Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

Two heavy freight trains ON thu
Grand Trunk railroad collided neal
Battle Creek, Mich. the other day
Eighteen cars and two engines were
wrecked and much merchandise ruined
by oil.
THREE men were killed and others
shockingly mangled by an explosion in
the Chicago sugar refnery's starch house
on the 9th.
A WOMAN named Meyer and her two
granddaughters were drowned in the
floods which overwhelmed their dwell.
ing near Villa Ridge, Ill, recently.
The garrison of Rio Janeiro recently
became disafected and was ordered t.
the south. The troops refused to &C
and the Government cancelled the order.
There was much discomfort throughout
the city.
THE Santa Fee has officially refused to
prorate with Eastern lines at the Mis-
souri, river on business destined to
points on the line of the Santa Fe or it's
connections
JOHN A. DAVIS, the defaulting city
treasurer of Rochester, N. Y, who EN-.
bezzled sec. 600 of the city's money was
cCAoOAOCO W AV0 years III AuuuIA
prison.
creased 1856, 900 gallons last year as COM
in certain districts.
JAY GOULD and party were recently in
the City Of Mexico and report has it that
he was figuring on trans-Mexican line.
DUDLEY FARL1N, of Albany, N. Y.
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Company's stock, denies that the
Standard Oil Company has bought him
out.
THE Cunard Steamship Company has
declared a dividend of per cent as
against one of per cent last year.
AUSTRIA proposes to spend 1000, 600
forms at once for a supply Of smokeless
powder.
THE miners at Gallitzin, Pa, have
struck against the use of a steam mine
driller lately introduced.
THE Missouri Pacific railway directors
have declared quarterly dividend of
one per cent
THE official assessment of the rail-
ways of Iowa for purposes of taxation
shows the total mileage in the State to
be $3.50, a loss during the year of thirty
eight miles; the total assessed valuation
$42, S82, 984, a reduction from last year of
$217, SOL.
THREE brothers named Backfeld were
killed together the other morning while
walking on the track seven miles west of
Susquehanna, Pa. A sad feature of the
accident was that two of the brothers
had been searching for the third, who
had been missing, and all were return
ing home to New York when struck by
an express train.
The relief committee at Louisville,
KY, estimated the loss of life by the
recent tornado at Is. The loss of prop
erty was put at SO, 800, 600.
JAMES P. DAVIS, alias William
S. Shackleford, was hanged at Pitts
boro, N. c., recently for the MUIR
der of John Horton near that place sew
eral mouths ago. He confessed that he
murdered his own children several years
ago.
Up to the evening of the 2sth no news
had been received of the steamer City
of Paris, overdue at Queenstown. The
anxiety caused by her delay was in
creasing,
THE Chicago & Alton road has given
notice of proposed reduction in the
rate on lumber to 10 cents per cwt.
from Chicago to Kansas City. The
former rate was IS cents.
AT the anti-slavery conference at
Brussels the English delegates pro-
posed the prohibition of the sale of al
cohol in the interior of Africa. All the
delegates except the German members
supported the proposal.
j. w. PARKER, of Burlington, Kan,
charged with forgery, has been remand
ed at London, Ont, at the request of his
counsel, who desired to present evidence
in his defense.
THE town of Fayetteville, Lincoln
County, Tenn, Jared badly by the
storm. A negro woman was killed out
right by falling walls and anumb Der of
persons were injured.
A WASHINGTON special stated that
Bridget Sweeney, domestic, had con-
fessed to wilfully firing Secretary
Tracy's house, by which his wife, daugh-
ter and Swiss maid lost their lives.
No motive was known for the woman's
act.