Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-06-16

Sheriff Watt Kelly.
PRINCE EDEscALcHI, OF italy, recent
~ received letter signed by the
Group of Death of the dynamiters
| ordering him, under pain of being
blown to pieces, to bury the sum OF
100000 lire at certain indicated spot
in the suburbs The prince notified the
| police of Rome and number of officers
watched the place where the money
! was to be buried and succeeded in ar.
resting two well known anarchists
while they were digging up the
ground.
| TWENTY-ONE trampS were arrested In
| Oil City, Pa, and driven from the town.
| They are suspected of robbing the dead.
| A TIMBER fire broke out on Bachelor
mountain, Colorado, near Creole, and
| has done great damage. Several acres
of valuable timber sadly needed by the
mines are destroyed. 1t broke out near
the Hidden Treasure shaft house and
burned rapidly in all directions
THREE negro men and woman were
killed by lightning on a plantation ten
miles from Canton, Miss.
LOUIS f. ANDERSON, for the last
eight years cashier in the Long Island
city Office of the Long Island Express
w., Is IulSSlnR. ~ Is d SUN Oh money,
said by the company to be $4,000, but
reported by his fellow employees to be
$1,000.
THE president has approved the act
for a bridge across the Mississippi river
at Moline, Ill.
AT the session of the national confer
ence of German Baptist Brethren at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, the following petit
f;1r,r
of Missouri petitions the annual meet
ing, through their district meeting. to
advise all our members not to attend
the worlds fair at Chicago
WoRKSIEN excavating in the ruins of
the Bingheimer building at Titusville,
Pa, found the bodies of two children.
one that of a boy of s years, partly
burnt, and the other the remains of
young child They were Jacob Bing-
heimer's youngest children. Two
bodies were buried in mistake by Bing-
heimer, who lost his wife and eight
children.
IT is reported in Chicago that
States Attorney Longenecker has
in his possession the instrument
with which DIR. Cronin was killed,
which turns out to be a stone cut
ter's chisel and not the ice pick It
Is said he has under observation and
has seen the wagon which carried the
trunk and body to the catch basin in
and it is further said he has
a confession embodying the above in
formation and much more of an equally
startling and sensational character.
The states attorney does not admit the
assertions
LIGHTNING struck one of the big iron
tanks of the Buckeye Pipe Line Co., sit
uated on the Sma1tz tankage farm,
about three miles southwest of Findlav,
The tank, which contained $50, 900
barrels of oil, made great fire. The
loss will reach $50, 900.
The condition of winter wheat, as
by the department of agricul-
bure, has slightly advanced, the per-
oentage being SS3. In the middle
states a slight advance is noted and
generally in the southern states In
The central west strong advance
is seen in Ohio and Kansas,
with increase by two points in
Michigan and Indiana, the percent
age of principal states being Ohio, 81;
Michigan, SO; Indiana, 81; Illinois, So:
Missouri. rs; Kansas, ST; condition is
llgn on LIE .Hac1nc coast, 81 in Wash |
nFtors and SS in Oregon and California. |
SEX troops Of the Sixth cavalry, corr
'rising over 400 men, arrived at Doyaglas,
Ryo., the other day and went into camp
emporarily at point ten mil es west
u Douglas, near old Fort Fet4erman.
ZEN. E. A. Carr, in command of the
'roops, returned eyas1ve replies when
asked as to the object of his expedition.
t IS learned, however, that the troops
lad thirty days supply Of rations or
enough for six. months cam
'aign. It is believed at Douglas that
martial law is likely to be declared soon
n johnson, Converse and Natrona coun-
les.
In spite of all obstacles trade through
nut the country is reported by the COM
nercial agencies to be increasing.