Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
THE EAST

THE EAST
NEARLY 800 New Y ork policemen are
laid up with the grip.
JUDGE DWIGHT, at Rochester, N.
Y, on the both, upheld the constitu-
tionality of the law providing capital
punishment by electricity.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, a grandson
of the first Secretary of the Treasury,
died at 1rvington, n. Y, recently, aged
seventy-eight years.
THE Massachusetts, Tariff Reform
League had a banquet at Boston on
the 31st. Roger @. Mills and Edward
Atkinson were the main speakers.
MRS. MARY SMITH, whose weight
was 700 pounds, died in New York re-
Gently, aged forty-eight.
The Boston Daily Advertiser an
.nounces reduction in its price from
four to three cents.
GEORGE p. SMITH, sixty-two years
old, a Waterman at the Massachusetts
State prison, suicided with a revolver
the other morning while temporarily
insane from an attack Of la grippe.
FREDERICK VINToN, librarian at
Princeton for thirteen years, is dead.
Boston has ordered heroic size
bronze statue of Farragut, and will
pay $50, 500 for it.
O. w. ALDER and Z. F. Sheik.
wholesale grocers at Nos. 22O and 223
State street, Boston, have been ar
rested on the charge of selling adulter-
ated pepper.
CATTLE dead of disease have lain in
the water drank in Reading, Pa, and
the people have typhoid fever cpl
demic.
THE union printers of the Philadel-
phia Press have walked out, force of
fraternity printers having walked in.
ELIPHALET KIMBALL, veteran of
the Texan army of independence, died
at Hartford, Conn.,, recently, in the
ninetieth year of his age.
Two New York policemen died on
the 1st as result of influenza.
THE sheet mill of the Brooke Iron
Company at Birdsboro, Pa, is closed
by strike of nailers, who demand
three per cent. per key increase.
CHANCELLOR HENRY r. PIERsoN, of
the New York State Board of Regents,
died suddenly of Russian influenza
He was a prominent Republican until
the Cleveland Blaine campaign, when
he came out for Cleveland.
HON. GEORGE III. BOXER, ex-Minis-
ter to Turkey and Russia. better known
as dramatic author and poet, died at
Philadelphia recently. He was born
October, 1923.
CURTIN s. Co., iron manufacturers of
Bellefonte, Pa, have assigned with
500, 900 liabilities.
PART of another human body, i'm
possible to be identified, has been taken
from the ruins of the THANKSGIVING
day fire in Boston.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylva-
MIA, has issued warrants for the execu-
ton of four murderers February 20.
AN unknown man recently attempted
to murder Father Kelly, of Oneida, N.
Y, by striking him with an iron bar.
Previously an attempt had been made
to poison the priest.
The works of the Edison Electric
Light Company, New York, burned re-
Gently, causing much inconvenience to
parties using incandescent lights.
The gas regulator building at Econ
omy, Pa, was wrecked and George
Kirschbaum, aged forty, was instantly
killed and John Becker badly hurt by
an explosion recently.
JOHN ELLIOTT Bowen, author.
traveller and one of the editors of the
New York Independent, died recently.
aged thirty-two. He was the son of
Henry c. Bowen, Beecher's warm, per-
sOnal friend.
TIE New York Bible House since
April last has issued 725, 900 volumes.
THE WEST.
By the falling of tree across a
wagon near Muncie, Ind, the other
day>Allen Sanderson and one of his
children were killed.
s. e. STEPHENSON, son of Congress
man S. M. Stephenson, of Menowinee,
Wis, died the other night.
THE Academy of Music, in course of
erection at st. Louis, fell recently.
Fifty workmen had a narrow escape,
only one being hurt.
A BANQUET was given Associate
Justice Brewer at Leavenworth, Kan,
ON the 3Oth. The Justice spoke glow.
ingIy of the future of Kansas.
An Official report of the loss by fire
IA Cincinnati during the past year
amount to q trifie over $500, 900.