Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-22

IHE Union Pacific passenger traiI
was ditched at HalIville station nea,
Cheyenne, Wyo., by broken rail Two
| persons had arms broken and one a leg
| broken
RoBERT LONG was assessed 81. 5ot
damages in court at Birmingham, Ala
for stealing the affections of Mrs j.
Dewitt Booze, a married woman
HIGGINS cracker factory, Kansas
City, Mo, burned recently. Many OF
the women employees had narrow es-
capes, excitement being very great
The loss was $3.50, 900.
| c. A. BENSON, the murderer of Mrs.
| Mettman on the reservation at Fort
Leavenworth, cheated the gallows after
all. On the morning of the 18th he
murderously assaulted his keeper with
butcher knife which he had concealed
in his shoe, stabbing himself afterward,
/ from the effect of which he died in the
| evening.
! IT seems probable now that the Kick
apoo lands will be thrown open to set
| Element early next spring.
REPRESENTATIVE ANTHONY, of Texas,
| introduced in the house bill repeating
| the act of June II, 1890, granting pen
sions to soldiers and to sailors and to
widows, minor children and dependent
parents of soldiers and sailors. The
bill also provides that all pensions
granted under the act be discontinued
ROSE COBE has renowned Judaism at
Baltimore, Md, and become Roman
Catholic to marry Nat Stapleton.
D. w. CHRIsTY, an American, has
been assassinated by unknown parties
at Yerbaris, near Durango, Mexico.
Col. DAvIDoFF was murdered by I'M
known assassins at Kieff, Russia.
GALEsBURG, Ill, has electric cars.
AN aerol1te weighing 10000 pounds
fell recently near Jiminez, chihuahua,
Mexico It ripped open a rock as it fell
and disclosed rich vein of silver.
THE supreme court of Ohio has rem
dered decision which makes the Queen
& Crescent system liable for half mil
lion of fraudulent stock issued by it's
secretary ten years ago.
THE prevalence of Group has compelled
the Sacred Heart academy at Helena,
Ark, to temporarily close.
THE junior class at LON bard univers-
ity, Galesburg, ILL.,, is in revolt against
Prof. o. Lee, one of the faculty.
SHERIFF GEORGE H6Tz is III trou BILE
at Alton, Ill, for ''advising' juries I'M
der his charge.
AN earthquake was reported at
Athens, Greece.
The Phoenixville pa iron company
has reduced wages ten per cent.
The evil of civilian interference in
behalf of promotion of officers of the
army has become SO great as to call for
legislative enactment.
CAPT. I'll. ID. BORuP, who was recalled
from France for spying on the military
establishment of that government will
be detailed for duty at the worlds fair.
BESIDES the $50, 600 stolen in two
packages from Wells, Fargo & Co. in
transit from New York to Texas, other
amounts were also stolen, making an
aggregate of $135, 900. There is as yet
no clew.
EUGENE CRAMPON, who murdered two
men, was guillotined recently at Paris.
He begged piteously for life.
CHARLES DE LEssEPs and others con-
cerned in the Panama scandals have
been arrested in France. Excitement
was reported intense.
SECRETARY NOBLE announces that
there is plenty of money available to
pay all pension demands.
The Mexican government will soon
make pressing demands that the gov
cTHluenC OI Cu0 OHlCoU SCdU0S take de-
cisive steps to crush out the bands of
revolutionists which infest the border.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended December Is showed an average
increase of 81 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the increase was S.S. The large
shipments of gold caused some appre-
hension in trade.
THE missing banker Post, of Tacoma,
Wash. has been traced to a steamship
en- route to Europe.
WILLIE CHESTERFIELD, aged 10, wan
dered away from home at Pratt City,
Ala. week after his body was found
in the woods several miles away. He
had apparently died from exhaustion.
ALFRED BAECKER, of Remscheid, in
Rhenish Prussia, an imperial bank di-
rector, has been sentenced to three
years hard labor for forgery and en-
bezzlement.