Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-10


of British coal miners the price of the
fuel is rapidly going beyond the reach
of the poor.
A BALTIMORE & OHIO vestibuled train
| was hurled against a stone wall near
Clarksburg. w. Va, on the 81 and IF
teen persons injured
j. w. COLLINS president of the de-
funct California national bank, com-
mitted suicide at San Francisco on the
Sd by shooting himself
The national base ball league con-
cluded its work on the Sd and adj
journed. The double championship
season idea was adopted
DR. n. M. SCUDDER, son of an emf
nent Chicago divine, is accused by f.
II. Dunton. owner of the Chicago
Spirit of the Times, Of having murdered
Mrs Dunton to secure her money,
Scudder having married Mrs Dunton's
adopted daughter
BURGLARS blew open two steel safes
in the national bank in Coldwater.
Mich, on the night of the Cd and. Sc
cured $4,000 in money and $40, 900 in
bonds.
A RELIGIOUS revival with unusual
features had its elimination on the End
in the service at Music hall, Cincinnati,
morning, afternoon and night. at which
that great structure was each time filled
to overlooking. Three thousand bust
ness houses all over the city closed
during the hours of service. The move
ment was arranged for early last fall
and all the churches of the city united
in carrying out the plans suggested by
the evangelist. Rev. B. Fay Mills.
The vatican. desiring to reform
naing the profane element the congre-
cation of rites has addressed circular
to the principal musicians and compos-
ers of Europe and America soliciting
their views on the subject.
THE only depressing business feat
ures are dul1ness in cotton and iron
due to over production.
A guillotine twice failed to decapi-
tate murderer in Stade, Germany, on
the 4th, and the executioner had to
tear and slash at the neck before he
could complete his work.
HUNDREDS of starving unemployed
workmen of Dantzic, Germany, looted
bakeries and butcher shops on the 4th.
The police had a hard fight to quell the
disorder.
SPANISH anarchists badly wrecked
church in Valencia on the 3D. French
anarchists tried to blow up police bar
racks in suburb of Paris.
The condition of the poor in Vienna
is said to be pitiful
RECENTLY, at Richland, ten miles
from Lockport, Ind, a man named
Williams shot his wife, killing her in
stantly, and then shot himself, dying
shortly after.
The searching parties sent out by
the government from various parts of
Trinity bay to search for-the missing
seal hunters returned on the 4th. No
tidings of the missing men could be
learned, and it was believed that they
have persisted.
IT is charged in Chicago that Kate
Reilly, noted dressmaker, has evaded
customs officers by sending over En-
glish women with goods
IT is said that Banker Collins, who
committed suicide in San Francisco, on
the Sd. ruined his best friend in Chey-
enne. Wyo.
MARCUS and Abraham Cohen. who
tried to set fire to their store in st.
Louis to obtain 50, 500 insurance, per-
ished in the flames.
EX-LIEUT. COL JOHN S. PERKINS, of
the Third regiment Missouri militia, at
Kansas City, has again been placed un-
der arrest He is charged With obtain
ing money by false pretenses from
Actor Fitzgerald
THERE were violent snow storms in
Venice and Trieste on the 4th- In the
latter city the snow was nearly two
feet deep and the roads were blocked
in consequence. The mountains fall
of snow was much greater and the
ground was covered to a depth of four
feet.
GEORGE R. RAYMOND. ex-deputy city
auditor and James A. Hadley, deputy
city treasurer of Denver. charged with
forgery and conspiring to defraud the
city in raising a warrant from So so to
S3O3. SO during their term of Office,
which expired in April last, were found
guilty with a recommendation to mer-
cy. Thirteen other indictments against
these men remain to be tried.