Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18

THE EAST.
TYPHOID fever was reported epidemic at
Philadelphia.
JOHN KELLY, convicted of the murder
of Eleanor O'Shea near Geneva November
6, 1888, was hanged at Canadaigua, N. Y,
on the 10th.
MAURICE B. FLYNN, the noted New York
City politician, died at Long Branch on
the 9th.
THE labor troubles at the Homestead
mills (Carnegie's steel plant) took active
shape on the 11th, strikers maltreating an
employment agent and three German
workmen brought ON to take their places
WHAT is supposed to be gold. silver and
copper ore has been discovered in War
rem County. n. Y, in the mountains.
Four big brewing firms of Brooklyn.
N. Y, have been consolidated into a stock
company. They are the Ocbs, the Freze.
the Vetz & Zerwich and the Schlitz. The
company represents a capital of 81, 200, 900.
The breweries do not pass into the hands
OF English capitalists, but in other re-
spects the scheme resembles those of
foreign syndicates.
SECRETARY RUsK has protested against
the raising of the State quarantine against
pleuro- pneumonia in New JERSEY.
Two men named Horner and Reifsnyder
were Killed In barn ten miles south of
Gettysburg, Pa, recently, by a stroke of
lightning. The barn was set on fire and
DESTROYED.
The people of the Titusville oil regions
OF Pennsylvania are making arrangements
to celebrate the thirteth anniversary of
the striking of the first oil we'll by Colonel
Drake, August 20. 1859.
AS the result of an investigation Of tn he
post-ofice at New Haven, Conn.,, Henry
M. Cummings, a carrier, was arrested
charged with soliciting political assess
ments.
NINE side-tracked freight cars in Pater-
son, N. j.. ran down a grade suddenly the
other day. jumped several switches and
-collided with an engine and train. One
man was fatally injured and great dam
age was done.
LATER investigation showed only five
persons drowned by the giving way of the
bridge at Johnstown, N. Y.
The meeting for the purpose of forming
a salt trust. ''internationa al in scope" id
not take place at New York as proposed,
on the 1lth, owing to the nom arrival of
Representatives of the Kansas and Louisi-
lana salt interests.
The lasters in the shoe factories of
Wolfboro. N. H., have struck against a
recent adjustment Of wages.
AT New York on the 14th Charles
'Escassi. fourteen years old. and Emanuel
-Escassi, aged sixteen, were drowned while
bathing in the Harlem river. James
Montgomery, colored. twenty years of
age, was drowned while bathing near the
foot of Seventy second street
HARRIEN REIN, Russian boy of seven
years, attempted to steal a piece of ice
from a wagon at New York the other day
and being surprised by the driver fell
against the tongs hanging from the scales.
The tongs closed upon him and cut his
-jugular vein, causing him to bleed to
death.
In Somerville, near Boston, recently,
Augustus Rosenberg killed the woman
with whom he was living and her son,
also fatally wounding another child and
seriously wounding another. In endeavor-
ing to escape the f1end fell over a pile OF
railroad ties, a spike entering his head
and killing him.
THE strike at Carnegie's Homestead
works was settled on the 14th amicably.
The terms were not given out, but much
satisfaction was expressed at the termi-
nation of the troubles which SO seriously
threatened the peace.
THE WEST.