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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
Disastrous Rains.

CINCINNATI, Sept. ID AT Bucyrus four
inches of rain fell yesterday. The San
dusky river was SO high as to cut of
communication with North Bucyrus.
At Akron the rainfall was DISASTROUS.
Great damage was done throughout the
county and in the city unusual destruc-
ton was wrought, North Howard street.
one Of the principal business streets, be-
ing fearfully washed in some places A
portion of the street railway was left
with ties in the air hanging by the rails.
the main sewer exposed and waterpipes
torn out Railway travel Is almost sus-
pended
Incessant rains for the past forty.
eight hours have caused landslide on
the Cleveland & Marietta which will de-
lay trains long while. The bridge on
the Cleveland. Lorraine & Wheeling rail-
way has been washed away near the
city. The Tuscarawas rose twenty and
one-half feet in one hour. The whole
valley is inundated
The Sciot0 river reached a stage
which, though not remarkable, was the
cause of more than ordinary damage at
Columbus All the low farm lands
north and south of the city are flooded
and the loss to crops amounts to several
thousand dollars The river is now
falling.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
LITERARY SMALL TALK.

A MOVEMENT has been started to
erect monument to James Fenimore
Cooper, the novelist, at CooperStown,
where he lived from 1914 to the day of
his death in 1851.
Mr.. w. CLARK RUSSELL writes his
fascinating sea stories in the old house
at Bath in which, when Bath was the
abode of fashion, Lord Chesterfield
wrote his famous letters to his son.
In the Peoples Palace Of London the
class of reading is improving, and
great demand is made for technical and
scientific works by the borrowers, who
are the working classes of the city.
THE poet Browning had a marvellous
memory. He could always tell the ex
act place of any quotation or fragment
of quotation referred to h'-,, and was
greatly vexed whenever he heard his
own lines miSquoted.
The literary production of Mexico is
quite wonderful. One of her latest bio
graphical lists mentions no less than
IL, 900 volumes by 5000 native Mexican
authors. The first book printed on this
continent was published in Mexico.
SEVEN thousand persons have been
employed in getting out Mr.. Stanley's
new book and more than six hundred
tons of paper have already been used in
England. The English edition alone
required two hundred and forty tons of
paper.
A NATIVE Indian novelist is the latest
reported product of this era of culture.
His name is Peak of Thunder, he lives
in the Indian Territory. and his book is
said to be very wel-written romance
L. IL
is now looking for publisher TO put it
out.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
PESKY POTTAWATOMIES.
Eussing on the ReservatiOn-Three of the
I.oaders Killed

Fussing on the Reservatfon-Three of the
Leaders Killed.
TOPEKA. Kan, Sept 13.-Information
has reached this city that the council
of the Prairie band of Pottawatomies
held a few days ago on the reservation
in jackson County terminated in the
killing of three of the leaders and the
wounding of several others
There are two bands, one known as
the Big Soldier band and the other
the Little Soldier band. They met
in council to consider the Presidents
order requiring them to sectionize.
The Little Soldiers band are all Indi-
ans and are in the majority, and favor
of taking their lands as the order indi-
Gates. The Big Soldier band is COM
posed of full bloods, half breeds and
white men who have intermarried and
been adopted into full mem bership with
the nation.
This is the turbulent party and OPP
poses the order to sectionize with vio-
lent threats against their great father
and his supporters This feeling is en-
couraged by the white Indians" who.
it is said, misrepresent the situation
and the Presidents order and were the
cause of the riot
The minority party have among them
shrewd advisers who incite others less
Informed to carry out their schemes.
THERE'S delega ton of the better ele-
ment of both bands in the Territory for
the purpose of looking at the country
with a view to making it their future
home. Had they been present at the
council. the riot probably would not
have happened
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
JEST IN FUN.

In an Intelligence Ohce-Agent Ito
female applicant-"Are you married
or single?" Applicant Cblushing)-
'Naythur, mum; Dim engaged"
HUsBAzD-''Fhank Heaveni our cook
will soon be bald" Wife,? ?''
Husband-''She can not lavish her hair
In the soup in this way long, you know"
VIsIToR-"What are you painting?"
Artist tsarcastically)-.sC you seer"
Visitor (sweetly)-'Yes. I see it is .
flower. Have you decided what to call
it YETI"
SERvAST-"Yis. SORT. Mrs Jones is
In What's yer name, sorr?" Visitor
prof. Vandenspinkenheime Serv-
ant-'.Ochi Sure, ye'd better 60 right
in and take it wild ye."
SUSPICIOUS verified -'sBut,
Clara, ice-cream at one dollar a plate Ii
pretty expensive" Clara (haughtily)-
THAT is enough, sir. do not believe
you are plumber at all"
DRUG CLERK-"This hair-dressing is
made of pure bear grease" Brown
"Hew can it be pure when it is
scented?" Drug Clerk-''It is-er
| made from the cinnamon bear"
return my best thanks to your
master, John, and tell him 1 am much
f1attered by his kind present of the
game" "Yessir-an' supposin' master
| asks what you guv me for myself
vhat'n tell him, sir?"
THERE" said Mrs. Knobs, as her
daughter ceased from torturing one of
the high-numbered ''ops." of Beetho-
| ven, ''that's what call finished per
| Torrance, Mr.. Jones'" And Mr.. Jones
| nodded. and said: THANK Heaven
FLossY-'I don't care, think Jack
Townsley is real meanF' Annette
''Why. Flossy?" Flossy-''He wrote to
me from Florida saying he had shot
an alligator seven feet long. and said
when he shot another he would have q
pair of slippers made for me-"
| THEY Were Enemies-Gus De Whim-
per-"That's good joke. Idon't know
when have laughed so much over any
thing Where did you get it?" De Sim
per-'It's one of Thompson's jokes u
De Whimper-''Is that one of that frauds
jokes? Well, if had known that
wouldn't have laughed"
A GENTLEMAN having engaged a brick.
layer to make some repairs in his eel
lar ordered the ale to be removed be-
fore the bricklayer commenced his
work. ooh, Pm not afraid of a barrel
of ale, SIR said the man. 81 presume
not" said the gentleman, ''but think a
barrel of ale would run at your ap
proach."
/ SLANGY Mistress-"You needn't bring
all that water down again, Mary. When
you've scrubbed the bedroom floors, just
throw it out of the window, but look
out where it goes" Later on. ''Wen
Mary, did you look out where you threw
that water?' 'Yes, mum, 1 looked ou
directly. 1 soused it all over Rev. DR.
| Mild
A GENTLEMAN's Diary to his Wifei
Temper thick fog, no see
ing through it. Tuesday-Gloomy, ant
very chilly, unreasonable weather
Wednesday at times sharp
ThursGay-Bitter cold in the morning
red sunset, with flying colors, portend
ing hard weather. Friday-Storm in thu
morning, with peals of thunder, all
clear afterwards. Saturday-Glearns o
sunshine, with partial thaw, frost agail
at night. Sunday-A light southweste
in the morning. calm and pleasant a
dinner time, hurricane and earthquake
| at night.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18

The Little Republic of Switzerland Has
ReYoIution On Her Hands.

The Little Republic of Switzerland Has .
Revolution On Her Hands.
LONDON, Sept 13.-The news of rev.
olution in Switzerland is the most in
teresting topic of the hour. Details of
the uprising are difficult to procure, the
Federal authorities having maintained
a telegraph censorship which would do
credit to the more deSpotc neigh ors of
the little dem ocracy.
From the pains taken to check COM
munica ton between the disaffected
Canton and the outside world, and from
the absence Of any encouraging official
announcement by the Federal Council,
it is feared that the revolt may be more
widespread in it's effects than the brief
dispatches permitted to pass the censor
ship would indicate.
Ticino, the Canton how in rebellion,
has, however, a more turbulent record
than her sister Cantcns, and the news
of the present trouble is therefore less
alarming than if the offending Canton
was one of those which had always
maintained a peaceable and loyal de-
meanOr
EAccording to advices the revolution
lists formed provisional government
and convoked a popular assembly, which
declared the existing Government and
the Grand Council dissolved and ordered
general elections for next Sunday The
insurgents hold Lugano. Membrane.
Chiasso and Locarno. The Bundesrath
was called in extra session and ordered
Federal troops to be sent to the scene of
the disorders The populace support the
insurgents and the civic guard occupied
the telegraph Office. thus preventing
the supporters of the Cantonal Govern
ment from municating by telegraph
with each other or with the National
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18

We've heard of a woman
who said she'd walk five miles
to get a bottle of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription if she
couldn't get it without That
woman had tried it. And it's
medicine which makes itself
felt IN toning up the system
and correcting irregularities as
soon as its use is begun.
Go to your drug store, pay
a dollar, get a bottle and try
try a second, a third if
necessary. Before the third
ones been taken you'll know
that there's a remedy to help
you. Then you'll keep on
and a cure II come.
But if you shouldn't feel the
help. should be disappointed
IN the results you'll find a
guarantee printed on the bot
tle-wrapper that'll get your
money back for you.
How many women are there
who'd rather have the money
than health? And Favorite
Prescription" produces health.
Wonder is that there's a
woman willing to suffer when
there's a guaranteed remedy
in the nearest drug store
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
RUMORS OF PEACHlNG.
The Central Wreck Arrests Give Rise tG
Reports.

The Central Wrecl, Arrests Give Rise to
Reports.
ALBANY, N. ", Sept lot was
learned yesterday that Reed. who has
been confined in the Union depot since
his arrest on Sunday, was removed from
there Monday to some place in Albany
County whore he is still in custody.
Chief Humphreys, of the Central road,
had one of his men watching
Reed for some days before the
wreck and ever since and he was
tracked by this man to Hudson,
where he could have placed his hands
on Reed at any moment When it was
decided between Detective Humphreys
and Pinkerton that Reed was wanted,
the detective was telegraphed to that
effect at Hudson Saturday night, with
results as already known.
There was good deal of mystery as
to where John Cordial was detained
When he was delivered over to the
Rensselaer, County authorities by the
Albany police yesterday morning he
was taken to room 16 in the Union
Depot, occupied by William /. Lloyd,
and detained there until the eleven
O'clock train for Troy when he was
taken to the Troy Jail by Detective
humphreys.
Robert A. Pinkerton was closets with
Cordial all night, at least it is known
positively he was there from midnight
until three a.. m. The fact of the re-
moval of Reed from the Union Depot
after Cordial had been secured seems to
show that Pinkerton was using the same
pumping process On Cordial as he was
heard to use on Reed on Sunday night,
but with what results only future ar
rests will show.
Cordial, one of the men accused of
participating in the train wrecking near
Castleton Friday morning and who was
taken to the Troy jail said: IT don't
propose to have them saddle this thing
on me-" He also said: They have the
right party"
Cordial asked to see his lawyer. 1t is
believed from the statements of the
prisoner and the officers that Cordial
has confessed all that he knows about
the wrecking.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
NEEDLESS ALARM.

Secrctary Rusk Talks InteIlfgently ON the
Crop Report and It's Eject ON tho Grain
Market.
WASHINGTON, Sept 1S Secretary
Rusk in an interview upon the excite
ment in the grain markets caused by
fear of short crops said: 'tOf course. the
fact that there was slight falling of
in the quantity of crops had an effect
upon the markets but the tendency has
been upward. as far as prices are con-
cerned. on all the cereals attribute
the increase to other causes than the
shortage in the crops The statement
that this has been the lightest yield for
twenty years I can not agree with.
Grain operators watch our bulletins
very closely and they no doubt make
their calculations on the basis shown in
them. So far as the information that
we receive is concerned, it comes from
a thousand different sources Their OBJ
ject is to prevent great fluctuations"
''You do not apprehend any serious
squeeze?"
'sWhy not a bit The Government
reports have considerable influence in
checking any complicated corner, and
every body is enabled to know the pre-
else condition of the crop AS they
prevent f1uctuation rather than increase
it, the more frequent they are made
the more gradual and pacific the condi-
ton becomes"
'.Is it a fact that the report is the
most unfavorable one ever issued?"
''Not at all. The cotton crop is ex-
traordinarily good. Oats are probably
lower than they have been for twenty
years, but that is the only weak point,
with the exception of the barley crop
which was very prolific last year, how
ever"
SLOW is the quality?"
''Uniformly fair, except as I have
stated, with oats. which are not only
short, but poor in quality. The barley
crop is merely good. I think that this
country should raise less wheat and inn
port less barley. We export wheat and
import barley, and there is no reason
why we should not raise it all The
expectation of corn this year will be
about the same. This is not very large,
however, as foreign nations eat but very
little corn. / think that on the whole
there is no cause for any trepidation on
the part of those controlling the mar
kat
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18

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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
a FARMERS FATE.
Sad Death BY Fire of a Kansas Farmer
- Wife Injured.


Wife Injured.
MCLoUrH, Kan, Sept. 1O--Monday
night j. Leveridge. living four miles from
here, made a roaring fire and went to
bed. Between ten and eleven O'clock
he awakened and found the room all
ablaze. He rushed for the window, but
in doing SO overturned a can of coal
oil, which saturated his clothing, at
once enveloping him in a blaze. In
this condition he jumped through
the window, cutting himself some,
and laid down in watering
trough. Some boys who were sleeping
in the barn pumped water over him. ex-
tinguishing the flames. He fingered
until twelve o'clock yesterday when he
died A brother-in-law living in another
part OF the house, broke in the doors Of
the burning room and rescued Mrs
Leveridge and her little baby, the
former having some severe burns. Moth
ing was saved. Leveridge has brother
near Westport and another working in
the country fifteen miles from Kansas
City whose exact address is unknown.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18

DALLAS Tex. Sept l0.--David
Dougherty, q wealthy farmer living
in Dallas County, about sixteen miles
southeast of this city. was assassinated
while taking few minutes repose on
a lounge in his residence last night at
eight o'clock The weapon used was
double-barreled shotgun heavily loaded
with buckshot, fred from . point I'M
mediateiy outside the window. No
trace of the assassin has yet been found,
though posses are securing the county.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18

and the same fattering vote was made
in the case of NJ b. Nicholson. the party
candidate for Chief Justice.
The platform as adopted is as fol-
lows:
We. the represen tatives OF the Democratic
party of Kansas, in convention assembled,
declares:
psternaiisfn in government state and Ma
tional. as tending tn a naturalization. incon-
eistent with the principles of personal and
political freedom. which were the aim OF
our fathers and the hope OF their posterity.
Second-We deplore the tendency mani
Tested by the preacher politician who poses
as the leaner Of the Republican party In this
State toward eccleciasticism in the manage :
ment OF public affairs. which would make
religious belief the test of eligibility for po-
liticaI prrfermeat and declare our unalter-
able opposition thereto.
Third-we declare that creature of Repub-
Ifcan necessity, the Federal Elections bill.
known as the force law, to be a legitimate
Onspgtng of the party which filched Pres
1dent. an 1 whose leaders are willing to sac
rince for place and power the liberties Of
their fellow citizens.
Fourth-we favor a tarif law based upon
public necessities and not upon the greed
and demand of capital.
Fifth-We favor the free coinage of silver.
sixth-We favor such change In our fiscal
laws as will leave the control of the circu.
lating medium of the country wholly in the
hands OF the Government. SEES
Seventh-We favor liberal and inst non.
sion laws as rightful recognition OF a great
debt dine by the cou-try to all deserving
Union soldiers
Eighth-The Democi acy is party of wage
earners and producers. and we but speak
for labor in its struggles with the insatiat4
money power, whether in the factory or ON
the farm.
Ginth-We are opposed to all sumptuary
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18

DR.. Pierce's Pellets regulate
the Stomach, Liver and Bow
els. Mild and effective.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-11
NEWBOOKSAND NEW EDITIONS

A reprint Of the " Rubaiyat7 of Omar Khayyam
iecatcy beautiful in its dress, has Just been brought
from the press of the Macmlans. It's size Is con-
venent, and paper, print and binding are alike IVV
ing.
.ompapionabIc edition Of the most cOmpanionabc OF
books has lately appeared in the scott Library Need
we say that il is the wise and witty text OF Montague
Essays which find in the tiny voi'mcs VI "'
edition II is pleasant 10 note that t'e W''SO"i'
,nallness of these volumes does rot mean ul'as'cc
able smalness Of type. These " most compahiohaOic
books are not too large for queen Man PooAo'' '
they are as easy 20 read as horn BOOK
Tho last bouDd volume Of The Critic, Just brought
ont contains the issues of that popular weekly IRON
January 10 June. 1890. 1t should be SAID OF " Inc
(ritica that 1t maintains its standard with energy anu
success. ,. j.,
MIR Donald c. Mtchell's second volume of English
Lands Letters and Kings Charles scribncrs sons
dcals ske,chiIy.a gracefully and arily with many
nicturcsoue phases and pcrOnaSe9 of English history
end literature from the time Of Elizabeth to that Of
Anne II Is a pleasant book to take up Tor tch-
minute reading and then, IS one wonu sdui'c'
through an old fashioned garden
A translation OF LamartiHc'S Raphael" has been
added to A. c. McClurg 81 Co.'S neat edition OF
"Laurel Crowned Tales How far away seem tAe
DAYS when young people actually wept over us
poetic but wofully sentimental book! Yet "kaphael'
in its way remains classica relic OF ahothef uIe'
little faded and breathing FAINT odOr a. Vi 7ou0''
.viocts.
The homely and shrewd savings of Poor RlcM'rd'
carefully collected and edited by Paul Leicester fo
form the twenty eighth volume OF the pretty H''c
scries OF Knickerbockcr Nuggets. Co. T. Iutham ;
sons1 The collection is an admirably full one and
is introduced by an excellent preface.
Cary,s translation Of the " Paradise has been IN
cluded in the BOln Library, series uhu7u4'N ''0'P
and well-printed.
"Bcnnie Little Bonibel" (E p. Dutton a co.. Is a
very young lady whose escapadeS are related Tor the
benefit of other very young ladies. by Mrs. NJ D.
brine The story is nicely told and dainty Illustrated
The same publishers bring out Wihhy,7 mouIhiul
tale with family likeness to many other tales oi
early dying infants The story OF Snort Lie 10
inlmitable; Mrs. Ewing has as vet no successor.
An abrdgcment of The Pilgrims Progress has
heen issued as one Of the numbers of CHM a Co.'S
d" Classics for Children" II is accompanied by notes
and biographical sketch but can in no wise take the
Mace of the original Life is not so short that all the
great books Of the world need be condensed INTO an
hours reading for youngsters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-11
miscellaneous

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