Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01

The Russian Government has ordered
the construction at Fedoroff's ship yard
at Nieolaief of gigantic ironclad of
12, 4S0 tons for the Black Sea feet,
which is being strengthened in every
way.
A SPECIAL from Petersburg, Va, says
it is reported that the five negroes who
were arrested for the murder of DIR. E.
Fl. Riggin. in Mecklenbourg County,
and committed, were taken from jail
and lynched.
The Observation-Disclosures tobacco
trust has fallen through and all the
property has been conveyed back to it's
original owners. The capital stock of
the corporation was S., 1000, 600.
THE steamer Curier from Heligo1and
went aground near Helsinger, great
belt, Denmark. Six men were drowned.
RAILWAY strikers in Scotland are ac-
cused of attempting to wreck train
between Glasgow and Kilbride.
SOME of the leading Philadelphia
manufacturers refuse information to
census officers.
AT East Chicago, Ind, Christmas
morning, while masquerade party was
in full blast at the Tod Opera House, a
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Fortunately no one was seriously hurt.
ISAAC B. SAwTELLE has. been convict
ed at Dover, n. H., of the murder of his
be hanged July 1.
THERE is split in the English Saliva.
ton Army over Darkest England"
which, it appears, was not the concep-
ton or the writing of General Booth,
l,,,fx fho ~ 1,iS virr3Sf h,y nd
man, Commissioner Smith, who has re-.
signed.
THE Savannah, (Ga.) Fire & Marine
Insurance Company has wound up it's
affairs. Threatened adverse legislation
was the principal cause of closing up
the business.
FoREPAUGH's Theater and the Masonic
Temple, Baltimore, were destroyed by
fire Christmas day. The loss was heavy.
FRANK E. DICKINSON and Minnie
Brundage fell through the ice while
skating on a mill pond near Ann Arbor,
Mich. Both were students at the Mich
igan University.
A WOMAN was killed in New York the
other day by hat pin entering her
brain when she fell on the sidewalk.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended Decem Der 25 num-
bered 1888, compared with 4O4 the pre-
vious week and 2SS the corresponding
week Of last year.
Two persons suffering from leprosy
have been inoculated at Madrid with
lymph according to the method of DIR.
Koch. The doctors of the hospital
where the lepers are being treated re-
port that the patients have apparently
been rapidly improving since the new
remedy was applied.
THE Westinghouse embarrassment at
Pittsburgh, Pa, was tided over by
bankers advancing the firm $500, 1000.
Mrs. JOHN DIEDRICH and her three
children persisted in fire at Rochester,
N. Y, recently.
THE abandoned farms in the State OF
Maine number $3.50.
FIRE in Weyaumega, Wis, the other
morning caused the death of Orrin En-
mis- and did much damage.
GUSTAV LARSON, a laborer, lost him
self in one of the big sewers of Mime
apolis and wandered three miles before
he could get out. He was badly pois-
oned.
THE Canadian Customs Department,
has imposed fine Of 800 on the German
sealing schooner Adele, which was
seized at Victoria, B. c. The vessel was
charged with making false clearance
THE fourth annual meeting of the
American Economic Association com
menced at Washington on the Goth.
THE 600 employees of the Pullman
works at Chicago have been notified o.
a, reduction of ten per cent. in wages.
| SEVERAL vessels went ashore of
Rhode Island during the storm of thu
GOTH Three seamen were drowned.
A REPORT from Pine Ridge Agenc,
says that after council in the Bas
Lands the Indians had resolved to sur
| render.
THREE locomotives have arrived a
Matadi, the terminus Of the Congo rail
way.
By an explosion Of a boiler at Kelly
Wells lumber mill on Black river, fort
miles from Newport, Ark, two me-
were killed. Another man and a woma,
were severely injured.