Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-29
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

The German imperial party arrived at
Metz on the 23l aud received an enthusi-
astic welcome -=---sz-
The warrant against Judge Field, issued
on account of the killing of Judge Terry.
has been dismissed
E 81. Bow man, a prominent citizen OF
Chicago, was drowned at Seaview, Mass,
recently while bathing.
The west side of the town of Paramount,
IL, was entirely destroyed by fire the
other day. Loss, $50, eco
The sixteenth annual Tri-State Grang-
ers' Exhibition and meeting began at
Williams Grove. Pa. on the Goth.
The works of the What Cheer (Iowa)
coal mine were burned recently. Thirteen
mules were suffocated. Loss. $50, 600.
Miss Beaumont an American girl, made
a successful descent from balloon with
parachute near London the other day.
Ex-Congressman Randolph Tucker. of
Lexington, Va, denies that his recent ILL.,
ness was any where near as bad as re-
ported.
By the explosion of q dynamic bomb
which had been placed on a railway track
in Louisville. KY, three meu were badly
injured.
The labor demonstration by the striking
dock yard laborers in Hyde park, London,
on the 25sh was a great success in point of
numbers
The new Government dry dock at the
navy yard at Norfolk. Va, will be finished
September 10 and hat at New York No.
vember /.
A warrant against Gideon p. Brown,
the absconding merchant of Providence.
has been issued from the Crown Office in
Montreal
Negotiations are in progress to purchase
the extensive wooden mills of James Lee
& Sons. of Bridgeport, Pa, by an English
syndicate.
The North Dakota Millers' Association
has decided to place an agent in London
to dispose of -four direct to the bakers of
Great Britain.
The council of the French Legion of
Honor has erased the names of General
Boulanger and Count Dillon from the roll
of the order.
The British delegates to the maritime
conference at Washington will not be en-
powered to make any engagements bind
ing on England.
David divers huge oat mill at Joliet,
ILL.,, was destroyed by fire the other day.
causing $62, 600 loss. He lost a mill in Chi
cago last spring.
A bad break occurred In the Erie canal
two miles east of Middleport N. Y, and
navigation was suspended, while sur
rounding lands were Hooded.
A combination of Eastern capitalists
has been formed to purchase all the coal
property along the Monongahela river
and control the river coal business.
ALI the men employed on the water
works at Washburn, Wis, struck the
other day for raise of twenty five cents
per day, which the company refused to
grant.
Bob Younger, the Missouri outlaw, who
is serving life sentence with his brothers
at the Minnesota State prison, has been
growing rapidly worse and is now unable
to leave his bed.
It is charged that Leon Hang Sang,
Chinese Consul at San Francisco, has mis-
appropriated 100000 of the moneys
awarded to Chinese sufferers by outbreaks
in various Pacific cities.
Cashier Robert P. Holiday, of the
Mount Gilead CO.. National Bank, which
closed the other day, is now in Canada,
having robbed the bank of $25, 900 in order
to speculate in wheat and oil
The latest advices concerning the earth
quake at Kumamota, Japan, July %,
places the number killed at eighteen and
the wounded at nineteen. Fifty-two
dwellings were demolished
The manufacturers of window glass,
table glass and crockery have formed
trust. The alleged object in forming the
trust is to save expense, make profit and
cheaper the price of the goods.
General Isaac F. Shepard died at Bell
ingham, Mass, recently, aged seventy
three. Soon after the war he entered
journalism and at one time was managing
editor of the St Louis Democrat
J. E. Cauley, a well known farmer living
east of St Joseph, Mo-, committed suicide
recently by hanging himself in his barn.
He left wife and five children and was
we'll to do. Domestic infelicity was the
cause.
It is reported that on the occasion of the
Pope's visit to Madrid he will journey in
a carriage to Civita Vecchia, thence by
steamer to Spain. He will be accompa-
MED by few members of the College of
Cardinals.
Ten persons boarding with Mrs. Med
seriously i'll the other day after eating
meat which she had purchased for dinner.
Mrs. Medmin's husband and child were
also poisoned.
The result of the Vienna congress was
| startling. 1t showed that the European
grain crop was 10 per cent short The
grain crop in Russia, Austria, Hungary
| bushels this year.
1t las been discovered tnaG q law passed
| by the Cherokee Legislature in 1873 obvi-
ates the necessity Of submitting the sale
of the Cherokee Strip to a vote of the peo-
pie. This will greatly simplify the work
Of the Commission.
| Adjutant-GeneralK Kellogg, of the United
States army, has decided that there Is
nothing Ia the laws to prevent a young
man who had been dismissed from the
| Naval Academy for hazing from becoming
| a West Point cadet.
| American securities were unfavorably
affected on the London Stock Exchange
during the week ended August "a. Other
securities were fairly steady. The Ger
man bourses were unsettled. The Paris
Bourse was irregular, three per cent
rentes showing a rise.
| John Taylor was fined fifteen shillings
and cost in London recently for neglect
ing to pay the servants tax which he
should have paid on the man servant
which he keeps. The funny part Of the
story is that this Taylor who keeps a man
servant is the Prince of Wales footman.
While John Robinson's circus was in
full blast at Toledo, O.. recently a heavy
| storm of wind, ra in and hail struck the