Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-29

In the Journal of tho Knights of La
Dor, Mr.. Powderly condemns the recent
report to the Legislature by the New
York State Board of Arbitration of the
New York Central railroad strike as
.'biased, - s'untruthful, malicious" and
sinspired by personal venom"
GERMANY is getting milder weather
with rain.
The strike of the South Side cable
railway employees of Chicago has been
averted, Assistant Superintendent Luck
retiring.
MRS HENRY SMITH was killed and
Mrs Neshlin fatally injured by being
thrown down a 100 foot embankment
near Orc, Col, by runaway horse.
BosTON business men, at a meeting
in Faneuil Hall, adopted resolution
against the free coinage of silver.
CAPTAIN JOHN Nancy, of Charleston,
s. c., was waylaid and murdered by
two negroes.
WHITECAPs who visited the house of
Richard Brown, colored, near Little
Rock, Ark, were fred on by him and
James Huntley was killed and another
man wounded.
PRESIDENT EGAN and Passenger Agent
Holdredge, of the Chicago, st. Paul &
Kansas City, have been indicted by the
Federal grand jury at St Paul for IL
legal manipulation of rates.
The Eastern States were visited by
serious transforms on the 22d Whole
sale destruction of bridges and dams
occurred. The Wyoming valley in
Pennsylvania was flooded, causing the
gravest fears.
A MOB recently evicted the Chinese
from Milton, Ore.
THE oatmeal mill and elevator at
Mazeppa, Mimi, belonging to E. NJ.
johnson, of Minneapolis, were burned
the other night The loss on the build
ing Is 100000, and $4,000 bushels of
grain were destroyed.
THE laborers employed upon the
works at Hare Island and Skibbereen,
Ireland, commenced by the Govern
ment for the relief of the distress ex-
listing among the poor classes of those
neighborhoods, have struck for an in
crease of wages.
A TRAIN on the National railway of
Mexico was wrecked recently at Acam-
baro, some one having loosened the
rails by drawing the spikes. Twelve
persons were injured,
THE Taubeneck Investigation ended
in his vindication. Taubeneck was an
Independent member of the Illinois
Legislature and talk was out that he
had once been in the ''pen' for counter
feiting.
THE Pension Office from January 1 to
Is issued 10,377 pension certificates, the
greater portion of them being granted
under the dependent pension law. This
| is said to be the largest number ever
issued during like period.
THE new Warner Bros. building at
Buffalo, n. Y. was destroyed by fire on
the 23d. The loss was $500, 600. Two
fremen were killed by falling walls.
| A RECENT agrarian outrage in County
Clare, Ireland, was the skinning of a
COW alive.
HARLEY Mccoy, slayer of Police In
spector Hawley, of Denver, has asked
for a change of venue. After the kill
ing Mccoy was taken to Pueblo to avoid
a lynching.
| BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
the seven days ended January % num-
bered $50, compared with AL the pre-
week of last year.
NEWS has been received of serious
collision between two freight trains at
| Artemisal, near CardenaS, Cuba. The
cars were badly wrecked, four persons
were killed and four others were more
Or less seriously injured.
Bon FORD, the slayer of Jesse James,
has been in another shooting scrape,
| this time at WalSen berg, Col
AN avalanche in Quebec filed Cham
plain street with snow to the depth OF
twenty feet. House fronts were broken
| in, but no person was killed.
To prevent an expected Anarchistio
outbreak the Paris police arrested all
suspicious characters lettering in the
Place de l'Opera.
The Latin s. Rand powder mills ex
ploded at Cresson, Pa. Loss, $4,000
No one in ured.
GEORGE KENDALL, the young English
farm hand of Arlington, N. j., who wa:
bitten in the lip by pet skye terrier
two months ago, died at Chamber:
Street Hospital, New York. a victim O.
hydrophobia in it's most horrible form
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
THE President has appointed Davit
M. benjamin., of Wisconsin, Commits
sioner to the Worlds Fair, vice John L
Mitchell, resigned.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomi
nation of n. 2. Hill, Of Colorado, Viii
liam A. Russell, of Massachusetts,. ant
Lambert Tree, Of Chicago, as Commits
! sioners to consider the establishment
an international coin or coins.
> IN poll of the Senate CT Alabama
80 out of SO members being present, tn
vote was unanimous for Cleveland 70
President. A poll of the House shove,
: rs present out of 100. OF these 6S wer
for Cleveland and scattering.
THE northbound cannonban train o.
the Illinois Central road was ditched nea
Middle burgh. about forty miles soutl
of Jackson, Tenn, by striking a broker
rail. The entire train was thrown from
the track while running forty miles al
hour but no one was seriously hurt
: LUCY DECKER YOUNG, eighth wife O
Brigham Young, died at Salt Lake City
Utah, recently. There are only sever
left, including Amelia Folsom the favor
lite wife.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND has forbidden
games of chance in church fairs unde
his jurisdiction.
A FEARFUL disaster occurred recent
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