Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12

THE designs for the new halves,
quarters and dimes have been an
nounced They are quite elaborate.
The cotton oil trusts annual report
shows an unusually prosperous year.
On the Missouri, Kansas City & Texas
railroad few miles south of Waco,
Tex, section two of q stock train ran
into the rear of section one, causing the
death of four stockmen and the serious
injury of the engineer of section two.
The control of the Baltimore sugar
refinery has passed into the hands of q
syndicate of New York and Boston
capitalists. It is not known whether
the purchasers are interested in the
sugar trust or not.
WEsLEY's chapel. in the City road,
London. the cathedral of Methodism,
has been reopened, having been com.
pletely renovated A series Of services
were held by the president of the con.
ference.
THE steam whaler William Lewis
was sunk off Point Barrow in the
Arctic regions during a snowstorm Oc-
tober g. The crew escaped.
The steamer Ottawa went ashore
near Sea Island, N. S., and was totally
lost. The stewardess was drowned
On the Mimic & Douro railroad in
Spain two passenger trains came into
collision with terrific force at Fama-
hcas and a number of carriages were
shattered Many persons were killed.
TERRIBLE reports still continue to
come from Russia in regard to famine.
To add to the general misery ten great
St Petersburg banks are said to be in
trouble.
NINE men were frightfully mangled
by an explosion in the Rusk-Ivanhoe
tunnel at Leadville, Col, recently.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended November showed an average
decrease of 60 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 81.
The Cumberland church presbyter
inquiring into the case of Rev. E. T.
Bowers, of Kansas City, Mo-, has sus-
tanned the charges of immortality and
ordered his suspension. An appeal
was taken.
DUN's weekly review of trade finds
the outlook bright in every respect
despite the Boston failure.
ACCORDING to Cuban steamship line
the trade with Cuba has increased
greatly under the reciprocity treaty.
THE Cochran Fulton Co., old distillers
and wholesale liquor dealers of Louis
vile, KY, have assigned with $500, 600
liabilities.
THE strike in the tin plate depart
ment of the ST Louis Stamping Co. :
mills has been officially declared off.
A SPECIAL from Clipper Gap. Cal,
states that the giant powder works
blew up killing three men and seriously
injuring one boy. James Hamilton
was blown to atoms, nothing being
found of him but one finger. All Uan,
a Chinaman, was killed and only h is
queue was found.
A TERRIBLE prairie fire burned across
the western portion of Aurora county,
s D. Nicholas Wolf and Anton Ahrens
persisted in the flames, both young men
leaving families
For the month of October the gross
earnings of the system of the A., T. &
s. F., St Louis & San Francisco and
Atlantic s. Pacific railroads were ST.
SAC, 4S1, an increase of $3.50, 146.
A. 3. WEYMAN, colored, was hanged
at Trenton, Ga, for the murder of a
prison guard at Cole City, Ga. last
July.
III. f. AO1hhS p1dAAuS HILL dt uu-
bridge, Ont, was wrecked by the ex-
plosion of boiler and James Turn
bull, the engineer, was driven through
two partitions and had both legs
broken and was terribly scalded. Sew
eral others were injured
SCHULTzE, the man suspected Of hav-
ing killed the unfortunate woman in
slack the Ripper" style recently in
Berlin. has been released, there being
no evidence to connect him with the
crime.
THE funds collected by the Casino
Espanol. Cuba, for the relief of the suf-
ferers from the foods at Consuegra.
Spain, now amount to $2S, SIS in gold
and SIS, $40 in bills.
FoRTY-sEvEN convicts from Somer-
set, KY, ffty-seven from Chattanooga
and four from Middlebo KY, who
had been released by miners at Coal
Creek. Briceville and Oliver Springs
have been returned to the Tennessee
prison
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
The OK team attached to a wagon in
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