Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15


Frank and David Lewis were charged with
the murder. No cause was assigned
RUSH UNIvERsITY (colored( at Holly
Springs, Miss, was destroyed by IRE re-
Gently. The building cost $25,OO0.
A SPECIAL from Charleston. w Va, says
that General ID. H Strother, Port
Crayon," died at that place on the Sth.
GENERA1.
ALL railway traffic in Sweden and Den
mark was stopped on the 5th by heavy
snowfalls. Traffic on the lines in North
east Germany was also interrupted.
A CoNsTASTISoPLE dispatch says: In
accordance with the demands of Russia
the Porte has notified Prince Ferdinand
that his position in Bulgaria is illegal.
A DISPATCH from Tangier says that
Moorish officials there attacked the house
of an American protege, who fed The
other members of the family were violently
seized and taken away to prison and their
property declared forfeited.
COUNTS KARI. and Emanuel Bulsnas,
Brunn, Moravia. have been declared bank
rupt. Their liabilities are 900 600 forms,
half OF which sum is due TO usnrers.
REPRESENTATIVES.. OF the Ontario Salt
Manu- fac urers' Association were in Otta-
wa Ont, recently for the purpose OF urg-
ing the Canadian Government to grant
bounty Of 81 ton on all salt exported from
Canada
THE British Government prohibited the
proposed demonstration at Youghal, Ire
land, in commemoration of the death OF the
young fisherman, Hanlon. who was killed
by the police there year ago.
NEW Trade Mark bill has been presented
to the Austrian Reichsrath. 1t prohibits
the use of the National arms as trademark
and intlicts a penalty of six. months i'm
prisonment for infringement OF trade
mark.
THE Hungarian Government has decided
to remove the iron gate impediments to
navigation in the Danube, in accordance
with the Berlin treaty.
The passenger brakemen on the Fort
Wayne and Erie&Pittsburgh railroads have
been notified that their wages had been al
vanced 35 cents per trip, the increase to
date from the first of last month.
THE fire losses in the United States and
Canada during February, complied from
the records of the New York Daily Com
,nerciaE Bulletin, reached the enormous ag-
gregate of S31 213.5 500, or over S10,O0OOOO
above the average February loss for thir-
teen years.
THE shipment of freight by the subsi-
died Black Sea Ship Company (Russia)
has been suspended, and orders have been
given to Immediately fit out the steamers
for war purposes.
THE mystery surrounding the recent
visit of Count Herbert Bismarck to Dublin
has been cleared away by the announce
ment that he is betrothed to a relative of
the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Lieuten-
ant of Ireland.
ADvICEs from Victoria, B. C., state that
a man answering in every particular the
description of Tascott, the alleg d muir
derer of millionaire Smell in Chicago, has
been arrested there.
A SPECIAL from Winnipeg says: Dis
patches from the West show much uneasi-
ness among settlers along the Saskat-
chewan, owing to the restitution among
the half-breeds and Indians. ManyNof them
are on the verge of starvation.
OvERrUREs have been made by Canada
for the admission of New Foundland into
the Federal Union of the Dominion.
TwENTY-FoUR houses in the Cassim quar-
| ter of Constantinople were destroyed by
fire recently.
IT was telegraphed from Berlin on the
Sth that the aged Emperor Of Germany was
dead. Contradictions came later after
much confusion had been created. On the
| morning of the 9th it was again reported
| that he was dead.