Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-06-30


Hardy, Humboldt county, Ia, com.
mitted suicide by blowing out his
brains. 1t is thought the act was due
to business troubles
| AN Italian, Pedro Bruckerri, was ar.
rested at Reading, Pa, for an attempt
to murder Sister Hildeberte, of the Or
/ der of ST. Francis, at ST. Joseph's hos
/ pital, a prominent Catholic institution
of that city. The assassin stabbed the
sister, who is but 20 years old, four OF
five times, and was finally overpowered
in last attempt to hack his helpless
victim to death The wounds inflicted
were fatal
/ Two passenger coaches were tele-
scoped at Harrisburg, Pa, which caused
a disastrous wreck, upwards of forty
persons having been killed or injured.
| The sensational Caption murder case
terminated at Dies Moines, Ia, in SEN
fencing the slayer of Mabel Swartz, on
the night of March % last, to fifteen
years in the penitentiary at Fort Madi-
son. The announcement of the verdict
created a scene in court. The prisoners
wife and mother fell in swoon and
had to receive medical attendance. The
prisoner himself wept and shook with
agony.
| EDWIN J. Raglan of the United States
Express Co, has left Washington, TAX
| ing with him three packages of bank
notes, amounting in all to about $780,
| 600. No clew has yet been found as to
his whereabouts.
| FOURTEEN hundred of the Amee7's
| troops have been killed in battle with
| the rebels in Afghanistan.
THE amount of Cashier DAMS pecu-
lations at the Buffalo National Savings
bank is said to be about 500, 900.
THE improvement to the crop outlook
caused better feeling in commercial
circles.
THE Bank of Oklahoma at Chandler,
Ok, has closed its doors and w. D. Tay-
1or and M. P. Wright, formerly of Jop-
lin, Mo-, the owners, suddenly left the
town. The liabilities are about 81, 600;
assets, an empty safe and small frame
building.
INCENDIARIEs have been at work in
Cleveland, O., for the past two weeks.
Four fires were started inside of an
hour in one day.
A DowNPoUR of rain for sixteen hours
caused much damage to private proper
ty in Dubuque, Ia. The streets were
rivers of water and street railways
were blocked. Washouts and wrecked
bridges were reported on the railways.
For some time trains were abandoned.
An inch of rain fell in half an hour.
The rainfall Tor June at Dubuque wa
over twelve inches, the heaviest on
record
WALL street is reported to be in a
| listless condition owing to the pending
political excitement
THE British Trade league is advocat-
ing duty on American wheat and the
admission of colony products free.
THE nineteenth annual meeting of
the National Charities and Correction
association was held in Denver, Col.
ALL southern texas reports copious
rain. This insures both the cotton and
corn crops in all south. central and
east Texas. Nearly every section re-
ports rain, some of them heavy.
LOT SMITH, Mormon bishop and eX-
DANTE leader, has been killed by the
Navajo Indians.
THE heavy rains raised Galena river
until every business house in Galena,
H., was flooded. At the Lawrence
hotel the water stood seven inches deep
on the dining-room floor, and at the
European hotel the parlor floor was I'M
der water.
J. J. BROOKS, a we'll known attorney
of Memphis, Tenn, formerly assistant
attorney general, died at the Southern
Bi-Chloride of Gold institute in that
city. The first hypodermic injection of
bi-chloride of gold made him raving
maniac, and it required four strong at
PENDANTS to. prevent him from injuring
the other inmates. He displayed all
the symptoms of hydrophobia and died
in commissions.
The recent report from the City of
Mexico stating that the drought in the
northern part of the republic had been
broken by bountifu1 rains is incorrect
so far as the states of Durango and Goa
hula are concerned. There has been
no rain there for the past four and a
half years. Lands where corn and cot
ton were formerly raised are now bar
rem.