Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10

II is understood that the Attorney
General will take an appeal from tn.
decision of the Court of Claims, which
makes the Government responsible Il
the members Of Congress- for their los
of salary through the Silcott defalca
ton.
i SPECIAL INSPECTOR DAVIS reports thu
Cherokee Strip entirely free of would-b.
settlers.
By an explosion of fire damp in .
shaft at Nanticoke. Pa, the other day
three miners were killed and eight Sc
riously injured.
THE Pacific mail steamship China ha.
lowered the record from San Francisco
to Hong Kong to twenty days
THE British war ship Sultan has cap
tured of Zanzibar dhow with twelve
enslaved Wangamwese porters aboard
THREE small children of William
Brown, living near Huron, s. D., per
ished the other night while locked il
their home by their parents. the house
catching fire in some way.
IN three cases of shoes from George
town, Mass, II. G. Peister, q merchant
of Petoskey, Mich, found seven one
pound cartridges of dynamite. They
| were frozen and had not thawed out
| SIX of the leading white lead manu-.
featuring companies of New York State
have consolidated under the name OF
the National Lead & Oil Company. The
capital of the new company is 81, 600, 600.
| The sCrike OF the Quarrymen at Joliet,
ILL.,, ended in a victory for the men.
| THE report of a rupture between Bull
garia and Servia is officially declared to
be untrue.
FAST day was strictly observed
| throughout Massachusetts and New
| Hampshire on the Sd.
The treasurer of the Canton of Ticino.
Switzerland, has been arrested for en-
bezzling 1000, 600 francs.
| ALL the non-union plumbers of Chi
| cago joined the union strikers
| NEWS has been received at Tacoma,
Wash, of the bark Embleton. supposed
to have been lost last fall
THE Horace Greeley homestead at
Chappaqua, N. Y, burned to the ground
recently. ALI the books, a water color
picture of Mrs. Greeley and bust of
Horace Greeley were saved by the
neighbors. Miss Gabrielle Greeley was
at church in Pleasantville at the time
On the Hudson River railroad, near
Garrison, N. Y. freight train ran into
a mass of fallen rock before the flagman
had time to give warning. Three train
men were hurt and the engine and
twelve cars wrecked.
IT was rumored on the 4th that the
OShea divorce case, in which Mr.. Par
nell was correspondent, had been finally
settled.
THE strike of the coopers of Mime
apolis, Mimi, has ended in victory for
the men.
SIX men have been killed by explo-
sions OF oil gas in a tunnel being bored
near Santa Paula, Cal
By the explosion of boiler at an oil
well near Smiths Ferry, Pa, Ford M.
Dawson, workman, was blown nearly
mile and instantly killed.
In the famous Cerneau-Scottish rite
case against the grand lodge of Iowa,
Judge Preston has overruled motion
of the defense to throw the matter out
of court on the alleged grounds that the
court had no Jurisdiction in the matter,
the Cerneau-Scottish rite not being an
incorporated body. The Cerneaus con-
slider this decisive victory.
Two HUNDRED farms were sold under
mortgage in two days by Sheriff John
son, of Atlantic County, N. j. One
farmer was so crazed at losing his home
that he burned himself in his dwelling
SEVERE hurricanes on the Pacific
during March caused many disasters on
the coast of the New Hebrides. Several
ships were wrecked at Labour. A vessel
grounded at Mallicello and five whites
and thirty natives were drowned, while
thirty others who reached the shore
were massacred by natives.
MUCH of Horace Greeley's correspond
ence, some Of it invaluable, was de-
stroyed by the recent fire at the home
stead at Chappaqua, N. Y.
A HEAVY wind storm destroyed two
churches and other property at Arkan-
sas City, Ark, recently double mis-
fortune as the city was three feet under
water.
BUSINESS failures lDun's report) for
the seven days ended April numbered
FOG, compared with 243 the previous
week and 222 the corresponding week of
last year.