Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-03
THE Chicago registration reached over

CAPT. w. G- VEAL. was shot dead a
Dallas, Tex. by DR.. r III. Jones, in the
headquarters of the confederate re
union, it is said for wrong done Mrs
Jones twenty-three years ago and which
she had never disclosed until recently.
THE National w. C. 7. U. is in session
at Denver. Col.
THE British steamer III. M. Pollock
was on fire at Galveston, Tex. She hat
! 800 bales of cotton in the hold. The
damage was $4,000.
THE failure of Clement NJ Cumming
was announced on the New York Stock
exchange. Liabilities, 5000, 600; assets
| $50, 600.
ERNEST KEENARD, of Chicago, 6;
years old, wealthy and recluse, was
found sitting at desk in his library
with his head split open, dead. Rob
berry was the apparent motive.
| LIQUORS will be sold in jackson park
during the worlds fair. After long
discussion the national commission de.
cided that it would not interfere with
contracts made by the Chicago direct
ors for the sale of light beverages and
stimulants.
THE Ohio river is reported lower than
for years.
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FLY, made a mile against time in 2:1S4
at Stockton, Cal, the fastest time ever
made by a two-year-old FLY.
A SERIOUS fire broke out in the Brook
lyn Cooperage Co.'S building at Jersey
City, N. j., and before it was subdued
about $4,000 damage was done.
RULING of the treasury department
allows Chinese actors to enter the couu-
try.
NATURAL gas is playing out in north
western Ohio.
SEVEN clipping couples were married
in one day at Jeffersonville, Ind.
The Boston & Maine and the Reading
railroads have formed combination
GEN. Poe, at Detroit, received word
from the war department that his
twenty-foot channel between Duluth,
Chicago and Buffalo had been fully ap-
proved and directing him to prepare
the necessary advertisements for bids
for doing the work.
WEBSTER FLANAGAN, collector of Gus
toms at Ell Paso, Tex, and All Jake, in
dicted with him for irregularities in the
admission of Chinamen into this coun-
try, were dismissed on trial
FEARFUL fire broke out in Milwau-
kee on the 2Sth, starting in the Union
Oil Co. S warehouse. Twenty-Five blocks
were consumed. The loss was between
100000 and s1O,OOO,OOO. Several cas-
ualties were reported.
THE Anchor line steamer Roumania
went down off the Portuguese coast dur
ing the recent fearful storm. All the pas
sengers and crew, numbering 113, were
drowned except nine.
INCENDIARIES in Cleveland started a
fire in large glass works, in which
two people were killed.
A TERRIFIC explosion of a nitro
glycerine magazine at Lima. O., killed
three men and in iured others.
AT Mapleton, Pa. car ran away
down an inclined plane, and. dashing
into waiting crowd at depot killed
three persons.
THE Missouri Pacific Railway Co. do
mated s1O,0 900 to the families of the citi-
zens killed by the Dalton desperadoes
at Coffeyville Kan.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended October % showed an average
decrease of O. compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was II.
The Medical association of Lauder
dale county. Ala, have bolted from the
state association and are now termed
by the latter professional outlaws. The
members of the association refuse to
abide by the state law concerning Ii
censing of practitioners.
SIX thousand miners struck at Broken
Hill, New South Wales. Scenes were
similar to those at Homestead
: A KNITTING factory has been formed
at Meridian, Miss.
IKE false work of new bridge being
constructed over the Cumberland river
at Pineville, KY, collapsed and five
workmen were thrown into the river,
SO feet below. E. Hickox, of Wymouth
O., was killed and the rest seriously in
jured.
MRS. MARY CoRDELL, of Chicago,
washed her flowing tresses in alcohol,
which then caught fire and she was dis
figured for life.