Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1886-12-16


DIR. BARTH, the Liberal seaaeR es the tseFs
man Reichstag, was % she fi0os % che
House recently and gas cordially greeted
by Representatives He vita Co.'S Morrtsnns
Phelps, Long and others.
THE wEs2s
ABOUT twenty-five leading eisiGeas Of
Chicago, Marshall Field presiding, mes Pc
Gently and subscribed 81, 500, 09 90 baild
an opera house greatly oSceeding shs
usual size The idea is 30 pregide IA
auditorium m@e suitable eoF mational
gatherings than the oftenNse& Exposition
building.
The jury in the case of Paul @eoesEau,
charged with leading a riot in fiYv aakse
last spring, were unable to agree ana sers
discharged.
JUDGE GRESHAM, at Chicago, on the 7th
removed Scion Humphreys and Thomas
e. Tut from the receiverskspDf the Wa
bash railroad for misconduct. The Judge
severely censured the receivers, who vofs
accused of having acted in concerG with
Jay Gould, Dilson and Sage, but Who cale-
fully conc ealed the latter's namss.
+ OK the San Francisco Stock EscAangs
on the 9th r. Dinsmore & Ce., stock
brokers, assigned. Their Liabilities sggre--
gate 100000. JThree other Sailrres OF
stock brokers were announced during the
day, C.. F. Anderson suspeEdiEg With
Sl50,000 liabilities and nominGA osssss,
Fred +. Franks with liabili5ies 9seineeed
at $3.50 900 and F. p. Gray Gith urbno1n
liabilities and assets.
ions T. LESTER, the Chicago million eiaes
has agreed to pay the duties aud costs,
amounting to s1,D0O. and penalty OF
IS, 600 for undertaking a lot of imported
paintings.
REUBEN HILL and his three sons were
killed near Laporte, Ind, o& the Crane
Trunk road recently by train striking
their wagon as shey crossed the track
che dead bodies of three Indians who
persisted in the late storm have been found
near Ashland Mont. Several more Indi-
DOS are believed to be lost and to have NEE
the same fate. The dead Indians are sup
posed to belong % the Fort BertholS
agency.
Tia wine season in California, juss Oven
was the most favorable ever known.
A DANvILLE, ILL.,, special of the Sth says:
''One hundred and fifty colored miners at
Grape Creek struck yesterday, the super
| intendent having offered only sixty-fiEe
| cents per ton, powder and tools to be fur
nishad by them, or 50 with three and ao9le-
half tons output, powder free. &c Is e&-
The bank of Gold Hill, New, has sue
pended.
TIE Supreme Court o., Colorado has or
dered the disbarment of II. B. johnson and
l. A. Gteen of the Denver bar. A few days
ago they lodged a complaint in the United
States courts charging Judge Rodgers of
the Superior Court with haging received a
bride for having deciced against them in @
case which they were defending. Their
charges were not proven and hence the dis
barment.
A TIE up occurred on the Suffer street
railway lines, San Francisco, on the Sth.
The Strike wasS caused by the refusal of
the company TO comply with the demands
of the men for an increase from So 25 %
| $3.50 day. and the working hours de-
| creased from thirteen and half to twelve.
ROBERT GARRETT has been reelected pres,
| ident of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway
| Company.
THE Supreme Court of Kansas has CON
| frmed the sentence of Willie Baldwin, con-
victed of the murder of his sister.
SERIOUS riot broke out in Traverse
County, Mimi, recently, consequent upon
the removal of the county seat from
Browns Valley to Wheaton. q
THE SOUTH
| IT is reportedofrom Tascosa, Tex, that
extensive prairie fires prevail on The
| ranches twenty miles northwest Of CIar-
| endon, The burned district covers about
$500, 400 acres.
The steamboat ST. John dropped her
guards near q, Monroe, La, recently and
precipitated ], 600 bales of cotton into the
river. The cargo was recovered.
CoNIANDER-IN-CHIEFF AIRCHILD, of the
G. A. R. has issued an order relieving A.
E. Sholes7 of the position of odepartment
commander for Tennessee and Alabama,
and appointing Hon. H. R. Gibson, of
Knoxville.
CARDAzA 6 Co. dry goods, Richmond, Va,
have made sn assignment with liabilities
amounting to about 5000; assets Go
about $50. 900, akd preferences to $500
Two men were instantly killed recently
by an explosion of dynamite in the Back
bone tunnel of the Frisco road near Fort
Smith, Ark.
AT Denison, Tex, on the 9th the Missouri
Pacific switchmen walked out at the sound
of the whistle, on a strike, aSking $65 Ger
month for twentg -six days Of ten hours,
and extra time. Che strike caused a COM
plete blockade in the Dehison yards.
There were thirty strikers in all out