Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-08-28

SECRETARY NOBLE has instructed the
Commissioners Of Pensions to make
special and thus expedite all claims for
pensions by parties now living in Okla
homa- This action is taken in order to
relieve as far IS possible the destitute
condition of many claimants in that
Territory.
The Thousand Island Park Hotel, ST
Lawrence river. burned recently. Loss.
$3.50, 600.
McCoNKEY, the man arrested for COM
plicity in the Otterville (Mo) train rob
berry. was released, . complete vindica-
ton being made
A DISPATCH from Erzeroum TO the
London Daily News says the Turkish
Government is supplying the Kurds
with Martini rifles. The Christians
have cut the telegraph wires Four
Armenians who had made themselves
Objectionable to the authorities were
strangled in prison
B. h COOKE & Co., of Nashville,
Tenn, one of the largest clothing
houses in the South, established twen-
ty-five years ago. have made an assign
ment. The liabilities are about $500.
900, assets $4,000. M
A TOOL called track jack was the
cause of the recent accident on the Old
Colony road. The man working it was
unaware of the approach of the Inflated
train.
JERRY CLEVELAND was murdered near
Hayward, Wis, recently. He was worth
about $40, 600 and was killed for his
money.
DURING storm at Philadelphia the
walls of the street car stables of the
Twelfth Street Passenger Railway Com
pany fell in. Five men and twenty
horses were killed. Several persons
were also seriously hurt
AT Whitestone, near New York, a
boating party of three men and three
women was upset Only one woman
was rescued
A TORNADO went through Mason
County, Tex. recently, demolishing
buildings and killing cattle. No per-
sons were killed.
BARNUM & BAILEY's circus train was
wrecked at Shelbyvi1le, on the Grand
Rapids & Indiana railway, by the break
ing of a drawbar. Martin Foley, of St
Louis was killed and two others badly
hurt.
THE ''Blue Grass Palace" was opened
at Creston, Iowa, on the 21st by Gov
ernor Boies.
THE engineers, firemen and brakemen
at the Union stock yards. Chicago,
struck for higher wages on the 22d.
Much inconvenience was caused to the
packing houses, etc.
A TERRIBLE accident happened on the
gravity railway at Reading, Pa, on the
22d. After a car containing eighteen
passengers had been pulled to the top
it suddenly started down, going at
eighty miles an hour and dashing over
an embankment Four persons were
killed and the rest were seriously in
jured.
In the canton of Vaud, Switzerland,
recently, cyclone occasioned great
damage and the loss of $50 lives.
GEORGE EARLY and Bird Woods, two
of the four negroes accused of setting
fire to Rocky Mount, Va, were executed
in that town on the 22d. The other two,
Annie Woods and William Brown, will
be hanged September 9.
JUDGE BEACH has entered an order in
the Supreme Court at New York discon-
tinuing the action brought by Colonel
William Dudley to recover damages
from George Jones, treasurer of the
Times Publishing Company, for alleged
libel in publishing the alleged "blocks
of five'' letter. The order was entered
by consent of counsel
The mountain desperate. Joe Dana
ron, a ringleader in the FrenchEver-
sole war of Kentucky. has been captured
and is in the Perry County Jail.
CHOLERA is spreading in Valencia and
Toledo. There are several suspicious
cases in Madrid.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended August 81 num-
bered 1872. compared with 1877 the previ-
Gus week and FOG the corresponding
week OF last year. General business
was good, Notwithstanding the press
ure in money at New York.
Mr.. WEBB refused the offer of the
State Board of Arbitration to consider
the New York Central strike. Powderly
accepted it on behalf Of the strikers.
PALo ALTO trotted mile at Chicago
on the 22d in 2:13.