Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-06-02

Z CYCLONE at wellington, Kan,
killed twelve persons and injured up
wards OF seventy-fv Many buildings
were. destroyed.
JAMES FISHER, the murderer OF Austin
Hardy, was hanged at Cooper. Delta
county, Tex, the other day. The exc
cution was public and took place in the
court house yard Fisher shot and
killed Hardy in July, 1891, without
provocation-
A SATISFACTORY increase in trade is
reported at the commercial centers-
Col j. NJ. LEES report, detailing the
investigation made by him relative to
the alleged frauds committed by attor-
neys on the Arapahoe and Cheyenne In
dams, has been forwarded to Washing
ton The report contains the testimony
of many of the chiefs Of both tribes,
who claim that but three of the chiefs
signed the agreement to pay the attor-
news s67, 800 for securing the sale of
their lands to the government.
A wEsTBoUND local freight train on
the Pittsburgh & Western road ran into
an open switch the other night at Niles,
O.. and collided with eight cars laden
with cinders- Five cars went over a
fifty foot embankment and seventeen
were totally demolished. Four men
were riding on a fat car and two es-
capped injury by jumping. The others
were caught in the wreck. James Nc
Farland, of Girard, O., was crushed to
death and Lewis Jones, of Girard, was
fatally injured Brakeman William
Smith and Conductor Clyde Charles
were badly cut and bruised, but will
recover. The other trainmen escaped
by jumping.
The steamship City of New York,
which sailed from New York May 10,
1875 a M, was reported at Browhead
2 p. IN. May "a. The days runs in nau-
| teal miles were as follows: ass, 467,
| 47O, 4T2, 473; ATS and 81 to Queenstown;
| total distance, $500 miles; average
speed for the trip, 2O.06 knots per hour.
Her actual time from Sandy Hook light
ship to Queenstown is six days, no hours,
| twenty minutes, which would be equal
to five days, eighteen hours and twenty
minutes over the more northerly course
of 2, TIC miles. Taking the distance into
consideration, this is the fastest east
ward passage on record
| The New Orleans street car strike has
been settled. The terms of settlement
are that matters be restored to the con-
dition in which they were May IS be
| fore the strike.
AT Coventry, Warwickshire, a moi
prevented sale Of goods seized to make
a payment of a wears rate claim and
made demonstrations of vi olence to
ward the vicar.
AN explosion in the wood pulp mill
at the Friend Paper Co.'S mill, at West
Carrollton, O., demolished the building
and killed Emery Blood. the assistant
superintendent.
FRED GERHARD has become such ar
enthusiast on the subject Of the gold
cure for dipsonania that he has estab
lished Kelley institute of his own.
THE Iowa department of the G. A. r
has issued a call to all comrades to come
to the aid Of the old soldiers and their
families who are sufferers by the flood
Gov. TORRES, of Lower California
after making an investigation into the
Oberlander case at Tiajuana, ordered
the immediate and unconditional re
lease of Oberlander and the transporta-
ton to Ensada for trial of all the MeXi
cans engaged in the illegal invasion O.
American territory and the highland
ed seizure of the American constable.
SIX men are in jail at Cullerton, Ala.
charged with participating in a lynch
ing. This is the first time in the recen
history Of Alabama that any member o
mob has been interfered with by 1ega
process. The victims We're two whit.
men, Monroe Ivens and his son John
several months ago.
The National Editorial associat ton
recently in session at San Francisco
elected the following officers: Presi
dent, P. B. Price. Hudson, Wis: frs
vice president, Walter Williams, Colum
bia, Mo-; second vice president, H. j
Knapp, Auburn, n. Y; third vice presi
dent, J. H. Duke, Scotia, Mo-; CORE
spending secretary, j. M. Page, Jersey
vile, H.; recording secretary, William
Kennedy, Chambersburg, Pa; treas
urer, A. 81. Lourie, Elkin, Ill; assist
ant recording secretary, Miss Louis
Frances, California The selection O
the next place Of meeting was referre
to the executive committee