Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-07-28

are in need of assistance because of the
drought
THE Hazen Wire Nail Co, Anderson,
Ind, has signed the scale.
FALEs. the New Jersey boy murderer,
has been refused new trial and must
hang August IL
! A TERRIFIC explosion, caused by the
bursting of sixty horsepower boiler
in the Grand Ridge electric light plant
and followed by fire, caused $50, OoG
confagration at Ottawa. I'll.
THE Atchison road failed to put in its
second-class rate of STAT 20 from the Mis-
souri, river to the Pacific coast, but is
said to be getting fair show of the
business.
BANDITS have killed government,
scout near Fort Ringgold, Tex
The statement having been made
that ex-Gov. Hoadly would appear fol-
| the Homestead rioters. his partner, Ed
ward johnson, denied it in a public let
! ter.
| THE telegraph employees of the Louis
| vile & Nashville have obtained the ad.
vance sought, averaging s. per month.
| CAPT. RADFoRD has been censured fol
running the City Of Chicago ashore a,
the old head of Kinsale, Ireland
J. d. BARNETT, a wealthy farmer
/ was crushed to death under a falling
tree on his place in Warwick county,
| Ind.
| LEON PATTERSON was gored fatally
by a bull while feeding. his cattle al
Milan, Tenn.
| ROBERT and Ernest Soltau, brothers,
| have been drowned. They started in q
naphtha launch from New York fol
Long Beach, L. l.
| THE grand jury at Montgomery, Ala
returned four indictments for libel
against Editor Frank Baltze1l, of the
Alliance Herald At various times
Baltzell made attacks upon Gov. Jones
| Gov. TooLE, of Montana. refused to
allow Idaho and federal troops to pur
sue fugitives from the Occur d. Alene
country.
| THERE was no truth in sensational
yarn from San Francisco of the loss OF
the brig Tahiti and the cannibalism and
| other horrors.
TAPP e. Co., baggage, Louisville, KY,
have failed. Assets double the iabili
| ties.
CHICAGO police recently raided nickel
| in-the-slot gam bling machines.
! FLOUR showed marked activity the
past week, with small advances in
prices.
| A sPLENDIDLY preserved mastodon's
! tooth was found in the Piasa bottoms
seven miles above Alton, H., and pre-
sented to Prof. William F. McAdams
| who will add it to his worlds fair ex.
hibit-
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended July %, showed an average in
crease of 1876 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the increase was 1870.
DIR. AARON l.. CHAPLIN, eX-president
| of Be1oit college, Wis, is dead.
THE Carnegie employees at the Du-
quesne works have struck in sympathy
with those at Homestead. Gov. Patti
son ordered the militia not to act on
their own responsibility as they had
been doing, but to await orders from
| the civil authorities
| ALL the fancy county, Mo, 1ynchers
| were discharged, the prosecution seeing
that it was futile to bring them to trial
THE treasury at Washington now con.
tains sl12, 900, 900 in free gold, and the
gold balance is increasing.
A CYCLONE struck Hiteman, Ia, dOinp
considerable damage; no lives lost
| A FRENCH billiard player has beaten
Slosson four games out of five, giving
| Slosson thirty points
| New ORLEANS people are trying to
enforce the Sunday closing law
! CHICAGO has just issued her new city
directory, the largest in the United
| States.
A SEVEN foot body of lead carbonates
was opened in Leadville, Col, assayin9
626 ounces of silver and ffty-six ounces
of gold.
BAIRD Bros. have been specifically
freed from all blame for the terrible
accident at Newport, KY, where TWEEN
ty-fve lives were lost by the bridge
falling.
In the last four months about 23, 900,
600 pounds of corn have been shipped
through Eagle Pass, Tex, on the road
to Mexico. It sold at so cents bushe
there and in Mexico at 50. so to So.