Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-26

and sentenced to be hanged the first
Tuesday in December, 1892
W. a. BRorHERToN, the man who at
tempted to truntile wheelbarrow from
San Francisco to Chicago on a wager,
died at La Junta, Col, of mountain
fever.
In collision in the Bosphorus re-
Gently the British steamer EdlethOrpe
was sunk and four men lost. The
Russian embassy's steam launch res
cued all the officers
THE authorities of Helsingfors, capi-
tai of Finland. are taking stringent
measures to suppress the Salvation
army, which has invaded the province
of Russia
THE coroner's jury which has been
investigating the case of Rev. Samuel
G. Cotton, who was charged with hav-
ing caused the death of boy named
Brown, an inmate of the Carogh orph-
anage in Kildare, Ireland, returned
verdict declaring that the boys death
was caused by nl-treatment at the
hands of Cotton and expressed their
Cotton in their findings.
THE last annual report of Secretary
of War Proctor is made public. He
many recommendations of interest to
the army.
DUN & Co. s weekly review of trade
reports prices settling downward under
enormous production, but the volume
of business huge and the outlook in all
sections good.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended November 10 showed an average
decrease of 1872 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 40.
The mining congress voted 4S1 to
| in favor Of free silver coinage and also
called for an investigation of alleged
| violations of the law by secretaries of
| the treasury.
| THE central famine committee, under
the presidency of the czarewitch, will
receive an imperial loan of So 600, 900
roubles without interest, to be applied to
the purpose of relief in the Russian
stricken districts.
| CoMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PALMER, of the
Grand Army of the Republic, in a gen.
eral order urges that the cases of sus-
pended members in arrears be exam
ined by post commanders, and when
worthy, arrears be remitted-
THE statement is made that no for
eign cardinals will be appointed at the
consistory on December IA. The pope
was said to be DESTROYS of keeping the
| college thoroughly Italian.
| The breeders of all kinds of live
stock have formed a national live stock
association.
| THE troubles in the coal district of
the Pas de Calais, France are assum-
ing threatening phase and it is feared
lsck,,
The miners are very bitter toward the
men who continue to work
STATE BANK EXAMINER OvERwooD.
| of Michigan, closed the Milford state
bank September 16 and reported that
the bank had failed The investiga-
ton just completed shows less than
SIS, 900 assets aud $40, 900 liabilities.
w. 81. FRIssEL, wife murderer, was
executed at Abilene, Tex
HARRY 81. HUTCHINSON, a Canadian
arrested in Chicago, had ITO half pound
packages of struggled opium in his
| trunk.
THE Paris Gaulois says that negotia-
tons have been almost concluded by
which the Bank of France will provide
the Russian government with silver
bullion to the amount of $50, 0O0, 900
roubles so as to enable that country to
resume payments in specie.
On the London stock exchange q re-
port was current that the Russian gov
eminent had bought up several million
pounds of the Paris loan. The report
was generally credited.
FIRE destroyed about twenty build
ings in Correctionville, Ia, inf1icting q
loss of $50. 900. The heaviest losers
were G. w. Fletcher & Co., lumber
dealers, whose loss was $40, 900.
THE contract labor inspectors at the
New York barge Office have discovered
five Russian men and one woman who
have come here under contract to work
in mines at Tyrone. Pa
THE Minnesota lumber season is ove1
and the cut for the year reaches AT,
7i3. 252 feet. 2O7, 221. 600 shingles and 90,
697, 900 lath- This beats all rccordA
ADDITIONAL DIsPATCHEs.
SECRETARY FOSTER is confined to his
bed by an attack of the grippe result
ling from a bad cold which he contract
ed while in New York.
THE steamer Samuel Mather, from
; Duluth to Buffalo, with So. 600 bushels
of wheat. collided with the steamer
Brazil near Sau1t Ste. Marie. The
Mather's crew was rescued by the Bra
I'll The Mather was worth $10O, 200.
} THE United States steamer Benning-
| ton arrived at Hampton Roads with hel
lstarboard engine disabled
GEORGE BUTLER, who was secretary
to Arson Burlingame while the latter
was American minister to Pel1in. and
who was afterward agent of the Amer.
lean firm of Russell & Co., has died in a
Hong Kong hospital
THE four men buried by cave in o.
a water conduit in Brooklyn were dead
!. beyond doubt
REV. EZRA MARSH BORING. one of the
Oldest Methodist ministers in the west,
hanged himself in Evanston, Ill HI
!, was insane from age and sickness
THE miners employed at the mines OF
Lord >Rosslyn, in Scotland, have struck
for an advance of a shilling day.
Il The football match at Spring field
Mass. was won by Yale with a score
of 10 to Harvard o.
, The Russian ukase prohibiting tn,
. lexport of wheat went into effect OF
the Esd. ALI Russian breadstuffs are
now under prohibition.
. THREE prospectors are reported t,