Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-10

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ter. Nellie, and seriously wounded Henry
Blumer.
| THE United States District Court in
| Texas has sustained tho Contract Labor
law in proceedin es instituted against the
Rio Grande & Eagle Pass railroad for
bringing in Mexicans to work. The de-
PENDANTS were fined s., 900 for each work
man imp
| THREE Mormon elders who had been
working in Wilson County. Tenn, have
been driven away by Whitecaps
GENERAL
| THE trial of the Earl of Galloway, who
| is charged with having criminally as
saulted several children, has been fixed
| for October Il 1t will take place before
| q Scotch court K
| IT was lately reported that General
Boulanger would leave London and take
up his residence in the Isle of Jersey be-
| cause of his desire to reduce his expense5.
the persons who had been furnishing
| him with financial support refusing to
continue to supply him with money.
A TELEGRAM from the City of Mexico
said that the State of chihuahua was
financially embarrassed, the Government
being unable to meet its obligations.
A sQUALL struck the schooner Erie at
| Port Rowan. Ont, and she capsized-
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Thomas Stafford, Robert Marlatt, Edward
Lopez and George Bell; the four others
| belonged to Clear Creek and their names
were unknown.
A TRAIN ran off the track in Stuttgart
Germany, recently and rolled over an en-
bankment The official report stated that
seven were killed and forty injured,
many of the latter would probably die.
SCHOLARS in the public schools OF
Glasgow, Aberdeen and other towns in
Scotland have instituted a novel strike
against the study of lessons at home and
declaring against corporal punishment
The other morning Arthur Ricuert,
aged twenty-nine, shot his wife, Elvie,
aged thirty, in the left temple and plac-
ing the weapon against his own head end.
ed his own existence. Mrs. Ricuert will
die. Hsof
THE steamer Geographic, of the Bos-
siere line, from Montreal for Sonthamp-
ton, collided with the Minnie Swift, a
sailing vessel. off St Pierre Miquelon re-
Gently. Both vessels sunk and number
of lives were lost.
The Spanish press, commenting upon
the International American Congress.
expresses the hope that the Spanish Re-
publics will not permit themselves to be.
come mere satellites to the United States.
THE revenue cutter Rush has arrived at
Port Townsend from Alaska. Commander
Shepherd reported that he captured six
British sealers from Victoria, b c., and
intercepted over two dozen. pt
GENERAL BoULANGER Will spend the
winter in Egypt.
ADvIcEs from Berlin state that EN-.
peror William has arranged for visit to
STEAMBOAT. He will remain there two
days. Hewill reach STEAMBOAT October %
PARTICULARS shocks were felt in the
to Of limo
on the I'd.
The bean and corn crop in the valley OF
the City of Mexico has been cut down
one-half by heavy frosts.
Two men who escaped from the prison
at Matilda, Mex, were found in tree
and shot and killed by the police. '-t'
A DYNAMITE bomb was exploded recent
ly at the door of the military cadets quar-
ters in Trieste. No one was injured.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October 3 numbered
2O6, compared with 1872 the week previous
and 221 the corresponding week of last
year. Stringency in the Eastern money
market was causing trouble
The Mexican delegation to the Interna-
tional American Congress, it is expected,
will bring up the question of high tariffs.
A COLLISION occurred recently between
a passenger train and freight train at
LaSSW1tZ, In POSen. -Four railway OfncerS
were killed and many passengers injured.
HEAVY rains have caused the destruction
of many houses in Quanajuata, Mexico.
AN explosion occurred ON the Italian
war ship Formidable at Shields, England.
while taking on gunpowder stores the
other day. The naval officer in charge of
the work was killed and several of his men
were seriously injured.
By the breaking of a scaffolding around
the steeple of q church at Altenbruch,
Hanover. recently, seven workmen We're
precipitated 100 feet and instantly killed.
THE LATESE.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended October 8 showed an average
increase of 2.S compared with the corre-
spending period of last year. In New
York the increase was 2a
BISHOP VAIL, of the Episcopal Church,
diocese of Kansas. died at Bryn Mawr,
Pa, on the 9Th. He was born in Rich
mond, Va. October q. 1872.
FOUR men were burned to death by Q
IRE at Lofts restaurant Main street,
Winona, Miss, early on the morning of
the 9th. o. the nina men asleep in the
apartments above only four escaped, re-
ceiving various injuries in jumping out of
windows.
NEW YORK is the winner Of this years
League baseball pennant
HE 2O6th anniversary of the landing of
the first Germans in America was cele.
brated on the 9th, notably at Philadelphia
and ST. Louis p