Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-20

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| jail at Boonvi11e, Mo-, has been recap.
tured at Auburn, KY He was visiting
his sweetheart
THE town of Tiburon, Cal, eight
miles north OF San Francisco. was re-
| Gently greatly damaged by fire.
LEADING dairymen OF the United
States met in Chicago and discussed the
Worlds Fair representation. They OBJ
! jected especially to being classed with
oleomargarine and animal fat products
NEAR Millersburg. KY, q passenger
train ran into . handcar, on which we1e
five track repairerA James Finley was
instantly killed, John Garrady had his
leg cut on and the other three received
injuries that may terminate fatally.
AN epidemic OF typhoid fever is rag
ing at Clementville, o. There have
been already eighty-nine cases. of
which twenty-five have been fatal At
present forty persons are stricken.
Business is entirely suspended and the
200 people who make up the population
are wild with fear.
A DISASTROUS railroad accident oc-
Cured on the Southern Pacific about
five miles from Salem, Ore The end Of
long trestle gave way under passen-
ger train and four men were taken out
of the wreck dead. About twenty per-
sons besides were seriously injured.
THERE was panic in Chicago's Gov
eminent building on the 18th. A re-
port was heard and crack thirty feet
long was seen in the walls.
SECRETARY TRACY has issued an or
der increasing the number of stars on
the National ensign and Union jack to
forty-three. Five new stars are added,
one each for North Dakota, South Da.
kota. Montana, Washington and Idaho.
The stars are arranged in six rows, the
top Tow containing eight stars and the
other Ave rows containing seven stars
each.
THE Washington Critic publishes the
statement that the recent furry in
stocks and the temporary panic in the
money market were due to the with
drawal from circulate by the Louisi-
ana Lottery Company of its 81, ZOO, 600
surplus
THE case Of Rube Smith, cousin of
RUDE Burrows, ended at Jackson, Miss,
in . verdict of guilty. The charge was
for robbing the mails at Buckatunna in
September, 1889. Smith is the only
survivor OF the notorious RUDE Bur-
rows gang of train robbers.
The .coroner's jury which investigated
the cause OF the wreck on the Southern
Pacific, at Salem, Ore, censured the
railway company for allowing defect
i've trestle to remain in use. The COM
pany is declared guilty OF criminal
negligence.
BIRCHALL was executed at Woodstock,
Ont, on the 14th for the murder of F.
c. Benwell, whom he had enticed from
England for the pupil farming swindle
in Canada. All the parties were we'll
connected with English families.
Birchal1 denied the crime of murder,
but admitted the attempt at swindling
In Brooklyn verdict was rendered
for So. 500 in favor of ex-Assemblyman
Daniel w. Talmage against the New
York World. Mr.. Talmage sued the
World for $50, 900 for libel in calling him
a corrupt legislator
UNHAPPY differences cont inue to pre-
vent the Chicago Worlds Fair directors
from accomplishing any thing definite.
R. M WAIVER & Co., sewing machine
and lamp manufacturers of Hamilton,
Ont, have assigned. The liabilities are
estimated at about $500, 600. The assets
consist of real estate, plant and book
debts.
THE English syndicate that bought
the Pillsbury- Washburn flour mills at
seems to have made
good thing out of the transaction. A
dividend of ten per cent was declared
for the first year.
GENERAL RUGER, U. S. A., has re-
turned from the Standing Rock agency,
where he has been investigating the
threatened outbreak of the Indians in
expectation of their long looked for
Messiah. He says chat the excitement
has subsidized and no trouble is antici-
pated.
The business portion of the town Of
Barton. O., population 1000, has been
destroyed by fire.
IN freight collision on the Kansas
City road near Elkton, Mimi, Engineer
Penneham. Head Brakeman Callahan
and Fireman Folfew were instantly
killed They were all from St Paul