Association, which had been in ses-
sion in Chicago for two days. resulted in
a disagreement as to what the relative
rates on bullion should be from Colorado
and Wyoming. The matter was referred
to arbitration.
CLIFFORD & SERMONS shoe factory and
Qv Cn % vhO1n IL
plies factory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were
destroyed by fire the other day. Loss,
800 900.
LARGE numbers of Mormons from Utah
and Idaho are emigrating to British
Columbia, whore they have purchased
several thousand acres of land.
THE west bound train on the ST. Louis &;
San Francisco railroad, which left st.
Louis on the night of the % !, was wrecked
three miles west of Sullivan, No., sixty
eight miles west of st. Louis. Not pas
senger escaped unhurt and forty five were
seriously injured, though no deaths were
reported. Investigation showed that the
train had been maliciously wrecked spikes
and f1sh-plates being removed from a rail.
A MOB threatened a serious riot at Guth-
rie, L T., recently because of the eviction
of squatter in accordance with a decision
of the board Of arbitration. The presence
of the military alone saved the city hall
from attack.
TIE Tanglade stage was robbed of the
United States mails near Shawang, Wis,
recently.
GREAT damage has been done the corn
and p3tatb crops in the vicinity of Wabash.
Ind, by freezing weather.
A SON and daughter of John Bolter, of
Fort Atkinson. Wis.,. were drowned re-
Gently while returning from a fishing ex-
cursion.
- GEORGE CUTTER ard his team of horses
were killed by lightning near Murdock.
Ill, the other day.
ONE of the Milwaukee Cinnamon ac.
cused Of outraging little girls and whose
arrest led to rioting has been found guilty
and will be sent to the penitentiary for
thirty five years.
The sheriff of San Miguel County, N.
NJ, arrived at Trinidad, Col, the other
day with six prisoners who had stolen SOC
horses from ranches in San Miguel Ccun-
ty. Three hundred and fifty of the stolen
animals were found in their possession
being driven toward Montana.
A POST OFFICE has been established at a
point nine miles north of Oklahoma City.
Okl ahoma, and twenty four miles north
of Purcell to be called Moore Albert M.
Petit has been appointed postmaster.
TERRIBLE destitution is said to exist
among the striking miners in Clay Coun-
ty, Ind, and Indianapolis has been ap.
pealed to for aid.
GREAT damage was done in Harrison
County. w. Va, the other day by a terrific
hailstorm.
A WRECK occurred on the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas the other night eight miles
north of Temple, Tex. The engineer
whose name was Davis, from Denison,
was killed and two brakemen were fatally
wounded. Seventeen cars were piled in q
mass. No cause was known for the
wreck.
FOREST fires are doing considerable
damage among the fine timber about
Plaquemine, La. ezs-'
THE centennial celebration of the estab.
lishment of the Catholic Church of the
United States was begun on the 23d in the
Carroll memorial church at Hyattsville
Prince Georges County, Md, by a memo
rial mass in honor of Arch bishop Carroll,
the first Roman Catholic prelate of the
American hierarchy.
THE residence of Rev. F. c. Clarke, neal
Virginia Beach, in Princess Anne County
Va, was burned the other night and he
his two daughters, next to the Oldest sor
and a niece visiting him were consumed
by the flames. His wife, Miss Ella Bid
good, the governess, and two small chill
dren escaped.
DICK HAwEs. charged with the murder
of his wife and child at Birmingham, Ala.
has been sentenced to be hanged July II
REV. HENRY GREENFIELD SCHoRR, as
sistant rector of St Paul's Protestant
Episcopal Church, Baltimore. Nd. com
mitted suicide recently by blowing his
brains out with a pistol He was twenty.
| nine years of age and had been in hi:
present position since last October.
love affair was supposed to have derangec
his mind.
The east bound Texas & Pacific express
was robbed by two men recently, VIII,
took $l5, 600 from the express car.
THE drowning of Reys. John and ]. R
Moxley, father and son, is reported They
| were fishing in a lake some miles from
| Batesville. Ark. Both were we'll known
Baptist ministers.
| GENERAL,
A COLLISION occurred on the river nea
Montreal recently between the royal mai
steamer Polynesian of the Allan line ant
the steamer Cynthia of the Donaldson
line, resulting in the sinking of the latte
vessel and the loss of eight of her crew.
YELLOW fever has broken out with ter