Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-12

| WH1LE the Government lighter was
blowing up . schooner in the St Johns
river near Jacksonville. Fla. . can Of
dynamite exploded prematurely. tearing
! the lighter to pieces, killing R T. Moore.
son Of the captain, and . colored man
| named Powell and seriously injuring En-
gineer Dunn.
An explosion occurred in the ironstone
pit Of the Maurice Wood colliery at Mid
lothian, Scotland. recently. Sixty miners
were Imprisoned. Four dead bodies were
recovered and 1t was thought the others
were dead.
ATTORNEY GENKRAL Hoao. of Texas.
has instituted suit to declare SIG. O00, 900 Of
mortgage bonds issued by the Interna.
tioual & Great Northern Railroad Com.
papy null and void. It was alleged the
mortgaged bonds were really watered
stock and therefore illegal under the law.
BISHOP MCQUADE has accommodated
James Kelly and William Dempsey, prom
inent Catholics OF Waterloo. N. T., be-
cause they brought DR.. McGlynn there
to deliver a lecture upon Gather LAM
bert, a Priest Who Went to Rome, and
What He Got There" Both men belonged
to Father Lambert's old parish.
TIE employees of the Santa Fe, who
were affected by the 10 per cent. reduc-
ton last spring, have all along been look.
1A6 4OA q 40StOI0 tiOuS uutn tu0 I0C0uG
furry created by the resignation of Presi-
dent Strong. 1t has been given out from
official sources that a restoration would
not be made. but on the other hand that a
reduction of from 10 to % per cent il inn.
mnent.
THE reunion OF the blue and the gray
with Texas pioneers closed at Fort Worth
on the 9th with a grand ball.
CAPTAIN WISsMANN, with 400 men, has
oh oh ~
for killing Officer Nielsen, of the East
Africa Company.
THE British ship Winston, coal laden.
from Sydney to San Francisco, was
wrecked on Starbuck island about July IL.
The captain and eight of the crew were
missing, the rest being rescued.
ONLY fourteen Of the sixty imprisoned
miners at Midlothian, Scotland, succeeded
in escaping.
THE Douglass (Mass.) Axe Company
has failed. Affairs were in bad shape
with Dennison Dana, the treasurer, miss
ing.
THE London dock companies on the 9Th
agreed to consider a proposal for the six
penny rate to commence next January.
The strikers were advised to accept the
compromise and the trouble was probably
ended.
AT Rising Fawn (Ga. J furnaces recently
mature explosion of dynamite. The acci-
dent was the result Of the mems careless
ness.
FIRE broke out back of J. Forbes saloon
at Linkville. Ore, recently and in two
hours the whole business part of tho town
was in ashes The loss was about $3.50,
600. Ben Monroe was severely burned.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended September numbered
POI, compared with oil the previous week
year.
A TERRIBLE explosion of dynamite oc-
Cured in a cartridge factory at Antwerp,
ing loss of life and disastrous confiagra-
ton. 1t was estimated that 300 persons
were killed and 1000 wounded.
AT the meeting OF the board OF directors
of the Santa Fe railroad at Boston on the
9th, William b Strong handed in his res
ignation as president and director.
cancy.
The haste of a passenger brakeman at
the switch at Plymouth, O., to get to his
train caused him to turn the switch before
the last sleeper had entirely passed and it
was overturned and five persons were in.
iured.
LETTERS from stockmen in Northern
Wyoming say that the Big Horn mount
aims were ablaze and the loss from the
destruction of timber, ranches and other
property would reach $500, 000
CHARLES MOTT, who was injured on the
revenue steamer Fessenden during the
sham naval battle at Milwaukee, Wis, is
dead.