Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25

RuMoRs in circulation in London of a
revolution in Portugal were entirely
unf0unded-
FIVE children belonging to a family
named Lachance were playing in boat
on the St Lawrence river near Port
Neuf, few miles from Quebec, when
| waves from passing steamer caused
the boat to fill and four of the children
were drowned.
CONDUCTORS on the Kansas City Cable
Co.'s lines have struck because of the
discharge of Frank Lentz and other
conductors.
THE Missouri Pacific directors in ses-
sion in New York have declared the
regular quarterly dividend of 1 per
cent
SUIT is to be brought against Andrew
Carnegie and the rest of the South Fork
Hunting and Fishing club for damages
on account of the celebrated Johnstown
floods
E. T. JORDAN. natural gas inspector
for Indiana, has returned from Findlay,
O., and reports a heavy loss of both
pressure and volume of gas in all wells
there. He predicts that in two years
there will be no gas in Findlay for
manufacturing.
C. F. GILBERT, with his wife and
child, Mrs. Livingstone and Mrs. Dick
erson, started down the river at Derby,
Conn, in sailboat Nothing was
seen or heard of them afterward
Great excitement prevailed.
SECRETARY NOBLE has declined to in
terfere in favor of the intruders on
Chickasaw lands.
GRAssHOPPERs are reported in large
quantities in Otter Tail county, Mimi,
and much damage will result to crops.
The rapid advance in the price of sill
yer bullion is thought to be due to q
French pool.
The steamer Queen from Sitl<a brings
news of the drowning of Lieut.. Robin
son and four of the crew of the Bear,
and A. c. Moore, of the Russell party,
while the party were trying to make q
landing in Icy bay with the Russell-Mt
st. Elias party.
Utica. Ill, has been swept by .
cloudburst Damage amounted to $780,
600.
AN Illinois Central fast express was
ditched at Kenner, La, on the night of
the 10Th Six persons were said to be
killed and fifteen or twenty injured.
OPPOSITE Golconda, ILL.,, Will 81.
Howischer and Willie Kreipke, both
under 80, and two colored men were
drowned by the overturning of their
skiff in a sudden windstorm.
EASTERN Arkansas has been visited
by disastrous storm. Two or three
lives were lost.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended June Is numbered
253, compared with pa the previous
week and 1919 the corresponding week
of last year.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the contract for repairing the
Casa Grande, a prehistoric ruin near
ella river in Arizona The sum of ST.
600 was appropriated by the last con-
gress.
RAILWAY telegraphers have elected
the following officers: A. d. Thurston,
of Vinton, Ia, grand chief telegra pher;
S. o. Fox. of Vinton. Ia, grand secre-
ytary and treasurer: D. G. Ramsey, of
East st. Louis, assistant grand chief
telegrapher; j. A. Lecanda, of Celaya,
Mexico, grand senior telegrapher.
Ten artesian wells for irrigation pur-
poses are to be drilled about Aberdeen,
S. D., as soon as possible.
AT a barn raising near Thornton,
Can, two men were crushed to death
by the fall of beam.
THE Nestor block at Marquette,
Mich, containing four stores and a
number of law offices, was destroyed
by fire. The loss was $3.50, 600. Several
fremen were hurt
SAM JOHNSON, colored, was hanged
at Charleston, w. Va, for assaulting
Alice Bailey, white girl, on April 4.
HERR MosT, having lost his appeal,
was resentenced at New York on the
10Th to one years imprisonment
By fall of slate in a coal mine near
Des Moines, Ia, Joseph Wasky and his
son William were killed.
THE National cordage trust of New
York is said to have bought up all the
cordage works of Canada for So, 600, OOO
In a collision between freight trains
at a junction in Upper Sandusky, O.,
many cars were wrecked and other
damage done. No lives were lost.