Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-26
GENERAL

blizzard footed up a terrible list In Dar
kota alone $50 persons were frozen to death.
It was said that when reports were COM
pIete it would be shown that the blizzard
was the most fatal ever recorded
THE Albion coal mines AT Stellerton, n. s.,
owned by a Canadian American and Eng
Iish syndicate have again been wrecked by
explosions and are on fire. These mines
were the scene of the great explosion OF
$780, when foriy-five lives were lost. This
time four men were badly injured, and If
teen men, working in the Halifax pit when
the fire was discovered, had halr-breadth
escapes.
FIRE at Thompson's auction rooms, Mont
real on the 18th destroyed $4,000 worth
of property.
PREMIER TIRARD, of France, declares the
deficit of 20 Oo0 OOO francs is caused by the
bounty paid to sugar rehners-
THE steamer Toronto, Captain Bouchett,
from Portland. January for Liverpool,
arrived in the Mersey on the 18th. She re-
ported that during fog off Skerrier, Ire
land she collded with and sank the Nor
weglan bark Freidas, Captain Larsen, from
Liverpool for Savannah, and that thirteen
of the barli's crew were drowned. Only
on man was saved.
TIE Bulletin of the American Iron and
Steel Association, says the total produc-
ton of pig iron in the United States in 1887
III g.
largest in tue history of the country. The
next largest production was in 1886, when
5 CS3 329 gross tons were produced. Only
30l, 444 gross tons remained unsold In the
hands of the makers or their agents at the
close of December last.
The trial of Cunningham Graham, men,
Der of Parliament for Lanar1shire, and
Burns, the Socialist leader, for participa-
ton in the riots near Trafalgar square,
London, ended January Is, when the pris-
oners were declared not guilty OF the
charges of rioting and OF assault, but
guilty OF the charge of taking part In an
unlawful Assem- blage and both were SEN
fenced to SIX weeks Imprisonment without
hard labor.
ROBERT ORME, farmer living near
Lucan, Ont, was murdered and robbed by
unknown highwaymen recently.
THE new Manitoba Ministry headed by
Greenway took the oath of Office on the
18th.
TIE first of a new line of vessels to carry
petroleum alone from the United States 10
Europe has been launched ut Greenoch,
Scotland.
THE troubles among the miners in Bel
GUM are being renewed, hundreds striking
without notice.
The Crown Prince OF Germany is con-
fined to his rooms at San Reno by cold.
FATHER RYAN, on his release from i'm
prlSOn1nouO ilU was IStSlHSu WIN
immense enthusiasm. His speech was bel
| ligerent, spiritually and temporarily.
A CONVOY of prisoners while beng taken
from South Russia to the Caucasus recently
mutnied and attacked the engine driver.
The train was stopped and desperate
! fight ensued in which eight soldiers, two
| gen larmes and thirty-One prisoners were
| killed. Twenty-one prisoners escaped.
A CRISIS between France and Italy was
reported existing on the 10Th The French
Consul at Florence had placed his Official
| seal on certain Russian documents which
| the local authorities claimed they had a
| right to open. Paris newspapers demanded
| an apology for the alleged insult.
| S. C. KANADAY & Co., lumber dealers of
| Toronto. Ont, have failed with $4,000 liza
| bilIiies.
POLISH landowners are in despair over
estates. They complain that the Govern
ment avoids buying army supplies in Po-
land, preferring to buy elsewhere at en-
HANGED prices.
FOURTEEN Cinnamon were drowned re-
Gently by their boat upsetting while they
! were trying to smuggle themselves into
| this country from British Columbia.
TIE sanitary condition of the Russian
troops massed along the Galician borders
is reported to be bad, principally from
| typhus fever. Much privaton existed from
the cold weather.
| Four thousand workmen were engulfed
| recently while constructing a breakwater
| on the Hoang Ho, China, caused by sud
den rush Of water. Only a few escaped.