Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-14
NUGGETS Of. NEWS.

81 i. M!UsGEsTS e! Sc 9F NEWS
Most Rev. J. Porter. the Catholic Bishop
Of Bombay. died on the s9th.
Fire at Butte City, Mont. recently de-
stroyed an entire business block valued at
| $500 600.
Johu Burn, the London labor leader.
strikers.
A congress of the Socialist Labor party
convened in Chicago on the 2sth. The
delegates are all Germans
Hon b b Stiles, one of the first settlers
of Denver andtwice mayor of that city,
died there suddenly the other aftern Don Of
apoplexy.
James J. West and Charles E Graham,
ex-editor and secretary of the Chicago
Times were held to the criminal court res
Gently in $1,000
Colonel Robert Patton Crockett the only
remaining SON of Davy Crockett died re-
Gently at Rucker's creek, near Granbury.
Tex, aged seventy-three-
Grand Rapids and Holland business
men propose to run a canal from the for
mer city TO Holland and Lake Michigan at
a probable cost of g. ooo,Q Qpo.
American securi, les were not very
buoyant on the London stock market dur
ing the week ended September % Con-
| tinental bourses were quiet but firm
Edwin Booth and Helen Modjsska
opened their season at New York on the
night of the 30th before a ls rGe audienceL
1t was their first appearances together.
A grand reunion and parade of the
Grand Army Posts of Eastern Pennsyl-
vania took place at Reading. Pa, on the
2Sth Over 8 900 men marched in line.
Prominent business men and officials in
the City of Mexico say they would prefer
to see the worlds exhibition of 1892 held
in New York rather than in any Western
city.
Suit has been brought in the United
States Court against the Des Moines Nav
igation Company and others to determine
the title to the Des Moines Qowa) river
lands.
The trial of the Earl of Galloway, who
is charged with having criminally as
saulted several children, has been fixed
for October Ia. 1t will take piscs before
q SEQ ch court.
Advices from Crete ara that the Turkish
troops on the island are cruelty torment-
ing Christians. A number of the soldiers
outraged two Christian women. one Of
whom was afterward killed.,
Captain W. B. Jones. general manager
Pittsburgh, Pa, and Mich ael Quinn have
died from the injuries received through
the recent furnace accident
A disastrous railroad accident occurred
between Naples and Foggiat utaiy) re-
Gently. Two express trains came into
collision while passing through g tunnel
and twenty carriages were telescoped.
The killed and injured number fifty.
A bet of $4,000 a side on the Congress
sional result has been made between Col
onel Broadwater, a millionaire Democrat,
nd Solionan oh af ha Re-
publican COMMITTEES at Helena, Mont
Agent Leman, of Boston, in the rubber
trade, says it can be quite positively
stated that the rubber trust. which has
| been gradually approaching a definite
| shape, will soon be ready to bs announced
to the public.
Two explosions occurred in Germany on
the 2Sth. One in the Rhein- Prussen col
liery at Hamburg on the Rhine. in which
ten men were killed and several injured.
and one in the artillery laboratory at
Spandau which injured ten men and
forty two women
Engineer Twombley and Fireman Le-
cloche. who were held responsible by the
coroner's jury al Chicago for the accident
on the Rock Island road at Englewood,
have been placed in the county Jail to
await the action of the grand jury.
The Nashville (Tenn.l Commercial Club.
composed of leading merchants and capi-
talists of the South, has passed resolu-
tions indorsing Chicago as against New
York as the place for the Worlds Fair.
Mayor Carver has approved the resolu-
tion4
Governor Hovey has ordered dohn
Murray delivered to the Kansas author-
tiles Murray is the man who nearly
murdered sister Camille Of the convent at
Emporia, Kan, because she would NOT
violate her vows, forsake the convent and
marry him.
Jacob 2 ntmaster, the treasurer or Beth
lehem township. Stark County, O., has
been forced to resign. He was over 81 600
short in his accounts and tried to satisfy
the trustees with 81 certificate of deposit
which had been raised to 81 coo by the ad-
dition of three ciphers-
The report of the Rochester asylum in
vestigating committee entirely exonerated,
DIR. Bowers from any culpable neglect in
the management of the asylum, but makes
stringent suggestions for the regulation of
attendants, by whom twenty atrocities
are proved to have been committed
j. E. Boen, the noted horse thief, broke
Jail at Montevideo, Minn., for the second
time the other night Hs picked the 1eck
of his arm shackies with a penholder.
With wooden keys he had made he un-
locked three cell locks and with a piece of
gas pipe be pried fl the window bars.
j. Z. Taller, the leader of the gang who
robbed the train on the Sonora railroad
year ago last May and who killed Con-
ductor Atkinson and Fireman Forbes. and
who was subsequently convicted and
sentenced to death was shot the other
morning by the Mexican authorities at
GuaymaA
Several persons have been al rested for
completely in the burning of the Temple
of Heaven at Pekin. The fire was part of
q conspiracy against the introduction OF
railroads in China and intended to con-
vey the idea that the destruction Of the
temple was an omsn Of war against the
innovation.
A sensation has been caused at Ports
mouth. N. B.. by the discovery that med
ical diplomas were sold by bogus med
ical college called Trinity University of
Medicine and Surgery, having nominal
headquarters at B Bennington. Vt. Besides
New E gland being victimized. hundreds
had been purchased throughout the South
and West.
An extraordinary story is told here
OF the miraculous escape of woman
l.