Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-17

Shore railway struck four men near Can
| ajahorie, n. z, and killed two of them
instantly. The others will die. It is
said that the men were under the infu-
ence of liquor.
A CAVE has been discovered about sig
miles east of Harrison burg, near the
village of Keesletown, Va. It is said to
rival the Luray caverns in size and
grottoes and in beauty. It was discov-
cred while blasting rock.
MAJ. McGREGoR, in command at Fort
Bowie, Ariz, teiegraphs that Lieut..
Bean had a slzirmist with Kids band
of Apaches in the Chiricahua mountains
and captured their horses, but had to
fortify himself and get reinforcements,
which were forwarded to him from Fost
Bowie.
DAVID BoRNIA, aged 81, democratic
Judge of election in the Second ward at
Columbus. O., shot himself dead with a
was trouble over financial and family
matters. The election went on in his
house.
The Santa Fe express train was
robbed for the fourth time at Wharton,
/. T. The robber> blew open the ex-
press car door with dynamite, but got
little or nothing for their trouble
COSTA RIGA has been visited by awful
floods
The government report says the
cotton crop is worse in many sections
than for thirty-two years.
A TERRIBLE wreck occurred on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul near
Ottumwa, Ia. Four persons were
burned alive by the caboose taking fire.
The United States circuit court took
hand in the strike at New Orleans,
ordering the arrest of all presidents of
unions and others who signed the call
for general strike.
THE county almshouse at Franklin,
Pa, burned. Hundreds of paupers run
out into the snow half clad. The build
ing was valued at $50, 900.
LORD DUNRAvEN has issued a formal
challenge to race for the America cup.
A New YORK couple left their baby in
charge of its old grandmother, while
they went out for the evening. When
they were away the house burned and
the baby persisted. o
PARIS continues greatly excited over
the dynamite outrages. Arrests are
being made. among them Victor Rab,
German furrier.
THE street car strike at Columbus, O.,
was threatening on the 10th. strikers
refusing to permit the company to run
cars.
IN an election day quarrel, in Ander-
son county, S. c., three men were
killed
THE new cruiser, Cincinnati. was
launched at Brooklyn with imposing
ceremonies.
MANY men were killed by the col
lapse of n mill in Moravia Austria
A NUMBER of unwarranted seizures
of Victorian and British sealers by Rus
sian vessels have been reported.
THE business portion of Camden, Me-,
was destroyed by fire. The loss was
said to be $500, 900.
Two large packing houses Of Chicago
have consolidated. They are the Inter-
national and the Chicago Packing s.
Provision Co. Capital, 81, OOO, 900.
TIE report that the Ellwood, Ind,
tin plate and plate glass works have
suspended operations because of the re-
suit of the election is positively denied
The plant closed down temporarily to
add new machinery.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended November IL showed an average
decrease of liz compared with the cor
responding week OF last year. In New
York the decrease was 1876.
THE strike at New Orleans ended on
the 18th in the virtual back down of
the unions, whose leaders were threat
ened with arrest and the city with
martial law. Wages and hours were to
be arbitrated.
COSTA RIGA has issued decree al
lowing Indian corn to be admitted free.
THE Russian expedition in the Pamirs
is threatened by the Chinese.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, China.
announces that the two American col
lege students who set out some months
ago to cross Asia on bicycles had ar
rived safely. They were treated well
everywhere.
THIRTY imported glass blowers in
tended to fill strikers places at Pitts
burgh. Pa, were stopped at New York
under the alien contract labor law.