Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
THE chicago aldermen. invited to the

time, no one paying any attention to
them. They had no tickets and had to
paw for what they got
The British cruiser Aurora will re-
place the Warsprite as flag ship of the
Pacific station
| THE last of the militia have left
Homestead. The cost to the state on
account of the strike was 5000, 900.
ALLARD, the French Canadian black
smith, has succeeded IN tempering alu-
minum as hard as steel
SEVEN of the supreme officers of the
Iron Hall have been indicted at Indian
apol1s, Ind.
| NED CHRISTIE, the desperate, succeed
/ ed in escaping from Sheriff Harris IN
the Cherokee nation, leaping from the
burning house fired by the besiegers.
THE village of Salix, Ia, was swept
away by a fire and nearly all of the 600
| habitants were made homeless
| A. D. MAXWELL was killed, Miss Kate
Hough fatally injured and the Misses
Taylor badly hurt by being struck by
an engine near Shamokin, Pa.
| CONSIDERABLE rioting occurred at
| Carmaux, France. recently over a
miners strike. Soldiers and gendarmes
were ordered to the scene.
Wabash valley, is in trouble at Craw-
for attempting to defraud Sharpless &
| Co., of Chicago, out Of $1,000.
| FARMERS in the vicinity of Carthage.
| Ill, are in despair over the ravages of
| the weevl in wheat bins.
THE amount the robbers got from the
Missouri Pacific express at Caney, Kan,
was only 500. Messenger Maxwell
was wounded in the arm.
| Four negroes were hanged by a mob
| at Monroeville, Ala, for the brutal
murder of Richard L. johnson and his
daughter, whom they burned in the
dwelling. Two mobs were after the
| negroes, one bent on burning them.
| The more merciful lot got them.
FIRE-DAMP exploded in the Sterling
| mine at Shamokin, Pa. Seven miners
were imprisoned and thought to be
dead. Others were killed and wounded.
| THE late storm in the Rocky mount
| aims was said to be the worst in thirty
years.
HALF the business portion of Hall
| City, near Deadwood, S. D., was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, s75, 900. Ed Cum
| ningham, who accidentally caused it,
was burned to death.
| IN New York the clearing house re-
| turns for the week ended October IA
showed decrease of 6.S compared with
the corresponding week Of last year.
| The rest of the country showed in
| creaseS mostly.
| Four men were killed by an accident
on the Northern road near New Lon
| don, Conn.
THERE was report current that the
! Western Union was about to absorb the
Postal Telegraph Co.
| THE finding of the body Of white
| boy in a cesspool at Los Angeles ex-
cited the people, who threatened to eX-
| terminate the Chinese who were thought
| to have committed the murder.
| WEST POINT, Miss, was scorched by
flames. Loss, $40, 900.
THREE strikers were arrested at Home
stead, Pa. They were proving around
| the plant.
WANAMAKER has strictly forbidden
postmasters giving out the names of
| persons receiving mail.
| The Union Pacific has succeeded in
| getting its Puget sound business quoted
in the Chicago rate sheet.
| THE yield of cotton in Louisiana will
be about 1000, 900 bales clean.
|
the man who married her few weeks
ago under the name of George Berry is
a highwayman and burglar, and she
wants him arrested.
| PHIL YOUNG, a negro, was lynched at
Palmyra, Va, for killing Walker Glass
! E. G. BEARDsLEY, of Pittsburgh, and
Mrs. L. A. Cook, OF New Orleans, are
engaged In search for S1S5, 600 in gold
coin, which they believe lies buried
near Nashville, Tenn. The idea came
to them through dream
The small steam barge Richard Mar
tin was sunk in fog at Bar point, near
Detroit, Mich.
THE Detroit school board has passed
resolution that teachers must be
graduates of public high schools. The
resolution indirectly excludes Catholic
teachers and has provoked comment.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
THE government has decided that no
more contracts with Indian attorneys
will be approved
REPUBLICANS and populists are work
ing together to elect congressman from
| Tennessee.
A TERRIFIC waterspout is reported
from Texas, which inundated many
miles of country.
TOMMY WARREN, ex-feather weight
champion, murdered man in a saloon
at Waco, Tex. and escaped.
A BOILER explosion in the Burgess
steel works at Portsmouth, O., killed
two men and seriously wounded several
others.
THE charge of boodling against Coun-
Gilman DAILY, of Toledo, ended in a YER
dict of guilty.
SECRETARY RUsK has made a state
ment showing what has been done to
open up and enlarge markets for Amer
lean pork and corn.
VICTORIA Woodruff MARTIN says she
will accept the nomination of the woman
suffragists for president.
II A GENERAL strike of the telegraph
operators and station agents on the
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe has been in.
!. augurated,
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued a
proclamation declaring the lands of the
Crow reservation, in Montana, open tc
public settlement.
WHITELAw REID made an address be
fore the Wholesale Dry Goods Dealers
association of New York city.