Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-16

Washlr gton of pneumonia.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MILLER is con-
hne'l to his residence by sickness
AT a meeting in Washington recently
a national association of inventors was
formed. DIR. Calling, the inventor, was
chosen president, and Gardner r. Hub
bard, of Washington; Prof. William A.
Anthony, president of the American in
stitute of engineers; Thomas Shaw, of
Philadelphia, and Hon. Benjamin But
terworth, of Ohio, were elected vice
presidents.
SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont, depre-
Gates reciprocity with Canada.
THE EAST.
WILLIAM HARSH, the Iowa cattle
dealer who disappeared suddenly from
chicago February Ii, has written from
Beverly, Mass, that he has been there
ever since enjoying himself
AN official copy of the Newfoundland
ipalt ach has been received at Gloucester,
Mass, and read with great satisfaction
Dy the fishermen and all interested.
!, ON the day previous to his execution
at Somerset, Pa, Dave Nicely made a
confession that he was present at the
time Umberger was killed, but that he
had not fred the fatal shot. Dave said
that he had fired his revolver at the air
IN order to brighten the old farmer He
did not say who it was that had killed
the old gentleman.
IHE morocco workers strike at LYNN,
Mass, is ended. 1t has lasted since
last August One thousand men were
affected and it was total failure.
1 HE overseers of Harvard college have
voted against shortening the course of
study.
Gus PHILLIPS, the old time comedian,
better known as ''Oofty Gooft," has
been taken to ST. Vincents hospital at
New York suffering with Bright's dis
ease and asthma His condition was
critical
REV. LUTHHR II. GULIcK, for nearly
forty years a missionary in foreign
lands, died at Springfield, Mass. He
was the son of the pioneer missionary
TO the Sandwich Islands, Rev. Peter j.
Gulick.
CHARLES B. SEDUCTION, pension
agent, has been fined $500 at New York
for violating the pension laws in that
he charged soldiers widow $1,000 for
obtal,iing pension for her of $4,000.
Inc law provides that only fee of $50
shall be charged.
u Z, O.
Meader, author of the ''Canuck" and
other notable pieces, died at New York
of pneumonia.
The Central hotel, London, Conn.
was destroyed by fire, and Michael
Daily. aged 20, lost his life.
The expert who has been examining
the books of the Boston Water Power
Co. finds that there was an over issue of
tabout $1,000 shares of stock, most of
which is eight or ten years old
CAPT. LoAR and his deputies have
been arrested charged with murder in
the recent slaughter at the Moore wood
coke works,
IHE ship Dryden, from Rio Janeiro,
Is In quarantine at New York with vel
low fever on board. The number of
cases has not yet been made known.
J THE Washington national bank of
New York City is to go into voluntary
liquidation.
THREE children of David Carroll died
suddenly at Greensburg, Pa, and I'M
DER suspicious circumstances An in
quest was held, when it was discovered
poison had been given them. The other
children were at the point of death
carroll has only been married a few
months to the mother of the children.
ANNA DICKINSON has left New York
Tor Goshen, N. V, where she will un-
dergo medical treatment.
/, Mrs. ANNIE BEsANT, the English
theosophist, socialist and philanthropist
author of Fruits of Philosophy and
sco-worker with the late Charles Brad
Laugh, has arrived at New York.
The New York Tribune celebrated it's
hftieth anniversary on the 10th.
SOME dozen or more children who had
been playing in a vacant lot at Dubois,
pa, found wild parsnip roots and ate
them in mistake for the true vegetable
Two of the August Weigelman and of
j. M. Boriger children died in terrible
commissions and several others were
suffering.
\ FUNERALS resulting from deaths by
grippe were SO many in Brooklyn on
the 12th that though all the hearses in
that city were busy, some making two
trips, there was not enough and sup
ply from New York was called for.
DR. EBEN ToURJEE, who founded and
was for many years the director of the
New England conservatory of music at
Boston, died recently.
FOUR Italians were boat riding on
Miller's river at Orange, Mass, when
they came too near the rapids near the
sewing machine company's works.
They were swept over the dam and
drowned.
THE WEST.
By a runaway in Chicago C. E. Isley,
representative of an iron company, was
killed and Harry Randall badly injured.
BY the explosion of can of coal oil
used to light fire Myrtle and Lottie
Lumry, small children. of Plattesville,
Col, were burned to death. Myrtle,
though dying, saved her baby sister.
THE United States cruiser San Fran
cisco has sailed for Valparaiso, Chilli,
FROM San Francisco