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GREAT BEND, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1889. GENERAL KANSAS STATE NEWS. DESTRUCTION. J. & H. TAYLOR, dealers in railway and agineering supplies, Montreal, Can., have THE Clay County Bank. at Clay Center, ssigned with $135,000 liabilities. the oldest in the Republican valley, Kansas Visited By Winds THE Lord Provost of Edinburgh has deowned by John Higginbotham, of Toined to officiate the conferring of the Floods, peka, and managed by H. G. Higeedom of the city to Mr. Parnell in July. ginbotham, closed its doors the other NEWS has been received of the death morning. The liabilities are $102,000; asom fever of M. Goudry, inspector of the Serious Loss of Life-Uniontown, sets unknown. ongo Free State on the river Congo. He Fort Scott, Destroyed-Wainut RI E. L. CHAPMAN has been appointed reas one of the ablest officers of the Govceiver of the land-office at Larned. Over Its in the rmment and his loss is a serious one to SURGEONS have extracted the ball from East-Etc. he State. the body of Mrs. Rodgers, of Topeka, who RUSSIA, Germany and Austria have adby the burglar Oliphant, at the ised Switzerland to deal more severely time her husband was murdered, and the FORT SCOTT. Kan., June 17.-A ith Anarchists and Socialists. lady will recover. has reached here that a cyclone SOME unknown person threw a missile THE fifth session of the Kansas ChauUniontown Saturday night, leaving Mr. Gladstone while he was traveling tauqua Assembly will be held at Oakland and destruction in its wake. a Cornwall recently. It missed its mark. sible to obtain definite information Park, Topeka, June 25 to July inclusive. THERE was a report current on the 13th One of the handsomest amphitheaters in the wires on both sides of the place at Hippolyte had totally defeated Legithe West is in course of erection; other down and it is matter of doubt wh me Hayti and had captured Port au buildings are going up also alarge boardit was a cyclone or a cloudburst. It rice. Legitime had sought the Ameriing hall, with bakery, etc., attached and ported that two women and four chi an Consul for protection. two two-story lunch houses have been were drowned, but their names can THE Canadian order of Odd Fellows has finished. The grove is large, the acascertained. Houses were blown oted down a motion to admit colored commodations to handle large crowds of f property greatly damaged and b full membership. people are ample. Prominent workers that many more lives are lost than A PLUG tobacco trust is the latest scheme from various parts of the country will be been reported. ported. present All roads will give reduced The country about Uniontown is th strike of seamen is reported to have rates. Particulars can be learned by adsettled and the latest reports are the tended to Antwerp. dressing the secretary, L. A. Rudisill, loss of life will far exceed any pr THE crew of the Russian schooner David Topeka. estimates. The whole country as been landed at outhampton, England. IT is stated that a $23.000 bank robbery to have been flooded. Traffic he schooner was sunk by a collision with occurred in Atchison in September last P been suspended on the Missouri e North German Lloyd steamer Trave. which has been kept a profound secret and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas. BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the until the other day. During that month possible aid is being rendered the s even days ended June 13 numbered 250. two men drove up in buggy to the First ers. A heavy rain and wind storm P ompared with 225 the previous week and National Bank. It was about noon and over this section Saturday night and 32 the corresponding week of last year. one man alighted and entering the place c terday morning but owing to the AT a public meeting in Cork, Ireland, to told the cashier, who was alone, that tion of the wires little information c xpress sympathy for the sufferers of the man wanted to see him outside. While obtained. onemaugh valley, after some warmthe cashier was gone the stranger went In this city there was much dama earted speeches had been made, a subbehind the counter and picked up bonds property but no lives were lost. cription was opened and in a few minutes and money to the value of $23,000. The of the city known as Belletown, was 1,250 was contributed. bank kept the matter quiet with view to pletely wiped out and many houses THE Samoan agreement was signed by recovering the securities, which it is carried off by the high waters of the he three powers at Berlin the 14th. The learned they did last March. The bonds maton. The immense dam above th ontents were not published. were handed over in Denver by a go-bebroke early yesterday and the THE short session of the Mexican Contween. The amount of cash taken was rushed down Wall street to the dep ress adjourned on the 14th to meet again small several feet, flooding cellars and ca optember 15. THE body of Oliphant, the Topeka burgreat consternation. People were YELLOW fever has made its appearance glar and murderer who was lynched, was out of houses in wagons, and in Bell Vera Cruz, Mexico. t stolen from the grave and spirited away, many of the residents were forced to THE Hawaiian Government has sent but no one seemed to know or tried to find their dwellings in skiffs to escape apitalist of Honolulu to the United out by whom. The theft was said "not to Uniontown is situated on the Wich tates to endeavor to secure the formation be in the interest of science." o Western railroad in the valley C a company to lay a cable between San A LATE fire destroyed eleven business Marmaton, fifteen miles from Fort rancisco and Honolulu. houses at Syracuse. It was organized as a town in 186 LETTERS received from Ujiji, dated THE seventh annual meeting of the though a post-office had been estab Iarch 10, say that Stanley met Tippoo Kansas State Temperance Union will be there in 1862. About six years a ib and sent a number of sick followers held at the tabernacle in Forest Park, Ottown contained eight general store ack with him by way of the Congo tawa Thursday, June 20, opening at five hotels, a lumber yard, a livery sta tanley intended coming to east coast o'clock p. m. mill and had a population of about ith Emin Pasha The two should arrive THE Railroad Commissioners have reaf It has grown considerably, however, h Zanzibar in July. then. firmed their decision ordering reduced THE roof of the Merced market, in the WALNUT RIVER FLOODS. freight rates for the city of Wichita on ity of Mexico, fell in the other day, killAUGUSTA. Kan., 17.-Parties merchandise and manufactured articles. g nearly twenty persons. north of here on the Walnut river The reduction is equal to about twenty THE Prixd Paris was won by Vasistras, to town yesterday and reported the per cent. and establishes the same rate for ortent second, Aerolite third. out of its banks and some places Wichita as given Missouri river points. FORTY-SIX just been exrounded by water. They procured a THE other morning Dr. Stewart, elled at Warsaw. Most of them were boats and returned. prominent physician of Clay Center, shot ermans and Austrians. Two Americans The river here at that time was no and killed J.P. Wellington, of Wichita, ere among the expelled. usually high, but as the parties rep drummer for St. Louis millinery house THE water in the Rhone has overflowed the high water above came only Wellington had become offensively attentis banks in some places in France, floodfive miles it was thought it would ra ive to Dr. Stewart's married daughter, g the adjacent country and doing much a dangerous point here. In a short causing a separation from her husband, amage. it commenced rising about five fe boasted of his exploits in breaking up THE French Government has fixed the hour, and finally began to back up families, and his attentions to women had eneral elections for September 22. Seclow places. Soon it broke over the caused his own wife to get divorce. Dr. nd ballots will be held on October 6. about one mile northeast of tow Stewart had ordered Wellington to keep THE Chicago & Alton has given notice came with such rush that the peo away from his house, but he persisted in f withdrawal from the Inter-State Railthe lower part of town barely had t his attentions to the daughter. The result ay Association to take effect July 15. escape from their houses, leaving was that when the doctor met him in the CLEARING house returns for the week b household effects behind. Many street in Clay Center an altercation took nded June 15 showed an average increase wade through water waist deep. place and Wellington was shot. 17.9. In New York the increase was While only a few buildings in town BY the spreading of the rails south of 1.5 been taken out there are about se Strong City the other day a Rock Island A REV. MR. TOWNSEND and six other five houses in water from four to te mixed train was ditched and Fireman ormer clergymen of the Anglican Church deep, which will cause great loss in Ricard killed. vere received recently into the Roman case and many thousands of acres of THE sheriff of Saline County, Mo. was Catholic Church by Cardinal Manning. and other crops are totally dest in the other day and arwhile the number of cattle, hog THREE of Captain Wissmann's steamers rested W. E. Howard, alias S. E. Hardin, horses lost will run into the thousan re reported to have been lost on the charged with bigamy. He has a wife in Two iron and one wooden bridge Benardir coast. German men of war have Marshall, Mo., and is said to have two one in search of the missing vessels. gone out and the Augusta water other wives. have been swept away. The mate THE Paris Temps says that Germany is THE twenty-first commencement of the the Santa Fe Company's yards float reating with Belgium in regard to the Agricultural College at Manhattan was and the Santa Fe depot had to be aying of a cable from Ostend to Portattended by 1,200 people. The graduating doned. and, Me., in order to render those class numbered twenty-five- largest The passenger train on the San ountries independent of the English yet. The past year was highly successful. line got here and could get no furth able companies. The annual address was given by Judge return by its own tracks and was THE Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch, McFarland, of Topeka, on The Realm of Wichita over the 'Frisco track, bu f Russia, was married to Princess Alex Doubt." 'Frisco trains will be unable to get ndra, of Greece, on the 16th. IN the case of Dr. Stewart, who rehere for several hours. Superinte cently shot the commercial drummer Wentworth is here attending to affa THE LATEST. Wellington at Clay Center, the coroner's person, which ensures the early m MARTINSBURG, W. Va., June very jury returned a verdict to the effect that of trains. eavy storm passed over the southwestthe killing was justifiable, having been The damage to crops, stock and rn part of Berkeley County yesterday done in defense of his own life and of his property is estimated at from $50, morning, a terrific gale of wind that did family. $60,000. reat damage being followed by a terrible H. RIZER has tendered his resignation Mrs. Graham and child were dro hunder storm and this by a heavy hail. as secretary of the State Board of Railroad and many others are unaccounte he hailstones lay in some places three or Commissioners, to take effect July 1, to north of here. Some in tree our inches deep. Crops and trees are accept the position of disbursing agent of on housetops surrounded by water, uined. Live-stock was badly bruised and the United States Geological Survey for on account of the scarcity of boats, n some instances killed. Several houses the district lying between the Missouri not been reached yet. In some inst nd barns were wrecked by the wind. No river and the Pacific ocean. rafts were constructed, but owing t loss of life has yet been reported. Owing THE directors of the Kansas Fair Assostrong current they were of no avai o the lateness of the hour at which the ciation have decided to hold the State fair STORM IN WEST VIRGINIA torm occurred, details are meager. at Topeka, $10,000 having been guaranteed MARTINSBURG, W. Va., June LIGONIER, Ind., June 17.-A cyclone by business men of Topeka any heavy storm passed over the south assed through this town yesterday afterdeficiency that might arise. It will be held ern part of Berkeley County yest oon tearing down shade trees and unthe last week in September. morning, a terrific gale of wind tha THE Lawrence canning factory has reoofing houses along its path. The fine great damage being followed by te rick dwelling of M. Betts was nearly suined operations and is at present giving thunder storm and this by a heavy estroyed and the new residence of W. E. employment to about four hundred hands The stones lay in some places th -men, women and children. Harding is a total wreck. The Ligonier four inches deep. Crops and tree Hotel and a number of other buildings THE State Auditor recently issued warruined. Live-stock was badly bruise were unroofed. The bridge across the rants the treasurer of the State Board in some instances killed. Several h Elkhart river was blown down and hunof Charities for the following amounts and barns were wrecked by the win reds of shade trees, fences, etc., were ded and purposes, being current expenses for loss of life has yet been reported. troyed. The loss will be heavy. the month of May Blind asylum. $1,to the lateness of the hour at whi SOUTH OKLAHOMA, I. T., June 17.-Po407.03; deaf and dumb asylum, $2,791.09; storm occurred, details are meager. iceman Hart went to the mayor's office insane asylum, Topeka, $7,971.31; insane CYCLONE IN INDIANA. cy LIGONIER, Ind., June 17.-A esterday afternoon and began abusing asylum, Osawatomie, $6,158.27; asylum idiotic and imbecile youths $2,019.52: Mayor Fagan. He was locked up by Marpassed through this town yesterday hal McKee and Policeman Howard, after soldiers' orphans' home, $1,422.62 indusnoon tearing down shade trees an trial school for girls, Beloit, $357.90; redesperate resistance. When McKee and roofing houses along its path. Th school, $1,958.67. Howard returned to the mayor's office, brick dwelling of M. Betts was THE Odd Fellow lodges of Kansas have Policeman Mattox, a friend of Hart's destroyed and the new residence of contributed over $500 to members of the Harding is a total wreck. The Li pened fire on them with a Winchester order in Johnstown and vicinity rendered Hotel and a number of other buil nd McKee was slightly wounded in the were unroofed. The bridge acros needy by the late flood. bdomen, and Howard seriously in the was blown down and THE sheriff of Shawnee County has ips. After he was wounded Howar shot fattox through the lungs, fatally woundceived letter from the uncle of the burgdreds of shade trees, fences, etc., we ng him. stroyed. The loss will be heavy. lar and murderer, Oliphant, recently FIRES. FOREST Bynched at Topeka, stating mother MOBILE, Ala., June 16.-At Marion ELLENSBURG, Wash. T. June Junction, Dallas County, in this State, K. of Oliphant was so shocked at the crime forest fires on the east side of the Ca and fate of her son that she has become inP. Stevens, a section man, walked up to mountains have destroyed vast quan L G. Segnor, a conductor on the Mobile sane. The Oliphant family is said to be of timber. Strong winds prevail an c Birmingham railway, and saying: an old and h ghly respected family of InP fire is extending. The Northern 'You've ruined my life and now diana and closely related by blood to exline and bridges are in danger. Governor Porter, at present Minister to Yours," fired six times with a revolver, MOTHER AND CHILD BURNED. ach builet m aking a wound. Then he Italy. The Topeka murderer seems to BALTIMORE, Md., June 17.-Mrs. hrust the still smoking pistol barrel into have been the only black sheep in the beth Tyler, aged twenty-five years family flock. he holes made by the bullets and finally her baby, Benjamin Harrison Tyler, eat Segnor's head to a jelly with the butt AT Frontenac the other evening Willburned to death last night by the f the weapon. Segnor's body was brought iam Larkin, a mine driver, while making sion of a coal oil lamp at their hor ere for interment. his last trip, fel: under the cars and was in Anne Arundel Count
