Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-19

being caught when the debris took fire.
DURING the month of October, 1891.
80, GAG pensions of all classes were
granted, the first payments on which
aggregated 81, 358. COS or S132. 80 to each
pensioner.
THE steamer Hawarden Castle was
wrecked at the mouth of the Mersey,
England, during the storm on the 18th.
ACCORDING to a report made to the
general assembly of the Knights of
Labor, ex-General Treasurer Turner's
accounts are between $4,000 and $751;
600 short
EVANGELIST SAM SMALL was badly
beaten by Saloonkeeper Tom Miner at
Atlanta, Ga He had charged Miner
with deserving his family.
ROBBERS held up the Chicago express
% miles south of Milwaukee at a m.
on the 18th. A large amount of booty
was secured. Dynamite was used as
in other recent train robberies.
The British ship Talisman was re-
ported on her beam ends off the En-
glish coast Fifty tons of wheat were
jettisoned.
THERE is trouble brewing with the
Utes in the vicinity of Fort Duchesne,
Utah.
THE jury in the Woodruff case at
Little Rock, Ark. were unable to agree
and were discharged. The jury stood
six for conviction and six for acquittai.
PUBLIC sentiment in Chicago was
much divided as to the action of the
police in raiding anarchist meeting
places The mayor upheld the officers
in their course.
The receipts from customs at New
York during the first ten days of No
vem Der were So. O42, s03, or $4O3, 997 less
than the receipts during the correspond
ing period last year.
AN entire family of five persons was
annihilated oy a tenement house fire in
! Columbus, o.
CLEARING house returns for the week
| ended November IL showed an average
decrease of Ii. 1 compared with the cor
| responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was III.
AN alleged Clan-na-Gael agent was
| found near Greencastle, Ind, with
thirty-seven shot wounds in his body.
w. E. BAIRD, president of the Bank
| of Madeira, Cal, and founder of the
John Brown colony, is said to be $780,
900 short in his accounts and to have
committed many forgeries-
DUN's weekly trade report makes the
usual bright statement. The iron out
put is the largest on record and reports
from the cities are good.
| A DISPATCH from Essen, one of the
towns in the great coal producing dis
trict of Germany, reports terrific ex-
plosion of fre-damp by which eleven
| miners were killed and two others in
jured.
| in, ~
Pittsburgh, Pa, destroyed several
structures, causing S75, 900 loss.
THE fires on the coal docks at Du-
luth, Mimi, which have been burning
for over a week, have spread to the
Northwestern Fuel Co. s docks. The
damage is now estimated at $3.50, 900.
| ALEXANDER CHAMBERS was hanged at
Fayette, Miss, for the murder of his
partner July Is in a quarrel over %
cents.
| BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended November IL num-
bered 291, compared with 226 the
previous week and 266 the correspond.
| ing week of last year.
By the derailing of a passenger train
near Calvert. Tex, four men were
badly injured.
| BY the explosion of twenty-five
pounds of powder William and Dick
Joy, farmer boys living near Kingston.
N. NJ, were literally blown to pieces.
THE general assembly of the Knights
of Labor passed resolutions looking to
cooperation with the federation OF
labor.
| SAN FRANCISCO has so far raised $50,
900 as fund to secure the holding OF
the national republican convention
| there.
PEARL PARKER, boy Is years of age
living six miles north of Cheyenne, Col.
in attempting to mount a pony, acct
dentally spurred the animal, which
threw him and dragged him to death
ARTHUR w. BoYINGToN, postmaster
at Highland park, the aristocrati,
suburb of Chicago on the Northwestern
road has been arrested for embezzle
ment of post Office funds.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
THE tests of nickel steel plates fol
war ships made by the navy depart
ment are said to be more than salts
factory.
SECRETARY NOBLE has ordered the
dismissal of Pension Clerk Louis "
Bogy, of ST Louis, for writing a move
slandering the public men and women
of Washington.
INTERNAL REVENUE COMMISSIONED