Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30

hard fight
A PAN-SERvIAN plot has been discov-
cred in Bosnia, and numerous Russian in
triguers have been arrested.
FIFTY-KINE miners at Merthyr-Tydvil,
Wales. were entombed by the caving in
OF the roof Of the colliery recently, but
only one was killed
The trial of Baussere, the chemist for
poisoning fourteen persons, was begun at
Havre, France. on the 23d
IT Is stated that the Pope will protest
against the erection of the proposed
monument in honor Of Giordonano Bruno,
the Italian philosopher, who was burned
as a hereto in 1900
The late John Bright, the noted English
leader, left his estate. valued at esq 1S4.
to his children. No public bequests were
made.
The deepening Of the harbor of Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic, has been COM
pleted and the largest vessels can now
enter the port.
Two men in Salvador recently stripped
coffee tree of its branches. sharpened it's
apex and then impaled on it an unfortu-
nate woman, who died shortly afterward.
JOHN d. WAsHBURN, the new American
Minister to Switzerland, presented his
credentials to the President of the Alpine
Republic.
seven days ended May % numbered 229.
compared with 252 the previous week aud
225 the corresponding week of last year.
BECAUSE of the adverse vote on the
proposition to increase the tax on cereals
from other countries, the Queen Regent Of
Spain has dissolved the Cortes.
THE German Reichstag has adjourned.
The work of evicting tenants was con-
tinued on the Olpihert estate, Ireland, on
IL
ate resistance, and during the struggle
Inspector Duff was badly wounded.
The Lord Mayor of London has pre-
sented Captain Murrell and the officers
and crew of the Missouri, which rescued
the lost Danmark's people, with many
testimonials and a laudatory letter from
Prince Bismarck.
THE sessions of the American, British
and German diplomats engaged in the eff
fort to straighten the Samoan troubles in
Berlin have uD to this time assumed the
appearance of a veritable love feast.
There are reports, however, that this
serenity is not likely to continue. It is
rumored In diplomatic circles in London
that there is a serious hitch in the nego-
tiations.
THE house of one of the jurymen in the
trial of the alleged Socialists at Mons,
Belgium, was damaged by the explosion
Of dynamite cartridge. It is supposed
that it was placed in the house by some
one who wished to intimidate the jury
man.
from New York for Greytown Nicaragua,
on the 25th, carrying the first batch Of
men and machinery for the construction
of the interoceanic canal. At Greytown
the engineers of the surveying expedition
of 1878, VINO have remained in Nicara.
qua in the service of the construction COM
pany Will meet the Alvena passengers and
supervise the labor.
The Canadian Government announces
that an order in council has been passed
reducing the clearance fees charged on
American vessels entering and leaving
Caeadian ports on the great lakes to sc
cents for vessels of any tonnage.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended May % showed an average increase
of % 4 compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the in
crease was 29.5
SEVERAL warehouses at Lubbock, Ger.
many, burned the other day. The fire
ragged furiously and defed all efforts to
put it out. The loss was estimated to be
two million marks.
MINISTER LINCOLN presented his ere.
dentials to Queen Victoria on the 25th.
The British man n-of-war Surprise was
run ashore at Syracuse the other day
after colliding with and sinking the
steamer Vesta. The man .of-war was full
of water.
THE LATEST.
DALLAS, Tex, May 26.-Last night an
east-bound passenger train ON the Texas
& Pacific road was robbed of 81, 500. When
the train was fewmiles beyond the city
limits two men masked. with drawn revol-
vers and knives, rushed into the express
car, beat Messenger Wray insensible. took
his keys and rified the safe. They then
pulled the bell cord, stopping the train
and escaped. One of the robbers is be-
lieved to be the Lone Highwayman" who
has been robbing trains in Louisiana. A
posse is in pursuit
TORONTO, Ont, May 26.-Edw ard Stowe,
of New Orleans, one of the members of the
Haverly- Cleveland minstrel troupe play
ing at the Grand, discharged,a pistol at
Cleveland, the manager, last evening dur
ing the performance OF the third act. He
claimed that the latter owed him money
which Cleveland denied. Stowe was
locked up Cleveland was not hurt, but
there was good deal OF excitement in the
theater for time.
BOSTON, May 26.-Samuel 7. Greene,
aged thirty nine was stabbed last night
by'his wife, Sarah, and is thought to be
dying The woman claims that during a
quarrel over q trivial matter her husband
attacked her and that being unable to es-
cape she use the knife in self defense.
She was locked up.
CHICAGO, May 27.-Yesterday while
John Mitchell was passing the Tacoma
building on Madison street, corner of La
Sale, a piece of iron weighing about five
pounds fell from the roof of the building,
which is fourteen stories high, striking
him on the right side of the head, infiict-
ing a wound laying bare the skull. The
doctors pronounce the wound not fatal,
although the skull was fractured.
Boston. May 27.-About nine o'clock
Yesterday morning the small canoe Dude
was capsized off Spectacle island, Boston
harbor, and her occupants, two young g
men, were drowned while attempting to
reach the shore, which was not more than
400 yards distant.
WHEELING W. Va. May 27.-Saturday
the top of Baker Bros lime kiln, near
Martin burg, caved in, carrying with il
Richard jackson. a stone breaker. Jack
sons body caught about the shoulders
where he was held in the fiery mass until
he was slowly burned to death.
LONDON, May 27.-The British man-of-
war Surprise was run ashore at Syracuse
Yesterday afternoon after colliding with
and sinking the steamerVesta. The man.
of-war is full of water.