Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS

HENRY w. JAEHNE, VINO has been
serving a ten years sentence at Sing
Sing for his part in the Broadway rail-
road Doodle scandal in New York in
1884, is looking forward to October Is,
when he will be released.
THE United States steamer Boston
has been ordered to proceed to Honolulu
to relieve the United States steamer
San Francisco.
CANADA's sheep trade with Great
Britain has been failure this season.
ANEGRo wife murderer under sentence
of death at Texarlsana, Ark, was pre-
vented from being baptized by other
negroes, who said that the creek should
not be deiled by his vile carcass"
THE Mutual Banking, Surety s. Trust
Safe Deposit Co., of Philadelphia, in
which the large amount of funds be-
longing to the Order of the Iron Hall is
deposited, failed to open its doors on
the 10th.
DELMAE, Del, has been visited by
fire. Loss s75.000. About forty build
ings were destroyed.
A CASE resembling Asiatic cholera is
reported from Saltwater, MINI.
SIX laborers were crushed to death
and fifteen terribly injured on the Tole-
do, Hooking Valley & Ohio railroad at
Coshocton, O., by a gravel train running
into an open switch.
THE Denver and Cheyenne passenger
train was stopped by robbers at the coal
chute at LaSalle, Col. A passenger
| opened fire on the robbers, wounding
one, and they fed.
| NEAR Ellensburg, Wash, three men
held up a traveller and after robbing
him cut his head off. Vigilantes pur-
sued and captured the highwaymen,
who were all lynched.
THE Jones & Laughlin American
iron works, Pittsburgh, Pa, employing
5000 hands, have resumed work.
The proposed sale of the Louisville,
St. Louis & Texas road to the Louis
vile & Nashville has not been aban
doned, as previously reported.
THE Mississippi Valley Lumbermen's
association decided to advance al
grades except finishing lumber so cent:
thousand.
FOLLOWING a mufhed roar, like far
away thunder, the bed of the Sandusky
river for several miles below Tiffin, O.
has been upheaved as if by an earth
quake shock. In scores of places the
water rashes into the subterranear
openings. At other points peaks pro
ject.
THE Society of American Florists me-
at Washington on the 10TH
Mrs. PICKERING, who beat her hus
band to death, was acquitted as insau.
at Bolton, Tex.
STORM has added to the horrors O.
cholera at Mini Novgorod, the hospita
being crushed and many patients killed
THE strike at Buffalo, n. Y, assumed
vast proportions when the Lake Shore
the Lacka wanna and the New Yorl
? Central switchmcn joined the Lehipl
" Erie. II was impossible to measur,
the disorder and enormous damag
done to perishable freight Troops
. were ordered out to preserve the peace
The stable of John a Bostwick, O
: the Standard Oil Co, was burned a
, Mamaroneck. n. Y. Two men wer
cremated. Bostwick got excited an,
dropped dead of heart failure
) AN Italian, boy and a trained bea
: were killed by lightning at Leon Lake
n. Y. The bolt struck the man, passe,
through him into the boy, whose foo
touched him, and through the bow int.
the bear, on whose head his hand rested
SHOTS were fred into the militi
camp at Homestead, Pa, from a fas,
! moving freight train. Great alarm wa
occasioned, the non-union men in tn
: mill being especially in terror An in
| vestigation was to be made.
THE supervising architect saws tn
: new eight-hour law will increase tn
cost OF the government building cor
| trac1s alone 5000, COO a year.