Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

bush calling turkeys when another
hunter CHANGED along and thought he
had sure thing.
Woo Tone, a Chinaman at Ashland,
KY, accepted fifty dollar confederate
bill in payment for laundry work. re-
turning $4,000 change It is said Woo
Tong feels injured
Two innocent negroes, a brother and
sister, were lynched by mob in Gala
houla parish, La
MASSACHUSETTS manufacturers have
oluntarily given weavers per cent
increase in wages
LOSSES on the lakes from the recent
severe gales will foot up not less than
$500, 900.
The Bingharaton Trust Co. has been
appointed receiver of the Iron Hall
funds in New York.
A QUAcK named Hener is under arrest
at Cincinnati He pretended to cure a
little hunchback girl in hot water,
which was SO hot that she was scalded
to death.
The British warship Howe has been
stranded on the coast of France She
was seriously damaged.
ASSESSMENT rolls of all counties in
Texas except nine not yet reported
s34, 4S0 The remaining counties will
not materially affect the result
TEN of the riotous strikers of Car
maux, France, have been pardoned by
decree of the council of state.
The British warship Champion re-
ports the Pitcairn islanders in good
health. At Tahiti there is complete
commercial stagnation, owing to the
suspension of the pearl industr les and
the withdrawal of the French military
forces
A THREE-YEAR-OLD child has been
starved to death at BRENNAN, Tex, by
its crazy mother.
IT will take eigh teen months to
manufacture the necessary glass for the
Yerkes telescope.
The Rob Roy Touring mill near Atti-
ca, Ind, has burned. Incendiary.
AN unknown negro attempted to burn
the city hall at st. Louis
The porte has raised the quarantine
against vessels arriving from New York
to five days.
THE Hamburg senate has decided to
petition Chancellor Won Caprivi to de-
clare that city free of cholera
REPRESENTATIVES, from the counties
bordering On the Mississippi river be-
tween Point Pleasant, Mo-, nearly to
the mouth Of the St Francis river met
at Memphis to consider project to
build a levee to protect that vast terri
tory. They think the plan eminently
feasible. It will cost -, 200, 900, will be
eco miles long and will protect over
8, ooo, 600 acres
THREE men got penitentiary SEN
fences in New York for illegal regis
trat;on.
A GENERAL strike was ordered at New
Orleans at midday on the 5th- All
business was stopped. Between 60, 900
and "a, 600 idle men were on the streets.
A DESPERATE fight occurred on San
to Fee passenger train near Ardmore, 1.
T., in which United States Marshal
Smith and negro were killed.
NED CHRISTIE andohis gang have been
wiped out at last. The United States
marsha1s in the Indian territory blew
up his fort with dynamite and shot him
down when he tried to escape.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended November showed IN average
increase of 2o.2 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the increase was els.
Mrs. DEACON, of Abeille- Deacon shoot
ingdiv orce fame in France, abducted
her child after it had been ordered into
the custody Of the father.
THREE year men of the Grand Army
propose to organize.
TIE Iowa Temperance Alliance is
! making war ON saloon. keepers in Scott
county.
THE Dayton {Tenn. Coal e. Iron Co.
| has reduced wages per cent.
| employees of the Bass breweries OF
| England, to the number of 5000, have
struck.
GOLFERS of rthumberland, En-.
gland, have accepted five per cent
| reduction.
THE coroner's jury at Portland, Ore.
returned a verdict of accidental death
from an overdose of morphine in the
case Of Lieut. Schwatka, the Arctic en-
plorer.