Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-02-11

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killing two men.
THE House of Rest hotel at Ocean
City. N. j., of which Postmaster Gener-
al Wanamaker was the reputed owner,
was attached by the sheriff the other
day. It has been the summer rendez-
vous for members of the Bethany Sun
day school of Philadelphia
A WAR of races. the Irish on one side
and Italians on the other, has existed
for some time past in the yard of the
New York street cleaning department.
1t eliminated the other night in a riot,
when the Italians drew their stilettos
and attacked the Irishmen. Patrick
Duffy and Patrick Pollard were
stabbed.
AT recent meeting of the New York
State Medical society a special commit
tee reported in favor of abolishing the
death penalty for the reason that it
might be enforced on some criminals
who through perversion of judgment
and will from physical congenitiveness
or hereditary causes were irresponsible
for their act
G. WOOD DAVIS, the Kansas alliance
crop expert. spoke at length before the
house committee on agriculture in favor
of regulating option trading in grain.
IT was reported that the federal
grand jury at Boston has indicted the
officers of the whisky trust.
THE Paris bourse was excited on the
4th by rumors of trouble in a large
banking house and the arrest of two
directors.
LEADING western board of trade men
were heard by the house committe on
agriculture in opposition to the pro-
posed sweeping anti-option bills
CAPT. HIGGINS. United States army,
reports that the Indians in the terri
tory implicitly believe in the coming
OF Messiah, but are quiet and peace.
able.
THREE men-one q couSin-have been
arrested for kidnapping Ward Water
bury, son of a wealthy New York
farmer. Sensational testimony was
given against the cousin.
The silver brick coinage case was
argued before the District of Columbia
supreme court on the 4th.
PRICES are rising rapidly in France
as result of the new tariff bill Pork
and mutton have advanced 3 cents per
pound. Italian and Dutch cheese have
risen 100 per cent and foreign soap 200
per cent. The extra cost to workmen
franc daily.
covered in the London market among
animals from Denmark, a country
which had hitherto been regarded as
one of the few free from that disease.
THE price of grain is falling in the
distressed provinces of Russia, owing
to increased railway facilities, which
oil Of 1o1; 80
| ais from the more favored provinces
The grain dealers who have been spec
| ulating for a rise in values have sus-
| tanned heavy losses through the decline.
THIRTY barges were torn from their
| mornings by drift ice at Breslau, Ger
many. Several of the barges sank and
drowned, including many women and
children.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's review for
bered $40, compared with o97 the previ-
| week of last year.
have stolen a white girl from near
Flagstaff, Ariz
GENERAL MANAGER ROBERTSON, of
the Monterey & Mexican Gulf railroad,
denies that there are any signs of revo-
luton in Mexico.
| ONLY two of the first twenty bust
| ness centers of America show decreases
in clearings for the week ended the
4th.
The business situation is reported by
Dun & Co, as brighter because of
| heavy demands from the west.
CONSIDERABLY damage was recently
done by a revolt of the students in one
of the principal schools in Paris
EMIN PASTA. writing from Msua,
Africa, confirms the stories of cruelties
practiced by slave hunters. He says
that he pursued one hunter for six
days during which he counted fifty.
! one bodies of slaves recently killed
They were worn to skeletons and the
skulls of thirty-nine had been beaten
in.
! ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
ACTING Gov. THAYER, of Nebraska
has written Gov. Boyd that he will sur
render the gubernatoria1 Office to hin
on the afternoon of the 9Th.
IT was reported from San Antonio
Tex, that the fugitive Nihilist Padlew
ski, found dead there recently, was as
sassinated by agents Of the czar.
THE London stock exchange was de
pressed all last week because of ad
verse rumors. Americans were gen
orally lower.
THE Hotel Royal, Sixth avenue. New
York city, burned on the 7th and at I,
late hour that night 100 people wer.
still unaccounted for. Five dead bodies
had been recovered. There were many
thrilling escapes
AT Coal creek the other night tn.
militia was surrounded by many miu
ers, who opened an indiscriminate fir
ing, hoping to put the soldiers to fight
They were disappointed, however, a
the troops returned the fire and the
miners dispersed. Several hundred
shots were fred, but no one was hurt.
TWENTY-FIVE customs inspectors a
New York have been removed for &C
cept1ng fees, for drunkenness. for dis
courtesy and for other offenses.
The house did not meet till the af
ternoon of the 9th and only a small
number of members were present
Eulogies were delivered on the lat,
representative Lee, of Virginia
Mr. BLAINE has sent a very brie
letter to Chairman GARRISON, of the Re
publican national committee, declar
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