Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-17
MISCELLkNEOUS.

THE London Standards Russian cor
respondent, commenting on the de-
mands that come from all quarters for
measures to relieve distress, says it is
plain that the distress is greater and
more widespread than was at first sup
posed and that the worst is still to come
The immense warehouse of r. C.
Layton, South street, New York, has
been destroyed by fire. The loss run
up to 1925, 600.
A HORRIBLE affair is reported from
Arcadia, La A negro waylaid, alb
Quoted and outraged young lady
school teacher, and kept her tied to a
tree. Two days after she was found
by searchers and her abuser captured.
He was skinned alive and cut to pieces.
A DEAL is reported by which type
founders trust is completed. The COM
bine is capitalized at S1s, 900, 900 backed
by an English syndicate. The small
foundries will be closed
The cattle breeders at Porto Prin-
cipe. Cuba, have held a meeting to de-
eide upon a remedy for alleged evils that
have been caused to their business by
the reciprocity arrangement now in eff.
feet between the United States and
Cuba and Porto Rico.
BY the collapse of the walls of an
iron foundry at Leeds, England. four
children were killed.
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress in Chi
cago for the restoration of the Western
Union wires to the board of trade hall
BY the explosion of a locomotive
boiler on the Long Island railway a,
Oyster Bay, four men were frightfully
mangled, three being killed.
THE Lake Erie & Western has AGAR
been tied up. The switchmen demand
ed an increase of wages.
THE captains and pilots of all the
| steamboats, on the Zazoo, Sunfiowe1
| and Tallahatchie rivers have sent {
| protest to the secretary of war agains
the manner in which the appropriation.
are used on the streams.
| THERE was democratic picnic anl
barbecue at Liberty, Mo-. on the 10th
The speakers were Vest, Cockrell
Dockery, Stone and Bledsoe.
| SALVADOR has been stricken by al
earthquake. Million of dollars o
damage has been occasioned and mucl
loss of life was feared.
THE building lot to Ill Myrtle ave
nue, Brooklyn, occupied by Schellen
berg's clothing store and number o
other concerns, was burned the othe
day; loss. $500. 900.
THE distress in Russia is terrible Il
the provinces of Tamhof an epidemi
of diphtheria is raging and mothers de
1iberately expose their children to tn
infection, preferring death in that form
to starvation.
LOUIS De LUcA, the life convict VIII,
escaped from Sing Sing prison, was re
captured by policeman in Tarrytow1
and brought back to the prison 81
will not be punished.
AN American mission has been de
stroyed in a riot at Ichang, Chins
The situation is considered grave b.
the state department and the nav
department has been instructed (
strengthen Adm. Belknap's fleet i
China.
FIVE mercantile appraisers Of Phils
delphia are charged with defraudin
the state.
ALEXANDER & Son, corn brokers q
Threadneedle street, London, hav
failed They attribute their failure t
losses which they have incurred sine
May last in speculatiaas in grain cal
goes
SEATTLE, Wash, has been much ez
cited by the abduction of William T
Bailey and R B. Albertson. his attol
ney, by detective who enticed ther
into a closed carriage. Bailey and A
bertson were suspected of having stale
securities in their possession.