Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24


University of Illinois was dedicated
with addresses by President Jordan, OF
Leland Stanford university. and Prof.
Greleas, of Washington university, St
Louis.
/ A FIRE at West Water and Clybarn
streets, Milwaukee, destroyed $50, O0G
worth of property.
| ILLINOIS bankers desire to have the
three days grace law repealed.
THE southern wholesale druggists are
perfecting an organization.
REDBUD, ILL.,, was swept by tornado
on the 18th. All the houses were
wrecked and many persons were in
jured, baby being killed. The storm
of the date mentioned was widespread
and was very destructive to telegraph
! wires.
IRISH and German Catholic priests OF
| Newark, n. J., are engaged in bitter
controversy.
THE Washington Park hotel, at Gin
cinnati, collapsed, but all the four per-
sons who were in the building escaped.
| SENATOR GALLINGER and PETER. of
the senate, Investigating committee, are
in Chicago looking into the Pinkertons'
part in the Homestead affair.
AT a democratic ratification at Mount
| ain View, Ark, explosives stored in a
school house exploded and four persons
were killed
THE National brewery at Baltimore,
Md. burned. Loss about $500. 900.
THERE are fears in Brooklyn of an
epidemic of smallpox.
TELEGRAPH companies in Georgia are
exempted from liability for failure to
deliver kilograms on Sunday.
| Ark, has had most beneficent effect
on business in that section.
The Illinois steel mills at Joliet, Ill i,
is arranging to shut down to adjust
wages. Over 9, 900 men will be without
work.
PLATE glass companies are forming
trust
THE United States attorney at Chi
cago has no hope of securing convic-
ton of Swift or others in the packing
house combine, charged with violating
the interstate commerce law.
ABOUT So per cent. of the Iowa farms
are mortgaged according to census
Office bulletin.
In an accident on the Atlantic & Pa
cific railroad, in Arizona, William 6.
Walker, of Trenton, Mo-, was killed
and five other passengers injured
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended November 10 showed an average
increase of 0.6 compared with the cor
responding week of last year In New
York there was decrease of 80.
THE missing British ship Lodore has
arrived safely at San Francisco. She
was 247 days from Newcastle, England
Her delay was caused by heavy weather.
More than once she appeared to be GO
ing to the bottom.
THE ranks of the Homestead strikers
are reported breaking.
THE Catholic arch bishops, in conven-
ton at New York, have concluded their
labors.
PEOPLE of Arizona were much alarmed
over threatened outbreak of Navaioes
under Black Horse.
AMHERST defeated Williams at col
lege football at Williamstown, Mass.
Score 60 to o.
The '1ittle black trunk which
figured in the legal proceedings against
ex-President Potter, of the Maverick
bank, has been opened and there was
not single paper in it which would
criminate Mr.. Potter
The mining congress which was to
have been held at Salt Lake, Utah, De
cember 6, has been indefinitely post
poned
THE case of the city of Creston, Ia,
against Greeland Cemetery association
for the possession of the cemetery was
decided against the city.
IVAN PETROFF, who deceived the
United States government about the
Behring sea statistics, has been seen in
San Francisco, but cannot be found.
THE large British steamships Anne
thyst and Cactus have penetrated for
miles up the Brazos river in Texas.
After discharging their cargoes they
will load with oil cake for Europe
OYSTER boat slavery in the Chesa-
norant immigrants are inveigled on the
boats and subjected to the grossest
brutality.
LONDON building trades have secured
a forty-eight hour week
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
A DAUGHTER of Mrs. Asa johnson
dropped dead in school at Casey, Ill,
while working an example on the black
board.
A WOMAN put dynamite cartridge in
the oven to dry at Holland, n. Z. Her
son Ralph was killed and the woman
was badly in jured. The house was
shattered.
BERNARD MULLER, Russian Jew,
died at Bellevue Hospital in New York
from anthrax, a disease in which the
veins and muscles become infested
with animalcule.
THE Swarthout brothers, charged with
killing their father and burning him in
a haystack, have been held to the Feb
rnary term of court at Morrison, Ill.
SENATOR JONES, of Arkansas, says he
next senate will be democratic and that
it will repeal the Mckinley bill and
pass the free coinage OF silver bill.
REV. III. NJ. WHARTON, of the Baptist
church, has commenced a crusade
against the dives of Baltimore, Md,
la DR.. Parkhurst, of New York
EIGHT suspected nihilists have been
arrested near Lublin, Russian Poland.
A BIG discovery of gold has been
made at the Caribou mines near Truro,
Il. S.
L. l.. ALLEN and Miss Matte Withers,