Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-05

THE Missouri, kansas e Texas rail-
way has effected an organization fo1
| Texas.
MASON, the British subject at Shang.
hal, pleaded guilty to the charge OF
having been in league with Kolao Hui
| (secret society men and to having
transported contraband arms consigned
| to the insurgents. He was given nine
months Imprisonment
| New YORK merchants interested in
the Gillian trade look on the present
trouble with grave misgivings- Some
believe that England is behind it all
The handsome Mississippi river
steamer, Oliver Bierne, was destroyed
by fire at Milliken's Bend, Miss
Twenty lives were thought to have
been lost Incendiarism by deck hands
was charged
| A YOUNG couple who took their brida al
| trip in balloon at Birmingham, Ala
are missing and fears for them are felt.
JOHN r FORD. county commissioner
and prominent druggist Of Aspen, Col.
is missing. and is charged with many
forgeries. He was formerly Kansas
City man.
| LODI, small town near Champaign,
ILL.,. has been ravaged by fire.
ARCHITECT w. j. EDBRooKE, who is
looking after the construction of the
worlds fair government building, has
found that the work so far done is not
according to contract
IT is said that five men were killed
in a shooting outbreak over politics at
a Farmers Alliance meeting in Union
county, Ark.
DR. BEzIAH. chief of the medical
corps of the French colony in Madagas.
| car, and eight soldiers have been killed
by native bandits.
DUN & Co.'S weekly report is of the
usual encouraging character, especially
from the interior cities
THE Minneapolis -four output the
past week was 2O5, 72O barrels, over
5000 barrels larger than ever known.
The mills are all sold up.
The free miners about Briceville,
Tenn, have released the convicts EN-.
ployed in the mines and fred the
stockade.
Gov. HoGe has offered 81, 600 reward
for the arrest and conviction of each
member of the mob which at Linden,
Cass county, Tex, took negro
| charged with the murder of a family of
whites from the Jail, chained him to a
tree and burned him to death.
THE de ad body of Father Ildefonsus
was found in his cell in the Cistercian
monastery of Aqu ebelle, near Monteli-
mar, France. Burglars had succeeded
in their purpose of robbery. They had
rifed safe of its contents and escaped
with the plumber.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's review fo1
the seven days ended October 90 mum
GUS week and 21S the corresponding
week of last year.
THE balloon bridal party who made
the ascension at the state fair at Bir-
mingham, Ala, came down safely in
west
THE Texas lum bermen have agreed
to give as their donation to the worlds
fair movement all the lumber neces
sary to construct the Texas buildings,
aggregating in value about $50, 900.
THREE thousand lives were lost in
the recent earthquake in Japan.
A NUMBER of prisoners broke Jail al
Jasper, Ala
THE raisin shipment from California
this season is expected to be 1000 car
loads-i5O more than last year.
THE ST. Paul chamber of commerce
has inaugurated movement to secure
increased immigration.
CLINTON, Hunterdon county. n. j..
was visited by destructive fire, nine
teen buildings, including society halls
store houses and dwellings, being
burned. The loss was estimated al
100000.
| MICHAEL1s SIMPSON and Theodore
| Weiss (known as Simpson & Weiss)
cloak manufacturers of New York, have
failed, with liabilities estimated a
$4,000 The firm began business il
1870
LEE HUGHES, colored. was hanged al
Brennan, Tex, for the murder Of his
wife
ORDERS have been issued for the dou b
ling of the force of men employed OF
worlds fair buildings.
MAJUNGA, an important town il
northeast Madagascar. has been de
stroyed by fire. Loss, $500, 000.