Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-02


be fully able to meet any of the obi
cations likely to accrue.
THE British steamship Cid, 976 tons,
bound from Newcastle-on-Tyne for Ma
pies, has been wrecked off the French
coast
THE total value of the exports of mer-
chandise from the United States during
the twelve months ended May 81, 1891,
was $s79, s94, S94. The value of the ina
ports of merchandise in the same time
was Ss46, S77, O32.
The German authorities are taking
extraordinary precautions to prevent
the spread of infectious diseases from
the Russian Jews who are focking
through the country.
A PLEASURE party, consisting of five
persons, left Cincinnati recently in a
yawl and were run down by a barge.
All of them were drowned One of the
party was a Miss Stems, stenographer
to Hon. Richard Smith, of the CONNER.
cial-Gazette.
THERE was a terrible c1oudburst in
Cherokee county, n. c. Two illicit dis
tiilers lost their lives in the storm.
THE Michigan senate has reduced the
worlds fair appropriation to 100000.
The house will concur.
THE trial of the New Haven railroad
directors at New York for heating their
cars by stoves contrary to law, by
which life was lost, ended in their ac-
quittal
The Pulaski county, Ark, grand jury
has returned an indictment against ex-
State Treasurer William E. Woodruff,
charging him with embezzlement
The British ship New York, Capt.
Thomas, from Swansea, February 6, for
| San Francisco, has been wrecked on
Staten island, Terra del Fuego, while
attempting to round Cape Horn The
officers and crew escaped
! Two bricklayers were killed by the
fall Of scaffolding at Elizabethport, n.
j. Several other workmen were in
jured
IT is said the Wabash road has Sc.
cured control of the St Louis, Alton &
Springfield road
| HARVARD won the university boat
race at New Haven, Conn, on the 26th,
defeating Yale for the first time since
1885.
JACK THE RIPPER has informed the
Whitechapel vigilance committee that
he is about to perform another opera
ton In his letter he said he had
been nearly caught twice.
DURING the celebration Of St Johns
day by the masons at New Orleans a
runaway occurred. A man was killed
and two women badly hurt
A TORNADO near Mount Carmel, Pa
destroyed the Patterson Coal Coz
breaker, killing six men.
A SLEEPER on the Northern Pacific
was ditched near Rosebud, Mont
Among the injured was Francis Muir
ply, the temperance man
FIRE in C. n. Nelson's lumber mill:
at Colquitt, Mimi, destroyed lumber
and sheds valued at $14o,O 200. There
was an insurance of blanket form
amounting to $500, 600.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) TO,
the seven days ended June 25 numbered
234, compared with 253 the previou.
week and 2O2 the corresponding weel
of last year.
BRAVE Capt. Manning of engine com
pany No. 6, Chicago. whose deeds O.
heroism are well known to members o.
the fire department, died as the result
of falling off the roof of a burning
wagon shop
Two negroes living in Cass county
Tex, ten miles from Dangerfeld, namel
Will Hartsield and Nun Shepard, wer,
taken out and shot to death by un
known parties. Shepard had a no
toriously bad reputation and was yer,
troublesome negro.
| STEVEN STAKENBURG, student a
the normal school at Marion, Ind, fel
dead while playing football.
KIMBALL Bros, carriage manufact
urers of Boston, have assigned witt
500, 600 liabilities and $75, 900 nomina
assets.
Tom HARRIS, colored, was hanged in
ide the Jail yard at Shreveport, La
for the murder of his mistress.
The people of British Honduras ar
expected to make a notable display a
the worlds fair
In fight at park near Louisville
KY, Sidney Smith was killed and Cla
Stuart was mortally wounded. The
had been rivals in love.