Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-01


fenced at Salt Lake City. Utah, to ten
years. imprisonment for killing . man
thirty-two years ago It was . Mormon
Church murder.
A MONOPOLY in axes has been perfeuee
ed by the formation of the American
Axe & Tool Company with capital Of
q, OO0, 600.
HoL.xHAY, the Michigan murderer and
highwayman, was reported attempting
10 starve himself to death.
3 a SAN AUGUSTINE, Tex, dispatch re-
Gently stated that Sim Garrett and Jerry
Teel were lynched for attempting to
p6ison Colonel John 81. Brooks For
want of something better the mob
hanged the men on meat hooks at the
butcher shop.
THE oil refinery Of Sir w. A. Rose &
Co., London, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Loss, $600, 900.
SAN FRANCISCO experienced severe
shock of earthquake on the Gath.
FoR three days continuous rain fell
all over Texas. Rivers and bayous were
out of their banks. Bridges were swept
away and travellers delayed. ALI stock
in the lowlands and canebrakes were
drowned, but no loss Of life was reported.
JANE ARTHURs was burned to death in
her home at Be1leville, Ont, the other
night. Her husband was also burned,
probably fatally.
DURING fire at the Unicorn Silk
Manufacturing Company's works at Cat
iasaqua, Pa, an explosion of vitriol took
place. Five men were killed and many
shockingly injured.
THE strike at Means shoe factory,
Brocton, Mass, has ended in a COM
promise. s n
THE employees of Burns shoe factory,
Lynn, Mass, have all struck for better
wages.
THERE was an anti-Semitic riot at
Bai1a, forty-three miles southwest Of
Cracow, Austria, recently. Many jewish
shops wxke sacked. Eleven Of the mob
were killed by troops and many injured.
THE comb factory at Shelton, Conn,
and three ad Looming tenements have
been destroyed by fire and Mrs. Slicu
lost her life. The loss was $4,000.
FIVE sisters named Domiveroff COM
mitted suicide together at Moscow, Rus
STA, the other day. The young women
were Nihiists and feared arrest.
An explosion of dynamite occurred in
the drug store of II. r. Doane, at Della
van, Wis, recently. Doane and another
man persisted.
COLONEL Fl. BERRY, a. large cattle
owner of Southwest New Mexico, has
died from hydrophobia, the effects of q
bite from rabid coyote.
PORTUGUESE atSt. Vincent are charged
with refusing aid to shipwrecked British
seamen.
SECRETARY WINDoM has ordered the
return to China of nineteen Cinnamon
now in custody in Washington State. -
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended April "a num-
bered 21S. compared with 214 the
previous week and 213 the correspond
ing week of last year.
CAPTAIN SCHMITS, a Russian officer,
who sold his torpedo plans to the Ger
mans for 81, 600, has been ordered to be
shot.
JAMES FALLON, . pugilist, was killed
in, glove fight with another pugilist
named John Murray at the Bay State
Athletic Club rooms, Boston, the other
night. #A&
COLONEL E. w. DAVIS, first deputy
sheriff of Essex County, N. j., is miss
ing and it is stated that his accounts are
short over $40, 600.
JAY GOULD is said to have obtained
control of the Mexican Central.
The Rock Island has arranged for
terminal facilities at Denver, Col.
CONGRESS has voted $3.50, 900 for the
relief of the flood victims of the Lower
Mississippi. sf 8I@t
FIRE at Duluth, Mimi, destroyed
5000, 600 feet of lumber belonging to
Payne & Co., at North Pacific Junction.
The loss was estimated at 500, 600; in
sured for $4,000.
TWELVE umbermen while crossing
the rapids on Otter river, Mich, in
canoe were capsized. Ten reached the
shore, but Charles Sebault and Louis
were drowned.
AN English syndicate has bought the
Western railway of the Argentine Re-
public for 81, 200. 900. This gives the
some cash. tf-t
The big bucket shop of the Doran-
Wright Company, New York, has sus-
pended. rss,..s $3.50.
ADDITIONAL. DISPATCHES.