Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30


PROF. KOCH has resigned all the
public Offices held by him. This step i.
associated with supposed disappoint
ment over the unsatisfactory results OF
| the discovery of ''tuberculin."
FRED c. HAvEMEYER, who established
the great Havemeyer sugar refineries
| is dying at Throggs Neck, L L He is
the father of Henry o. and Theodore
Havemeyer, the leading spirits in the
sugar trust. He is IS years old
The official census of France shows
| a total of s,O97, 159. This is an in.
crease since the last census of 2OS, 5S4
The increase is entirely in the suburban
population
The dairy cows in Sussex county, N.
j.. are dying from disease which has
puzzled every one
The boiler at Lees sawmill at Min
eveh Junction, near Binghamton, N. Y,
exploded recently. Three men, James
Shaw, Fred Wheeling and NJ. Markham
were instantly killed.
CHARLES OZBURN, a wholesale COM
mission merchant, was hanged at At
lanta, Ga, for the murder of man
named Bradley. Great efforts were
made to save Ozburn from the gallows
without effect.
SEVEN children of French-Canadian
parents were drowned the other day in
the lower ST. Lawrence.
S. A. KEAN. the bankrupt banker of
Chicago, will pay 35 cents on the dollar.
A DRUNKEN soldier, armed with a
sword, recently ran amuck in the
streets of Posen CPrussian Poland),
killing Catholic priest and physician
before he could be overpowered.
THE troubles at Briceville and Coal
Creek, Tenn, ended amicably on the
Oath, the miners agreeing not to molest
the convicts and to await relief through
a special session of the legislature.
THERE was an anti-Jewish riot re-
Gently at Jaffa, which was crowded
with exiled Jews from Russia Several
of the Jews were killed by the Turks.
THE immense wooden mill of Camp
bell & Elliott, Philadelphia, was re-
Gently destroyed by fire. The loss was
about 500, 600.
ALBERT HAMIsTON, son of Rev. j. A.
Hamiston, and William Ewing, both
young married men, of Greenville, Ill,
sought shelter under tree from a
storm. where they were struck by
lightning and killed.
THE tower of a church in course of
erection at Szalatina, Hungary, fell the
other day, killing sixteen of the work.
men.
The first heavy ordnance twelve-incb
rifle gun designed for coast defense and
made in New York state, was fred at
Sandy Hook for the first time with sat
isfactory results. With $50 pounds of
powder it hurled 1000 pound shot
five miles. The gun will use 40 pounds
of powder and throw 2, 900 pound shot
twelve miles.
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE RUSK
denies that he has issued any quaran-
tine laws discriminating against Ten
nessee, as was alleged.
THE master plumbers of Boston have
decided not to increase the wages OF
journey men, and strike is expected
The strike at the Allegheny Besse-
mer steel works, Duquesne, Pa, has
been declared off, the men giving up
the fight.
LARGE credits have been assigned to.
the district of Zemstvos, Russia, with the
object of meeting distress arising from
the failure of the harvest To further
aid the impoverished people the time
for the payment of taxes has been ex-
tended and public subscriptions for
their relief have been opened
The Russian government, it has been
learned. has made large purchases Of
corn and is storing the grain for future
supplies. The rise in the prices for
corn in Germany, it is alleged. is partly
due to the wholesale buying of this
cereal by the Russian authorities.
ALEXANDER CHAMBERS and wife, of
Larimer. Pa, were struck by train
while walking on the Pennsylvania
tracks and were thrown down an
EN- bankment Mrs. Chambers was
killed, but her husband was only
slightly hurt
AT Morehead, KY, Deputy United
States Marshal George Armstrong was
shot and killed by Constable Simms. of
that place. Armstrong was passing
through Morehead with party of
prisoners, and while stop
ping over night became involved in a
quarrel with SimmS