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The Delta independent., 1890-01-28
The National Crusaders.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 23.-The non-
partisan ladies who are meeting In Cleve-
land for the purpose Of organizing Ma
tionsl Woman's Christian Temperance
Union ere doing their work with great de-
liberstieA. The session Of the convention
this morning was devoted to discussion
Of the proposed constitution.
A letter was also read from John G.
Whittier, In which he said in part:
have always regretted the action of the
w. G. 4. U. IN taking q partisan position.
do NOT BY any means impeach the motive
OF tho noble and devoted women of that
organization, but have seen no good ac-
complished by their separate political
actions. hope the non-partisan temper
auce workers will not waste time and
strength In combating . political organi-
zation, but go forward in their own way
as can sec, the only one likely to accom-
plish the great object Of temperance effort.
The committee on constitution reported
through Chairman Mrs.J. Ellen Foster and
the report was signed by every member
Of the oommlttee. The consultation was
read by Mrs. Walker Of Minnesota. The
preamble Is as follows:
Viewing with the deepest solicitude the
appalling evils Of intemperance and be-
liSviug that onon partisan, non-sectarian
organization OF Christian women, devoted
solely to the cause of temperance is greatly
needed, we unite ourselves together for
this purpose under the following constitu-
tion.
There are TO be five departments of work
evangelistic, educational, legislative and
young woman's. One section Of the con-
sttution declares that no officer shall
pledge the support Of the organization to
any political party or any religious sect.
Any temperance society can become an
auxiliary by signing the constitution. An,
nual meetings are TO be held in November
and members OF the executive committee
will not be permitted to vote thereat
The sections which provide that the
organization shall be non-partisan and
non sectarian was agreed to by q standing
vote, many Of the ladies waving their
handkerchiefs.
AZ the afternoon session, after some
discussion, q pledge was engrafted in the
constitution rs follows:
thereby solemnly promise. God helping
me, to abstain from all distilled. ferment-
ed and malt liquors, including wine and
use Of and traffic In the same.
Mrs. Phinney Of Ohio was elected pres
ident
The Delta independent., 1890-01-28
Robbed by Two Men.

TULARE. Gala, Jan. 2l.-The south
bound passenger train was stopped this
morning by two masked men seven miles
north Of Tulare. The robbers climbed
over the tender to the engine and compelled
the engineer TO stop the train.
They then compelled tho engineer and
fireman TO go with them, and ordered the
cxprcssmAn to open the door OF the car
The amount taxen is not known, but it is
rumorcd that Il will reach several thous-
and dollArs.
The robbers made tho engineer and fire.
man accompany them some distance from
the train. A tramp who was stealing q
ride was mistaken for trainman and the
robbers shot him In the head. He was
brought here and may recover. There is
NO trace OF the robbers yet
The Delta independent., 1890-01-28

A dispatch from Silverton says that
Dave Prindle, engineer on the Sunnyside
mine, was found dead on the trail, about
half mile from the mine, Monday after
noon. He left the mine in the morning at
10 o'clock for Eureka. The mail carrier
found the body in the afternoon. The de
ceased had stuck his pole in the snow and
placed some clothing by it He was
troubled with heart disease, which is sup
posed to be the cause of his death. He had
been in this section for the past eight
years and owned considerable mining
property.
The Delta independent., 1890-01-28

The Denver Gypsum Company is the
style of a new concern that will go into
active operation on February. The lrin-
cipal owners of the company are George
Crawford and A. S. Posey, both Of wh oul
are very wealthy mining men. They
have leased the old smelter on the Union
Pacific tracks near Thirty first Street, and
have largely rebuilt it. Perfect machiu
cry on an extensive scale has been pct in
and arrangements have been made for
handling large product The capacity
will be sixty tons of plaster of paris a day.
1t it also proposed to manufacture whit
ing, which is made from plaster of paris
The gypsum will be brought from Fort
Collins, where the company controls enor,
nous beds.
The Delta independent., 1890-01-28
A ship-surni Gang.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 2S.-Two
Deputy United States Marshals will board
the bark Jennie Harstncss on her arrival
to-day from Ccba, PHILIPPINE Islands. with
warrants for the arrest Of two of the crew,
now confined in irons, on . charge Of set
ting fire to the vessel and having been at
the head Of an organized gang whose pur-
pose was 70 destroy every vessel loading
At Manila. Not long age nearly every
vessel loading at Manila suddenly caught
ARE, tho fiAmes bursting forth Instantly
from tho matches and decks as IL petrol
cum had been spread over them. Tho At
tentiou Of the marine underwriters of all
nations Of tho world was called TO the
dastardly act and many of the offenders
were caught and punished and others were
sent TO their respective governments for
trial
The Delta independent., 1890-01-28
A Natural Gas Explosion.

PITsBuRa, Pa, Jan. 22.-An OK
plosiou Of natural gas this morning COM
pletsly wrecked thrcc-story frame
dwelling.
Tho explosion was caused by . leak In
tho cellar. Mrs. Ringer started down into
the cellar with lighted candle, and when
she reached the foot Of tho stairs tho gas
isnissd and terrific explosion followed,
which shook all the building in that vi.
cinity. Tho house was lifted from its
foundation and blown TO piecos.
John SLIP, assd ss yesrs, was killed.
ldrs. Theodore Ringer, aecd 50 yoars.
was badly crushed and burned and will
de.
Miss Aanis Slip was very seriously In
turcd.
eix eahsfs were injured, some seriously.
A. The ume there wore ten persons In
the building, and all but an infant were
more o. less injured.
While going 70 tho funeral Of their
child, and nan and his wife werc run ovet
sad killed hv Ne cara near Chicago
The Delta independent., 1890-01-28

SnNArR-Mr. Vest presented tho creden
tials Of Mr.. Clark and Mr.. Maginnis as
Senators elect from Montana. Read and
refcrrod. Tho four claimants from Mon
taua were admitted to the privileges OF the
floor pending tho contest
The Senate bill for the immediate ap.
preparation OF SOC, 600 for the continuance
OF tho improvements At the mouth Of the
Columbia River passed; also one 70 place
General Stoncman on tho retired list ~
colonel Of infantry,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
BOOTS AT A BARGAIN,

a Young Lady Gets Q Pair by Walking tn
the Post-Omce.
She was as gentle of eye as q soft
gaelic, that Is. she was, for this didn't
happen this week. 1t was in a shoe
store in Lewiston, and the gentle
maiden was an acquaintance of the
proprietor and always bought her No.
rs there when she encased her dainty
foot in any thing brand new. Here's
something that would fit you,- said the
jocular proprietor, passing out pair Of
wool boots fitted with pair of lumber
mans rubbers. iii make you a present
of them if you will wear them down TO
the post-office and back"
ssWait a minute" said she, and in a
minute" she was arrayed in wooden
boots and lumberman's rubbers. watch
me to the post-office," and she was gone.
Her feet beneath her petticoat. like
little mice, stole in and out as if they
feared the light" wrote the poet two
hundred years ago. but he didn't refer to
the Lewiston young lady who did this
feat on foot, or he never would have
said 1T She was back in less than ten
minutes, red-cheeked and laughing.
There" said she, as she passed up
the boots. do them up. I'll send
them to my father down in Penobscot
County. never lose a chance to help
uae folks at home" and the shoe-dealer
was as good as his word, and ssdad'' mar
veled at the pair of nice wool boots from
ms shoughtful daughter in Lewiston
lewiston (Me.l Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
THE UPAS TREE.
1t Is Not Near So Poisonous as Has Beo0
Described.

1t Is Not Near So Poisonous Has Beo0
Described.
Perhaps more fabulous tales have beeH
told concerning poisonous qualities of
the death-dealing CD upas trees of Jave
than of any other tree which has an
actual existence. Accounts of this tree
were first given to the public by Dr.
Foersch, surgeon in the Dutch Eas4
India Company's employ in the latter
part of the eighteenth century. Foersch
published several extraordinary accounts
of this deadly upas," one in particulAH.
which appeared in book giving the ins
trepid NJ. DIS experience while exploe-
ing the islands of Java in 1888. In course
of his narrative he said that criminals
condemned to die were compelled to %
and gather its poisonous leaves, and
that not more than two out of each
twenty sent out on the journey ever 70
turned to tell the tale of how, overcome
by its deadly emanations, they had laid
themselves down to neveSa again awaken
The very birds that flew over the valley
in which this deadly vegetable monster
grew, according to this Haggard of the
eighteenth century, fell futtering into
the branches of the tree, only to die
among the poisonous foliage or upon che
relates how an army of 1, 900 men camped
one night about IA miles from where the
upas grew, and that only 800 answered
to the morning roll call, 1900 of them
having persisted during the night by the
wind changing and silently waiting the
deadly vapors over the sleeping multis
tude.
The facts in regard to the trees are
these: 1t grows in the forest with other
trees, and attains a height of about one
hundred feet. The juice of the bark is
somewhat poisonous to the human skin,
but not more SO than that of the poison
sumac. or even the three-leaved ivy. It
is evident that Foersch COMPOUNDED the
horrors of Deaths valley" another of
the natural curiosities of Java, with the
stories told of the upas tree.
The poison gases in the valley above
mentioned escapes from the ground, and
are not the emanations of any tree, faa-
ciful stories notwithstanding. - ST.
Louis Republic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
The SEVEN GUNS.

How tho Fail OF New Orleans Was Ar
nouneed to the Union Army.
Captain Mott, in his Sketches Of the
War, describes a scene which well IL
lustraees the intensity of feeling that
prevailed in the Union army during the
civil war. Doubtless this scene might
be matched over and over again. as tar
rs fervor is concerned, in the experiences
OF those who fought on the other side
Captain Mott and his First Sergeant
were busy preparing the muster-rolls of
his company one pleasant May morning
when suddenly the boom of a cannon
echoed from Fort Henry. What does
that mean?" exclaimed both men in the
same breath.
A week before this there had been =
rumor that Memphis was taken. and the
Colonel at the fort had sent US word that
if the rumor should prove true he would
fire seven guns on the next morn
ing. On the next morning, there
fore, all ears were on the alert,
but no seven guns were heard, and later
news was to the effect that Memphis had
not been taken, and could not be. No
| wonder, then, that we were somewhat
excited.
There w as an interval of silence, AID
| a second gun sounded A man near us
gave hurrah.
'sYou needn't hurrah,'' said another
| man, they've got four guns loaded
| down there, and are only firing them
| off"
A third gun was fired, and then a
fourth, and then every one asked: ''Win
there be another?"
A moment passed, and the fifth gun
| rang out.
The whole camp cheered, and every
man came out of'his tent.
''What can it be? Has any thing hap
pened?'
''No, nothing has happened They're
only practicing, or perhaps they're play
| ing trick on us
| Bang! went the sixth gun: and tho
sanguine among the men gave shouA
'Will there be another"
eyes"
| ssNo'
| 81 am sure there will -
| 81 am sure there won't"
| A silence-the pause seemed endless
surely five times as long as any that
had preceded. Every one held his breath
.sTherei 1 told you so. know it vas
nothing. Memphis can't be taken in .
month. There is nothing to fire abou<.
| You won't hear any more to-day"
BANG. went the seventh gun, louder
than all the rest put together
The men jumped upon logs and
wagons and cheered long and wildlyS
and some of the officers rushed for their
horses and ga1loped furiously toward
| the river. There were no more guns
| just seven. Something glorious anuSe
have happened
| An hour passed. Those who had tho
| fastest horses came back.
| ''Was it Memphis?'
''No, not Memphis-better than Me1ms
| phis-guess."
| No one could guess
| Its New Orleans, Farragut has
| taken New Orleansr'-Youth-s Come
panion-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
1889.
Soma CT the More Important 90
currences OF the Year.
Leading Political and Social Events
Deaths by Accident and Crime-Meteor-
illogical and NecroIogical-De-
structive Confiagrations
ETC.. Etc.
BUSINESS FAILURES.

BUSINESS FAILURES.
fHvoLvING AMOUNTS OF 100000 AND UPWARD,
AND BANKS GENERALITY
Jan. 3-Henry Werner, Wholesale dealer N
hides, New York; $500 GOO
Feb. 4Bank Of J. N. Knapp, Marquette,
Feb. s. Pc Guano Company. Boston,
pany, Columbus, o.: 10000
Feb; 2S-Wil1iam Bassett, Boston, builder;
Mar. Farmers and Mechanics Bank. Garlic
ton, Neb. 80 II. A. Gould g Co., dealers in rub
ber. etc, Boston; 100000
:. Mar 5;-Reading iron works, Reading, Pa.
Mar e-The willets Pottery Manufacturing
company MAP Trenton A. 4 s o. nor .o,s
Boston; $4,000.
Mar ao ,, Cummings & Co.. leather dealers,
Apr. 5-Downs s. Finch, shirt manufacturers,
New York City; 100000.
Apr. l1aeBillings Eaton, Wholesale leather,
Apr. 2o-Isaac Rich & Co., fish dealers, Bos-
May 17-Almy Wooden Manufacturing Com.
pany. Philadelphia; 100000
May SsISavings bank at Savannah, Mo
commission. New icrz A Gty sss 90; orS sooas
June Bank Of Omaha, Omaha, Neb.
june BsynG Ge Of Baek TgpeFa Kan
Paul Mimi. 100000.
Jug mobile (Ala.) Insurance Company.
July 5-Goodyear Rubber Boot and Shoe Com
pany, Providence, R. l.; 100000.
July JGJo ssno f. dSo Burton, iron king" Elk
oJuiy 2@Lewis Brothers Co., dry goods,
philadelphia; 100000,
July 2sIRichmond Paper Company, Provi-
July !. e. 4 a. q. Bstehsller, boot and shoe
Aug. Nv. F. johnson & Co., leather dealers,
Boston, Mass. $3.50, 900.
o. Asg RIWsau SSSa WOODEN Company Pr0vi-
Aug. al. II. Mailer Company. carriage
manufacturers, ST. Paul, MINI: 100000;
Mass Aas ely aa
Sept. RI. 8. Brookes, Bank. Lenox. la.
vile, KY; $4,000 ' > '0
Sept. as Bedford, Clarke s. Co., publishers,
Sept. ae-Pagensticher s Co., petroleum ex-
Oct 9W. A. Robinson & Co., oil dealers,
Oct. blessing, solomon Rosenthal,
Wholesale dry goods, Waco, Tex. 81 600, 600
Oct So-J. w. Powell private banker, Eos
Oct. ss-Abilene CKan) Bank; 100000
Oct 29IHeston & Esben wool dealers, Phil
Nov. s-wm. Trumbull 8 Co, New York
City, dry goods; $3.50, 900. j. b. Brown, whole
Nov. 13-Wm. F. johnson & Co., leather and
hides, Boston; $4,000.
Nov. 21-Iron firm of Long e. Co.; Pittsburgh
Pa. $4,000 Lawrence Bank, Pittsburgh.
Pa. 100000.
Nov: Sanger s. Wells, coffee dealers, New
York City; $780, 900.
Nov. 2B-Citizens' State Bank York, Neb.
Dec. 2-Miller & Rittenhouse Company, drugs
AND chemicals Philadelphia, Pa: 5000 =.
Lewis b. Cox g. Co., knit goods, Philadelphia,
Pa; $5OO,OOO
Dec 3EBank Of Hartland. Kan.
Dec. 7-Capital Loan 81 Investment Com
pany, Lincoln, Neb: S5,0 900.
Dec. 10-F'irst National Bank OF Abilene, Kan.
Dec. 14-C. ]. L. Meyer Sons & Co., wooden
mantels, etc, Chicago; S30o, Bank OF
Richfield, Kan.
Dec 16-Bank Of Gallatin, Gallatin, Tenn.
Dec 21-State Bank, Pawnee City, Neb. A.
Q. Preble Co., blank book and envelope manu-
facturers, SaugertieS Blank Book Co., New
York City, and j. B. Sheffield & Son. paper
manufacturers, Saugerties, N. Y; total liabili-
ties, 81, 100000.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

wounded himself; jealousy IN In a quarrel at
and killed two brothers named Cooper.
May 12-Moritz Blanc, Cincinnati, shot and
killed his wife, his seven-year-old daughter and
then himself; jealousy.
May 13-George Loomis Osceola, Wis, killed
ms G Ss Ward aen Memphis Tenn Ilea his
wife because she refused to live with him and
then took his own life.
insane murdered his wife with a razor and then
killed himself.
killed his wife and then took his own life;
domestic trouble. :. Robert Day, Loveland, O.,
while drunk killed his aged father and his
May I7-John Hengle, Newark N. J., fatally
stabbed Mrs. Scherzer and then killed himself;
May iIThree ofacers killed in riotous dis
turbance at the polls in Forest City, Ark.
had mysteriously disappeared over two weeks
before, found in catch basin in Chicago, the
May ssNFrank Compton, West Pittston, Pa,
cut his wife's throat and then his own: jealousy.
May e. Charles velte Grand Rapids Mich'
May 2S-Albert Wilson. Evansville, Ind, shot
his young wife, and then himself; jealousy;
fatally shot by burglar.
July SLR. D. johnson, Palouse City, w. T.,
sell, because, as he stated in q note, he did not
want to live in this sinful world - Charles
taiiv shnt his aaed mother and her Srsndson,
then fatally wounded himself.
July 12-August Rosenberg, Somerv1lle, Mass,
murdered his wife and two children.
July 21-Hiram Hoadley, Jr., Edgerton, O.,
killed his wife, her father and himself; domes-
tic trouble.
Aug. IMartin Burke, the Cronin suspect.
arrived at Chicago from Winnipeg in charge of
civil officers.
Aug. 14Ex-Judge David s. Terry shot and
killed by Deputy q. S. Marshal David Maggie 1t
Lathrop, Cal
Aug. 96-Stage attacked by highwayman be
tween Gogebic and Bessemer, Mich and two
passengers fatally shot. =. Four men killed and
many others wounded in q riot at Jardinevflle,
Ark.
Sept. 30-A. G. Poole. editor of tho Nemon
Q.a) News, and Sheriff Lee C. McAlpin fought
l q duel in which both were killed
Oct S1-Ffank J. Bowman, prominent lawyer,
shot and killed at Ferguson. no. by B. II
Chambers. ~ s.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

Nov. s-The murdered De. Cronin's clothes,
and case OF instruments found In Chicago
catch basin. An old quarrel between Colonel
A. N. Swope and Colonel w. G. Goodloe termi-
mated in desperate encounter at Lexington,
KY in which the former ~ stabbed to death
and the latter fatally shot
Nov. 16-Prosecution in Cronfn case, chicago,
rested it's case and the defense opened
Nov. 25.-Defense in CroEin case, Chicago
rested their case.
Nov Geo Clough, Rockland Me-, shot a
woman and her niece and then took his own
life: jealousy.
Nov Estates Attorney Lcngenecker be-
gan the opening address in the Cronin case
Chicago.
Dec casper Clipsey. St Louis, fatally shot
John Arson and his two daughters, because his
attentions upon one of the girls had been forbid
Cen
Dec is-Cronin murder case, Chicago. given
Dec. i6.After seventy hours deliberation jury
in Cronin murder case, Chicago, brought In yer
dict sentencing Burke O'Sullivan and Coughl1n
to Imprisonment for life, Kunze for three years
and acQuitting Beggs.
Dec 2ACharles SHEAR Niles, O., killed his
wife and three children and then himself;
Dec. 8EWiIliam Major, Mount Vernon, Mich,
killed his wife and daughter and daughter s
child and then himself; domestic troubles
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

June 1s-SCnday school excursion train
wrecked in collision near Armagh, Ireland and
osers many ee9 9 ah n
burning OF the city OF Suchow, China; 10000
June 14-Samoan treaty ofacially ratined at
Berlin
july, sworld,s sunday-school convention
opened in Parker Temple, London.
July 16-Town Of Chilapo. Mex, destroyed by
Aug. 3-Martin Burke, Cronin-murder sus-
pect, surrendered to the Chicago officers at Win
nipeg by the Canadian authorities.
Of Egypt rs and Of great loss Of lie By
floods in the Yellow river valley in China
shoog Throughout Greece one.Saf the city
Of Dubus, Russia destroyed by fire; thousands
Of people rendered homeless: 49,. ....,.
destroyed by floods Sixtyfo Scotch miners
imprisoned by an explosion in Midlothian col
Sep. "a dynamite explosion occurred in q
persons PEI s were killed aad over 500 njured~most
Of them being factory girls.
izsea and ies
people. :. A heavy fall OF snow did great dam
IN @anS Ra5s c Of noted novelist died
London, aged Is. Recent elections In France
resulted in triumph OF Repu blicans
resulted in further Republican victories. Bou-
LANCER and his followers being generally de-
Oct 12-village Of Serpent River, Ont, en-
tirely destroyed by fire-30O people homeless.
Oct. 14-In q rowing match the Thames,
Eng, Neil Matterson beat George Bubear by
eight lengths.
Oct 2OSNews received OF great destruction
by tidal wave on the coast of Japan; nearly
5000 lives lost and many towns swept away.
Oct 21-Cholera reported to be making
frightful ravages in the valleys OF the Tigris and
Euphrates.
Nov. e-Reports received at Zanzibar OF the
massacre by natives of DR.. Peters, the cele-
brated German explorer, and almost his entire
party.
peror Dom Pedro dethroned and ordered to
leave the country. Senior da Fonseca pro
claimed President of the new republic. -. M.
Floquet elected President OF the French Cham
Der Of Deputies.
Nov 21-Provisional Government of Brazil is
sued decree establishing universal suffrage
throughout the republic.
Nov. 29-Martin FarQuhar Upper, cele-
brated English author, died in London, aged 79.
Dec. 6-Explorer Stanley arrived at Zanzibar.
Dec. Pedro, ex-Emperor Of Brazil, arrived
ut Lisbon, Spain.
Dec. S-Henry E. Searle, champion oarsman
of the world, died at Melbourne, Australia.
Dec. 12-Robert Browning, poet. died at Lon
don, aged n.
Dec 26-Several houses destroyed by earth
quake at Aci Reale, Sicily, and many people
buried in ruins.
Dec. 27-Large number of deaths from in
fluenza in Paris and many fatal cases in other
European cities.