Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-13
THE WEST.


kota, has appealed to the Chicago Board
of $40, 600 to enable the destitute farm
ERIN of his State to purchase seed grain
and feed for animals. The board at a
meeting appointed a committee of three
to attend to the requests Of the Govern
or's communication.
A NoRTH-BouND Northern Pacific train
struck hand-car between st. Cloud,
Mimi, and Clear Lake the other morn
ing. Three section men were killed.
A CONSTRUCTION train went through a
bridge siXty-eight feet high near Dalles,
Ore. recently. Ten men were killed
outright and sixteen wounded.
CHINESE circles at Chicago are agi-
tated over the simultaneous disappear
ance Of Chin-Tom, 81, 900 which he bor-
rowed from numerous confiding celes-
tials doing business here and Mrs. Chin
Loya, white woman who asked for a
divorce few days ago from her ccles-
tial spouse.
FREDERICK EATeN, a leading merchant
of Toledo, O.. died recently of heart
failure, superinduced by an attack of la
grippe.
w. A. HILL, founder of the Observer
of bloomington, ILL.,, and the Missouri
Democrat of st. Louis, died in Blooming
ton recently, aged eighty-one.
PORTLAND, Ore, has been badly flood
ed by rapidly melting snow. Many
bridges have been swept away in the
Willamette valley
LAMpsON, the Republican Lieutenant
Governor who was ousted from his posi-.
ton by the Democratic Senate of Ohio.
has decided, after consultation with his
attorneys, not to carry the case to the
Supreme Court.
FINN laborers at Palmer, Mich, were
on strike and rioting on the 5th.
ONE man was killed and five or six in
iured by still explosion recently in the
Standard refinery at Lima, o.
AT Custer mine. Idaho, six men have
been killed by a snowslide. Also three
men by snowslide at Burke, Idaho,
half the town being in ruins.
FIRE at Belle PLANE, Iowa, recently
destroyed the opera house and bank and
four stores, causing $50, 900 loss.
THREE Canadians in boat visited
Marine CITY, Mich, recently. A squan
coming up the boat was capsized and all
three were drowned.
SAMUEL Vll-SON, VI Lewis, iowa, was
suffocated recently by gas in we'll.
F. c. GoUDY, we'll known Denve,
lawyer, has been indicted for criminal
libel.
LINCOLN G1TTNER, of Griswold, Iowa
was killed recently in we'll by &
bucket falling on him.
The bank examiner has decided tt
wind up the affairs of the American
Building & Loan Association of Mime
apolis, MINI. The concern was nomi
nally capitalized at $40, 100000.
RUSSIAN influenza is reported to b,
raging to such an extent in the lumbe
regions of Wisconsin and Minnesota q
to almost prevent logging operations
Many deaths are reported.
THE cases Of the Anarchists Fielder
Schwab and Neebe are to be taken III
in the Supreme Court for review
Should the matter result favorably TO
the prisoners, it will vitiate the judg
ment that consigned Spies, Linge
Fischer, Engel and Parsons to the gal
| lows.
BANK WREcKER CLAssEN has secure
| bail.
THE passage of the bill in the Mort
| Dakota Legislature authorizing lottel
| les is likely to prove hurtful to certai
Government officials who were said to b
interested. the President and his Cabine
being much incensed at this dubious &C
\ of the new State