Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

York drummer, WAS found dead In the
river at Chicago. near Market street
TIE village of Excelsior, fifteen miles
south of Fort Smith, Ark, was demol-
ished recently by . cyclone. No one
was hurt
A DISPATCH from Bismarck. N D.,
says the Lottery bill has been finally
killed.
THE lard hearing was closed at Wash
ington on the 18th, Mr.. Butterworth
pleading for the farmers and energet-
ically denouncing the fraudulent i'm
itations, which he claimed were a loss to
the agriculturists of SIS, 600, 600 a year.
THE influenza is prevalent in Persia.
Several members of the Shah's house
hold are Frustrated.
SIX prisoners, all burglars. escaped
from the county Jail at Eau Claire. Wis,
the other morning. They had been fur
nished tools by outside friends.
TWELVE loaded cars went through .
high trestle on the Georgia Pacific road
twenty miles east of Birmingham, Ala,
the other day and were destroyed by
fire. Several train men were hurt but
none fatally.
THE Sexton Ballot Reform bill was
passed in the New York Assembly by a
vote of % to 81. Four Democrats voted
for the bill.
EDWARD HARRISON and Noah Loder,
Wholesale dry goods merchants Of New
York City, have assigned with $500, 600
liabilities and nominal assets in excess
of liabilities.
BY an explosion of dynamite on the
Brooklyn aqueduct near Rockville Cen
ter. L. L, two men were blown to pieces
and two others badly hurt.
THE sale of the Burlington & North
ern, it is thought, will have q quieting
effect on the rate troubles.
Four of the party who lynched Olsen
at Whitehall Wis, October "a last have
been found guilty, among them Olsen's
wife, who urged the 1ynching and pro-
vided refreshments for the mob.
THE Rio Grande railway recently had
$50 snow shovelers at work opening the
snow blockade across the San Juan
range at Cumbres, on the east side of
the divide. The snow was reported six
ty feet above the top Of the telegraph
poles and for miles on each side it was
from twenty-five to forty-five feet deep
AN epidemic resembling influenza is
creating havoc in India
BY an ordinance at San Francisco all
Cinnamon residents are required to
move their residences and places of
business within sixty days to certain
sections of the southern part of the city.
They number 60. 600.
TWENTY thousand men employed as
engineers in Northeast England have
organized strike for shorter hours.
In the Lower Rio Grande country in
Texas cattle are suffering for water.
A TERRIBLE landslide occurred in a
cut on the West Virginia Central rail-
road, forty miles west of Cumberland,
Nd, on the 14th. A work train was
wrecked and three men were killed and
four injured, mostly Italians.
THE river reached the highest point
known at Memphis, Tenn, on the 14th.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended March 13 num-
bered 252, compared with 26O the previ-
Gus week and 261 the corresponding
week of last year.
SECRETARY WINDOW has received let
ter from Secretary Blaine, asking for an
additional appropriation of $35, 900 to
meet the expenses of the international
marine conference held in Washington
last autumn. The original appropria-
ton was $40, 900. e
The L. Baurie woodenware factory,
Petowskey, Mich, was destroyed by fire
the other day, causing 500, 200 loss
Two men were burned to death re-
Gently while asleep in the workmen's
building near the new bridge at Johns
town, Pa.
SECRETARY WINDOW has executed a
lease with the North American CONNER
cial Company, of New York and San
Francisco, for the taking of fur seals on
the islands of St. Paul and ST. George,
Alaska, for period of twenty years
from May next.
The steamship George 81. Chance, Of
Astoria, Ore, with a crew of fifteen
men has not been heard from for a
month and is reported lost.
GREAT damage to wheat in Central
and Southern Illinois by the recent cold
snap is reported to the State Board Of
Agriculture.