Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
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| tralian ballot system) and the Excise Com.
| mission High License bill, amended. have
both been ordered to third reading in the
New York Assembly, the Republicans
voting yea and the Democrats nay.
MARY ANDERSON, the actress, was able
to take long ride in Philadelphia on the
27th
FIRE broke out the other evening in the
Globe warehouse, Scranton, Pa, owned
by the firm of Clelland, Simpson & Tay-
lor, who carried stock valued at $500, 600.
The loss was almost total.
The weavers' strike at Fall River, Mass,
ended on the 9th on the old basis.
MCINTOSH & HEMPHILL's machine shops,
Pittsburgh, Pa, have been destroyed by
an incendiary. Loss, 500. O00.
MARGARET CAMERON, daughter of Ex-
Senator Simon Cameron, and John w.
Clark, son of a Newark millionaire, were
married in Philadelphia recently.
The executive committee of the board of
directors Of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company adjourned at New York without
coming to a decision regarding the leasing
of the Wisconsin railroad.
DR. JOHN SwINBURNE, the eminent sur
geon of Albany, N. Y, died recently.
The anthracite coal companies, at a
meeting in New York City recently, de-
cided not to reduce Western prices for
some time.
ANSENDlAh1ES Duru0O an enClro OlOck OF
stables at Altoona, Pa, recently. Five
horses and nine head of cattle perished
SEVENTEEN inspectors have been re-
moved from the customs department of
the custom house at New York. They
were all Democrats.
THE whaling schooner William Crosier
OF Provincetown, Mass, reports the wreck
of the Boston bark Albert Russell, from
New York for Australia. Only two Of the
crew were saved.
JOHN HARRIS, a thirteen-year-ol boy,
recently fell into coke oven at Union
town, Pa, and was burned to death.
Hon. JACOB SLEEPER, the we'll known
Boston philanthropist, died on the 31st,
aged eighty-seven.
DURING fire in Philadelphia the other
day John Garrety, a fireman. fell from
the roof of the building and was killed.
A ASTANDARD oil tank exploded at Green
point, L. l., recently, causing a destructive
fire. Two men named Nolan and Ream
were fatally njured. ..+gea
MANAGER DUFF, the we'll known theat-
rical man, died at New York recently.
He was born in Ireland sixty mine years
| ago.
| HENRY T. HELMBoLD, the formerly we'll
| known patent medicine man, has been
sent to Bellevue Hospital from New
York police court to be examined as to his
sanity upon complaint of his wife and son
| that he was so violent that they were
| afraid of him.
THE steamer Nanticoke, which is sup
| posed to have been sunk in collision with
the Haytien gunboat Conserva, on the
| South Atlantic coast, was chartered by
Mr. E. w. Perry, of Chicago.
| L. S. BROWN, Government pensioner,
has been arrested at Minneapolis, Minn.,
fo,
gold silver coins. He was found at work.
THE young tragedian, Creston Clarke,
| a nephew of Edwin Booth, was reported
lying dangerously i'll in Milwaukee, He
was suffering from tonsilitis and inf1am-
;mation of the bowels. His company was
disbanded.
AN attempt was made to wreck the
Santa Fe train near Chillicothe, ILL.,, the
other night, unknown miscreants placing
ties on the track.
The business portion of Ashton, ILL.,, has
been burned. Loss, $40 900.
NOTICE of suit for damages has been
served on Bill Nye and Whitcomb Riley
by Manager Maloney, of the Fort Dodge
Uowa) Opera House, for failure to appear
as advertised. Mr.. Nye's illness caused
the broken engagement
WHILE excavating for the foundation of
a new building on an unused lot in the
skeletons of two men, buried in one grave,
were unearthed by laborers. They had
been murdered.
A MARVELLOUS robbery occurred at the
First National Bank, Denver. Col, on the
afternoon of the 29th. An unknown man
forced the president of the bank to sign a
check for $21, 900 and have it cashed by the
paying teller, after which he got away.
The man was armed with revolver and
bottle of nltro-glycerine, with which he
threatened to blow up the bank building
THE six story brick building at 4S to 80
North Clinton street, Chicago, occupied by
several business firms, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire the other night, entailing
loss Of about $500, 600.
THE reward for the robber of the Denver
National Bank has been increased to IS 000
The supposed nitro-glycerine which he
carried in a bottle turned out to be castor
oil.
THE frame work of the new Sacred
Heart Catholic Church at Dayton, O., was
blown down by high wind recently,
causing much damage.
1T is about cert ain that a Yellowstone
park scout named Wilson and one soldier
who accompanied him are lost. They
started three weeks ago for trip through
the park to see il there were any trespass-
ers molesting game. The theory is that
the unfortunate men attempted to cross
the river and went through the ice.
THE SOUTH.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH DELANO, of the tug s.
NJ. Johnson, of Baltimore, while shooting
at ducks on James river, Virginia, with a
Springfield rifle. accidentally killed the
fve-year-old daughter of j. W. Brock
we'll. Brockwell was sitting in his house
a mile off with his child on his knee. The
ball passed through her head.
GOVERNOR TAYLOR, of Tennessee, per-
formed marriage ceremony in the Senate
Chamber recently, uniting State Senator
Carter of Macon County, and Mrs. Cor
| nelia Jordan, of Nashville. Both houses
of the Legislature attended in body. A
bill had been passed empowering the Gov
ernor to perform the ceremony.
MACK FRANCIS and James Turner were
hanged at Lebanon, Tenn, on the 9th
| for the murder of Lew Martin last summer.
| They confessed their crime.
Rev. GEORGE b. STARR complains to the
! Associated Press that the Seventh Day
| Adventists are being horribly treated in
! some parts of the South, particularly in
Georgia.
B. NJ. HUEY, Jr., Southern express agent,
| was recently attacked by two masked
| robbers at Blocton, Ala. He bravely de-