Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1886-12-09
THE EAST.

AN immense bituminotis coal pool is said
TO exist in the East for the purpose of put
ting prices up twenty-five to thirty per
cent.
Two hundred and sixty men were dis
charged from the department of construc-
tion and repair in the Brooklyn navy yard
ON the Both.
A LARGE schooner was reported ashore
on Milk Island, Mass, on the 1st laboring
heavily. Nothing was definitely known
about her.
THE other night two boys, both sons of
John Lee, aged five and six years respect
ivelv and son of Robert Pulitzer aged
six years, were drowned at Joy, q village
in Wayne County, N Y. They went on
che ice in mill pond and broke through.
THREE Hungarians, John Cobbalack,
John Werner and Andrew, Kasko, who
were lying in drunken sleep on the track
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
railroad near Pittston, Pa, the other even
ing, were struck by passenger train and
INSTANTLY killed.
GEORGE c. ELLIOTT & SoNs,. carriage
dealers, Providence, r. l., have assigned.
It was said that from SO, coo to $1,000 in
paper was out.
THE glass blowers in several New Jersey
factories have handed in their Knights of
Labor charters rather than strike against
the apprentice system.
The mystery of the Moen-Wilson case has
been lifted by Wilson avowing himself to
be the son of Moen, born a short time after
Moen was married to his mother
IN an interview at New York P. d. Ar
mour, the pork packer, said to the reporter
that the recent Packingtown strikes had
unsettled confidence. He wanted to in
crease his facilities but could secure no one
who would dare to lay brick on his prem
ises. He would be compelled to give it up
and extend his interests further West.
A GENERAL strike of the upholstery
weavers of Philadelphia took place ON the
1st. The manufacturers had announced
their intention of makingaa reduction in
wages.
PATRICK RILEY, William Mccarthy, Hugh
McGinty and Henry Niehause were terai-
bly, burned in the converting department
of the Edgar Thomas steel works at Brad
docks, Pa, the other morning by the acct
dental lowering of the converter
The New York Daily Commercial Bulletin
of December estimates the November fire
loss in the United States and Canada at
SO, 000 600, which is an increase of one
third upon the November average since
the Boston fire of 1872. There were $50
fires where the reported loss was $4,000
and over.
COMMISSIONER HALLET of the United
States Court at Boston, has refused to issue
warrant against Philip L. Moen for per-
jury, on the complaint of Levi Wilson. The
records of the town of Oxford, Mass, show
that Levi Wilson was born there on De-
cember l, 1858, eleven months after Mrs.
Moen died.
THE Opera House block at Brockton,
Mass, was on fire on the night of the I'd.
Loss, $500, 900; insurance not stated.
GEORGE SEAMAN and James Soldiers, aged
twelve and fourteen respectively, absented
themselves from school at Reading Pa,
the other day, and being afraid of punish
ment from their parents did not go home,
bet crawled between two hot ovens at the
Henry Clay furnace where they were suf-
located and burned to death.
- lTHE employees of the Philadelphia &
heading and the Jersey Central complain
of arbitrary and stringent rules forced up
n65h them by the management of the rail
geoAXte
,ardless THE WEST.
avINo the, trial of the May rioters at Mil
xaukee, Wis, a verdict was returned on
tie uR3tift finding Carl Mussfeldt, Johu
Rpunsseld August Gutz guilty and acquit-
ting the other six prisoners who took a
tMhhffHof paatpt III the riots. The three rioters
thmsdaHilty were among the leaders of the
ITqeefRe in tee ssptitcs with the police when an
cefRRc 9Sheoksfo Rem Ellsworth, loaded
syitaAe q 9ap9 @nahAl6 Of corn. went ashore ON
4HN dh ehp e9fSgJv xlaF 90 killed while trying to
THRGaferURaoE &do &eSanta Fe railroad
asks the. SytocIs cExca4aaka to list 5000 600