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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Mohawk block at Jacksonville,
Fla, has been destroyed by fire. The
loss was heavy.
Four Italians were buried alive by a
caving sewer at Providence, r. l., on
the 10Th.
OVER twenty workmen, mostly 1tal-
ians, were killed by the explosion of a
carload of dynamite on the Hudson
River road near Tarrytown, N. Y, on
the 10th. The destruction was terrible
and the bodies were frightfully mutt
lated. Ten or more men were injured
The dead body of a man whose de-
scription TALES almost exactly with
that of the missing 81. Joy Hanchette,
who came from California in charge of
the orange carnival, has been picked
out of the lake at Chicago by the police.
Word has been sent to the friends of
Mr.. Hanchette.
A SERIOUS cyclone is reported to have
passed through the southern part of
Iowa, doing considerable damage to
fruit and shade trees, fences and small
buildings. No one was injured so far
as is known.
| SEVEN earthquake shocks were dis
! tinctly felt at Susanville, Cal. on the
the 10th, two of them being very heavy.
The Norwegian bark Sondrenorge
went ashore in a dense fog at Red
Point, Prince Edward island.
| THE British census office has received
many complaints from Wales that the
mber of persons speaking the Welsh
language has not been fully reported
in the returns.
THE Northern Pacific Co. has been
robbed of SO, 900 or $12, 900 on the line
between Chippewa Falls and Abbotts-
ford. Unknown parties opened the
safe.
The Spanish steamship Antonio has
arrived at New Orleans from Hiogo
Japan, with %, $50 sacks of uncleaned
rice, consigned to the Consolidated Rice
Co. and others. This is the first cargo
of the kind ever received at New Or
leans, and is sent as commercial ven
ture. If successful other shipments
will follow and other seaports exploited
THE secretary of the interior has di
rected that the Catholic sisters, Angels
O'Callahan and Vincenda Coughlin, the
teachers who were dismissed from thu
government school on the Menominet
reservation in Wisconsin by Agen-
Kelsey, be restored to their positions.
The surplus in the treasury is report
} ed increasing.
DAYS lumber yard at Minneapolis
Mimi, has been destroyed by fire
Loss, $3.50, 600.
} The president has issued proclama
ton opening to public settlement un
, der the homestead law about 1, 600, 90
acres of land in Fort Berthold India,
reservation, in the northwestern par
! of North Dakota
THE pugilistic encounter betwee
5 jackson, of Australia, and Corbett, O
; California. took place at San Francisc
on the 21st and ended in a draw.
, THERE was riot at West Superior
3 Wis, on the Goth caused by the labor
5 ers' strike. A special guard in charg
r of some men was roughly handled.
2 JOSHUA SCHRETER, a wealthy farme
s living near Danville, Ill, has bee
4 stricken with a disease resemblin
. cholera
. THREE persons have died and score
r Of others have been made seriously
+ by eating decayed smoked sturgeo
sold in Pittsburgh, Pa, and vicinity.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

HARDLY 20 per cent of the British
house of commons reappeared on the
opening of the house the other day.
The influenza, the tedium of the land
bill, and general discomfort combined
to present an array Of empty benches
The attendance was so meager that the
whips were obliged to gather members
from the lobbies and even to send to
the clubs to get sufficient number to
make a Quorum.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

A MADRID dispatch says that a large
body of Spanish troops is being massed
at Badajose, near the Portuguese from
tier, and that a Spanish squadron is
cruising near Lisbon. The Spanish
government makes no secret of its in
tention to intervene should a republic
be declared in Portugal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

ATTORNEY MILLER has re-
ferred all the papers submitted to him
by the civil service commission in the
case of Green B. Raum, Jr., and the
other persons alleged to be connected
with appointments to minor positions
in the pension Office to the United States
attorney for the District of Colum bia
for whatever action is required by the
law
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
stopped the Game.

CARTHAGE, Mo-, May 25.-Much ex-
element prevails here on account of
the arrest by a deputy sheriff of the
members of the Carthage and Joplin
baseball teams while a match game
was in progress in Carter's park yester-
day. A state warrant was sworn out
by w. E Hall before Esquire Buckbee,
charging them wit b breaking the Sum
day laws
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

LISBON advices state that an out
break has been entirely averted by the
payment of arrears to the troops in
the garrisons, who have been showing
signs of discomfort and incipient
mutiny. King Charles himself advanced
for the payment of the palace guards
and employees out of his own private
purse, and Queen Natalie did the same
for the females of the royal household.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

q A GIGANTIC pool box scheme involv-
ing 500. 600 organized under the name
of the New Haven jockey club has col
lapsed. The scheme was backed by a
syndicate composed of policy room pro-
prietors, and the plan was to give a
handicap race at the Sheepshead Bay
track with prizes of $50, ZOO, $25, 900 and
5000, the remaining $4,000 of the
800. 900 to go into the pockets of the
hackers as commissions
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
Innocent Ducks,

CHICAGO, May 21.-The Rock Island
and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
which have been accusing each other
of manipulating passenger rates
through scalpers' Offices, were given an
opportunity to state their cases to Chair
man Finley yesterday. There were
three distinct cases heard, two of them
being against the Rock Island and one
against the Atchison- Each road denied
the allegations of the other. The chair
man will give his decision later.
Australian Federation
MELBOURNE, May 21.-The negotia-
tons which have been carried on by
the premiers of Victoria, New South
Wales and Australia with a view to the
adoption Of q uniform action in submit
ting the federation proposals to the
people of each Of those colonies have
failed As result of this failure each
of these colonies has decided to follow
its own course
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

THE trial of Capt Loar and the dep
uties, charged with murder in causing
the death of strikers on the occasion of
the recent coke riot, ended in the ac-
quittal of all the accused.
A CABLEGRAM from Buenos Ayres
says a revolution has broken out in the
province of Cordoba The insurgents
have cut the telegraph wires.
FEVER is raging at Malta and there
is an average of forty of the officers and
men of each of the vessels of the Brit
ish feet Frustrated with the disease.
The Malta hospitals are already ter
ribly overcrowded by the unceasing in
fiux of patients.
THE Gillian government steamers
Imperiali, Almirante Condell and Sar-
jente Aldea landed 200 men in Talltal
and stormed the custom house. That
place is now in the hands of the gov
eminent forces.
POLICE of the British South Africa
Co. defeated force of Portuguese and
natives on the Pungwe river.
The trial at Bani, Italy, of 179 mem
bers of the Mala Vita society has end
ed. Fourteen members are acquitted,
while 1865 members are sentenced to
terms of imprisonment varying from
six months to fifteen years
| CLEARING house returns for the week
ended May % showed an average de-
crease of 49, compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the decrease was ola
LORD RoMILLY and two female do
mestics were killed by the fumes from
a parafine lamp which had been upset
in the night time at his lordship's Lon
don residence.
BARON KALNOKY DE KoROsPATKA, a
nephew of Count Kalnoky. of Austria,
recently fought a duel with rapiers in
jackson park, Chicago, with an un-
known southerner over the charms OF
an opera singer. The baron was
slightly wounded
THREE men at least were drowned
near Sandstone, Mimi. by a boat going
over the rapids of Kettle river.
THE Davis drug house and adjoining
premises at Detroit, Mich, were burned
recently. Loss, S25O,OO
THE Dalton gang of train robbers
!. was run down in the Indian territory
One of the Da1tons was killed and q
soldier was wounded.
: The London stock exchange during
/ the week ended May % was in suspense
; awaiting events in Europe and America
A 6rmer feeling was noticed The con
J tinental bourses were more settled
The car was reported angry at thu
| managers of the French exhibition a
Moscow for obtaining q loan from tn,
Jews
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
Profitable For Canada

OTTAWA, Ont, May 2o.-Sir John He
Donald informed the labor deputatior5
demanding increased restriction upon
Chinese immigration that in view OF
the efforts the government was. making
TO seca are increased trade relations with
China it would be prejudicial to the in
terests of Canada. Therefore the tax
would remain as it was, $50 per capita,
which was imposed upon all Cinnamon
entering the dominion Sir John
further stated that nearly every China
man now arriving in Canada made his
way across the border into the United
States The dominion suffered nothing
by the alleged Chinese immigration
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
CURRENT COMMENT.

SECRETARY RUsK has ordered the
of Canadian live stock.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mall

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE mikado has promised swift pun
ishment for the man who Ibid up the
cZarewitch.
The national union convention opened
at Cincinnati on the 10th. The third
party sentiment seemed to be quite
strong.
Ex-QUEEN NATALIE was forced to
submit and she was escorted from Ser
via to the Hungarian frontier. Her
treatment provoked resentment against
the ministry and possibly might change
the course of politics
Miss PHOEBE CoUzINs lost the first
point in her suit against the worlds
fair.
THE Massachusetts house has passed
resolution appropriating S750,00O for
the state worlds fair display.
THERE is a possibility that Rev. Dr.
Phillips Brooks may not be bishop of
Massachusetts, after all. Statements
by Rev. DIR. B. F. Decosta indicate that
general movement will be made by
Episcopal clergymen to prevent con-
frmation on the same ground that Rev.
DIR. Heber Newton's trial has been
asked for.
SIeNoR CoRTE, the Italian consul at
New Orleans, was passenger on board
the City of Berlin, which sailed from
New York for Liverpool on the Goth.
The Transmississippi congress at
Denver, Col, was outspoken for free
silver.
WHAT is known as the Merritt con-
spiracy law, the passage of which was
the result of the anarchist riots in Chi
cago, has been repealed by vote of
the Illinois house.
The national union convention at Gin
cinnati on the Goth decided upon the
formation of a third party and adj
journed.
ALPHoNso TAFT. ex-minister of war,
died at San Diego, Cal, on the 21st,
aged 80.
A FEATURE of the Baptist convention
at Cincinnati was the vindication of
Secretary Morehouse, who was re-
elected almost unanimously.
| DIR. w. III. GREEN, of Princeton, was
elected moderator of the Presbyterian
assembly in session at Detroit, Mich.
| THE international postal congress
was opened at Vienna on the 21st by
the Austrian minister of commerce.
The first test vote in the Canadian
parliament on motion to amend the
present franchise act showed 20 major
ity for the government.
PIERRE LATI, the noted French nauti
cal novelist, has been elected to the
academy, defeating Emile lola, Ferdi
nand Fabre and Viscount Bormer.
JOHN P. ST. JOHN opposes the peo
pies party, which he thinks is domi
mated by the liquor interest.
WHILE not desiring to enter con
troversy with ex-Gov. Boyd on the sub
ject, the president desires to have it un
derstood that he did not have any dis
cussion with that gentleman ON his re
cent visit to Nebraska in regard to the
merits of the gubernatorial contest il
that state, and also he said nothing tx
anyone there against or in favor of the
interests of either candidate.
KENTUCKY republicans nominated thu
following ticket: For governor, T. A
Wood, of Mount Sterling; for attorney
general, L. ]. Crawford, of Newport
for treasurer, Eli Farmer, of Somerset
for superintendent of public instruc
ton, L. V. Dodge, of Berea; for registe
of land office, w. J. A. Rardine, o
Greenup; for clerk of court of appeals
E. r. Blaine, of Lexington.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
Beaten on a Foul.

NEW ORLEANS. May 2o.-The Hge
weight glove fight between Andy
Bowen, the Louisiana tornado" and
Billy Meyer. the Streator cyclone"
took place last evening at the famous
Olympic club, which offered purse Of
s, 200. The betting was in favor Of
Meyer. In the twenty-fourth round
Meyer fouled Bowen several times and
during wrangle between Meyers and
Bowen's seconds the referee awarded
the light to Bowen ON foul. The mill
was very unsatisfactory one and the
final decision IN the fight Will be reAs
dered to-day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
Australian Federation.
Found Dead i'm Bed.

ST.. JOSEPH, Mo-, May 2L-James
Flannery, a travelling man for r L
Mcdonald & Co, was found dead in
bed at the American house. A cor
oner's jury decided he died from an
over dose of morphine. The deceased
was a well known resident of Platte
City and had been treasurer of Platte
county for two terms
At the annual meeting of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas directors George
Rockefeller was elected director in
place of 81. Z. Enos, deceased Other
directors remained unchanged
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
Mason Matters.

MASON, Tex, Aug. 0.-Holcomb
Post G. A. R. No. 81 was organized
here with fourteen members this
week, with the following officers: w.
B. Sands, commander; A. F. Glast-
brenner, first vice commander, NJ. V.
Bridges, second vice commander.
The latest town improvement is the
opening of Ranck street, beginning at
the northwest corner of the square and
running north on direct line with
College avenue to the intersection of
Bower street.
1t is to be one of the most beautiful
and popular driveways in town.
The Mason Milling, Ginning and
Manufacturing Company have COM
pleted their large steam ginnery and
will receive the new crop of cotton
with promptness and dispatch.
Commissioners court will convene
here next Monday, when they will
take action on the scalp law. 1t is es-
timated there are 500 jack rabbit
scalps, killed since the law went into
effect, being held for their action.
J. d. Bridges left this week with
two car loads of fine native horses for
Tennessee.
Sheriff Baird and family have re-
turned from the reunion at Marble
Falls.
Chas. J. Schuessler left yesterday
to accept position as boOkkeeper for
Sanders & Co. of Menardville.
A fine rain this week advanced
farming interests considerable in this
county.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
A Fight Between Giants.

Both desperate, both determined !
The king of medicines in contest with
the king of maladies! DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery against
consumption" 1t is not the struggle
of day, but the first blows are the
fatal blows. In it's early days, con-
sumption (Which is lung scrofula) will
yield to this great remedy. This has
been proven beyond doubt by innu-
merable successes. Acting directly
upon the blood, it's scope includes all
scrofulous affections, liver and lung
diseases. AS blood.purifier and vi
taller it stands unequaled.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
Merit Wins.

We desire to say to our citizens that
for years we have been selling DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, DR.. Kings New Life Pills, Buck
lens Arnica Salve and Electric Bit
ters, and have never handled reme-
dies that sell as well, or that have
given such universal satisfaction. We
do not hesitate to guarantee them
every time, and we stand ready to
refund the purchase price if satisfac-
tory results do not follow their use.
These remedies have won their great
popularity purely on their merits. J.
j. Tobin, druggist.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13

THE TERRIBLY DECoMPosED BODY OF
A MAN TURNS UP
Two More Murders at Houston, and Its
Police Force Being Investigated by the
Mayor and City Council
Special to The Statesman.

special 10 The statesman
BIG SANDY, Tex, Aug. S.-Today
an unknown white man was found
dead in the Sabine bottom, about four
miles from this place. From all APP
pearances he had been dead several
days, as his body was decomposed be-
yond recognition. He was a small
man, about feet 5 inches high,
about 135 pounds, sandy hair and
whiskers; he had no jaw teeth it the
upper jaws and four teeth in
right under jaw and about As years of
age. He had on blue cheviot shirt.
His pantaloons were black checked
and striped. His brogan shoes, No.
6, were about sixty feet from where
he was lying. In his pockets was 500
in currency, rolled up in paper, and in
small pocketbook, made out of the
top of lady's shoe was SIS in gold and
and some small change.
He also had in his pocket two knives
and two small pieces of paper, on
which were written Fort Worth and
Henrietta. He was crippled in the
left foot with big toe off, and about
fifteen feet from where he was lying
was found British bulldog 3S.calibre
pistol covered up. Foul play is sus-
pected, though opinions vary regard
ing his death.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
San Marcos Siftings.

SAN MARCOS, Aug. S.-Cotton is
coming in at a lively rate. Mr.. Giesen
has bought fifteen bales up to date,
and other buyers are in the field.
The suffragists are studying the
proposed amendment to the constitu-
ton, so as to be able to vote intelli-
gently next Tuesday.
Miss Cora Keylich has been en-
ployed as music teacher in the Bap-
fist seminary at Kyle.
Mr.. j. B. Hankla's little daughter
is seriously ill with typho-malarial
fever.
Mrs. Prescott is having a handsome
addition made to her popular board
ing house.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
A Woman Shot by a Negro.

Special to The Statesman.
HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. 8.-Tonight
about half past o'clock most brutal
and cold blooded murder was COM
mitted in little store at the corner of
San Jacinto and Webster sts., owned
by Charles Reitzer. Mrs. Reitzer was
waiting on a number of customers,
most of them negroes, when suddenly
she discovered an unknown darkey
attempting to tap the till. She made
at him, but just as she was about to
seize his hand, he pulled out pistol
and shot her dead.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13

The Farmers Alliance will name the
governor, treasurer and superintend-
ent of public education and the Anti
Lottery League lieutenant governor,
auditor, attorney general and secre-
tary of state. These nominations are
to be made by a convention elected by
all the white voters who are opposed
to the lottery and afterward submitted
to the Democratic state convention.
The Alliance Endorsed this agreement
and at once nominated Thomas F..
Adams, it's president and state COM
missioner of agriculture, for governor.
The campaign will be almost alto
gether on the lottery issue.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
THEY WERE IN LINE.
A Planter Shoots Through Crazy Brother
and Kills His Wife.
ST ecial to The Statesman.

ST rectal to The Statesman.
PoTTsBoRo, Tex, Aug. 6.-Three
miles north of Willis, 1. t., lives
John Huff, an extensive planter.
John has crazy brother who lives
with him. Yesterday the crazy one
attacked John with knife. John, in
self defense, shot him dead with his
Winchester, hitting him three times,
one ball passing through the heart.
All three bullets struck John Huff's
wife, who is fatally hurt. These bull
lets passed through the crazy mans
body before striking Mrs. Huff who
was accidently hit.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
Appointments of Division Commanders
Made by General Commanding.


New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 8.-The
following speaks for itself:
HEADQUARTERS
UNITED CONFEDERATE
VETERENs,
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 8, 1891.
The General commanding an
nounces the following appointments
in accordance with article E of the
constitution to-wit A. HI. Colquitt,
Major-General for division of Georgia,
w. H. Jackson, Maori General for
division Of Tennessee, Jas. G. Tappan,
major general for division of Arkansas.
These officers will Immediately enter
upon the discharge of their duties
and will be obeyed and respected ac-
cordingly. The attention of the major
generals named above and also in
other divisions are directed to article
10 of the constitution and they are
urged to push the organization of the
camps in their respectives divisions
vigorously. The general command
ing will announce the appointments
for the remaining divisions at an ear
ly date. By order j. B. GORDON,
General Commanding.
GEORGE MOORMAN,
Adjutant General and Chief Of Staff.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
Wilder Sues for a Divorce.

Special to The Statesman.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. 8.-W.
r. Wilder, the conductor on the In
ternational and Great Northern road
who returned home three nights
since and found his house all dark
and James f. Day inside with his
wife, has filed suit for divorce, naming
Day as the correspondent. He prays
for the beautiful little girl, 3 years
old. The circumstances of the
esclandre were such that there is no
doubt but what he will gain his suit.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
Ten Thousand acres
Fine Farming Lands
In Southwest. Texas

In tracts to suit purchasers from
So to $40 per acre, adjoining
the town of ekidmore. on the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass railway, which is des-
ined to be ths great railroad center of
southwest Texas. These lands are of q
rich, black, sandy loan that need no grub
ping or clearing; suitable for truck farming,
grapes, pears, peaches, plums cotton,
corn, etc. These lands are situated in the
center of the rain belt, derived from the.
gulf clouds which render crops a certainty.
RUssEK 81 KEssIE.
Skidmore, Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
WILL STAND THE RACKET.
The San Antonio saloonists Will Keep Open
in Violation of Law.

Special to The Statesman.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. 7.-Lewis
Batiste, the barber who kept open last
Sunday, was fined $40. 1t is the first
Sunday law conviction in the history
of the city. The saloonists, however,
the keepers of beer gardens, etc, are
not at all alarmed, and quietly an
nounce their intention to go right
ahead on next Sunday and every
other Sunday.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
Dropped Dead from Heat.

DAYTON, o., Aug. 8.-This has been
tho most intensely warm day of the
year, the thermometer marking 100 in
I'll e shade. A number of people were
o, ercome. Albert c. Hackett, well
known clerk of the Beckel hotel, who
Fad been drinking for two days
dropped dead from heat.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
Ex-Confederate Reunion.
Special to The Statesman.

VVCIdI %
DECATUR, Tex, Aug. Ben Nc
Culloch camp Of ex-Confederates
has been celebrating the day at Shady
View park in grand style. Hon. G.
w. Bailey addressed the camp in an
eloquent speech. Col. G.. B. Pickett
addressed the audience on the amend
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
The Ell Dorado Ashore,

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. THE
Southern Pacific steamer FL Dorado,
1852 tons from New York for New
Orleans is ashore on the Great BAHIA
ma banks 10 miles south of Great
Isaac shoal. The vessels cargo will
become total wreck, without assist
ance. There are passengers on board.