Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
MISCELLANEOUS.


prison at Keniggratz, setting fire to
the building Troops suppressed the
revolt
| BRITISH agricu1turists met at London
on the nth and formulated their griev-
ances in a resolution asking a tax on
foreign breadstuffs for their benefit
SEVEN locomotive engineers have been
discharged at Chicago FOR an alleged
strike conspiracy.
CAPT. MoLEN explains the typhoid
fever epidemic at St Louis by saying
that the winds blew the germs up the
sewers and into the houses.
[. AND n. WILCZINsKI, Greenville,
Miss, have failed for nearly half mil
lion.
GAIL HAMILTON says that Mrs. May
brick, convicted of poisoning her hus-
band, is dying in a British prison. Gail
! Hamilton speaks bitterly of the govern
ment refusing to release her.
THE annual report of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe system for the
year ended June so, 1892, shows its
gross earnings to be 81, 347, 225; net
earnings, SIS, 1T. 49,
TELEGRAPH operators on the Rock
Island struck more or less unanimously
on the sth. The company claimed that
it was getting along all right, which
! the operators denied.
| THE cattle barons who are making a
desperate fight against the opening OF
the Cherokee strip are hoping to kill
the measure by insisting that the in
truders should be paid for their i'm
| provements.
THE prize fight at Coney Island was
won by Joe Goddard, of Australia, who
| 1y-,0 Dot oh ~
| in three rounds. The fight, though
short, was savage and bloody.
NEAR Kirkwood, ILL.,. Miss Florence
Curran was killed by train. She was
walking on the track with girl friend
and plenty of time to get out of danger,
bnt fear paralyzed her.
LAKE SHORE engineers and fremen
have had their wages advanced They
have promised to have nothing to do
with the projected switchmen's, brake
mems and conductors strike during the
worlds fair.
THERE was a severe wind storm at
Paragould, Ark. Several residences
were destroyed, twenty-six in all being
damaged
JUDGE GRESHAM has rendered q decis-
ion in the Illinois Steel Coz cases which
practically makes the interstate COM
merce law OF no effect.
MARTIN BURKE died in the prison at
Joliet, Ill He was in for life for the
murder of Dr. Cronin at Chicago He
made public nothing whatever concern
ing the crime.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended December 8 showed an average
increase of 1873 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the increase was 1872.
Four men-two white and two col
ored-were hanged together at Louis
vile, KY, for separate wilful murders.
TowNs in Nevada are said to have
been depopulated. the low price of sill
yer making mining improbable.
IT is said that vote has been taken
on the first charge against Prof. Smith
and that he was acquitted on it.
AT Wenatchee, Wash, railroad grad
ers and Italians fought over a woman,
and blood flowed freely in the pitched
battle.
THE railroad men who have been
working in Chicago have made new
agreement, to take the place of the
Transmissouri, and the headquarters
will be retained at Kansas City.
EASTERN silversmiths have incor
porated to the amount of S12, 900, 900.
6. A. r. VETERANS object to Mexican
war dates being put the soldiers
monument at indianapolis. and threaten
to sue for the s21, 900 they gave.
INFLUENZA has again broken out in
Berlin.
THE faculty of Harvard has forbidden
public concerts and theatricals by stu
dents.
OLD DADDY" GRAY, an aged resident
of Henderson county, ILL.,, wandered
away in the storm and was frozen to
death.
The New York Stock exchange will
be closed December "a.
employees at Ellis Island, New York,
will be discharged by the immigration
commissioners. Because of the quaran-
tine no head money is coming in to pay
salaries