Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-08-03
MISCELLANEOUS.


an unknown steamer off North Rock,
County Down, Ireland. The Pearl
sank, carrying down with her seven
persons. The other five people on
board of her were saved.
THE wife and two children of John
Smouse were murdered at Pittsburgh,
Pa
The first attempt to electricise a con-
Wet at Auburn prison, N. Y, was a
| failure. The wretched culprit had to
be placed in the chair a second time
He was a negro named Taylor, who
had murdered his cell mate.
The court martial at Malta on the
loss of the Victoria found the dead. ad-
miral, Tryon, alone to blame.
SPECIAL AGENT SwINEFoRD saws there
is much bad land in the strip.
THE Clark o. n. T. Thread Co. is re-
trenching at Newark, n. j., because of
the stringency.
Two banks failed at Helena, Mont,
on the 27th, causing run on the others.
MAHARAJAH TAITAI BRAGA com
mitted suicide by poison on his arrival
at Brindisi. 1t is supposed that the
| cause was the theft of a casket contain
ing all his jewels and money. He was
10 years old.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER has reversed
the lower courts decree and remanded
the worlds fair Sunday closing case
back for rehearing.
TRAINMEN and marshaPs posse at
Princeton, Ind, had hard fight with
about thirty tramps who had boarded
a train.
A REGISTERED mail pouch from Port
70 -
sixty letters en- route.
FIRE in Bercy, a suburb of Paris on
| the Seine, destroyed thirty buildings.
STATISTICS show that since May 1 3O1
banks in various parts of the country
have failed. Their capital has aggre-
| gated S3S, 951, o33. The failures in the
south numbered thirty involving
81, 302, 100.
The First national bank of Great
Falls, Mont, suspended, owing to the
Helena bank suspensions. 1t was be-
lieved it would soon resume.
| NOTICES have been posted of a gem
eral resumption of work at the Burden
Troy. n. Y. This is much sooner than
expected. Several thousand persons
are affected.
/
sailed October 5.
THE worlds fair management is again
undecided about Sunday opening.
THE 500 machinists of the Westinp.
house Air Brake Co. at Pittsburgh. Pa.
have been notified of reduction in
wages of from 10 to Is per cent. AS 400
men have been laid of it is thought the
reduction will be accepted.
| TIE RnhU IN
Ill, has been set on fire four times
within thirty-eight days
| THREE harvest excursions for points
in the west and south, at worlds fair
rates, have been arranged by the West.
ern Passenger association.
A. GOLDSMITH &c SoN. jewellers and
diamond dealers, at No. IS Maiden lane.
New York, have assigned; debts, $780,
600.
! CLEARING house returns for the week
ended July % showed an average de-
crease OF 10.7 compared with the cor
responding week of last year In New
York the decrease was SIS; outside.
1913. In Kansas Caty the decrease was
47.2; in Denver, III
NINETY-sIx business houses were de
stroyed and sixteen families were made
| homeless by FIRE at Fifield, Wis.
DR. A. w. WHEELER, the United
States treasury departments agent, re-
ports that there is no danger of an epi-
demic of cholera.
THE strike of English coal miners
commenced on the 2Sth. About $780,.
200 men were affected
| Two persons were killed and several
seriously injured by a fire at Pitts
burgh, Pa, caused by an explosion OF
polish which a peddler was using on a
stove.
THERE were runs at Chippewa Falls,
| Wis. caused by the failure of Sey.
mour's private bank.