Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-23

; THE judiciary committee OF the Min
nesota house has reported the McHale
anti-tights bill back without recon-
mendation. The bill will go to the
foot of the general orders and will not
be reached at this session of the legis-
lature.
REGRET for the sale of his handsome
residence eau. 4 Enos ". Garrett, a
wealthy retired merchant of West
chester, Pa, to shoot himself dead
The complete official canvass of the
Chicago mayoralty election gives
Washburne, republican, a plurality
over Cregier, democrat, of 296. Some
districts remained subject to revision.
The Wisconsin house has indefinitely
postponed the bill reducing passenger
fares to cents a mile.
The body of William lines, buried at
Corunna, Ind, two years ago, has been
found to have been petrified.
The grand jury which is Investigate
ing the tragedy at the parish prison at
New Orleans has adjourned There is
no chance, therefore, of report for
some days
CASE of pleuro-pneumonia has been
discovered by the cattle inspectors at
Deptford, the landing place, near Lon
don, of cattle coming from abroad The
diseased animal was beast imported
from the United States
A FIRE at Little Rock, Ark.,-on the
night of the 18th destroyed $500, 900
worth of property, starting in the old
Grand opera house block, occupied by
Guy Blass & Co., dry goods
SECRETARY MOBILES order deferring
the time for fling on forfeited railroad
lands has Quoted the excitement that
prevailed at Ashland, Wis, and at least
1000 of the disappointed strangers have
left the city. The other thousands will
depart soon The postponement is in
definite.
A SHOCKING accident occurred on the
Lake Shore road at Kiplin station, 40
miles west of Cleveland, O., Six mail
clerks, two engineers and fireman
were killed Two passenger trains
were in collision.
| FIVE men, four Americans and one
Italian, were drowned in Laurel creek,
| near Addison, Webster county, w. Va.
They were crossing the swollen stream
on foot log, when its turned and all
| were precipitated into the water.
IN collision between passenger
trains near Vincennes, Ind, a tramp
jured and several passengers were
bruised
Two children of c. w. Fuller, of Mer-
rill, Wis, were crushed to death under
pile of boards recently.
RIOTS recommended in the coke re-
gions on the withdrawal of troops A
sheriff was seriously maltreated by
Hungarian women.
! TuE hovo froA 11y,oy, f1 q
British steamer Agnes, conveying the
Willoughby expedition, and seized the
cargo boats.
| CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April IS showed an average de-
crease of O5 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the decrease was %. 1.
The steamer Olympia, from Palermo,
has arrived at New Orleans with $50
Sicilians.
The jury found for the plaintiff in
the 81, 900 damage suit against the Lake
Erie & Western in the SUI instituted
by Frank Mayor, an Indianapolis trav-
cling salesman, elected from train for
refusing to pay ten cents over the regu-
lar fare because he did not have a
ticket
THE other night George Hardy and
Mrs. Grant Sells, a widow, went boat
riding on the canal at Indianapolis,
Ind. Their boat was overturned and
both drowned. Hardy leaves a wife
and one child.
At the Argentine silver mine, near
Aspen, Col, premature explosion oc-
CURED, killing Foreman Ed Reed,
Thomas Knebby and Jack Mahony,
miners, and seriously injuring Edward
Gileing and one other miner.
WALTER BLANEY, the condemned
murderer of Baltimore, Nd, who es
capped from Jail, was captured at his
| aunt's house.
Mrs. CATHERINE DoLAN, aged &c
years, was kicked to death by horse
on street corner in Lafayette, Ind.
THE deaths in Chicago the past week
numbered s41, against 655 the week be-
fore. Lung diseases were the cause Of
a large percentage.