Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-13
OwENsBoRo. KY. was visited by dis.
.strous confagration at midnight on the

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astrous confagration at midnight on the
| 9th.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for
the Manufacturers Mutual Insurance
Company. of Milwaukee, Wis There
are about 2, 300 policies outstanding.
| DILLON and O'Brien collected S12. s6S
| for the Irish National cause at Phil
ade1phia
| THE last voyage of the Teutonic from
| Liverpool to New York was succession
of gales and mishaps.
! PERU has imposed a prohibitive tax
| on lard, supposed in retaliation for the
Mckinley bill
| FIVE persons were killed or fatally
! injured by the destructive fire at Owens
boro, KY, which started in the Rudd
| House. The loss was $3.50, 00a.
An alarming rumor prevailed in West
ern cities on the 7th that John Wanna
maker had Jailed for millions and that
a panic existed on the New York Stock
Exchange. The ridiculous origin OF
the whole affair was that Wanamaker
had suspended clerk, which was tele-
graphed that he had suspended himself.
WINsLow, Ind, was recently swept
out of existence by fire. Four hundred
persons were homeless
Two japanese students of the Michi-
gan University at Ann Arbor have
eloped with two American girls.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's reporD for
the seven days ended November num-
bered 215, compared with 21S the previ-
Gus week and 267 the corresponding
week of last year. Business generally
was reported good.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai says that
800 men were killed in the Government
powder mills at Tai Ping Flu by an ex-
plosion.
THE September statement of the A.
7. & S. F. railway, shows: Gross earn
ings, So, 9Os. 161; increase. 1928, gil; net
earnings. 81, 332, 979; increase. S61. POI.
THE business section of Hartman.
Ark, has been destroyed by fire. caus-
ing $27, 900 total loss, with no insurance.
THE Choctaw Council passed bill,
approved by the Governor, to charge all
licensed traders the sum of $500 per an
mum hereafter, in lieu of ~ per cent.
on the invoice as formerly. It raised a
storm of indignation among business
men.
OTTERyILLE, Mo-. on the 9TH was the
scene of a wreck on the Missouri Pacific
near the infamous Robbers cut Six
passengers were injured. just before
leaving the rails the train had been
stopped to adjust some machinery of
the engine and this fortunately pre-
vented fearful loss of life. Examine
ton showed that the track had been
tempered with by miscreants, either
for purposes of robbery or to crafty a
spirit Of revenge.
THE duel between Maurice Bernh ardt,
son of Sarah Bernhardt, and NJ. Bour-
rev. the dramatic critic, who was chal-
lenged by the former in consequence of
his comments upon Nine. Bernhardt's
performances in her new play Cleo
patra," resulted in M Bourrey being
slightly wounded in the arm.
COLONEL JAMES d. SMITH, promi-
nent real estate dealer of Tacoma.
Wash, committed suicide by shooting
himself No cause was known.
THE charred remains of Mary Doyle.
the servant girl who persisted in the
Leland Hotel fire at Syracuse, n. Y,
were found in the ruins.
The executive committee of the adj
ministrative council of the Grand Army
met in Detroit Mich, and fixed the
time for the next reunion between July
25 and August 90
THOMAS and William Harper, manu-
facturers of decorated lamps and shades,
New York City and Van Vert, N. Y,
have disappeared, with $50. 900 debts and
no assets left behind.
THE most disastrous fire ever had in
Shreveport. La. occurred the other
morning. The fire started in the third
story of Sour & Co. s hardware store and
the entire block was consumed. Losses
on buildings and stock, $3.50, 900; insur-
ance, $247, 600!
a TERRIBLE wreck occurred at $3.50
o'clock the other morning at the cross
ing of the Cincinnati Southern railway
and the Louisville & Nash Vile at juno
ton City, in almost the central part of
Kentucky. No one was killed outright,
but many passengers were injured
Passenger train No. 8 collided with a
heavy freight, and it was miraculous
that SO many escaped.