Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02

TEE Grand Trunk railway has joined in
the Sunday rest movement as regards
freight trains.
L. q. REAvIS, a we'll known writer, au-
thor Of the expression the Culture Great"
with reference to St Louis being the Ma
tional Capital, died recently. He was
born in Illinois in 1881
THE Wabash purchasing committee has
decided to issue enough new bonds to pay
off dissenting bondholders and carry out
the original purpose of the reorganization
plan. The amount to be issued has not
been definitely decided upon, but is esti-
mated at between s., ,000, 900 and Sc, 000 600.
THE Pope recently summoned Father
Agostino the famous preacher of Rome,
and reproved him for his recent sermon in
which he invoked the Divine blessing upon
King Humbert and the Italian army.
A DISPATCH from Auckland, N. H.. says
that the United States steamship Nipsic
was again disabled while being towed in
Apia harbor.
The steamer Australia and schooner
George went ashore in binding snow
storm on Michigan island, near Duluth,
Mimi, recently. They were scuttled in
order to save them from pounding to
pieces on the rocks. There was no loss of
life.
VIscoUNT VAUDEVILLE was charged in
fraudulently obtaining f925. The magis.
trate did not enter the case upon the court
record and the hearing was adjourned
A DRUNKEN tinsmith recently assembled
the steeple of a church in Hungary by
means of the lightning rod and stood up
right on the top of the cross, which swayed
under his weight. After standing there
fifteen minutes haranguing the Mortified
crowd who gathered beneath he calmly
descended as he had gone up and reached
the ground unharmed.
SEVERAL houses in the town of Alham-
bra, Spain, were destroyed bv an earth
quake shock the other day. No lives were
lost.
THE King of Holland proposes to resume
the reins of government
THE Spanish Government, it is said, will
sell at auction $50, ZOO, 600 worth of state
woodlands in order to cover the financial
deficiency, make public improvements and
establish rural loan banks.
THE provisional directors of the Comp
toir d'Escompte of Paris have signed a
deed creating new company.
SEVERAL priests and many other per-
sons have been arrested for participation
in the riots in the State of Guanajuato
Mexico. recently.
AMONG the passengers who sailed for
Europe on the Cunard steamer Etruria
for Liverpool were ex-Secretary of War
Endicott and wife and ex-Secretary of
the Navy Whitney and wife.
AT Touca the other day twelve men who
were riding on a hand car on the Mexican
National railroad were run over by a train
and terribly mutilated.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred to the
Grand Trunk express bound for Suspen-
sion Bridge and the East at Hamilton,
Ont, on the evening of the 2Sth. The
train went down an embankment. tele-
scoping the baggage car with the smoker.
The wreck caught fire and seventeen per-
sons perished. Many others were rescued
more or less injured.
ON the London Stock Exchange durin g
the week ended April p English railway
securities showed relapse. while Amer
and dull in Berlin. At Havana sugar was
quoted higher and advancing.
WHILE the Queen of Wurtemburg was
driving at Nice her horses became fright
ened and started down the road at a ter
rifle pace. One of the horses fell and was
killed. The Queen was badly shaken up
and much frightened but received no in.
jury.
The strike of the employees of the tram
way companies of Vienna has ended by
the resignation of the directors.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April 81 showed an average in
crease of % compared with the corre-
spending week of last year. In New Y FORK
there was a decrease of 01.
A SON of Henri Rochefort, the noted
Frenchman, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself at the Hotel Algiers, Paris, re-
Gently.
THE LATEST.
ST. PAUL. Minn., April 2&-Thursday
night Miss Josephine Hauser, ueice of
Senator Albert Scheffer's wife and daugh-
ter Of Paul Hauser, ST., presi dent of the
Hauser Mailing Company, twenty two
years old and of a despondent nature,
hanged herself in her room. She was cut
down and resuscitated. About noon
Friday she set fire to her clothing and the
house. Her relatives again came to her
rescue, extinguishing the flames after she
was badly burned. After this she was
carefully watched. but she secured and
swallowed two ounces of nitric acid. She
died in a few hours.
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Naval Con-
structor Hynchborn says the report that
the new gunboat Yorktown shows signs
of weakness, necessitating the propping
up of one of the after sponsors (the pro-
jecting platforms which carry the guns).
is erroneous. The operations going on
during the past few days consisted of
placing filling of heavy timber below
the sponsor platforms. in order to receive
the large bolts which hold the gun car
riages in place. There is no weakness in
the previous design or construction. and
the work going on is that usually done
before the guns are shipped.
KANSAS CITY, Kan, April 29.-Last Sat-
urday night c. Forester was cleaning his
revolver at Argentine, Kan. At the time
of his doing this Miss Lottie Darling, q
young lady about twenty-five years old,
was standing near him, and in some way
the weapon was discharged, the ball
striking her in the right side near the
breast The ball was a 32-caliber one,
and the wound is pronounced by the ply
sicians to be highly dangerous. Late
Sunday night she was still alive. and
hopes are entertained of her recovery.
The shooting was purely accidental.
NEW YORK, April 2S.-A sensation has
been created here by a law suit being
brought by a wealthy lady against Charles
II. Schieffelin, a lawyer and a prominent
member of the Union Club. The lady is
Mrs. Gertrude K. Waldo. a widow. aud
daughter OF the late Nathaniel Rhine
lander. The suit is for $12. 294 %, which
she alleges she gave the lawyer to invest
on Wall street. and out of which she
claims she had been swindled.
KANSAS CITY, No., April 29.-Antonio