Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT the request of the Postmaster Gen.
eral the Secretary of War has directed
the Quartermaster-Ge General to instruct his
subordinates to pay no more Government
telegraph bills until the rates to be paid
are furnished by the Postmaster-G General.
The property of the Riverside & Oswe-
go Mills Company. owning extensive
worsted mills at Oswego Falls Oswego
County. N. Y, has been attached for
$412. OO0. The mills employed !, 900 hands.
BY the explosion of a naphtha engine
on a pleasure boat at Buffalo, N. Y, on
the afternoon of the 7th, the four children
of Mr.. Croker, the owner, and a man
named Rugenstein, lost their lives.
THE report of pugilist Jake Kilrain's ar
rest at Fort Monroe, Va, has been denied.
The New York Sun has given $40, 900
toward the 1892 Exposition fund.
ALL the inhabitants, numbering forty,
OF a small village in the Kursk province,
Russia. are under arrest for burning the
entire village to obtain the insurance
money.
TWENTY EIGHT United States soldiers
recently deserted the barracks at David's
Island. near New Rochelle n. Y.
The name of the young lawyer, charged
with extensive forgeries on John s. Blais-
sell, a millionaire of Minneapolis. was j.
Frank Collum of the firm of lockwood &
Collum.
MRS. MAVERICK, charged with poison
ing her husband at Liverpool England
was found guilty and sentenced to death.
The steamship Montreal, Of the Do
minion line, from Montreal to Liverpool,
was wrecked recently on Belle isle. The
| passengers and crew were saved.
The arbitration committee of business
men, to whom was referred the wage dis
pute in the Streator Ul.) coal fields, rem
dered decision, fixing the price to be
paid workmen at 72H cents a ton. The
demand of the miners was for so cents.
The prisoners confined in Fort San Juan
De Ulioa at Vera Cruz, Mexico. recently
| revolted against the officials. The troops
on duty at the fort shot twenty of the
| prisoners and queled the uprising.
| The Galveston News has published the
| last OF its crop reports. The reports were
| almost unanimous in chronlcling the best
corn crop for years. while the yield for
other grain was fully up to an average.
The cotton crop was a splendid one.
| The report of Captain Shepard COM
| handing the revenue steamer Rush. in re-
| gard to the British sealer Black Diamond,
| which as mailed at San Francisco has
been received at the Treasury Depart
ment. Acting Secretary Batcheler re-
| fused positively to give it to the press,
but admitted that it confirmed substan-
| TALLY the newspaper reports concerning
the seizure.
A DISPATCH has been received at New
| York police headquarters from Detective
| Phil Reilly, dated Panama, announcing
that he had given up all hope of recaptur-
| ing Bushnell, the defaulter, and that he
was on his way home alone.
| A LOSS of about $50, COO was caused by q
| fire which started the other night in A. C.
! Trentman's building, on Calhoun street,
Fort Wayne. Ind.
| On the night of the 9th the Rio Grande
Western train No 8, known as the Modoc,
| was held up near Thompson's Springs by
| train robbers. Efforts to break into the ex-
! press car failed, and they secured only
about s., 600 and some jewelrv from the
passengers.
The committee to report on the books Of
e. II. Stedman, county treasurer. of Des
Moines, Iowa, report a deficit of 81 800.
THE wreck of the steamer Montreal in
the straits of Belle Isle was due to an ice
| berg. which forced the steamer aground.
The finding of the dead bodies of Ollie
Jones. his wife and two other persons was
| reported from Corvallis, small
town in Butterrot valley. in Western
Montana A young girl, who had been
Hole mountain. All of them had been
| shot in the back.
EBEN S. ALLEN. president Of the Forty
second Street Car Company, New York,
has been arrested for forging certificates
| OF stock for about 700 shares. The amount
| of his defalcation is stated to be $125, O00
| or $50, 1000 The money was probably
| sunk in q worthless fire escape patent
A DETERMINED effort is being made in
Chicago to abolish the illustrated police
newspapers.