Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-08-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

On the new OK O6uCf61 On INC 1Stus
trains running without interruption.
AT meeting of the Quebec Board OF
Trade it was decided to send deputa-
ton to Chicago, ST. Paul and other
Western cities to set forth the advan-
tages of the port of Quebec for grain
shipments
ROCKWELL & Co. 8 great tannery, War
rem, Pa, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, 800, 600. The hides were saved
THE next international congress of
Congregationalists has been fixed for
London, July IS, 1891, to last q week.
THE cholera is reported to be decreas-
ing at Jeddah and Mecca
In a collision between freight trains
near Danville, KY, the other night two
men were killed and much damage done.
THE grand jury at Hazard, KY, found
two indictments for murder against the
Fugetts. It is believed that forty more
indictments will be found for murder,
and that at least twenty-five hangings
will be the result.
FIVE persons have died at Nicolaeff,
Russia, from a disease supposed to be
Asiatic cholera. Eleven cases of the
disease have been reported there SO far.
The Porte has been asked to quarantine
all arrivals from places on the Black
sea-
MARY L. WELDON, of Sch weinfur tn g
'heaven" at Rockford, Ill, gave birth
to a girl baby. Schweinfurth claims that
the Weldon woman was with child by
the Holy Ghost. The community was
reported indignant
JAMES FITZPATRICK. president of the
Interstate Baseball League and city
treasurer of Terre Haute, Ind, is
charged with being a defau1ter in the
last two years for SO, 400.
A SPECIAL to the Los Angeles, Cal,
Times from Azusa, says: Bentley, the
editor of the News, was taken out by an
armed body of men and tarred and
feathered for publishing an article re-
f1ecting on the conduct of c. E. Frazier
while teacher of grammar school"
SMALLPOX is causing many deaths in
the ranks of the Guatemalan army on
the Salvadorian frontier.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand barrels Of
whisky were burned in a fire at the
Barkhouse distillery, Louisville, KY,
on the 14th. The loss was heavy, the
property destroyed being valued at
$500, OOO
MANY lives have been lost by an over
flow Of the river Ganges in India.
THERE was bad explosion recently
at the Kendall soap factory, Providence,
R. 1. Fire broke out and acids were
blown over number of men.
INFORMATION has been received of the
murder in the Soudan by Arabs of F. NJ.
Gates, E. Kingman and John E. Jader-
quist, Presbyterian missionaries, who
left the United States in May last.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
the seven days ended August IA num-
bered 1877, compared with 20s the pre-
vious week and 213 the corresponding
week of last year.
THERE was a terrible c1oudburst at
Colorado Springs, Col, recently. A
man and woman were swept away and
drowned. The damage to the city and
vicinity amounted to 5000, COO.
CHOLERA has appeared at Cairo, Egypt
UNKNOWN miscreants placed ties on
the B. & o, track twenty miles from
Pittsburgh, Pa, and wrecked an excur-
sion train. Two engineers and tramp
were killed.
BY the explosion of a centrifugal ex-
tractor in the cleansing room of the
Tillit silk mills at Pottsville, Pa, girl
was killed and young man fatally in
jured.
IHE spring wheat crop OF the North
west is estimated at SO, 600, 900 bushels
SO, GOO, 900 in the Dakotas and SO, 600, 900
in Minnesota.
ALFRED LUDINGToN and George D.
Rossitu, two Pinkerton policemen from
Philadelphia on duty at Albany, N. Y,
were killed by passenger train while
walking on the track.
THE memorial to Daguerre. presented
by the National Photographers Asso-
citation. was recently unvailed by Secre-
tary Noble in the rotunda of the Nation
al Museum at Washington.
THE population of the State of Della
ware is 1881. The population in 1880
was 146, Co.'S The increase, therefore,
has been 81, 263. or Ii. SO per cent.
The population of Providence, R L.
is 1872, O43 against 1O4, sS7 in 1880, an in
crease of 7,1s6, or 25. 90 per cent
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