Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

CHARGEs have been preferred against
Bishop J. j. Esher, of Chicago, before
the Evangelical conference at Shame
kin. Pa. He was accused of evil speak
ing, lying, etc. He had previously been
acquitted of similar charges and their
resurrection threatened to break up the
conference.
THE death of John Jacob Astor, caus-
ing the consolidation of two estates in
his heir, makes William Waldorf Astor
worth 5000, 600, 600. probably the largest
amount within the control of any one
man.
JOSEPH JOHNSON, member of the Nc
Coy band of Eastern Kentucky, has been
assassinated at his home near Pikeville.
AN attempt was made the other night
to wreck the limited express on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad near indie
pendence, o. Three ties were found
wedged into a cattle guard and removed
few minutes before the arrival of the
train
A MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUL train col
lided with stock train at Salt Lake,
near Elgin. Ill. Twelve cars of the
stock train were demolished, much stock
killed, two persons fatally injured and
two boys badly hurt
A THROUGH mail car was burned re-
Gently at Blue creek, Utah. 1t had no
registered letters, fortunately.
A LANDSLIDE on the Chesapeake &
Ohio, 100 miles east of Charleston, w.
Va, caused the wreck of a freight train
of eighteen cars recently. Nobody was
hurt
IT has transpired that Mrs. William
Aston sailed for Europe few hours
after the death Of her brother-in-law,
John Jacob Aston, not knowing that he
was dead. This tends to confirm hints
Of an Aston family feud.
A BIG Four passenger train crashed
into freight train near Indianapolis in
fog the other night. Only one person
was hurt and he not seriously.
COMMANDER MCCALLA, of the Enter
prise, has published denial of the al
legged inhuman acts during the cruise of
the vessel of which he has been accused.
A MASS meeting was held at Cooper
Union, New York, on the 2sth, denoun-
cling the Gar for the prison abuses in
Siberia.
The hearing in the lard investigation
ended at Washington on the 2sth.
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE, Emperor
Frederick's physician, won his libel
suits against the st. james Gazette and
the Times, of London. The Gazette was
to pay him 81, 500 and the Times ESQ.
THERE was report at Portland, Ore,
on the 2sth that Silcott, the defaulting
cashier of the House of Representatives,
had been caught at Toledo, town on
the Northern Pacific.
WALTON, the Pacific Express thief,
was discharged at st. Johns, N. B., the
prosecution acknowledging that the
warrant for his arrest was insufficient.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has referred the
cases of the three condemned Navassa
island murderers to the Attorney-Gen-
eral.
RATES from Chicago to Kansas City
were cut to $500 second class on the
2Sth. Rates from Kansas City to Chicago
$500, and other points in proportion.
First-class passenger rates averaged
So. 90 more.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended February % num-
bered Sol, compared with 27O the previ-
Gus week. Business was less satisfac-
tory.
The Alaska seal fishery lease has
been awarded to the North American
Commercial Company, of New York and
San Francisco. The Government will
obtain about 81, 600, 600 year under the
new conditions, the old lease giving
$500, 900.
RICHARD II. HAYES, the murderer of
his wife and two children, was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala, on the 2sth. He
made confession. It was at an at
tempted lynching of Halves in Decem-
Der. 1883, that ten persons were killed
and many wounded, the sheriff ordering
his deputies to fire on the mob.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN TAULBEE, of Ken
lucky, was shot in the head in the Cap
itol building at Washington on the 2sth
by Charles Kincaid, correspondent of
the Louisville Times. He was seriously
wounded. The cause grew out of
scandal published while Taulbee was in
Congress, the latter (who was large
MANI taking every opportunity to pull
Kincaid's nose and otherwise insult him
for the exposure.