Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-09


Fidelity Storage s. Warehouse Go. of
town and is said to be defaulter for a
large amount of money.
BRUCE. the parachute jumper, had a
narrow escape from death at Cloquet,
Mimi, but was not badly hurt
The jury at Sturgis, S. D., in the case
of the three white men charged with
verdict of not guilty.
The weather bureau is now under
control of the agricultural department.
MAJ. POWELL, of the geological sur
vey. says there is nothing surprising in
the lake forming at Salton, Ariz- He
says it is due to the Colorado river
changing its course at the delta in con-
sequence of sand bar.
MANY Jews are arriving in Palestine,
from 200 to 800 families weekly. They
are entirely destitute and the distress
among them is terrible. Bread is very
dear. Typhus and scarlatina is raging
in Jerusalem and general pestilence
is feared.
A FIRE is again raging in the Reading
first discovered at noon and the men
Five hundred men are affected.
FIRE has destroyed the large book
and job printing establishment of the
B. F. Wade Co. at Toledo, o. The loss
was estimated at $50, 600, which is near
~ covered by insurance.
The estimated gross earnings of the
Rock Islands entire system for the
month of June are S1,2s7, 692, an in
hn
period last year, of S129, ISL.
THERE is rumOr current to the effect
that the Missouri, Kansas & Texas is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Arkansas Pass road. Officials of the
former road have recently made tour
of inspection of the latter.
THE German teachers national asso-
citation in convention at Cincinnati
passed a resolution favoring the print
ing of all German literature in Roman
text and using the English script in all
German writing. There was tie vote
on the resolution until the president
gave the deciding vote.
| ANDREW Rowe, a wealthy miner OF
Idaho is held in Waseca, Mimi, vio-
| lently insane. He had been stricken on
| a train.
THREE men were fatally scalded by
the collapse of bridge with an engine
and construction car near Newcastle,
| Pa.
Mrs. ELIZABETH NEWTON, Of Pitts
field, Mass, was killed on the Atlantic
steamship Saale on its voyage from New
York to London by falling down a
stairway.
Work on the mines and mining
building of the Chicago worlds fair
has commenced. A national youths
worlds fair association, with patriotic
aims, has been organized
The Illinois humane society has
taken steps to investigate the padrone
system in Chicago. 1t is charged that
scores of Italian children are held in
virtual slavery and forced to beg.
The rate committee of the trunk line
association has fixed passenger rates
from New York to the Missouri river at
$50 first class and $29 second class.
These rates are reduction of S1.75 and
successfully meet the cut made by the
Chicago & Alton road.
SEVEN hundred and eighty men
walked out of the Allegheny steel
mills of Carnegie Bros. & Co. at Du.
[ quesne, Pa There was no question of
wages, the men simply demanding that
| the Amalgamated association be recog-
nized The firm refused to sign the
scale and stated that the mill always
was and always would be run indie
pendent of any organization.
IN the district court at Denver, Col.
Cecil Dean was given a verdict of $780,
600 damages against S. w. French for
the alienation of the affections of
Deans wife. The reasons for the large
amount of damages given are that Dean
had decided all his property to his wife,
believing her to be true to him, and
that French profited thereby.
THE cornerstone of the Scarritt Bible
and training school was laid at Kansas
| City, Mo-, on the I'd.
Four deaths from sunstroke occurred
at Stockton, Cal, in one day recently.
THE Bank of England has again re-
duced its rate of discount from to ~
per cent.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
GALVESTON was swept by gale for
three days. Waters of the gulf were
driven far inland
| EX-VICE-PREsIDENT HANNIBAL HAM
LIN, died at Bangor, Me-, on the night
I,f !, y,