Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-06-23


did some damage to property, but no
lives were lost.
EIGHT persons were killed and num-
Der injured by the storm in Chicago re-
Gently.
CoLoRED people at Danvi1le, KY, have
threatened boycott against those mer-
chants who signed petition for the
separate coach bill
Two murderers were executed in Cuba
recently.
THE governor of Montana has estab-
lished a quarantine against sheep from
neighboring states and territories.
JOHN SPRoLsK stabbed his boarding
house keeper and was afterwards beaten
to death by a mob in Hazelton, Pa
LATEST reports from Uganda say that
the English did not prosecute the Cath
olics during the recent trouble there.
THE financial situation at Montevideo
| is calamitous, and commercial panic
prevails.
A TRIAL for criminal libel in Paris
caused several riots in the court room
and duel afterwards
| FIRE destroyed over $780, 600 worth of
propertv at Elizabeth. w. Va, the
other day.
THE 145th annual commencement Of
| THE swift improvement in the crop
outlook has had a marked effect on the
condition of trade throughout the coun-
| try.
A RIOTOUs demonstration was made
| the other day at a bull fight at Linares
| in the province of Jaon, Spain. One of
the bulls charged into the mob and one
| man was killed. The mayor tried to
| preserve order and was turned upon by
| the crowd.
| THE Western Passenger association
has decided upon a chairman, D. B.
Caldwell, assistant general passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific. having
been elected.
THE department of state has been adj
vised by cable from the United States
legation at Caracas Of the resignation
of the president of Venezuela.
| PRINCE MIcHAELs, the notorious lead
er of the ''Flying Roll" community in
Detroit who has been on trial in the
circuit court at Ann Arbor, Mich,
charged with assaulting Bernice Bechel,
a daughter of one of his dupes, has been
convicted. He was sentenced to five
years imprisonment.
FIVE children, ranging from IL to Is
years of age, We're drowned in the Ohio
river at Neville island, twelve miles be-
low Pittsburgh, the other day. Their
names were Paul, Rudolph, Edith and
Maggie Pittoce and Edna Richardson.
| 1t appears that the children drove a
buggy into the river to wash In some
manner the buggy was overturned and
the children thrown into the river.
The two boys made heroic efforts to
save their companions, but they were
unequal to the task.
A G. BYLAR, sheriff of Baxter county,
Ark, was instantly killed the other
day by desperate named Jesse Roper.
Bylar was attempting to arrest Roper
for carrying weapons when he was
killed After killing the sheriff, Roper
succeeded in escaping and is still at
large. In his fight he shot one of the
sheriff's posse, but not fatally, and
killed one horse and wounded another.
The entire property of the Richmond
& Danville road and it's leased and con-
trolled lines have been turned over to
the receivers.
DORA VoGT, aged 7years, was burned
to death at Davenport, Iowa, in the pres
ence of her mother and sister by the
explosion of a can of kerosene which
she was pouring into the stove.
| SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CENSUS
Robert P. Porter gives out that the
population of the United States, ac.
cording to the returns of the eleventh
census, was 62,979, 766. This includes
Alaska and the Indians on reservations
These figures are absolutely final and
are not subject to change.
THE Central News, of London, an
nounces that owing to pressure brought
upon him from within the. liberal
. ranks, Mr.. Gladstone will alter his
home-rule project with view to ex-
clude the Irish from representation in
the imperial parliament, or to reduce tc
a minimum their power of interfering
with British interests therein.
THE London Times announces thai
: Earl Spencer intends to sell the famous
{ Althorp library at auction in 1898, I'M
less it is previously sold intact