Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18

bridge wrecking both engines and two
cars John Lovejoy, brakeman, was
fatally injured.
JUDGE ScoTT, of Cheyenne, Wyo., de-
cided to accept bail from the imprisoned
stockmen for the reason that Sheriff
Kelly absolutely refused to pay the ex-
pense longer of holding them.
WASHINGTON MESSING has offered 81
| 500, 600 to the worlds fair directors for
| the entire batch of $500, 600 souvenir
| half dollars donated by congress, pro-
vided the exposition be opened Sunday.
| Leo T. Alton has made an offer of ST.
| OOO 600 for the lot without the Sunday
closing proviso.
! THE treasury department has decided
| that foreigner who makes contract
| in this country to work here and then
returns to his own country cannot come
back to the United States for the pur-
pose of fulfilling his contract without
violating the provisions of the contract
| labor law.
! At the Castle Yacht club regatta in
the Solent, England, the American boat
| We Win won first prize in the half rat
ing match.
THE annual confederate reunion of
| the survivors of Ross, Ectors and Gran
| bury's brigades was held at Weather
ford, Tex About 1000 survivors and
visitors were in attendance.
| A LANDSLIDE on the Georgia Central
railroad near Whitesburg, Ga, killed
three negro laborers.
FIVE men were killed by the fall of a
| heavy stone wall at the Hartford City
| Gnd.) glass works. The cause was de-
fective masonry.
| Four cases of yellow fever developed
on the schooner Eva Douglass at Key
| West, Fla.
THERE was a fire at the state deaf
and dumb asylum, Council Bluffs, Ia.
Loss, 500
| MISS LIZZIE BORDEN has been arrest
| ell at Fall River, Mass, for the murder
| of her father and stepmother, a crime
which has startled eastern society, all
| parties being prominent.
| JUDGE WALLACE, in the United States
court at Utica, n Y, allowed the har-
row tooth trust the right to sue, not
| withstanding the plea that it was an
| illegal combination
| THE Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers viii engage in no boycott
| against Carnegie materials.
THE Pittsburgh Post publishes story
| of anarchists again plotting against the
| life of II. C. Frick.
| THE differences between the Anal
ganated and the iron manufacturers
| over wages has been settled by mutual
| concessions. and all the western mills
will resume at once.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended August 12 showed an average in
| crease of II. In New York the increase
was 40.
AN offer Of $1,000, 900 has been made
for the 80, 500, 900 worlds fair souvenir
coin.
Gov. Brown, OF Kentucky, authorizes
! the denial of the published statement
that he requested Buchanan to COM
mute the sentence CT FL. Clay King and
| denounces as forgery any petition
| with such purpose with his name
signed to it.
AN Indis.in village was destroyed by
| fire on Queen Charlotte island, 3. C. It
! was started by Christiauized Indians,
who objected to the heather burying
of the dead on poles.
EDITOR MEDnL, of t. Chicago
Tribune. is after the worlds fair oi-
rectors with sharp stick because Of
alleged Extravaganza.
THE manager of the Jefferson iron
works at Steubenviile, O., has refused
to sign the scale.
THERE are t.5co places III the gift Of
the people, authorized to be filed by
Indians at the various agencies
throughout the country, at a total ex-
pense to the government Of $751; $40
BISHOP RYAN, Of Alton, ILL.,, has OBJ
tanned writs of ejectment against
Father KuhlaaD, of Mitchell, recently
deposed. Considerable hard feeling
has been stirred up in Catholic circles
over the matter
THERE is a huge slump in the postal
business of New Orleans, caused by the
collapse Of the lottery company.
DOZENS of fatal cases of cholera have
occurred at St. Petersburg.
Two children were fatally burned by
| a fire at New Bedford, Mass