Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-05-05

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hunting cattle thieves in johnson hole,
1 Idaho, the alleged rendezvous for ali
horse and cattle thieves for hundreds Oh
miles, came upon the habitation of two
parties known as Burnett and Spencer
and in their efforts to arrest them, both
Burnett and Spencer were killed and i,
was found that they were in possession
| of over fifty stolen horses.
] SHEPPARD BUsBY was hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark. the other day, for murder.
The Central theater at Philadelphia
burned the other day and ffty-two PEG
pie were injured. The Times building
was also destroyed. Col. A. K. Nc.
Clure lost his valuable library. The
! loss approximates one million dollars.
| THE project of M. Brinet, manager of
| Vignaux's academy at Paris. for an in
| ternational contest between Schaefer,
| Ives and S1osson and the most promi-
| nent French professional billiardists
| has fallen through.
FORTY families were rendered home
less in the village of Hudson, O., by
fire recently.
THERE has been great excitement in
Paris over the verdict in the case of
Ravachol, the anarchist.
The Melbourne, Australia, Standard
says that Deening has confessed to his
lawyer and the doctors who examined
him that he committed the majority of
slack the Ripper" crimes in the White
chapel district of London.
EVERY lumber mill in the Lacrosse.
Wis, district has closed down to re-
main so until the labor troubles are set
tied. Two thousand men are out of en-
plOvment in consequence
INDIANS at the Crow Creek agency re-
fuse government money because they
distrust their agent.
W. T. SHARMAN, the only witness in
an important murder case at Denison,
Tex, was shot to death by an unknown
assassin while in bed. The case in
which he was witness grew out of an
old feud and he is the twentieth victim.
He had received a number of warnings
that his life was in danger.
BRENDoN and Burlington, Ia, have
been excited over several mysterious
disappearance.
By the burning of the Central theater
at Philadelphia six actors lost their
lives.
ca MOB attempted to take from the Jail
at Nashville, Tenn, four men charged
with assaulting two young ladies, the
Misses Bruce. After determined stand
the crowd was dispersed
PLATINUM has been discovered in the
hills at point about twenty-five miles
west of Rapid City, S. d. Among some
specimens Of ore recently brought to the
city DR.. Whitney found piece of white
quartz carrying what appeared to be
horn silver. He at once pronounced it
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the usual acid tests.
S. S. LoEwENBERG and his wife were
found lying dead in a room at st. Paul,
Mimi, having evidently been suffocated
by gas. Investigation of the premises
showed that the key in the gas jet did
not work properly and that In turning
off the gas it was very easy to turn it
on again.
SECRETARY FOSTER has sent to the
house estimates for deficiency appro-
priations aggregating s191, O52 on &C
count of the postal service submitted
by the sixth auditor February II, 1891,
and not heretofore transmitted to con-
gress.
GOLD coin to the amount Of 50, OOO, 900
was recently ordered at the New York
sub-treasury for shipment to Europe.
THE reporters of the New York pa
pers have begun the organization of a
branch of the Typographical union to
secure better wages and less hours for
themselves.
LITTLE Rock had a s55 700 fire the
other day. The blaze was discovered
in Richard Fletcher's cotton shed, and
before the flames could be quenched
half a block of cotton warehouses and
sheds had been burned.
The number of divorce cases now
pending in Oklahoma is stupendous, in
single counties the number running
well up toward a hundred, and they
form large part of the business in all
the courts Of the territory. This is not
due to any particular infelicity of the
people of the territory, but to the fact
that the divorce law there is very lax
and scores of people have come in from
other states to get rid of burdensome
marital ties.