Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-26

TIE American Loan & Trust Com
pany, of New York, has closed its
doors
BETWEEN thirty and forty human
skeletons have been exhumed by work
men excavating for Methodist chapel
at Forty-second street and Brooklyn
avenue, Chicago. Lieutenant Cain be-
lieves that the bones are those of In
dams exterminated by whites.
A MOTHER and four children lost
their lives at 40 Tomplzins street. New
York. The man who accidentally
caused the disaster was fatally burned.
Ed HELLER, from the Old South mine,
reports at Denver, Col, a snowslide
there which carried away the boarding
house and six men. Three were rescued
and three persisted in the slide. The
names of those killed are Billy Kohler,
Tom Kendall and William Kerns.
1T is semi-offcially reported that the
purchasing departments of the Union
Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads
will be consolidated, with Abraham
Gould, brother of Jay Gould, as pur-
chasing agent The testing depart
ment of the Union Pacific, which has
been very heavy expense with no
beneficial results, will be abolished.
AN explosion of natural gas occurred
in the house of William Kuntz at Mar
tins Ferry, O., by which nine persons
were badly burned, two of them fatally.
The census bureau announces the
population of the state of Tennessee
by races as follows: White, 1882, GIL;
colored, 434, 800: Indians, rs, Chinese,
81; Japanese, 10; total, 1,767,51s The
population of West Virginia is given as
follows: White, 729, 262; colored SO, sos;
Indians, s; Chinese, 10; total, 762, 799.
Four men were injured by the ex-
plosion of a key of powder in A. ".
Cards hardware store, Watseka, Ill.
Several buildings were burned, causing
$40, 900 loss.
Two small children of Farmer John
son, living north of Monticello, Wis,
were burned to death while alone in
the house.
THE bill making prize fighting in
Texas a penitentiary offense has passed
the Texas house. The senate is also
expected to pass it.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Lexington,
KY, says: "Antico, the great son of
Electioneer, has been sold to S. A.
Brown, of Kalamazoo, Mich, for $50,
OOO''
FEW days ago an account was pub
1iShed of the murder of Anthony Dew
ster by Indians near Pine Ridge, S. D.,
and the scalping of three of his children.
One of the children, boy, has just
been found hung up by the heels to the
limb of a tree. Nothing has been heard
of the other children.
A BAD accident occurred in the Fourth
avenue railroad tunnel at New York on
the Goth, two trains being in collision
and the wreck taking fire. Six persons
were killed and several injured
The sleet storm on the 10th and goth
proved very disastrous to wires from
Chicago to 600 miles west.
THE worlds fair directors have given
up the lake front and will concentrate
the show in Jackson park.
THE papers of Paris denounce French
artists for sending pictures to the art
exposition in Berlin. Forty-five artists
have already withdrawn their works.
CosTERL1NE & Co.'s nitro-glycerine
magazine, four miles from Findlay, O.,
exploded with report that was heard
for fifty miles around About 500 quarts
of the explosive went up. 1t was
| thought some lives were lost.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) fol
| the seven days ended February 10 mum
bered 295, compared with 297 the pre-
vious week and 271 the corresponding
| week of last year.
YOUNG MITCHELL defeated George L.
Blanche, the marine, at the California
Athletic club in eleven rounds. It is
reported that La Blanche threw the
fight in the interest of the pool rooms
Thousands changed hands.
| The bonds1nen of eX-TreaSurer Wood
ruff, of Arkansas, have paid up hi
shortage.
| AN attempt was made at Buenos Ayre
| to assassinate Gen. Roca, formerly min
lister of the interior. A man fired a re
volver at him, but fortunately the gen
eral was only slightly wounded. Tn
would be assassin was arrested and i'm
prisoned.
A DOG which struck the gun Sam Nc
Pherson of Franklin, Tenn, was hold
ing caused it to discharge and McPher
son was killed.