Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-24

Co. the present officers and directors
were reelected
SECRETARY FOSTER has issued a cir
cular giving notice that no more bonds
OF the AZ loan would be received for
continuance at Q per cent. after the
30th- Bonds not then continued would
be redeemed on presentation
Two charred bodies were found in
the ruins of the Commercial-Advertis
building, New York.
AMONG the miracles asserted to be
authentic as resulting from the exhibi-
ton of the holy coat at Treves are the
curing of the withered arm of an alb
bess, the restoring of the sight of blind
persons and the curing of cripples-
The James Wick seed corporation.
Rochester, n. Y, has made an assign
ment.
SEVEN business houses at Camargo,
I'LL, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
900.
CAPT. A. J. SIMPSONS mill at Layao
| creek, Tex. was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $50. OOO
house in Memphis, Tenn, was destroyed
by fire Loss, $50, 900.
MEXICAN independence day was cele-
| wild bull and bear tied to a stake.
In their struggles they broke the ropes
| and the bear elm bed out of the arena
and women and children were trampled
on and bruised.
GREAT prairie fires have been sweep
ing through Stutsman and Eddy coun-
ties, n. D.
THE report of the seal experts sent
| to Alaska is that the taking of seals on
| the open sea must be stopped or the
species will become extinct
| BUSINESS futures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended Septem Der II num-
bered $50, compared with 214 the pre-
vious week and 100 the corresponding
week of last year.
| The stallion Nelson trotted mile in
2:10 on the track at Grand Rapids, Mich.
| A FIRE at 173 and IT'S Monroe street,
Chicago, destroyed much printing ma
teria1 of Jameson & Monroe, including
forms of text books to be used by the
schools of Missouri
| ONE of the Dalton boys was over
| taken, wounded and captured seventy
five miles west of Muskogee, L T.
| The president issued his proclama-
ton opening Indian lands in Oklahoma
on the 18th, setting the time for the
22d. Great excitement occurred on the
border, boomers everywhere preparing
| for the rush.
CHICAGO police believe that Vera Ava
is the notorious Diss Debar.
| THE tenement house, $40 and 551
Sedgwick street, Chicago, was burned
on the morning of the 10th. Five lives
were lost
r. II. DUNCAN was executed at Eagle
Pass, Tex, for the murder of the Will
Hanson family in San Saba county,
February, 1889.
BARON NoRDENsKIoLD, of Sweden,
| has been arrested for vandalism. He
| was given permission to visit the cliff
dwellings on the Ute reservation in
| Colorado on condition that he would
not injure anything, when he started in
a work of destruction, gathering up
many boxes of relics which he shipped
to New York.
DURING a quarrel over some tres
passing stock near Keystone. Cherokee
strip, Amos Chapman, the Indian scout
of Camp Supply, shot and killed two
| cowboys, Bert Mason and Short.
! DISPATCHES from Zanzibar state that
Lieut.. Tettenborn and sixty-fve sur
vivors of the Zalewski expedition have
| arrived at Bagamoyo.
THE threatened destruction of Thorpe.
Wis, was averted. Only the lumber
mill was destroyed.
THE Mexican government has de-
clared the concession granted to Messrs.
Ellis and Ferguson for the colonization
of negroes in Mexico forfeited on &C
count of noncompliance with the con.
| tract
ALBERT MoREA, the negro of Savan.
nah. Ga, who killed his two wives by
cutting their threats with razors, was
hanged
IN the Michigan Methodist confer
ence a vote was taken on the matter
of admitting women as lay delegates
After full discussion the conference
decided in favor of the ladies by vote
of 149 to 73