Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

I'd zen IuC00S CI11Cs1k EOo d 1dIRG CIOp mas
been gathered.
THERE are rumors that the alleged
cheap method of producing aluminium,
of which so much was expected at Chi
cago, is fraud
TwENTY-oNE prisoners in the jail at
Chattanooga, Tenn, who had revolted,
were starved into submission.
The cold and raw weather is re-
sponsible for an alarming increase in
the death rate in most European cities.
One of the most startling reports on
this subject comes from Dublin, where
the number of deaths during the past
week reached the phenomenal proper
ton of 40 Clio in LOCO.
THE New York clearing house certif-
Gates continue to decrease. On the 7th
5000, 900 were cancelled, leaving the
amount outstanding So, 955, 600.
ENGLISH Board of Trade returns for
December show imports increased e.
lac, 900 and exports $3.50, 900 as compared
with the corresponding month in 1889.
S. A. KEAN, the defaulting banker of
Chicago, has been indicted by the grand
jury.
THE emigration from Germany for
America during the month of November
was excessive.
Two brakemen were killed by COLI
sion between stock trains at Chicago on
the Sth.
HAMBURG dispatches state that several
merchants of that city are preparing to
outfit steamer to begin cruise in
Behring sea about May 1, and that a
promise has been given from Berlin
that two vessels of the German navy
will cruise in the northern part during
the scaling season.
IT was said that Lieutenant Casey,
who was killed recently in the Bad
Lands, was shot from behind by Brule
assassin.
MAYOR CREGIER, of Chicago, has
given notice to the railroad companies
and others occupying the lake front
that they must remove all their prop
erty before February 20 OF the city will
act.
A CHARLESTON, w. Va, special to the
Baltimore Sun says that news has
reached there from Logan County, that
State, that the Brumfield-McCoy ven
delta, which had been quiet for some
months had been renewed and that in a
fight on Harris creek few days ago six
men were killed.
The Baltimore & Ohio is reducing its
labor force.
AT Lancaster, Pa, two men were
fatally hurt by the fall of church scat
folding. =.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN recently honored
a reporter of the Milwaukee Daily News
py knocking him down.
BECAUSE he employed a German, a
grocer of Toulouse, France, named
Lind, was raided by angry Frenchmen
and his place was wrecked.
The Cherokee Commissioners called
on the Secretary of the Interior recently
and made a. statement of what has been
thus far accomplished by them. Sew.
era1 important agreements had been
signed by the tribes in the eastern part
of the. Indian Territory, the only tribe
which has SO far refused the terms of.
fered by the Government being the
Cherokees.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended January s mum
bered 4O3, compared with 32S the pre-
vious week and 373 the corresponding
week of last year.
THE powder pool organized about
eighteen months ago at San Francisco
collapsed and the price Of powder has
consequently suffered a drop. The
cause of the dissolution was the compe
tition of the Eastern firms.
ASSERTIONS that Jay Gould has oh
tanned a controlling interest in the
Santa Fe continue to be made.
DELAMATER & Co. (including George
w. Delamater, late Republican candi
date for GOVERNOR, bankers, who as
signed recently, were summoned before
an alderman at Meadville, Pa, charged
with embezzlement. The complain
was made by the outgoing board O.
county commissioners, who charge Del
amater & Co. with the enlightenment O.
upward of $50, 900 of county funds.
The oatmeal mill owners of Americ;
are reported to be about to form biz
combine with Ferdinand Shumaker, o
Ohio, as president. 1t will result il
closing down smaller mills.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
| CLEARING house returns for the weel
ended January II showed an averag
decrease of LIS compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 6.5.
a WORKMAN named Reiny was kil1e
at Boston recently by injudiciously tax
ing hold of an incandescent light. Thi
was said to be the first incandescen
light fatality.
The pension appropriation bill wa
reported to the Senate on the 10th. TIL
financial bill was further debated, Nh
Morgan being the principal speaker
The army appropriation bill was il
committee of the House.
AMELIE RIvEs. the American author
ess, is very i'll in Paris. She has nc
left her bed since early in December.
JERRY SULLIVAN, thirteen-year-ol
boy, was killed at Lynchburg, Va
when taking hold of a guy wire Of a
electric light.
A COLLISION took place in the Firt
of Forth, Scotland, between two steam
! ers on the 18th. Fifteen lives were los
FATHER CRAFT eXonerates the mil
tary for the recent slaughter of Ri
: Foot's band.
STOCKS were buoyant and none
abundant on the London Stock E,
change during the week ended Januar
10. Silver was firm, growing out of
belief that free coinage would be esta1
E lished in the United States. Paris new
4 papers were jubilant over the success
e tho now, Er.onoh loan TT