Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

Oder river in Prussian Silesia have over
flowed their banks in consequence o
the recent heavy rains and flooded al
enormous section of country.
IT is positively denied from Bruins
| wick, Ga, that there has been any dealt
from yellow fever there, as had been re
ported
TREASURER HEMINGWAY, of Missis
sippi, has been found guilty of embez
Element
RAIN-IN-THE-FAcE, q noted Siou1
chief, was fatally stabbed by hi.
squaw at Standing Rock agency, Mont.
! on account Of his attentions to another
woman.
| THE Pottawatomie Indians have &C
copied the Commissioners terms.
c. r WALTERS and j. r. O'Laughlin.
United States citizens, have been sen
| tenced-the one to be shot and the
other to ten years imprisonment-fol
killing lewd woman in Paso del Norte,
Mex, in May, 1889.
AMMONIA exploded in the refrigerato,
works at Louisville, KY. William Gal.
lagher was dragged out barely alive.
THE Minneapolis (Minn.) enumerators
accused of padding returns are to be
vigorously prosecuted.
CORNELL defeated the Pennsylvania
University crew in the boat race at New
London, Conn.,, on the Goth by six
lengths.
Two small boys were struck by rail
road train near Gallipolis, O., and in
stantly killed. They were sitting on
the track on culvert.
THE robbers of the stage near Harbor
Springs, Cal, have been captured in San
Francisco.
The American Society of Civil En-
gineers began its annual session at Cres-
son Springs, Pa, on the Goth.
w. III. CRABB, State Viticultural Com
missioner of California, has asked the
Worlds Fair directors for the privilege
of having fountain of pure native wine
at the Worlds Fair. Mr.. Crabb wants
to hurl perpetual column of wine fifty
feet high and keep it flowing through
out the period of the fair. He proposes
to change the variety every week. Mr..
Crabb produces 10000 gallons every
year from his vineyard at Oakville,
Napa Valley.
Tom GEORGE, a street car driver of
Indianapolis, Ind, accidentally shot and
killed Timothy Liddy, a passenger, the
other morning.
THE population of San Francisco is
put at 300, 600. The Chinese population
is "a, 600, an increase of 9, 600 since 1880.
THE population of Salt City, Utah, is
estimated at 1912 and Ogden at 16, S25.
By the recent gales on the Scotch
coast nine vessels were wrecked and
thirty-five persons were drowned.
THE fifteenth annual four miles.
ar inb fo oiohf.oo rod oh oil 10 ho.
tween the Yale and Harvard University
Thames river course from Gales Ferry
to Winthrop Point, Yale winning by
three and one-half lengths in 21:29,
Harvard's time being 21:40.
THE Dutch steamer Prinz Frederick,
from Amsterdam for Java, was sunk on
the night of June 25 in a collision in a
dense fog with the British steamer Nor
pessa, from Taguaroy for Dunkirk. Six
lives were lost in the collision.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended June 26 mum bered
202, compared with 1879 the previous
week and 215 the corresponding week of
last year. Business prospects were not
so encouraging.
THE Chicago gas trust has been taken
out of the hands of receivers.
JACK WILLIAMS, one of the life guards
at Atlantic City, N. j., who has on
several occasions distinguished himself
for bravery, has been found to be
notorious burglar and sneak thief, and
has been driven from the place.
JOHN STAUcHER, an old man, was in
bathing at Joliet, Ill He was taken
with cramps and his son Joe jumped in
to save him. They were both in danger
of drowning when Michael Milauski
tried to save them. All three were
drowned. Milauski was son-in-law of
the elder Staucher.
TURKISH soldiers recently invaded an
Armenian church in Erzeroum. A fight
followed and about dozen persons were
killed.
THE strike on the Illinois Central
ended in the surrender of the men to
the terms of the company, Superintend-
emit Russell being retained.