Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-01-14
xusCELLANEoUs.

ffOI hOcn, mas discovered the m-
f1uenza bacillus
An unknown vessel was wrecked re-
Gently on the Shetland islands.
The jackson brewery at San Fran
cisco has been seized for violating the
revenue laws.
The free miners of eastern Tennes-
see threaten to make trouble at any
moment The militia on duty is not
pleased.
A CYCLONE at Fayetteville, Ga,
killed three persons, injured many
others and destroyed much property.
1T was reported that Neal Sims,
brother of Bob Sims, the lynched Ala
bama outlaw, two other men and two
daughters of Bob, were captured by
mob and all of them hanged and shot
THE national department of agricult-
ure reports the crops of the country the
greatest ever known aud the prices ex-
cellent.
THE statement that the issue of
Russian loan of EGO. 600, 600 sterling is
being arranged has depressed Russian
stocks
THERE is now an unprecedented
quantity of American cotton at Liver
pool Two docks alone received 200, 600
mas.
THE returns issued by the British
board of trade for Decem Der show that
imports increased e3. $50, 900 and ex-
ports decreased e1,54O as compared
with the corresponding month of 1890.
THREE boys of a country school near
Topeka, Kan. fatally beat and cut the
throat of their teacher.
JUDGE BUTLER, in the United States
circuit court, has rendered decision
that receiver of a broken national
bank could not collect from depositor
on a note made by the depositor, so
long as his deposit exceeded the
amount of the note.
Two hundred miners were entombed
by an explosion in shaft No. 5 of the
Usage Coal & Mining Co. near McAllis-
ter, ]. T., on the night of the 9TH 1t
was feared that all were killed as the
mine had but one outlet.
PROCEEDINGS have been begun in
Chicago by the federal authorities
against the whisky trust The action
is based on rebate certificate.
SIX hundred Otoe, Iowa, Kaw and
POnca Indians are holding ghost
dance near Red Rock in the Cherokee
strip. The Pawnees are also holding a
dance on the Arkansas river and have
bought $1,000 worth of presents to
present to the Messiah
FIRE almost destroyed the town of
LaChute, a thriving manufacturing
center sixty miles from Montreal, Que
Out of 400 houses fully 800 were de-
stroyed. Loss, $500, 900.
The cotton growers of the south at a
meeting at Memphis. Tenn, perfected
an organization to restrict the product
of cotton each year.
TIE death rate of London, taking
the mean of the last two weeks, is
found to be thirty-two per 1, 200, which
is much higher than it has been in any
other consecutive two weeks in the
last ten years, with the single excep-
ton of January, 1890, when influenza
was at it's worst.
UP to 5 o'clock on the. Sth forty-eight
men had been taken out dead and one
hundred seriously injured in the mining
disaster at Krebs L T. The rescuing
parties were reported as being badly
delayed
THE GAINESVILLE (Ga) wooden mills
have been totally destroyed by fire.
The loss is 500, 900 with no insurance
TWELVE breweries in and about Gin
cinnati, O., have agreed to form COM
bination similar to that of the whisky
trust.
A CONFERENCE between the trans
Missouri association and the western
freight association will be held in Kan
sas City January 10, to correct existing
differentials in coal rates.
THE national association of archi-
tectural iron workers has been formal
~ organized in St Louis with Jacob
Hilkne, of Indianapolis, Ind, as presi-
dent and Edward Wilton, of St. Louis,
as secretary.
JOSEPH CLARK. representing an. En-
glish syndicate, has bought twenty
three or all but six Of the Fl our mills in
Utah The transaction involves ST..
100000 for the plants and 1915, 900 for
stock on hand. The company proposes
to control Utah's wheat crop.