Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22

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E1eHr inches of snow fell in North
Dakota, doing the wheat crop much
good.
THE suspension of the extensive
brokerage firm of Doran, Wright 4
Co., of New York and elsewhere, has
been formally announced Liabilities
to its bucket shop patrons. $500, 900;
assets, nil.
CLINTON G. REYNOLDS, a lawyer, Of
60 Wall street, New York, was shot and
MORALLY wounded in his Office by
Alphonse j. Stephanie. Reynolds was
the legal adviser of Stephanie's mother
and had placed certain property out Of
the reach of the assassin. who was .
spendfhrift-
THE Irish tenants defense fund has
reached ECO, 600 and has been closed.
County Cork people subscribed sS, 900.
POISONED sausage caused the death OF
Mrs. Glenn Ehlers, of Ivanhoe, O. Two
of her children are seriously ill.
THE case against James Campbell,
president of the Window Glass Union,
for importing English workmen in vio-
lation of the Alien Contract law resulted
in an acquittal.
The immense flour mill of the Winona
(Minn.) Company was burned recently.
The loss was 1866, 600.
The striking miners at Bilbao, Spain,
INDUCED in another riot on the 18th.
C. M. WHITAKER and j. M. Stubs
were crushed to death under a huge
piece of granite near Monrovia, Cal, by
the breaking Of derrick.
FIRE in San Bernardina, CAL, de-
stroyed the West Coast Lumber Com
pany's mill and lumber, causing 500, 600
loss.
The Typographical Unions of Mime
apolis and St Paul have demanded ten
hours pay for nine hours work, which
has been refused.
CAsTAwAY H., a rank outsider, won
the Brooklyn handicap on the 18th.
A CAVE in occurred in mine No. at
Ashley, Pa, on the 18th. A number of
miners were entombed with no hopes of
their recovery alive as choke damp ac-
cumulated.
THE wife and daughter of President
G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University.
were found dead in their bed at Worces-
ter, Mass, recently, accidentally suffo-
Gated by illuminating gas
THREE children playing in an excava-
ton for cellar at Seventh avenue and
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by falling earth recently.
THE French Board of Trade returns
for April show an increase in imports of
more than million dollars and an in
crease in exports of more than four
millions.
Two river drivers near Moose river,
Maine, were recently killed and three
others were terribly injured by the ex-
plosion of a key of powder in an old
cabin in which they had taken refuge
from a storm and built fire. I
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended May Is numbered
212. compared with 2O9 the previous
week and 242 the corresponding week
of last year.
THE report concerning three actors of
the Nat Goodwin Company being killed
in a railroad wreck in Montana proved
unfounded. A member of the company,
Miss May Duffee. had died and this had
delayed the company, causing the false
report
ToMsKI, in Western Siberia, has been
almost destroyed by flood and fire.
CUBA is troubled with drought.
On the river Oder, near Ratisbon, ST.
lesia, a ferryboat loaded with passen-
gers was crossing, when it suddenly
and thirty-six of the people
were drowned before assistance could
reach them. All the passengers were
children who were returning home from
a confirmation service.
THREE men were drowned near York
vile, Pa, while fishing from boat.
By a collision between a pay-car
special and the rear end of an accom-
mediation train at Tuscola, Ill, a lady
was fatally and other persons slightly
hurt.
ALPHEUs BULL, President of the
Gould & Curry mine, was drowned near
San Francisco recently.
THE union stonemasons and bricklay-
ers of Joliet Ill, have struck for eight
hours and increased wages.
THE Berlin Tageblatt says it is sig
nificant fact that visits of foreign news
paper writer's and other recognized Wis.,
itors to Friederichsrue have been very
frequent of late.