Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31


6. A r assembled at Ell Paso on the
Gath formally. The blue and the gray
| were camped together on the court
| house lawn.
CHARLES QUEsENBERRY, of Carroll
ton. Mo-, has been found guilty of per-
jury in a land contest case in Guthrie,
Ok, and entenced to five years in the
penitentiary.
THERE has been severe drouth in
South Australia Sheep died by the
| thousands.
The Gillian fscais report on the
Carlssen case in Valparaiso. says the
evidence fails entirely to show that the
police had any hand in his death
However, as Consul McCreary claims
they had, the fiscal directs the Judge of
crimes to order the police to continue
the investigation.
THE new law of Denmark imposing
penalty of $50 or0per 100 Kilograms on
wheat meal and rye meal and of 125
ore on whole wheat and rye has gone
into effect
DR.. EDMUND ]. JAMES. of the Whar-
ton school of finance and economy, has
decided to refuse the offer of DIR. Will
lam Harper to organize in the new
Chicago university department SIM
liar to the Wharton school
The Katmia branch of the Philadel-
phia & Reading road extending to
GAINESVILLE, Pa, which was closed by
last weeks storm is only now being
opened. The tracks were covered for
the long distance with from three to
six feet of snow and ice.
The committee of the German reichs-
rath to which was referred the bill
making an extra grant of 2. 500. 600
marks for the German exhibi at the
approved the credit asked for.
The Mexican International Co.,
which claims title to 1S 600, 900 acres of
land in lower California just across the
border, according to Charles e. An
thony, reputable civil engineer, is
merely a cloak for a scheme on the
part of Great Britain to secure the
harbor of San Quentin, Lower Cali
fornia, for a coaling station, so that
when the Nicaragua canal has been
completed, England will have a base
of supply between It's entrance and her
American possessions.
A RISE in the price of whisky may be
looked for at any time, in accordance,
it is said. with orders issued by the
whisky trust to further restrict the out
put on all the distilleries owned by it;
all OF the Chicago houses in the COM
bine are running short" Although
the demand for spirits is brisk, the out
put is not nearly as large as last fall
The records of the internal revenue
Office show falling off in the Chicago
distilleries alone of /, 500 bushels of grain
per day, which means 5000 gallons of
spirits daily.
A TRAIN was derailed the other dav
at Sonsonato, fifty miles southwest of
Salvador, on the Acajuita railroad.
Thirteen persons were killed and thir-
ty-one wounded. It was the most ter
rible railroad disaster that has ever
happened in Central America.
TwENTY-rHREE bodies Of the victims
of the Hill Farm, Dunb bar, Pa, mine
horror were buried on the 25th.
The president of the St Louis city
council has been charged with running
a pool room in disguise.
AN imperial decree has been issued
for bidding Russian Jews to cross Ger
man territory.
THE house committee on agriculture
have authorized favorable report to
be made on the Paddock pure food bill
which passed the senate.
REPRESENTATIVE GEARY, of Cali
fornia.7 has introduced in the house a
bill to prevent the use of substitutes
for hops or pure extract of hops in the
making Of ale or beer.
MRS. FANNIE SCHADE committed
suicide at Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the
25th. She shot herself five times with
a single-barreled 22-caliber revolver,
three times in the right breast, once in
the abdomen and the last time in the
right temple.
The offer of silver = to the treasury
department on the a5th aggregated
939. 600 ounces The amount purch ased
was 10000 ounces. ranging from
So $3.50 to so 1884. The director of the
mint announced that the government
having purchased its quota of silver re-
CURED by law for the present month,
no further offers will be considered I'M
til Friday, April.