Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-03

St Etienne. France, for Offering bride
to the foreman of small arms factory
to procure specimen of the new Rus
sian rifle.
Col j. H FRENCH, of Boston, has as
signed. A prominent banker says he
owed the Maverick bank $500, 900 and
that he held $685. 600 of stock which is
valueless. His liabilities amount to at
least 5000. 900. His assets are large, but
not sufficient
The recent rains so swelled the river
at Lower Huron, Ont, that the resi-
dence of JOY Smith YVES undermined
and swept away and two young girls
were drowned q -'iti y
ARMED bands have devastated dis
trict in northern China, pillaged and
burned the Belgian missions, massa-
cred a hundred converts and the priests
and done other mischief. The outrages
are laid to robbers
ALL prospects for settlement of the
up and both sides are prepared for a
long, hard fight.
CHARLES GRANDE, alias dozen other
names, who has been on trial in Lon
don on charges of Matchmaking titled
mite to blow them up, has been
sentenced to twenty years penal
servitude.
THE Virginia bonds advisory board,
ex-President Grover Cleveland chair
man, has ratified the report of the
Olcott committee for the Virginia debt
bondholders to accept values to the ex-
tent of $40, 600, 900 for the debt of $685.
900, 900.
THE courts of justice in Belgrade
were badly burned recently. Many i'm
portant documents were destroyed
A DELEGATION of Cheyenne and Ara
pahoe Indians was in Washington
lately relative to the payment of $780,
600 which is about due to these tribes
The purpose of the delegation is to Sc
cure its payment in money and not in
goods of various kinds, as proposed by
Secretary Noble.
THE football match between Yale
and Princeton, Thanksgiving day. was
won by Yale with a score of 19, to O.
FIRE at Philadelphia destroyed the
bagging factory of Peter Young.
THE river Guadalaquiver, Spain. has
overlooked its banks
The heirs of w. B. Ogden, first mayor
of Chicago, have broken his will be-
queathing 1921. 600 to charities so far as
New York property is concerned.
FIRE at St Adams, VT, destroyed
eight business blocks and the Con-
gregational church Loss, 800, 600.
employees of the Nashville Tenn. }
electric railway have struck for non
payment of wages.
NEGROES in Gordon, Ark, released a
prisoner and pitched battle followed.
More trouble was expected.
THE Berlin Banking & Exchange Co.
has closed and the heads of the concern
have been arrested.
EDWARD M. FIELD, Daniel A. Lind
ley, John Frederick Wischers and Her
man c. Wilmus, composing the firm of
Field. Lindley, Wischers & Co., bankers
and brokers of No. Broadway. New
York, have assigned. The failure was
due to the advance in corn.
DAVID 7. BEALs, q child two years
old, stolen by a woman known as Liz
zie Smith at Kansas City. Mo-. was re-
stored to its parents on the payment of
S., 600 and no questions asked. The
police, however, arrested the woman
and, it was stated, her confederates
would also be arrested.
THERE is virulent epidemic of in
fuenza in Berlin.
GUS SIMMONS and Frank Garrett were
executed at Mansfield. La, for the
murder of an unknown man. Both
culprits confessed
BUSINESS failures Dun's review) for
the seven days ended Novem Der 26 num-
bered 295, compared with 2s5 the
previous week and 249 the correspond
ing week of last year.
The recent storms on the lakes
proved disastrous to barges and other
vessels. Several lives were lost
JOCKEY CASH SLOAN was ruled off at
Garfield park, Chicago, for riding Bank
rupt to lose. The track was covered
with snow and heavy.
AN engine on an extra freight blew
up on the Cleveland, Akron & Colum-
bus road two miles south of Akron. O.
John Byron, engineer, and George
Parker, fireman, were instantly killed