Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-01
Born packing houses at Sioux City,

Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Rail-
road Co. for $40, 600 taxes
THE saw mills at Eau Claire, Wis, are
still idle
A DEFALcATIoN. which it is said will
reach $40, 900, has been discovered in
the Office of Street & Smith, publishers
of the New York Weekly, and the crime
has been fastened upon Alfred j. Price,
cashier.
THE British steamer Anglom, bound
from Calcutta to England, capsized in
the Hoogley river. Thirty-two of her
crew were saved, but fifteen are miss
ing.
In a coal pit art Swansea, Wales, as
ten miners were descending in the cage
part of the pit roof fell in and the men
were caught under the falling earth
and rock and seven crushed to death
THE stables at Southside park, near
Columb ia, Tenn, were burned recently
by an incendiary fire. Among the val
liable horses burned was Rosa g., 2:20,
valued at $1,000.
A WHITE woman named Raphael was
stripped and whipped by four men at
New Iberia. La, Ito reform her morals"
The supposed ruffians were arrested.
AS result of Grand Master Sweeney
declaring the switchmen's strike off at
Buffalo, n. Y, he was assaulted by
man named Quinn and severely beaten.
The crestfallen switchmen were greatly
mortified at the collapse of the strike.
GERrIE CARMo, an aeronaut. was
killed at the exposition grounds, De
troit, Mich, by the balloon striking the
high tower and knocking the girl from
the trapeze.
SKELETONS of gigantic stature and
other signs of buried city have been
found near Proctorville, o.
A NEW French company, with CAPT
tai of $50, 900, 900, has undertaken the
completion of the Panama canal
THE differences existing between the
Union Pacific and it's mechanics were
AMIGA bly, adjusted
II is said in Texas that the commits
sion is only restrained from making
rates on the Gould lines and the Santa
Fe.
THE reported murder of four hunters
in the Indian territory is said to be
fake
BILLY ALEC, well known prospector
of Idaho, will probably die from the re-
suit of injuries inflicted by ravenous
buzzards. He was sleeping off the eff
fects of whisky and morphine when
the disgusting birds attacked him.
A NEGRO uprising is reported at New
Smyrna, Fla.
THE Titus Salt Son & Co. manufacture
ing concern, Bradford, England, is con-
sidering winding up, consequent upon
the plush trade being ruined by the Nc
Kinley bill, as alleged.
A SHOCKING loss of life occurred by an
explosion in coal mine near Bridgend.
Glamorganshire, Wales. Of $50 men
only two were rescued alive.
Two deaths from cholera at Graves
end has greatly alarmed the English
health authorities. 1t was considered
almost certain that the plague would
enter London.
The steam yacht Wapita went down
in gale off Collingwood, Ont. Eight
lives were lost, including Hiram w.
Sibley, New York capitalist, and
members of his family
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended August 20 showed an average in
crease of 6. compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the increase was Al.
THE trial of Lizzie Borden, charged
with numbering her father and step
mother with an ak, has begun at Fall
River, Mass.
CLIFFORD ST. JOHN, a militiaman, was
accidentally shot dead at Des Moines,
Ia, by Horace Smith, another militia
man, who was handling a gun.
THE drought in northern Mexico end
ed with unprecedented rains. Twenty
miles of the Mexican Centrars track
were washed away.
THE sawmil1 and other strikers in
northern Wisconsin have all left for the
Dakota harvest fields.
The National Bank of Mexico, as
sisted by merchants of the City of Mex
leo, has advanced the government credit
to the extent of G6O0,OO without Sc
curity.
THE product of the northwestern
flour mills the past week largely ex-
ceeded the sales
ADDITIONAL DIsPATCHEs.
THE reported drowning of Mr.. Sibley
and party by the wreck of a yacht in
the lake near Collingwood, Ont, was
canard started by the half-breed cook
who was put off at Mackinaw.
JOHN MCNULTY,a murderer, will prob
ably be set free in San Francisco. In
consequence of the legal difficulties the
sheriff let the day for McNulty's execu-
ton pass without orders from the court,
and now nothing can be done with the
prisoner.
THE second attempt to cast big gun
carriage at Watertown, Mass, was un-
successful.
NEARLY 1000 houses. including the
government buildings, have been burned
in Borrissov, Russia.
THE Catholic church near Forestville,
O., burned recently. A woman was
fatally and two other persons seriously
injured in the panic of the congrega-
ton.
THE nihilists are said to have invented
an Internal machine which they can
handle with perfect safety until the oc
casion sought for arrives.
THE Metropolitan opera house, New
York. was destroyed by fire on the 9th.
DISASTROUS fire occurred at I24
Wooster street, New York Mary Ann
Hawley was killed. A wall fell on
some fremen and they were badly in
jured.
THE excuses of Turkey over the burn
ing of DIR. Bartlett's home in Asia Minor
are not considered sufficient by the
state department.
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