Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-27

accomplish of Lizzie Borden in the
double murder case at Fall River, Mass.
THE case against Labor Commissioner
Peck, of New York, for burning Stats
| tics will not be decided until the day
before election.
THE Chicago schools had their Column
bus day on the 10Th. A concerted pro-
gramme was used in each school house.
A REIGN of terror is reported at Scott's
Ridge, KY, because of feuds between
| the Ships and their friends on one side
and the Underwoods, Buleys and
Skaggs on the other
UNION Theological seminary is likely
to lose s1,OOO.OO0 requests since it has
| bolted the Presbyterian church for in
| dependence.
THE City of Paris steamship made a
recent trip from Queenstown to New
York in days. IA hours and twenty
four minutes.
A MISSOURI, Kansas & Texas passen-
ger train was ditched in the Indian ter
ritory, but fortunately nobody was
hurt.
Hampton, Ark.
The total value of property in Illi-
nois listed for taxation by the assessors
Ol.O
The city council Of Dallas, Tex, has
reduced salaries of all officials 40 per
cent
A TRUE bill was found by the grand
jury at Philadelphia against DIR. Zuill,
the veterinarian who locked the tail of
Mrs. Brooks horse.
FRED WOLF, farmer living on In
diana Kentuck creek, in Jefferson coun-
ty, Ind, while excavating, brought to
light eighteen human skeletons, sup
posed to be the remains of Indians,
buried perhaps century ago.
CHINAMEN are being smuggled from
Canada into the United States by way
of Toledo.
COTTON operatives of Lancashire, En-
gland, have been notified of five per
cent reduction in wages.
SIXTEEN stores and dwellings in the
town of Beeton, Ont, were destroyed
by fire.
THE partial eclipse of the sun on the
Goth was successfully observed in the
east
The grand civic and military parade
in Chicago was the greatest demonstra-
ton ever seen in the United States.
S. c. TARRANT, a tourist, has been
murdered near Monterey, Mexico He
was from Buffalo, N. Y.
Two men out of a gang of fourteen
were killed by a collapse of a sewer at
Hamburg, Germany.
GREENLEAF beat Martha Wilkes at
Nashville, Tenn. Time, 2:1O4.
LANGFoRD HALL. the Lancashire resi-
dence of Mrs. Rylands, the philan-
thropic widow who purchased the IA
nous Althorp library from Earl Spencer
and donated it to the city of Manches-
ter, has been plundered by burglars,
who carried off jewelry to the value of
ego, 600.
THE non-union boarding house of
Mrs. ONeill, at Homestead, Pa, was
set on fire and narrowly escaped de-
struction. There was no clew to the
origin of the fire.
The Episcopal house of bishops has
named the bishops for the newly Gre
ated missionary Jurisdictions.
AT Sardinia, O., Stephen Feiles, a
banker. was killed in difficulty with a
tenant over the ownership of some corn.
THE third game of the worlds cham
pionship series was played on the 21st
and Boston, by the effective pitching of
Nichols, gave Cleveland a shutout.
The solemn dedication of the worlds
fair buildings at Chicago afforded one
of the grandest and most unique spec
tacles the world has ever witnessed
The celebrat ton concluded with an IN
equaled pyrotechnic display.
GEORGE BARTLETT, United States
marshal at Pine Ridge, expects an In
dian outbreak.
A BOY named Neunlist set gun trap
for chicken thieves at Louisville, KY.
His mother was first to open the door
Of the chicken coop and her head was
almost blown off. The boy was released
on BAIL
DURING the bicycle meet at Point
Breeze track of the South End wheel
men, near Philadelphia, William H
Marriott, aged Sc years, dropped dead
from heart disease ten minutes after
finishing a race.