Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-27

THE story about Levi B. Faulkner,
the Danville bank wrecker. being alive
is declared at Rochester. N. Y, to be
fake.
THE Newark, the last of the three
steel cruisers built for the Government
by Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia. was
launched on the 18th in binding snow
storm.
FIVE miners lost their lives by re-
cent fire in the Germania mine at Hur-
ley, Wis
THERE was a severe snowstorm in New
York and New England on the 10Th.
THERE was another collapse at the
burned Bowen-Merrill building at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 10Th. There
were alarming reports that many more
lives had been lost. but only two men
were hurt, though many had narrow es-
capes.
THE Manitoba Legislature has passed
bill abolishing the right of Roman
Catholics to have separate schools and
compelling all classes to patronize the
public schools.
BENJAMIN GREwEL, swindler, was
1ynched at Robinson Station, near Gym
thiana, KY, recently.
ADvICEs from Quillimane, East Africa,
are that Portuguese customs official
and his escort of 800 natives have been
massacred near Lake Nyanza-
THE great miners strike in England
ended in a complete victory for the
men.
A FREIGHT train ran into rock near
Bagdad. Pa, the other night and the
locomotive and several cars were thrown
into the river. Three trainmen were
injured.
THE superintendent of the Yellow
stone National Park has appeared before
the House Appropriations Committee in
advocacy of an appropriation OF $12O, DOC
to improve the park for 1892.
A DIsAs -KoUs fire at Jacksonville,
Fla, recently destroyed two blocks in
La Villa, suburb, and boarding house
in the city proper. causing a loss of
nearly Sl25,O0O, largely covered by in
surance.
FOUR saloonkeepers of Tacoma,
Wash, are negotiating for the control of
all the saloon licenses in the town.
They agree not to run over twenty places
and to be responsible for all infractions
of the law.
MANY prominent citizens of New Or
leans have formed league to prevent
the extension of the charter of the
Louisiana Lottery Company.
The lower house of the Iowa Legisla-
ture has passed resolution in favor, of
harbor at some point on the Texas
coast.
The New York Court of Appeals has
decided adversely to Kemmler, con-
demned to suffer death by electricity.
THE Supreme Court has refused to
grant a rehearing in the case of the
Chicago gas trust. The effect of the
decision is to declare that the trust is
an illegal organization.
COLORADO SpRfNGs, Col, has been ter
rorized by incendiaries lately. The last
places to go were the residence of Mr..
Reese, the American Hotel, the Grand
Avenue Hotel and the Crystal Palace
Theater.
IN many parts of Switzerland the viii
layers are hastily retreating from the
valleys to places of safety on higher
ground, avalanches being imminent.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended March 20 num-
bered 255, compared with 26O the previ-
Gus week and 249 the corresponding
week of last year.
RANGES in Runnels County, Tex. are
being ravaged by prairie fires.
SEVERAL foreign Jews have been ar
rested in Leipsic, Germany, on the
charge of treason.
THE Senate Committee on Irrigation
recently heard Profs. Gilbert and Thomp-
son, of the Typographical survey, upon
the plan outlined at the start. They
argued that to change the work and pro-
coed with the survey of arid lands only
would be very expensive.
THE district attorney of Jackson,
Miss, has made an affidavit against ex-
State Treasurer Hemingway, charg-
ing him with embezzlement of the State
funds. Hemingway was arrested and
gave $25, 900 bonds.
TOMMY WINENAN, twelve years old,
and BERTHE Polhemus, aged eleven, were
playing marbles at Joliet, Ill, when
disagreement in the game caused the
Wineman boy to draw pistol and shoot
his little playm ate in the stomach.