Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-06-09

al OuEduRO, 4CksS d I<3luAky Ok 01k ats
father, mother and six children, were
killed by a tornado.
THE board of directors of the Chicago
Railway & Stockyards Co. have de-
clared a dividend of per cent. upon
the preferred stock and per cent upon
the company stock.
In fstic encounter in London Jack
Slavin, of Australia, brother of Frank
Slavin, who was defeated by Peter
jackson, worsted in the nineteenth
round Con Riordan, an American boxer
well known on the Pacific coast
Rev. THOMAS DIXON, JR., pastor of
the Twenty-third Street Baptist church,
of New York, has been held in 81, 900
bail on a charge of criminal libel pre-
ferred by Excise Commissioner Joseph
Josh, who claims that the reverend
gentleman ibelled him criminally in
one of his recent sensational sermons.
THE Billinga and Great Falls, Mon
tana, stage has been held up and the
treasury box and mail sacks taken af-
ter one horse was shot. The passengers
were not molested and were allowed to
proceed with the remaining horses.
The robbery occurred on Painted Robe
hill, nine miles south of Mussel Shell
river.
FRANK d. TAGGART, prominent
lawyer of Cheyenne, Wyo., has been ar
rested charged with giving revolver
and ammunition to Kinch Mckinney, a
prisoner in the Laramie county Jail.
Mckinney fred at the guard, attempted
to escape and held control of the Jail
. for eight hours. Taggart confessed to
the charge. He was paid $500 by Nc
Kinney for the revolver. The penalty
for the offense is fourteen years i'm
prisonment.
AN anarchist named Drouet who had
been arrested in Paris for connection
with a dynamite conspiracy has dis
closed the hiding place of a quantity Of
dynamite which had been stolen by an
archiStS from one of the government
arsenal officers, went to the place indi-
Gated and unearthed al dynamite car
tridges, sixty-six decorators and TWEEN
ty-seven fuses.
THE long talked of combination of
wall paper manufacturers has become
an accomplished fact and certificate
has been fled with the secretary of state
of New York incorporating the National
Wall Paper Co. with a capital Of s14,-
900, 900 divided into 500 shares.
A. B. MCFARLAND, an amateur natur-
alist of Chandler, Ok, attempted to
catch rattlesnake and the reptile bit
him on the arm. Medical aid was pro-
cured, but to no avail. He suffered ter
rible agony for ten hours and died.
SPECIAL INSPECTOR DAVIS, of the in
terror department, has returned from
the Cherokee strip to Guthrie, Ok He
found large number of cattle grazing
there, but all have been ordered off and
if they do not go at once will be elected
by troops The soldiers have compelled
the Cherokees to stop quarrying stone
and confscated their machinery.
THE census bureau recently issued a
bulletin on the subject of assessed
valuation Of property in the United
States in 1890. The bulletin shows that
the assessed valuation of all property,
excluding railroad property except in
certain specified states, has increased
from SIG, 902, 993, 549 in 1880 to s24, 651,
$50, 465 1890, an increase during the de-
cade of 81, 74s, 591 ,922 or As. "a per cent.
WORK on the East river, New York,
tunnel has begun. It is expected that
the work will be completed in two years.
THERE have been over 5000 deaths
from cholera in Calcutta.
THE strike Of the Toronto brickmalx-
ers has been terminated after lasting
two months.
The annual conference of German
Baptists, or Dunkards, has been in ses-
sion at Cedar Rapids, Ia.
KEEPER Buck, of Dannemora prison,
who has been on trial for assisting
O'Brien to escape, has been found guilty.
DURING the recent storm at Lufkins,
Tex, several persons were injured, a
number of them fatally, and a number
of buildings demolished. Blasco re-
ports number of houses destroyed and
| at least twenty persons badly injured,
six fatally. The little child Of Mrs.
| Cullenbach was thrown on redhot
stove and burned to death, its mother
and three other children being proba bly,
fatally injured. The path of the storm
is now desolate waste, all vegetation
being destroyed. Appeals for aid have
been made.