Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-25

THE Knights of Labor have formally
declared the Central strike of.
THE Treasury received offers of $685.
O0O, 600 of four per cent bonds the first
day under the circular of Secre-
tary Window. The price run from 125
to 1861.
ONE hundred persons were poisoned
at a negro revival meeting near Collern,
Dallas County. Ala. eight of whom
died, twenty others being hopelessly
sick. Unknown miscreants placed ar
senic in the barbecued pork.
THE report of the Utah Commission
shows the Mormon Church to be as de-
faint as ever. Polygsmy is preached in
public and practiced in secret
Two young daughters of Samuel God
dert. of Hartman. Tenn. were struck
by engine while crossing the track and
one killed and the other fatally injured.
GOODMAN & Co.. dry goods merchants
of Chicago, Tiffin and Lima, O., have
assigned.
The population of Arizona is So, SOL.
JOHN DILLON and William O'Brien,
the Nationalist, were arrested in Ire
land on the 18th on charges of conspiracy
in the mo rent" campaign.
FOURTEEN slaves escaped from a YES
sci at Cape Town, South Africa, recent
ly. The authorities refused to recapture
them.
THE amount paid out at the sub-treas-
ury at Now York on the 18th for bond
purchases alone amounted to $11, 66S, OO0
THE dam of the Bonesteel reservoir at
Troy, N. Y, gave way on the 18th.
Great havoc occurred, but no lives were
lost.
A TORNADO went through the country
four miles south of Manning. Iowa, on
the 18th. Two men were killed. The
damage was considerable.
FIRE at New York in COOPER shop
burned to death two men and thirteen
horses.
BELFAST linen merchants are rushing
in goods in advance of the Mckinley
Tariff bill.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER has given 81. :
600, 900 more to the new Baptist Uni
versity at Chicago. His previous gift
was 5000, 600.
THE jury in the Russell murder case
at Monticello, Ill, have found the de-
PENDANTS guilty of murder. Calvin
Holden and Albert Durham were given
the death penalty, and Ann Eliza Holden
was sentenced to twenty-five years and
Edwin Holden to fifteen years i'm
prisonment
The Turkish man-of-war Ertogroul
foundered at sea and 500 of her crew
were drowned
ADvIcEs from Hiogo, Japan, state that
the mail steamer Musaschi Maru has
been lost off Cochin and that all of her
crew with the exception of one Japanese
were drowned.
Of II
by cloudburst near Evansville. Ark,
recently. Five of them were drowned.
A TERRIBLE accident happened on the
Mexican railroad. Two trains going in
opposite directions ran into each other
at Rinconada and the cars were piled on
one another and completely wrecked.
others wounded.
THE two victims of the cyclone near
Manning, Iowa, were William Ferry and
his child. Several were injured, but not
fatally.
THE boiler of threshing machine ex-
ploded at Marshfield. O., killing two
men.
IT is reported in Chicago that the coal
miners Of Southern Illinois are prepar-
ing to strike for higher pay.
COHN w. DONN, d large DrlCk manu-.
facturer of Chicago, has disappeared,
leaving $50. 900 debts, but ample assets
He had lost heavily gambling on races
PRESIDENT HARRISON has formally ex-
tended the period of vacating the Cher
okee Strip from October 1 to Novem Der
1 for one-half the cattle and December
1 for the remainder.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
the seven days ended September IS
numbered 100, compared with 1913 the
previous week and 1913 the corresponding
week of last year. Tightness in the
money market continued, but otherwise
there was no distur bling feature.
A TERRIBLE double accident occurred
on the 10th near Reading, Pa. The
Pottsville express ran into a freight
wreck at the Schuylkil1 river. The
coaches went into the water. Between
forty and fifty persons were killed and
as many more seriously injured