Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-07-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

GALVESTON, lex, mas run out OF
funds City employees are paid in scrip
TIRE attempt to close variety theaters
in Dallas, Tex, proved failure!
The decision of the government that
persons who were on the Cherokee strip
since March 2, 1889, have forfeited all
claims to right of settlement will stir
up much trouble.
The government has been advised of
the outbreak of cholera at Naples.
THE navy department has formally
accepted the cruiser Detroit and au-
thoriZed the payment to the builders of
reserved funds amounting to about
S25O,OOO.
IT is stated at Washington that the
Mohican could not have been fred on
by the Alexandria as alleged, the Mo-
hican being at Port Townsend at the
time stated.
FIVE female convictS have escaped
from Maddox's camp, near Atlanta, Ga.
The camp was much demoralized.
AN excursion train was wrecked on
the Western New York & Pennsylvania
road at Buffalo, N. Y. Two engines
were demolished. No lives were lost,
though several persons were injured
The New York stock exchange was
much demoralized on the 10Th by the
bear raids on stocks.
AT Bayou, Ark, dog brought in an
infants foot. The rest of the body
was not found and a crime was sus-
pected
THE panic at Denver was continued
on the 10Th. Three more banks closed
their doors.
THERE is a great deal of excitement
in Peru over the scandals growing out
of the discovery of frauds in the collec-
ton of taxes. Government employees
and many leading supporters of Caceres
are concerned.
The pension Office says the total num-
Der of pensioners dropped from the
rolls since March 4, 1898, is 245, and the
total number of pensioners suspended
pending further investigation of their
cases is 5000.
BRIGANDs raided the village of Lip
kaey in Austria, and after beating the
inhabitants in pitched battle, looted
the town at their leisure.
A BIG strike among the miners of the
United Kingdom is in prospect for they
have resolved not to accept reduction
of 20 per cent. in wages.
SPECIAL INSPECTOR SwINFoRD with a
corps of surveyors has started out to 10
| cate and lay out the county seats in the
Cherokee strip.
THE furry at Denver, Col, ended on
the Goth.
A CORNER in September lard was re-
ported at Chicago.
CHOLERA is rampant among the poorer
classes in Moscow. There have been
no cases so far in ST. Petersburg, but
in Podolia and other infected places the
death rate has not lessened
! Four persons were killed by the ex.
plosion of a can Of naphtha at Camp
BELLS factory, 211 Walworth street,
Brooklyn.
EVEN, Mich, has been almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire The man sus-
pected Of starting it was hanged upon
! tree.
PATRICK GALLAGHER. OF Homestead
poisoning fame. now says that his con-
| fession generating Hugh Dempsey
was false.
BY the will of A. j. Drexel, the
Philadelphia German hospital gets
! 81. 200, 600. One million is also left tc
found public art gallery.
AUSTRIA has prohibited the exporta-
| ton of fodder
NEAR Hillsboro, Ill, Jacob Kaber-
lex and his wife discovered burglar
in their house and when they attacked
| him they were terribly beaten and cut
MARTIN FoY, JR-, the murderer, has
been sentenced at Ballston, n. Y, to
be electrocuted at Dannemora prison
in the week beginning August %.
AT Susanville, Cal, a disastrous fire
destroyed every business house in the
town, with single exception.
The c., B. & Q. has begun suit against
the Union Pacific to recover s155, O00
| alleged damages for violation of con-
tract relating to the joint occupancy o1
several short pieces of road.
THE Great Northern has disposed OF
its Pacific short line at Sioux City to the
Illinois Central. which will use it as a
means of reaching Denver.
FARMERS near Waterville, O., have
| made rich oil strike, and there is
great excitement in that region over
the find