Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-06
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EMIGRANTs from Hamburg who the
Cunard steamers could not take to the
United States have been turned out of
doors destitute at Liverpool, the steam
| er company refusing longer to pay their
board.
THE residence part of Fort Bragg,
! Cal, has been greatly damaged by fire.
TENNESSEE has fioated $1,000, 900 of
ffteen-year 4per-cent refunding bonds
| in New York at par.
THE cornerstone of the new court
house at Ottumwa, Ia, has been laid
CHARLES VINES will be hanged in
Bowie county. Tex, November IL, for
tie murder of Deputy Sheriff Morgan.
PROF. BROOKS comet, recently discov-
cred, is coming nearer and nearer to the
earth. 1t is now in the constellation
Gemini, right ascension.
A RATE Of one fare for the round trip
to the worlds fair will probably be
authorized by the trunk line roads.
THE Lake Angelina mine manage
ment, employing 500 men, will begin
eight-hour shifts October voluntarily
The movement will revolutionize rela-
tions between capital and labor in the
LAKE superior nluluR u1SCr1CC.
THE island of Cuba will modify it's
quarantine regulations against the
United States.
danger of a cholera epidemic in Bel
GUM is over.
ONE of the highwaymen who robbed
ured at Kent, near Tacoma. When ar
rested he did not resist, and refused to
give his name.
GRAND CHIEF SWEENEY was defeated
for reelection by the Switchmen's
brotherhood in the convention at Dali
las, Tex.
Ten men were imprisoned by fall
of earth in No. shaft of the Norrie
mine at Ishpeming, Mich. All were
supposed to be dead.
THERE were reasons to believe that
the four persons found dead in the
house burned after a thunderstorm
near Wellsville, Kan, were not killed
by lightning as reported, but were
murdered and their bodies cremated.
THREE telegraph operators on strike
have been arrested at Cedar Rapids, Ia,
for tampering with the wires.
MASCOT paced a mile at Terre Haute,
Ind, in 2:04-Nancy Hanks trotting
time.
MARTHA WILKES trotted mile in
2:OS4 at Evansville, Ind
IT is officially announced that cholera
is present in Odessa.
THE boiler of a locomotive exploded
near Summit, Pa, and Lewis Wise and
Charles Flynn, engineer and fireman,
were literally blown to pieces.
FIRE in the Nickel Plate freight yards
at Chicago destroyed forty car loads of
merchandise, causing a loss estimated
to exceed 100000.
CLEARING house returns for the wee k
ended September so showed an average
decrease of 1863 compared with the COR
responding week Of last year. In New
York the decrease was 27.6.
THE badly decomposed body of o. I.
Prescott, a prominent democrat and
politician and contractor, was found in
his room at the Revere house at Denver,
Col He had been dead for week.
THE Buena Vista hotel at Denver,
Col, was destroyed by fire. The guests
were saved by the bravery of Patrick
Mitchell, who first awoke. Two or
three persons were severely burned.
A SENSATION was caused at Home
stead, Pa, by the arrest of mem
the charge of treason" against the
commonwealth.
THE Illinois Humane society will not
allow bull fights at the Chicago worlds
fair if it can help it.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Sons of Temperance was in ses-
sion at New York. Mr.. L. S. Dennison
presided. Rev. DR.. Theodore Cuyler
made an address.
SEVERAL blocks of buildings at Vir-
den, Man, were destroyed by fire.
THE olive crop of Spain is failure
this year, but the vintage is in prom
ising condition.
By the explosion of boiler at En-
Drum. Ont, two men were killed and
five others seriously injured.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
TELEGRAPHERs on the Burlington &
Cedar Rapids won their strike, the COM
pany agreeing to recognize the brother
hood.
ACCORDING to an official estimate of
the harvest, the yield of winter rye in
Russia will be only medium.
ANOTHER mill is to be started in Ger
many to grind Indian corn.
Tony SPoRRETTI. an Italian mining
boss, was blown up by exploding dyna-
mite at McLeon, near Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE Baptist church at Deadwood, S.
D., was burned recently. During the
fire a physician and a fireman had
fight and the physician got the worst
of it, when he drew a revolver and shot
the fireman dead.
JAMES CONES and J. A. LooInis, ero-
nauts, fell from their balloon as it
struck tree and received fatal in
juries.
A FAMINE riot was reported at Morlia,
Mexico. The soldiers fired on the mob
and killed one man.
NEAR Hamburg the steamers Busy
Pee and Daisy collided. The latter YES
sci sank and three men lost their lives
A FURIOUS storm in Lavaca bay, Tex,
did great damage to boats.
FATHER MARTIN, Spaniard, was
elected the new general OF the Jesuits.
JOSEPH ERNEST REMAIN, the eminent
philologist, died at Paris on the I'd
WALTER WILSON, the correspondent
Of a scurrilous newspaper, who was
making some slanderous reports of the
most highly esteemed ladies of Water
Valley, Miss, was taken out by citizens
and tarred and feathered.