Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-13


! who resisted them were killed.
| The Malta is charged with having a
hand in the recent murder of an Italian
in Chicago
| AMBROSE C. TRAVIS, a young and rich
man about town at New York, was ar.
rested, charged with bigamy. He has
a wife in western New York and re-
Gently married Alderman Sayles' daugh-
ter at Long Island City.
| WILLIAM LINCOLN, bank teller, died
at Morrisania, N. Y, of rabies
THE Cllickasaw legislature will prob
| ably pass a bill doing away with the
| employment of lawyers for its business
with Washington. The Indians have
at times been severely pinched.
CHAUNCEY JOHNSON, a safe cracker,
reported to have secured 81, 600, 900 in
his time, is now a wandering vagrant
in New York.
PAINTINGS valued at S11O.00O have
been seized at New York for the eva
sion of customs duties.
EDWARD PARKER DEACON will prose
cute his wife in France for adultery.
RAILROADS are suing Arkansas for
twenty-six years back interest on con-
struction bonds.
THE Union Pacific is vainly endeavor-
ing to recover its Puget sound business
from the Northern Pacific Co.
THERE is a movement on foot to erect
a monument to Lafayette in the old
graveyard pear the Birmingham meet
ing house, where the hero drew his
sword in the battle of Brandywine in
1777.
FRENCH Catholic missionaries at
Uganda, Africa, have sent fresh COM
plants of prosecutions.
Two supposed cases of cholera oc-
CURED at Tonawanda, N. Y.
THE maharajah of Mysore. India, is
ready to alter the marriage law so that
children under ten may not be mated
and men over fifty may not marry girls
under sixteen.
THE steam barge Nashua has gone
down in Lake Huron with all on board.
THE movement for political union
between the United States and Canada
has been Endorsed at meeting held in
Boston.
In desperate fight with moonshiners
in Lincoln county, Tenn, S. D. Mather,
deputy internal revenue collector, was
shot and instantly killed and Joe Spur
rier, special deputy collector, and c. S.
Carwel1, general deputy collector, were
mortally wounded.
AT a meeting of the Seamen's union
in Chicago it was decided that the
wages of all seamen belonging to the
union should be increased to So. 1t
was voted to send the Homestead strik-
ers 5000.
AN attempt was made to blow up the
non-union boarding house of Mrs. Mar
ron, at Homestead, Pa. No one was
hurt but the house was badly damaged
and the occupants much frightened
MILE BROWN, a fifteen-yearrold col
ored girl, was executed at Spartans-
burg, S. c., for the murder of w. c.
Carpenters infant at Gaffney City in
June last. On the same scaffold a negro
male murderer was hanged at the same
time
THE sixth auditor of the treasury re-
ports that during the last quarter of
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1892, the
receipts of the post Office department
were SIT sos, 692 and the expenditures
SIC, 766, 922
AT the recommendation of the ath-
letic executive committee of Princeton
the students voted to abolish the an
nual cane rush.
A VENEZUELAN war vessel has fired
upon the private boat of United States
Consul Hanna,
CHARLEY MITCHELL, the English
pugilist, was found guilty of assault in
a London police court and sentenced to
two months in prison.
WELLS, FARGO & Co. telegraphed the
officials at Coffeyville. Kan, to the
effect that as soon as the identity of
the dead Daltons was esta blished the
rewards made up jointly by the South
ern Pacific and the express company,
amounting to $4,000, would be for
warded.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended October Z showed an average
increase of s. compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was So
THE tobacco trust has declared divi.
dend of 6 per cent.