The Sterling Evening Republican from Sterling, Kansas • 4

A DAY'S DISASTERS. The Captain (pointing to an item he had written for iwiier) "Hee J. ALLEN PORTER, Skiles 4 Virslik here, Will, Uu't that a food one on Collision Between a Paasengor nd Tom?" Pulili.lwl Pally, ropt gumtay, WW "Yen, that'a good, Captain, ho fur mm Itgoe: hut where due the a Freight Train Near Olatha, Kan, LAMB, POWERS PRESCOTT. By 1 10 Dread vay Street. Heal Estate, Loan and Insurance kni luughcomeln?" Subscription cents per week.

4 Knai Mcrrliaut au Wife Drowned t- Is prepared to make Farm Loans at 6, 7, 8 or 9 per cent. Captain "Why, can't you nee how I combine the New York JfrruM, Trlt'tnw, fii, LouU (HobeI)rinotrut AtlfvrtUlnir Met iual know on apillratluti. -Fire at Macon, Boy Killed. lfil notices tenia Una eat'h Inaortlun ttiid Chicago Inter Vrrun with the Money ready at toon at papert are signed. I do my own Inspecting, CASH Dry Goods and Clothing' Emporium.

Kvkm.vu In making my Thn'liiy Rn-uinjr, August gSt Sy, hit' on ajObild Eftscu4-Httrrioan lo Franoe- Jnturuncti in gitml CumpunU-i at there urn in the World. Will "Oh, yea you are trying to Toar Personi Killed la Etc make Tom out a a regular Horace THE OITTIW BKIET. STERLING, KANSAS (ireeley, eh?" Captain "No, no you are not on i no watermelon trim win come on to It yet. Let me explain" tlm UwiniH again next Muntluy, Outhi, Ktn Ang. passenger train on the Port Buott road, due oer at a.

collided with a freight train Will "My dear Captain, I'm too Tho editor of th Hterllngr JiepuhW butty hint now. Call around aonie luoute mile tint awe oi yesieruaj moraine Tbo engines struck each otbar run uited to teach ticliool. Well, well, Wc arc Headquarters other time and I will hear your ex on straight track, and both wore pretty ill you ever? planatlou." badly demolished. Hoveral freight cart FAIR BROWN, DEALEHH IN Dry Goods and Groceries, K. K.

corner of It road way and Monroe. STERLING, KANSAS. wore ruined, aud tuo Daggaga ana man Captain "But don't you think It' J. If. Overman building roomy addition to IiIh dwelling Iiouho on cars on the passenger train wore tele tunny scoped.

It seems tbat the engineer of -KOH- Fourth street. Will "Yen, lt' very funny, and tho freight train received order at you're a funny man almost a funny this place to go to Leneia and moot tbo passenger train, and that Hut very little corn wan on the inar- an a funeral procetudon. flood morn ket to-day and prices ruled at 40 the paaaengor train received orders at lug, Captain." Uerriam to moat the freight train at Len wnta; wheat to 70. CLOTHING We are safe Ju Bayiiicr that (Captain "But nay hold on llo- exa. The engineer on the passenger train, ho-hn-ha-tee-he-ha-ah-ah." Tom Toobey, la one of the oldest ongiueers on the road, and still, from all the Informa uur uity Alaraimi writes uin name Lowderback, and lie certainly ought tion obtainable at present.

It teems tbat Maionic. to know how to spell It. the blame is laid to hint and the conductor Regular coinniunlcatlon of Sterling of the paaaengor train. If they know tbat froiKlit train was coming from Olatha W. Q.

Elliott Ih shipping one hun for the Fall anil Winter trade we can show the most complete line of Men's, Youths', Hoys' and Children's Suits dred hn.l nf fnt oatta Ux ifm.u- fi Lodge No.171, A. P. and A. thin when they were at Lenexa, a oolllalon wat I trw I a A. iiiovnaDie and tnev were eertainiy in lauit, to-day over the Banta Fe road (Thursday) evening.

Important bust' uess. Brethren In good standing fra at the station agent at tbat place tayt tbat the freight had orders to go to Lenexa. No water Louiuneeioner lOWUerottcK's ever offered to the trade in ternally iu vl ted. THIS BPACE RESERVED ran THE ST. JOHN MARSH COMPANY, The Leading Lombormrn In the Arkansas Valley.

four wheeled truck Is a dandy, and he one was burt, although many received a considerable shaking up. Tbe englneert llice and Heno counties. Wanted Immediately. ana Dave Fox handle It with ease, Owing to the close times and firemen jumped and escaped unlo jured. Four good girls to do hotel work.

Evening services will be resumed in we will make Will pay $15 per month. ROTO drowsed. the Congregational church next Bun- Minneapolis, Aug. 17. About nine C.

B. Donaldson mllet northeast of bore, about four o'clock day evening. Rev. J. M.

Green will It Is said that the snipe, plover aud preach. Special Prices to Cast) Buyers. prairie chickens ore so vicious tlds yesterday afternoon, M. H. Johnston, a member of the firm ef Ewart ft obnaton, engaged la a general store at this place, and his wife were drowned.

The couple left here in tbe morning for Lamar to get season, that the boys nave to shoot J. P. King has something new In the way of an ink bottle with a patent them at Bight in order to escape being top. It Is just the thing for use in some butter and egg from tbat point. bit by them.

schools. We will open in a few days Upon their return Pipe creek bad risen Wanted Cattle to feed for the win over tbo bridge ten or twelve feet ana One week from to-day the voters of Johnston not knowing tbe depth drove In and was swept down. Neither of the ter. Can take 100 head. Refer to Ost-horTBros.

Calvin Cank. lit D. J. FAIR, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Sterling township will be called upon to vote aid to the Midland Western Ranch 10 miles south of Sterling, bodies have been found. Johnston is a brother of Associate Jutttce W.

A. John railroad. 400 Overcoats, Ranging in price On and after Sunday, Aug. 28th, ston. "The devil rebuking sin" is applica 1887, there will be no work done in DESTnUCTIVI vires.

Macon, Aug. 17. At ten o'clock last IT JSL LB ble to the toilet sheet up the street, night Gordon ft Moores' agricultural im our shops on Sundays. Take due notice and govern yourselves according when Its editor talks of the morals of Sterling. From $2.50 to $20.

ly. J. B. Cummixqs, Charlie Waterman, who has been plement warehouse caught fire and burned fiercely and rapidly and none of the machines were saved. Wttb difficulty the Are was prevented from spreading to several large lumber yards on tbe west.

The lost will exceed 110,000. Tbe insurance on the building is 1,850 and on tbe goods 16,000. Sash, Doors, Blinds and Hardware, Barbed Wire and Fence Posts, frank waters, J. H. Elliott.

Sterling, Aug. 10, 1887. sick for two or three days, left for Larned last night for a few days' rest We want everybody to see Subscribe for the Weekly Bul- and motherly care. Building: Paper, Plaster Paris, letin. Only $1 per year.

Nails, Stone, and Coal. Paint, Glass and Cement. Another fire broke out at 11:40 o'clock, the Wabash Western freight depot being destroyed with a loss of botween 14,000 and our immense stock 01 Clothing. No one need buy if Watermelons are a drug in this mar ket, but notwithstanding this fact $3,000. The freight depot is a total loss and goods and prices are not as KANSAS.

STERLING, there were seventeen wagon loads fears are entertained for tbe Macon, eleva MARKET BEF0KT8L drain and Provision, ST. Loom Atiff. IT. tor, an immense building near it. represented.

bought by our merchants to-day. nor killed. Boonvillh, Aug. 17. Yesterday Floor Quiet and steady; XX, HAMILTON IRISH.

Rev. Blair, of Nebraska, an old W. M. QUIGLEY. XXX, morning at 7:80 o'clock, white the passen Wheat Lower; No.

red, cash, COUo; Au- schoolmate of J. C. Johnston, arrived in the city to-day, and will visit him bid September, TOfiQroXo; October, IRISH QUIGLEY, ger train on the Boonville branch of the Missouri Pacific was standing at Bunceton, 4 station in this county, the engine switching tome freight cars, one of the freight a day or two. They have not met Cork Lower. OUR Oats Slightly easier; cash, Au since 1805.

-Dealers in- gust, S4Mo; October, 5H85Jio. arm Nominal at C. B. Donaldson and wife returned Produob Butter, tlrro; ereamerv, BMfciMn: LUMDER bHU from Kansas City last night. The cars ran into a crowd of boys playing on a side track and tbe wheels poised over the hnrijrnf A I hurt, Dlrnn.

a hnv Sjon sraova old, cutting his body completely in two and causing instant doatb. The other boys escaped unhurt. dairy, 13323a Egg itcaay at 1UQ110. HARDWARE. Sterling, Kansas.

Provisions Pork. Irregular; new, iio.uu. Colonel Is looking first rate, and his Summe North jBroadway, Lard, lower; 16.85. Dry salt meat, boxed: wounded hand gives him but very lit bOOBS A Bit AVE BOT. Shoulders, 5.50; long clears, 17.75; clear ribs, 17.8708.00: short clears.

t8.S5S8.35. Hams tle trouble. Cincinnati, Aug. 17. Denny Wilcox, a SPECIALTIES steady at I12.00014.oa lad twelve years old, the ton of Dan Wil Fair Brown have beon selling Whisky Stead at 11.05.

ASH GROVE WHITE LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, HAIR, LINSEED OIL, PAINTS, Cattlx Steady: fair to choice heavy na cox, a life-saver and local oarsman on the Ohio river, was out in tbe middle of the tons of grapes the last week or two. tive steers. M.t04.75; butchers' steers, Must Go, Regardless of Cost. PICKETS, POSTS AND BARB FENCE WIRE. 3Branch Tarda at Alden, Kansas.

They ship lots of them down to Ohio late last evening with Lillie Beiner, a 04.00. Shiep Firmer; fair to prime, 1s.8s34.uu; Hutchinson and Nickerson, where lambs. t3.75S4.50. We must have the they find a ready sale for them. BOOB Steady; choice heavy and butchers' selections, I5.25S5.40; packing and porkers, child eight years old, when the steamer Guiding Star came along and made waves that capsized his boat and threw him and LiUle into the river.

He swam to Jier, cautioned her to keep quiet, seized her by the arm, and with one hand swam to the Ohio shore and saved himself and her. We will make special That cow problem in the Republican. room. prices Goods t5.005.80. is a good one.

In trying to solve it, on all bummer Dry CHICAGO, Aug. 11 FLona Quiet: winter wheat, 13.9034.85; FRANK WATERS, Proprietor The Forest City ShaVing Parte First door sooth of German Drag Store, Sterling, Kanaka, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Boots and Shoes. Ladies' Fine Shoes a Specialty. Under Opera House 8tsblino, ax as as. spring wheat, t3.404.15; spring patents H.00 A HURRICANB IN FBAN0B.

however, a man should never double on his tracks. Ed. Brown, a prominent cattle man, tells us so, and it 4.60. and Clothing. -We do not want to carry them over the season.

Bordeaux, Aug. 17. This city has been Wheat weak and heavy; No. spring. visited by a hurricane which destroyed an enormous amount of property.

Tbo storm Na 8 spring, Me; No. red, 71 a must be so. bid. CORN-Quiet; No. 8.

89tto. Oats Fraction lower; No. 2i'tWio. caused tho collision at Arcachon of two excursion trains, and several cars were wrecked and soventeen persons Injured. Jim Fuller was brought over from the Lyons jail yesterday on a RTB No.

1, 44c. The vineyards and crops in the track of the writ of habeas corpus, and had a hear Barlet No. nominal. Produce Butter, firm; creamery, aoaiOo BARGAINS McVAY KLINE, Dry Goods Groceries, Highest Cash Prices paid for all kinds of Country Produce. hurricane were ruined, and many sheep ing before His Honor, Judge Clark, HIGHE were killed.

dairy, 16323a Eggs, firm; fresh candled, 12Vi aiso. FOUR PERSONS KILLED. who fixed his bail at $500. At last accounts the prisoner had failed to Provisions Pork, mess, iib.uu. Lara, ns.su.

New Haven, Aug. 17. The New For the Next 30 Days Short rib sides, loose, 17.95. Boxed meats, Kansas, secure bondsmen. dry salted I6.09S5.70; short clear sides, boxed, I8.85a8.40.

Whisht Distillers' finished goods, 11.10. port express train leaving here et four p. m. yesterday for New York, struck a carriage at Five Mile river containing a man, two ladies and a boy, all of whom wet) killed. The names can not be learned from the railroad officials, who aro the only ones having knowledge of the particulars.

In the case of the State va Isaac Edwards, before 'Squire Johnston yes Price Market Cattle Steady to strong; shipping steers, I3.25S4.90; stookers and feeders, 11.7533.80. terday, the jury failed to agree. It Sheep Steady; native muttons, aa.aoian.au; western. I3.10S3.70; lambs, I4.OOS5.0O. will be a difficult matter to get an J.

P. KING, "Dealer In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware. Musical Merchandise, Curtains and Curtain Fixtures, Pictures, Wall Paper, Stationery, Etc. rOOLINO WITH POWDER. Hogs Slow and lower; rougn ana mixea, (4 du ODR HAT AN1) CAP Department Mexico, Aug.

17. Yesterday Guy S5.00; packing and shipping, I5.00S5.50. other Jury, we think, from the fact that so many people have expressed PAID FOR New Yohk. Aug. an opinion in regard to the merits of FLOUR Steady; patent Minnesota, extra Macfarlane, son of Judge Macfarlane, was playing with a pound of powder, when it exploded and his hair and clothing were burned off and he was badly injured about the face and breast, and it is thought, will lose his eyesight.

good to prime, choice to double the case. Sterling, Kansas. extra. I4.50a4.86. We would state for the benefit of I Wheat Weak; no.

sumcago, tohoi no. 1 J.RINNER, hard, 84o; ungraded spring, 7880V4o; ungraded red, 78J481J4o; No. 8 red, 7878tfo; No. 2 red, HO'to; August, 8080os September, 80V4 BUTTER the Lyons Democrat that the four buildings mentioned by us as going Is crowded with New and Nobby Fall Styles, and prices very low, THE CHATSWORTH CALAMITY. 81 -l(io; October, rlarlwaro flnno gnrl Ammunition up on South Broadway were all Cuxiedness of the Railroad Employes the CORN Moderately active; ungraded, started in one day.

There were five Primary Cause of the Accident. 49to; No. 2, 47XS480-, September, 47XS484; October. 48K49c; November, new ones started here yesterday, and Chatswokth, 111., Aug. 17i Disobedience uunuiu) uuno uiiu niiiniuiimuiij Man-faoturer of TINWASE and Dealer in Oats Mixed, firm; white, lower; mixed west AT many more under contract.

Come ern, 81'38o; white western, 3S3410. andobtuseness were primary causes of the slaughter at Davis' crossing on Thursday morning. Had Section Foreman Coughlln obeyed tho spirit of the letter of Instruc Produce Butter, firm; western, lUffi'-'S'ic; over and see us. Bootsi Shoes. o3 STOVSj, STOVE FKCTJBES, ETO.

western creamerv, 1825HC Eggs, quiet; western, lOSlGVio. Rev. M. J. and Mrs.

Morse, with tions he received from his superior omcer, Provisions Pork, steady. Mess, iia.uuo their daughter and her husband, Mr. 15.25 for old, tl5.50S16.00 for new; family mess, SHAY'S and had some of the men, one of them in particular, who saw lights on tbe Vpnirlngr none Neatly, Robert Embree, were in the city yes tl7.00. Cut meats unchanged and dull; pickled A railroad track for an hour Wednesday. shoulders, 6S6H0; pickled bams, 12S12c; We are IVon Broadway, three doors sonth of terday visiting friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Morse are taking a few week's vacation from their labors at Carbondale. green hams, 9HS9Kc Lard, lower; western steam spot, I6.87M city steam, tS.65. Postoffloe.

Our stock is full, closing them out At Cost. STERLING, KANSAS Cattle Easier for dressed beef at f6.257.5u night, exerted themselves to the extent o( a two mile ride on a hand car, the catastrophe would never have occurred. These were the primary facts developed by the coi-onor's jury, which for seven long for native sides and at t5.30S6.00 for Texas do. Mr. Morse thinks he will return to J.

C. TURNER, Sheep Quiet and steady for sheep at W1.25S Sterling next spring. 6.00; dull for lambs at S4.5O7.50. ntinental Hotel, Transcj hours yesterday examined witness aftei -Daaler In- Boas steady for live nogs at t.i..w(ffio.v.i. Cash Elliott, one of our old pupils, o.

b. a Kansas City, Aug. 17. NALDS0N, Proper. Hardware, Stoves, brougnc in I3 melons yesterday even Flour Quiet and steady; XX, 75o; XXX that were beauties.

He remem Our Racket Counter witness in its endeavor to secure some light regarding the cause which led to the disaster. The inquiry took place in the public school building, and here the farmei jury developed facts and elicited dotails in a style which would have been creditable to a jury composed of experienced mem 85S90O; family, tl.00Sl.luo; ohoice, tl.80S1.40c; Uirst-Class Mall lesDects. Ramnlo- bered us with one that was first class. Sterling Republican. fanoy, ll.JSOffll.Me; extra rancy, si.tMuu.uoo; patent, ll.90S2.00o; rye, ll.30S1.50c.

Farm Implements," iwuib hi commercial men. STERLING KANSAS. We were well aware that Ulmer WHEAT Bieoay no. son winter, odd urn, Sterling. Kansas.

Is full of Bargains. 66c asked, cash. dabbled in everything going, but CORN Weak and lower; No. cash, E. O.

CALLOWAY, never' knew that he taught school. Headquarters for Farm Wagons, Pumps, August, 84Ko bid, 84Hc asked; September, 34X0 bid, 85o asked; October, 35c; the year, asked; Hay, 38c No. 8 white, cash, 38c bid, 89c Was Cash a pupil of yours back in Samples at Wholesale Prices. House and Carriage Painter. Hose, Lawn Mowers, Etc.

Main, or Massachusetts asked; August, 37HO bid. Oats No. August, 3o ma. Paper Hanging- and Ualaomlilna; Remove the filth from Broadway. RTE No bids nor offerings.

The Largest and Best Assortment Produce Butter, scaroe; creamery, fanoy, jcepuoiwan. Specialties. 86-4w Sterling, Kansas or casoiine stoves in ine S4S25o; good, 203220; fine dairy, 20c; store Do not do it, Ulmer. It would be Trunks, Valises! Satchels. packed, choloe, 14O180.

Kgga, nrm at iuo. suicidal besides, the poor fellow does Provisions Hams, izc: Dreamast oacon. bers of the bar. A large number of wit nouses testified. Several residents ol Piper City saw a light burning on the track towards Chats worth on the night ol the accident, but mode no efforts to Investigate the cause.

Some of them thought it was the headlight of a locomotive. Joseph Morris, a farmer, living half a mile south of the culvert, Bwore that he saw two 01 three of the section men firing the grass In close proximity to the bridge jus! before dark on Wednesday. After dark he saw a blaze in thai direction big enough to make him think that a building wbb on fire. Thit testimony was corroborated by anothet farmer, and is in contradiction to the testimony of Coughlin, which was to the effect that no fire had been lighted near the bridge. After the witnesses were dismissed the jury held a secret consultation.

UHo; dried beef, 13c; mess pork, 115.00; tleroe OSTHOPP EEOsJ Proprietors of The 10 Cent Store the best he can for you. Let him walk on Broadway yet a little while. lard. W.37M: dear rib sides, smoaeo, sti.45; A full line and at. Bottom long clear, 18.35; shoulders, K.25; short clear, 18.75.

iPrices. The City Meat Market. It would be "cruelty to animals" to confine him to the back alleys. Shame Has Just received tbe cheapest lot of GLASSWARE Cattle In heavy receipt but Arm; cows, tl.50S2.40: butchers, I3.00S3.85; shippers, 13.60 S4.40. Fresh and Salt Meats alwavs on hand.

Cash Ever brought to the city. Lsmps of all styles. 1 Une of paid for Hides, Tallow and Furs. at lowest prices, juao, iui Sheep Quiet; sales at 11.5uas.5u. Ladiks' and Gents' Hobikby, Boos Lower; choice heavies sold from 46.85 upon you, to thus treat your reporter, who has done so much to relieve you of a portion of the odium attaching to your toilet sheet.

Fresh Vegetables Every Day. liANDKKBCIIIKFn SUU flul iuss. North room, Walton Honse. S5.45; mixed and packers, I5.10S5.30; pigs and light weights, t3.2535.05. Broadway, Sterling, Kansas.

123 Broadway.