Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15
FIVE moro bodies were found at Johns
own, Pa, on the 9Th, victims Of the

FIVE more bodies were found at Johns
town, Pa, on the 9Th, victims Of thu
flood.
THE sister and her children of the 1atl
Thomas w. Pierce, of Boston, who lef
an estate valued at $6, SOC, 900, have
asked the court to remove the executor
for neglecting their business.
THE faculty of Cornell University hal
decided to discontinue the class in jour
nalism after the present college year.
w. L. BRICE, brother of United
States Senator Brice, of Ohio, died al
Denver, Col, recently of consumption
THREE hundred plumbers of Pitts
| burgh, Pa, have struck for an advance
in wages
| Two men were killed by fire damp in
| the Gilbert co1liery near Mahanoy, Pa.
! CONSUL CALvo, of the Argentine Re
public, at New York City, ridicules the
statement that dishonest customs Off
Gals have robbed that Republic of &c..
OOe, 900 per year. ~
| By the falling of smokestack at q
saw mill at Braddock. Pa, two Greeks
were fatally and two seriously injured.
| The Pandora levee in Bossier Parish,
La, gave way on the night of the 18th
and vast amount of country was inun-
| dated.
| THE Government snag. boat c. w.
Howell was wrecked at Shreveport. La,
recently by striking pier OF the rail
road bridge.
| The drought has occas1oned consider
able distress in Cuba.
THE jury at Bordentown, N. j.,
brought in verdict of guilty against
Frank to obtain his life insurance.
Two girls named Mcdonald, aged
nine and twelve, became frightened al
an approaching train at Portland, Ore,
| and jumped into a creek and were
drowned.
JONAS RUSSELL, aged sixteen, and
Clarence Hickox. aged seventeen, went
to camp out in cave and were buried
Iowa
THE county poor house at Norwich, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire recently. A
number of imbecile women, who had
been locked up as usual for the night,
persisted in the flames.
THE Notwithstanding investiga-
ton ended at Little Rock, Ark, on the
8th.
convicted of criminal libel at New York,
has been fined 800.
THE lime producers combination in
Maine has expired by limitation and
prices are now expected to fall nearly
100 per cent
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
contribution of $275, 900 to the Chicago
u; Ill Io1s
A SENSATION has been caused in Rus
sian military circles by the discovery
that large quantity of bombs have
bastopol. Evidence is abundant that
systematically carried on and has ex-
tended over several months.
THERE was a report that an old charge
was likely to be trumped up against
Lady Cook (Tennie Clafin) in Illinois.
About twenty-six years ago when a girl
she was induced by her mother to clair
voyantly treat a woman for cancer. The
woman died and charge of manslaugh-
ter was preferred, but was not pushed.
DURING Chinese riot in Los Angeles,
Cal, the other night, one Chinaman was
killed and one seriously wounded. The
Wong Chez society has declared deadly
war on the All Now faction.
The annual competition for the
Boyleston prizes for Harvard students
in defamation was held in Cambridge,
Mass. The first prizes were won by w.
E. B. Dubois 80 and 81. E. Burton go
Mr.. Dubois is negro.
THE miners of Antrim, N. Y, went
on strike recently, making 5000 men
men out of work in that locality.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended May numbered
2O9, compared with 211 the previous
week. The failures for the correspond
ing week of last year were 207.
RACE excitement was reported at
Charlottesville, Ind, over the gradua-
ton of four colored pupils from the high
school.
STRIKING factory workers in Bohemia
have broken into several factories, dam
aging the machinery and compelling
those at work to quit.