Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-18


mates that the Arkell exploring expe-
dition to Alaska has possibly been lost
A two mon tbs old letter from one OF the
party has been received at San Fran
cisco SO much belated the party is
| known to be snowbound
E ToDD and wife of Sioux City and
their daughter, Mrs Slayton, were run
down and killed by a Great Northern
| train near St Paul, MINI.
SIX children broke through the ice at
| Upton, England. and were drowned.
The Crow Indians of Montana have
! signed the treaty providing for the sale
| of /, $50, coo acres of their lands to the
Government for $946. 600.
! THE Peninsular & Oriental Steamship
| Company's steamer Nepaul stranded at
the Plymouth (England) breakwater
during the prevalence of dense fog.
After considerable trouble all got safe
| 1y to shore.
HENRY WILLARD, in an interview,
said he did not think the Wall street
| panic was as near over as represented
Its cause he gives as the Mckinley bill
and the silver bill.
The French Government proposes to
reduce excise duty on beet roots in Or
| der to encourage sugar making in the
country.
OWING to an accident to the starboard
engine, the trial trip of the cruiser
Newark was stopped after the engines
had been running at full power for
| nearly three hours. The trial trip will
| be repeated. The vessel averaged 1891
knots per hour.
SAM PAUL the Chickasaw Estates
| man." who mortally wounded his son
| Joe over woman, has fed to parts un-
| known.
The hostiles in the Northwest have
divided into factions In one of the
fights twenty Sioux were said to be
| killed.
CHARLES MILLER, the boy who MUIR
| dered two young men in Wyoming
while travelling in box car, has been
| convicted.
THE London Times says the whole
monetary system of the United States
! is in M uddle.
| A RUN on the Farmers & Merchants
fail
JUDGE GRESHAM, at Chicago on the
18th, refused relief to Counselman for
violating the Interstate commerce law.
The case now goes to the Supreme
Court
THE Minneapolis -four trade is re-
ported very dull
! VENABLE & HERMANN, liquor dealers
New York, have failed for $500, 600; also
Henry Seibert, tobacco, for $3.50, 600.
ONE thousand men have been laid off
at the Chicago works of the Illinois
Steel Company.
CAPTAIN HEALY. of the revenue cut
ter Bear, reports great suffering among
the Esquimaux of Alaska.
The porcelain factory at Cimelow,
Russia, owned by Prince Lubesicky,
was destroyed by fire. Eight employees
were burned to death.
| BUSINESS failures Oun's report) for
the seven days ended December II mum
bered 374, compared with 312 the
previous week and 300 the correspond
ing week of last year.
GEORGE F. WORK, who was the master
mind of the Work-MacF arlane-Pfeffer-
DUNCAN syndicate, which. it was al
legged, wrecked the Bank of America
and the American Life Insurance Com
pany, has been arrested at Philadel-
l phia-
THE tug Vandecook sank at her dock
in Jersey City. Two men were drowned.
Two small children were fatally
burned at Jackson, Tenn, from CRATE
| fires.
THE United States Supreme Court
reversed the ruling under which the
convicted murderers of Sheriff Cross
and posse had been sen fenced to be
hanged at Paris, Tex. The crime oc'
CURED in the Neutral Strip and the
arguments turned on the question OF
jurisdiction.
LA GRIPPE is said to be proving fatal
to the ghost dancers of Big Foot's band
of Cherry Creek hostiles
THE Druid duck mills at Baltimore
Nd, have failed. The liabilities were
heavy. Three hundred and fifty opera
tives were employed.
The Anchor line steamer City O
Baton Rouge has been sunk on a snag
in the Lower Mississippi Two live!
were lost The boat was valued at $75
900 and the cargo at 500, 900.