Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-07-20


| themselves to go out and thus support
| the Kansas strikers
SEvENTY-FIvE hussars in the garri-
son of Posen, Germany, have been sud-
| denly taken i'll. A diagnosis had not
been made, but cholera was feared.
THE biggest mill in Pittsburgh, Pa,
has signed both the iron and steel wage
scale of the Amalgamated association.
PRELIMINARY work to the opening OF
the Cherokee strip is well under way.
ALBERT FIXTER, who was digging a
well near Grand Detour, Ill, when
down thirty feet had the earth cave
down on him. After being buried
eight hours he was rescued alive. A
fiagstone had lodged above his head
and supported the dirt.
The Alton railroad has arranged to
take all its employees and their families
to the worlds fair in relays of train
loads.
THE Michigan board of health and
the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
are at war over the roads refusal to
comply with sanitary regulations.
STURGIs I. DICK, a banker of Mead
vile, Pa, committed suicide while
there was run on his bank.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended July 13 showed an average de-
crease of 1875 compared with the CORES
ponding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was liz; outside,
14.2.
PRESIDENT WARNER MILLER, of the
Nicaraguan Canal Co., denies the re-
port that work has been suspended for
lack of funds
Two men who were engaged in a
fight on the New Haven railroad were
run over and instantly killed by an ex-
press train.
BUSH & TABOR, of the Brown Palace
hotel and the Hotel Metropole, Denver,
Col, have assigned. Assets, 50, 22O, 600:
liabilities, 100000.
THERE was a tornado at Saltwater
and other parts of Minnesota on the
18th. Two men were killed and sew
eral injured.
THE worlds fair directors by decis-
i've vote decided that the fair will no
longer be kept open on Sundays.
p. ]. GALLAGHER, whose testimony
in the Homestead poisoning case sent
Hugh Dempsey to the penitentiary
now says that his story was untrue
The financial situation in New York
city and throughout the east is reported
to be improving daily.
TWENTY-FIVE hundred pensioners
have already been suspended since
Hoke Smiths famous order went into
effect.
SECRETARY HERBERT has authorized
the preliminary acceptance of the
cruiser Detroit.
The Buckeye Cycle Co., of Cincinnati,
failed. Assets, SSt, 200; liza bilities, $780,
600.
ONE death from yellow fever occurred
on board vessel in New York harbor.
The vessel was lately from Cienfuegos.
THE ST. Louis Lumber Co. has as
signed Assets, $4,000; liabilities
about the same.
FIRE destroyed 1000, 900 feet of lum-
Der in Taber & Co. IS yards, at Dubuque,
Ia. Loss, s25. 600; fully insured.
THE long lockout of the lumber SHOW
ers at Tonawanda, N. Y, has at last
been broken and the men will return
to work as individuals.
ALeEs A. LoUP and wife, of ST. join
Baptist parish, La, were taken from
their home and horribly whipped by
white caps. Both were fearfully
lacerated.
ALEXANDER MCCOOK, brigadier-gen-
eral of the new military department of
Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mex
leo, has arrived at Denver for the pur-
pose of establishing the headquarters
of the department.
AT Baltimore application was made
for receiver of the Equitable League
of America, a seven year term order,
and an injunction to restrain officers
from collecting assessments was grant
ed and hearing set for September 5.
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY
ECKELs has authorized the First ma
tional bank, of Los Angeles, Cal, the
National Bank of Commerce, of Provo,
U. T., and the Second national bank, of
Ashland, KY, to resume business. All
these banks have resumed with plenty
of money, none of which was bor-
rowed. but obtained by the collection
of amounts due on notes or supplied by
the directors.