Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

s INe cotton operatives a6d factory ovSn-
ers of Bolton, England, arc engaged III .
dispute. which will probabIy end in . lock
out because the masters think bad w0rk
is being done.
CHRIsrMAs, 1885, will be long
in the United States for its many disasters
In addition4to the burning OF the steamer
John h Hanna at Plaquemine, La. by
Ericsson steamer was burned near Seattle,
Wash. T., with loss Of seven lives.
three skaters lost their lives at Lake VIII
iage, n. H, six pleasure seekers were
drowned In the. bay OF San
francisco the freight steamer Silver Star
was sunk off Bar Harbor, N. H., two train
men were killed in a wreck on the Midland
road at Lime creek, Col, the Olympic
Theater at Ashland, Wis. was burned,
Charles Stacker persisted in tenement
house ire at New York, seven young boys
were badly burned while firing toy cam
non at Augusta, Ga. half million dollars
was consumed in a fire at Cincinnati and
three nremen were injured. and Marble.
head, Mass, was almost entirely destroy
ed by a terrible confagration. In addi-
ton, there was quite list of minor fatali-
ties and disasters.
A CHANGE for the better has again oc-
E
noted British statesman.
SIGNOR MANcINI, formerly Italian Min.
lister OF Foreign Affairs, died recently, aged
seventy three.
A NUMBER Of Soudan dervishes have
arrived in Constantinople on a secret mis-
sion.
GENERAL LoRIs MELIKorF, the famous
Russian officer, died recently, aged sixty
four.
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agent of the Cincinnati, indianapolis. ST.
Louis & Chicago Railroad Company, the
big Four" will resign and go to
Chicago as traffic manager of the West
ern Indiana & Belt Line railway.
The British steamer Storm Queen has
foundered in the Bay of Biscay. Her cap
tain and five other persons were drowned.
HE second official inquiry into the cir
cumstances of the late alleged accident to
the Cars train at Borkia, has resulted in
ascrib!ng the disaster to crime and not to
accident.
BRUSSELS has been thrown into a fer
ment of excitement by the reception by
prominent people of cards and kilograms
announcing the advent in the quaint old
city OF the famous slack the Ripper" OF
Whitechapel notoriety. King Leopold.
the project of police and the court minis-
tiers are among the recipients of this mys-
CcIlOuS OeIuR' 5 Q0llCaC0 aCC0nGlOnS.
ALFRED VANCE, a noted London. music
hall singer, was seizsd the other night with
an attack of heart disease while ON the
stage, and died in a few minutes. He was
singing at the time the latest concert hall
song, entitled, "Are You Guilty?''
GLADSTONE decided not to visit Rome.
The Bulgarian budget shows deficit of
1900, 900 francs.
MEssRs. SHEEHY and Finnucane, Ma
tionalist members of the British Parlia-
ment have been summoned to answer to
the charge of melting tenants to adopt in
timidaion.
farewell banquet in honor of United
States Min ster and Mrs. Phelps January
"a.
A FALSE alarm of fire in the Berliner
Theater, Berlin, the other night, caused a
temporary panic, but no one was injured.
JUDGE LAMBERT TREE, the new United
States Minister to Russia, arrived in st.
Petersburg on the 9th.
SEVERAL shocks of earthquake were felt
on the 9th in Eastern and Southeastern
Spain.
THE American brigantine Josefa was
fined "A 900 by the Spanish authorities at
Porto Rico, because of a few packages of
corn starch being missing which were
marked on the manifest. The owners have
made complaint to Secretary Bayari. on
the ground that the fine was outra geous
for trivial mistake.
PRINCE KARAGEoRGEvITcH is dead. He
leaves q fortune to his brother, the pre-
tender of the Servian throne.
FINE cod fishing groun Is have been dis
covered off Queen Charlotts's islands,
British America.
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