Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-15

PARKER. WEBB q 20 B packing mousse,
Detroit. Mich, has been Quilted by fire.
One man was burned to death and
dozen others injured. The fire was
caused by the explosion of a barrel of
tar.
THE viceroy of India telegraphs that
there has been a good rain throughout
the country and that the crop prospects
are favorable.
AT the Shelbyville (Ind-) cabinet
works. while Joseph Schott, Clint
Neeley and II. Thayer were trying to
get the elevator to descend, it fell thir-
ty feet, carrying with it the men and q
heavy load of furniture. The men were
horribly crushed.
WILLIAM STEINEcKER and Matthew
Dewald, employees in SEVERN & Oster-
meyers wholesale grocery at Indianap-
oils, Ind. were crushed in descending
elevator.
The strike of dock laborers and
others about the Carron and Hermit
has been in progress for weeks, is
showing decided signs of collapsing.
The employers are obtaining enough
free men" to carry on work in spite of
the unionists.
in session recently at Denver, Col
THE Persian government will per-
nit the export of products intended for
the worlds fair free of duty. The ex-
hibit will probably aggregate $500, 600.
THREE hostlers at the county fair at
Burnettstown, Pa, found bottle of
liquor secreted and all but drained it.
Alexander Chapel took commissions
and died in two hours and the others
were dying. An analysis showed equal
parts of strychnine and whisky.
DISPATCHES from Annoy, China. an
nounce that serious rioting occurred
| forty miles from that city. The riots
were quelled, but not before several
| mandarins and other officials had been
| killed.
ED NEAL, a cattle thief, was hanged
at Omaha, Neb., legally on the 9th for
the murder of an aged couple named
Jones. On the same day at the same
place John Coe, negro accused of out
raging little girl, was hanged by a
mob to an electric railway trolley wire.
THE Oliver & Roberts Wire Co., Pitts
burgh, Pa, has suspended.
MANN & Co., dry goods, Rochester,
n. Y, have assigned.
THE national bank at Enterprise,
Ore, was robbed by three men of So, 500,
money which they told the inundated
cashier belonged to John Smith
The September statement of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
for the entire system approximately
shows gross earnings of 81, 26S, 334, an
increase of $514, OFT.
| WILLIAM AMACHER, owner of a rae
ing stable, shot and killed Pat Milliron,
another horseman, at West side park,
Nashville, Tenn. The trouble is under
stood to have occurred about a woman.
EMANUEL Gladden., said to be a
former wealthy citizen of Wausau,
Wis, blew out his brains in Washing
ton park, Chicago. He had been plung-
ing on the board of trade and lost his
all.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended October 8 mum.
bered $40, compared with $50 the previ
Gus week and 215 the corresponding
week of last year.
THE machines which will compete in
the typesetting contest at Chicago are
the Mergenthaler linotype, the Rogers
typograph, the McMillen typesettine
i machine and the St. John typobar:
WADE and John Fielder were exc
| CuCeO dC MUSK. lex, LOT killing L OuCe
Thompson. Their excuse was that they
had fred into a house for the purpose
of frightening one of the inmates anc
did not intend to kill Thompson.
PROVISIONS in Warsaw, Russia, have
doubled in price.
THE European demand for American
made carts and light vehicles ha:
greatly increased. 1t has also been
found cheaper to send them across
without painting, leaving that to b<
done abroad
SEVERAL enormous man eating sharks
have been killed in the Longport, n
j., harbor. one being fifteen feet long
DURING the last year the Indian stu
dents at the school at Carlisle, Pa, hav.
earned SIG, 600 outside of the school.
The entry of rags from Marseilles
France, has been forbidden by the treas
ury department to prevent the bringing
of cholera to the country.