Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15

age.
THE London papers were profuse in
their praise of Whittier.
ALBERT G. PORTER, minister to Italy,
has resigned.
ANNOUNCEMENT IS made of the death
of Gen. Enrice Cialdini, the Italian sol
der and statesman, aged 81 years.
NEW HAMPSHIRE democrats have
nominated state ticket and presiden-
tial electors.
VICTOR WILDER, the musical critic of
Gil Bias, died of cholera at Paris.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An old palace in Naples collapsed, in
juring many people and killing one.
A MOUNTAIN ash is growing on the
tower of church in Utica, n. Y. It is
now fifteen years old and seven feet
high.
LIZZIE ULICH, a young woman of La
Porte, Ind, drowned herself in pond
there. Unrequited love.
A PNEUMATIC tire sullzy which Robert
Bonner ordered will be finished this
week. He has ordered thirty-six inch
sulky also
w. H. ALLEN, an inmate of the Min
nesota soldiers home, has fallen heir
to a share of SIS, 900, 600 estate left by
a brother in California.
SIX lives were lost in Vigo bay, Spain,
by the capsizing of boat which was
conveying eleven passengers from the
steamer Vile d'Anvers to the shore.
The British trades union congress is
in session at Glasgow.
IN war between races at Bunlzie,
La, one white man was shot and two
negroes were hanged
NEWTON COPEMAN, moonshiner and
murderer, was shot and killed near
Newmarket, Ala, by a posse under
Sheriff Powell.
The loss at sen is announced of the
British schooner May Gibbon, Capt.
Sabean, from Portland, August 16, for
Demerara. Some OF the crew have
been landed at st. Michaels.
GEN. RANGEL and soldiers were routed
while assisting in making arrests in the
Guerra district of Mexico.
THE 800 men employed by the Allan
tic Copper Mining Co., at Houghton,
Mich, have struck for higher pay.
FROST did considerable damage to low
lands near Mason City, Iowa. In many
places the damage was.heavy. It is es-
timated that corn will not be more than
half Il crop in the north tier of counties
of Iowa.
CHOLERA has assumed the form of an
epidemic at Murre, India. Maj. Dimond
has died of the disease.
THE second of the series Of prize
fights at New Orleans was won by
Dixon, the negro champion, in eight
rounds, over Shelly, a white man.
THE raids on the racing men at Gar
field park, Chicago, ended in tragedy
on the 9th. James NJ. Brown, wealthy
| turfman, shot dead a policeman named
Powell, who first fired at him. Another
| policeman named Mcdowell sprung
upon Brown, when the latter fred,
mortally wounding his assailant. Nc
| Dowen and other policemen shot Brown
dead.
| THE handsome dwelling house known
as Cecil Manor in Cecil county, Md,
was totally destroyed by fire. The
mansion was built two years ago at a
cost of 500, 200 and was said to be the
finest residence in the state.
/ IT is probable that the Chinese viii
neglect to register and resist deporta-
| ton on constitutional grounds on May
next.
THREE negroes were strung up in one
night by a mob nine miles east of Paris
Tex. The lynching grew out of the
killing of negro desperate July 2s
last.
An American named Kammerer killed
a burglar near Vienna. He was ar
rested pending investigation.
PORT HURON, Mich, is hurt by 8
Canadian vessel being forbidden to un
load grain there.
Two lads were killed while driving
| 10 e ol-
street, Chicago
Ia, has burned.
THE strike of the Genoese dock labor
ers against the use of hydraulic crane.
caused thirty coal laden steamers from
England to be delayed over a month
but the men returned to work at an ad
vance.
THE Brussels Etoile Beige says thai
the news of the massacre of Lodiste1
and his companions by the Ara bs is cor
rect; only one member of the expedition
escaped.
| ZIMMERMAN, the safety bicyclist
went a half mile in 1:01 IS at Hartford
Conn, beating Nancy Hanks time.
EIGHT cars Of fruit We're total,
wrecked by the Santa Fe train runnin.
off a trestle near Galesburg, Ill
A CHILD two years old died at Phila
delphia, after drinking about a pint o
whisky.
RECORDER SMYTHE, of New York, In
structed the grand jury to inquire int
cases of reporters boarding quarantine,
vessels contrary to law.
Frost is reported in Wisconsin,
THE great prize fight between Cor
bett and Sullivan occurred at Ney
Orleans on the 18th and ended in the de
feat of Sullivan after 81 rounds
THE body, the head of which wa
found by q dog at Decatur, Ill, wa
found later. It had been partly eater
by hogs