Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-06
ISAAC l. FALK & Co. clothing manu-
lecturers. New York, have failed for

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ISAAC L FAIK & Co. clothing manu-
facturers. New York. have failed for
$3.50, 00O
IsIDoRE RosENrHAL, cloak manrfact-
urer. Broadway. New York, has failed
for $50. 600.
Four men were fatally injured by
boiler explosion at the Portage rolling
mills at Duncansville, near Altoona. Pa
A YOUNG physician OF Hyde Park.
Chicago, died recently after an oyster
meal at restaurant The oysters had
been kept 80 long that they had devel-
oped poision known as ptomain.
The st. Johns Savings Banks, St Au-
gustine, Fla. has suspended.
IT is denied by the Two Republics
chat Mexico has placed prohibitive
duty on cattle.
The census will probably show the
population of Alaska to be SO. 600.
THE Rhode Island State House Com
mission has decided on 81, 600. 600 Cap
itol
JUDGE TULEY. of Chicago, has decided
adversely to Ed Corrigan. the horseman.
Bookmaking at race tracks is illegal in
Illinois.
TwENTY-sIx confessions of Judgment,
aggregating about $500, 900. have been
entered against Leopold Bros. & Co..
wholesale clothiers at 229 Franklin
street. Chicago
THE Chicago sheriff has taken pos
session of the Arkansaw Traveller, edited
by Op:e P. Reid, the humorist
BUSINESS failures Oun's report) for
the week ended October 80 numbered
21s compared with 225 the previous
week and 261 the corresponding week
of last year.
FRED MUNDEE, aged Is, was blown
from wharf at St Johns. n. B Fred
Young, aged IL. tried to rescue him, but
both were drowned.
JUDGE CALDWELL, of the United
States Circuit Court at Little Rock,
Ark, has rendered an original package
decision in direct antagonism to the de-
cision of Judges Philips and Foster at
Topeka Caldwell holds that the Will
son law gives validity to the old State
laws concerning liquor.
THE Pope's recent encyclical to the
Italian Bishops concludes with assert
ing that two governments are impossi-
BILE at Rome and that authority must be
given back to the Pope if the world de-
sired his influence over Roman Cath
ol,cs.
collision with the schooner Hargreaves
soon after leaving New York for Havana
shocking loss of life was the result.
both vessels sinking. About twenty
out of one hundred persons only were
saved.
THE Vossiche Zeitung confirms the
report from Warsaw that while num-
Der of persons were leaving Russia,
their intention being to emigrate to
Brazil. they were fred upon by the
Russian frontier guard at Slupcha. Only
four men lost their lives.
THE census of the country as finally
announced by Superin tendent Porter is
trife under sixty-two million and a
half. If correct it shows deplorable
falling off in the birth rate or an enor-
nous increase in the death rate, as the
immigration has been excessive. Sug-
gested causes are that the census figures
of 1870 in the South were greatly de-
ficient, ana that the present census is
defective. Perhaps a little of every
thing has contributed to make the CEN
sus of 1890 an epoch in the history of the
country.
CHILLlCoTHE, ILL.,, near Peoria. was
almost wiped out by fire on the night
OF the 31St.
AT the tunnel near Somerset, KY,
where the recent terrible wreck oc-
Cured, there was another collision, in
which Conductor Lawton was killed and
several persons hurt.
AMERICus B. MIssIMER. of Pottstown,
Pa cond uctor of the train which caused
two deaths at Williamsport, Pa, has
been arrested for criminal care1essness
BECAUSE her husband of three weeks
paid attentions to another woman, Mrs
John Williams, colored, of Bradford,
Ala, shot him dead and tried to kill
herself. but failed.
ELEVEN German life boatsmen were
drowned off the coast of Germany while
trying to rescue the crew of a British
vessel
AT recent civil service examination
in Baltimore all the papers presented
such striking similarity that an in
vestigation is being made.