Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-16
THE EAST.

FORESr fires are burning in the Shawan.
gunk mountains and the Catskills, also in
the highlands below Newburgh and alse
on the Fishkill mountains. OF New York.
THEODORE WnDNAN, who was secretary
of Typographical Union No 6, New York.
for a long time. is said by an expert who
has examined the books to be between
81, 600 and 5000 short in his accounts with
the union.
Ex-MINIsTEI PHELPS is about to resume
his duties as professor in the Yale law
school at New Haven, Conn.
DANIEL SMITH, who burned two littls
boys IN New York with nitric acid and
sent them out on the street to beg for his
benefit has been sentenced to four years
and six months in State prison.
NATHANIEL THAYER and Francis Blod-
gett, of Boston, and William J. Rotch, of
New Bedford, are directors in the new
steel trust, with a capital of $s5. 600. 600,
that has been formed by the North Chi
-cago Rolling Mill Company.
The strike Of the workmen in the Ale.
gheny Bessemer steel works at Duquesne.
Pa, has resclted in the virtual defeat of
the men, every department being filed BY
-non-union men.
Two women were killed and several
-rsorkmen injured by the collapsing OF an
old house in Boston recently.
Ar Kaska William collierv. near Mid
.dlepors, Pa, recently a cage containing
ten miners was wrecked by a car being
pushed over the top of the shaft by two
Hungarian 1aborers. The shaft was SOC
feet deep and all the men were killed. be.
ling horribly crushed and mangled.
ALMOST every business house in the viii
lage of Shrub Oak, Westchester County.
N. Y, was destroyed by fire the other
night Loss $40, 600.
lrr in,
tpreme Court, gave q judgment dissolvine
zthe Electric Sugar Refining Company.
Alex Cameron. representing the corpora.
tion. consenting thereto. K Burnham
-Mofett was appointed receiver and di-
yrected to furnish bond Of SO. .0O0
STORM passed over Pennsylvania and
Sparts OF New York on the afternoon of the
10Th causing wholesale destruction o
buildings and serious injury to persons
The lightning caused the death of a miner
sat Mahanoy City, also of William Clapper
-Gt Gulf Summit Panics occurred in
silk mill at Pottsville, also in Barnum'.
circus while perfor ming at Wiiliamsport
EDISON, the electrician, has brought suit
against John T. Tomlinson and Ezra T
SGiliiiaud. two former associates in bus
Asness, to recover $3.50, 00O
THE contract for making the five nav
15-inch dynamite guns has been awarded
TO the w est Ioun0ry at Cold Spriugs n
Y. The contract calls for the delivery o
the guns seven months hence.
DURING the progress OF the recent storm
Mrs. William McNan and three children
of Ridgeway, Pa, went into the cellar O
their house for safety. They had hardl,
reached the foot of the stairs when a Dol
of lightning struck the house killing al
-four instantly.
HoN. HENRY A-FosTER died at his home
Rome, n. Y, on the 1lth, in his ninetietl
year. He was the senior United State
Senator, having been appointedin 1874 on.
year before Simon Cameron. of Pennsyi
vania- He was a delegate to the conven
ton that nominated General Cass TO
President
TIE score in the six days walking mattel
which ended at Madison Square Garden
New York, on the 11th was: Hertv. $50
Cartwright SS2; Noremac. 5a6; Hegelman
40; Hughes. SIS; Smith, so; Golden. SIS
Adams, 456, johnson. 40: Tavlor 4so
Sullivan. S55; Nolan, 3a5
JAMES d FISH. ex-president of fb
Marine Bank, was released from aubu-,
prison on the 11th, and in company vitl
his two daughters started for New Yors
He, Vas in the best of health and refn.a,
toeks interviewed.
HA1FARE between the Lehixh v.Il~,
and Reading railroads has broken ont inf
>oc<ivo hostilities, and violence Il fearoj