Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-08

An insurrection has broken out In
Paraguay. Several persons have been
killed and many wounded.
An expedition under Mr.. Jackson, an
officer of the British East Africa Com
pany, has arrived at Uganda and con-
cluded treaties with Mwanga and other
chiefs, placing Uganda exclusively UNI
der British influence.
PowDERLY. of the Knights Of Labor
is out with his views on the eight-hour
movement. He thinks good deal of
the profit-sharing scheme.
CONDUCTORS on roads centering at In
dianapolis, Ind, are smarting under
wholesale discharges. It seems q sneak
of spotter obtained free transportation
from conductors by giving the Masonic
sign of distress. He then reported the
conductors who showed him the favors
and they were discharged.
THE body of e. d. Walker, editor of
the Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York,
has been found floating in the Roanoke
river in Virginia with his hand grasp
ing fishing rod.
THE forebodings concerning labor
demonstra tions of the LIST of May were
quite unnecessary. In the United States
C0I DOAOOAS DIX uOA IL q low OAuAOS oAASA
peaceable demonstrations took place,
the most notable being the one at Chi
cago.
The public debt statement showed q
decrease during the month of April of
81, $50, 9O1.
A MISPLACED switch at Castroville
Col, caused the wrecking of a freight
train and the death of a fireman. The
engineer stuck to his post and was not
hurt.
BY an explosion of natural gas in .
cracker factory at Fort Wayne, Ind,
the building was wrecked and one man
fatally hurt.
DURING the labor demonstration at
Pesth, Hungary, on the 1st riot oc-
Cured at the rolling mills. The mob
was charged by the military and several
persons received baJonet stabs.
EXCITED French workingmen on the
Place de la Concorde, Paris, were
charged by squadron of cavalry on the
LIST. Several were wounded and many
were arrested.
A HURRICANE passed through Bloom
ing Grove, Tex, on the 1st. Many resi-
dences and the Baptist Church were de-
molished.
Two little girls were struck by an ex-
press train while playing on the rail-
road track at Norwood, Ont. One was
killed and the other fatally injured.
CHARLES F. WRIGHT, who shot and
killed Sheriff Marshall and Deputy
Thurber at Bensonia, Mich, last Au-
gust, has been sentenced to life impris-
onment for the crime.
THE Baptist and Catholic churches
and the Catholic parsonage at West
Boylston, Mass, were burned to the
ground recently.
THERE was a report that the Wells
Fargo messenger on the Southern Pacific
train had been robbed of $45, 600 at
Eagleville, Tex.
AN Israelite named Solomon is charged
with robbing the Bank of Bengal of
$3.50, 900.
THE theft of the jewels of the Duchess
of Edinburgh is stated to be an ire
parable loss.
BY a collision at railroad crossing at
Lima, o., recently an engineer and two
tramps were killed.
The Merchants Bank at Atlantic, N.
j., has suspended.
PASSENGER tickets from Kansas City
to St. Louis were selling as low as So. so
on the I'd.
AT Chicago George Sleaver is seeking
to establish a common law marriage with
Alice M. Case in order to get divorce
recorded. This is the first instance
where man has sought to establish the
fact of such a marriage, though several
women have done so.
A CoNMIssARY of police, accompanied
by number of gendarmes, went to the
house of a Russian Jew in Sofia, Bull
garia, to search for seditious documents.
The Jew resisted and procuring re-
volver shot and killed the commissary.
BUSINESS failures Oun's report) for
the seven days ended May 1 numbered
oil, compared with 21s the previous
week and 214 the corresponding week of
last year.
STRIKES in Chicago planning and iron
mills and reaper works were declared
on the I'd for the eight-hour day. The
master carpenters, it was reported, were
ready to make tho concession.