Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-02-04

Mexican dollars on the border are quot
ed at only Il cents and trade is being
injured.
IT was stated that the French gov
eminent would ask credit of S700, 900
to enable France to participate in the
Chicago worlds fair.
TEN of the eighteen missing en-
ployes of the New York street clean
ing department who were blown out
to sea on scows the other morning it
was thought had been drowned. The
remaining eight it was said, unless they
had been picked up, must certainly
also have been drowned or frozen to
death. Two scows were reported
towed back.
The employees of Doyle's flint glass
works, Pittsburgh, Pa, have struck
against new order of work. Other
strikers we're expected to follow.
THE Chinese government has decided
to found school for marine engineers
with view to discarding the European
officers Of the Chinese feet
A PHILADELPHIA & READING coal en-
CINE blew up at Newcastle near ST
Clair. Schuylkill county. forty miles
north of Reading the other morning.
Five men were instantly killed. the en-
gineer. David Zeigler. Fireman N. Baul,
and Jacob Turner, Jack Wintergreen
and Henry Sands, brakemen. The
bodies were horribly mangled. One
has not yet been found
THE suits filed against the estate of
the late Senator Plumb, of Kansas, was
the topic of conversation at Washing
ton recently. The amounts involved
are S347, 296. Is and $4,000. The first
was for stock in a Virginia railroad and
the second was money due for over
drafts On the American Security &
Trust Co. 1t was thought the suits
would be settled out of court and no
testimony taken
1T is practically decided that no more
sky-scraper structures can be erected
in Chicago. A subcommittee of the
city council voted to recommend that
permits be issued for new buildings not
exceeding 16O feet in height. The
maximum, too, will only be allowed on
the wider thoroughfares, or where the
highest stories are set back so as not
to interfere with light and air on the
street surface.
IT was generally thought at Denver
Col, that the state supreme court
would favorably decide DR.. Graves
motion for new trial
GEN. RAUM appeared before a sub
committee of the house appropriation
committee on the 2Sth and asked for an
appropriation for pensions for the next
fiscal year of S144, $50. O0o.
DUN & Co. report business larger in
volume, but lower in range of prices.
The western cities all seemed to be do
ing we'll Increases were numerous
among the clearings of the larger trade
centers for the week.
FRANZ SCHNEIDER and his wife have
been convicted in Vienna of the MUIR
ders of eight servant girls
THE Colorado supreme court has
granted a stay of proceedings to Dr.
Graves and the date of his execution
for poisoning Mrs. Barnaby is now
very uncertain.
CATTLE and horses in northern Idaho
are reported to be suffering greatly as
the result Of the deep SHOWS.
FIRE the other night burned a whole
business block in jeanette, Pa. The
loss on the block burned was $65, 600.
In n collision near Mahoney City, Pa. :,
between an express and an accomr.o-
dalton train one engineer was killed
and five men injured.
MUCH excitement has been caused st
Creole, Col by the finding in the Jack
pot claim ore bearing go ounces of
silver to the ton. There is great rush
for location.
SUCCI. the faster, on the goth aban-
dened his attempt to go without food
for ffty-two days It was announced
that he had tasted to within few
hours of fortv-four days. He presented
a most shocking appearance.
SIX negroes were killed the other day
by an explosion at Rush Run, Fayette
county, w. Va The negroes were en-
gagged in blasting rock in order to put
up a tipple for the Redash Coal Co.
The blast failed to go off aud the men
went back and began drilling again in
the same holes.
ONE man was killed and two others
injured in a collision between freight
trains near Dewitt, N. Y, the c ther
morning. Six cars were ruined.