Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-04-13

THE large coffee plantation near Cor.
doba, in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico,
has been purchased by Claus Spreckels,
the San Francisco sugar king, for $780,
600.
RAvENswooD, near Chicago, narrow
ly escaped wholesale asphyxiation by
the gas going out and then being turned
on. The sleeping people were warned
and escaped, except two, who were in a
serious condition.
IT is denied that the president of San
Domingo seized money in a French
bank. The money was seized by tbs
sheriff after due process of law.
THE Bowen Burke prize fight at New
Orleans ended in a draw after 11C
rounds
Four warehouses of the Glenmore
Distilling Co. at Owensboro, KY, were
destroyed by fire and large quantity
of whisky burned.
AFTER two days of wrangling the
Cherokee council has agreed upon the
| delegation which will go to Washing
ton to make final settlement for the
strip.
THE dock laborers of Hull, England,
have struck and serious collisions have
occurred between them and non-union
men who took their places
A FLIMsY hotel in Chicago which was
erected for worlds fair purposes, was
blown down by the high wind.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April showed an average
decrease of 81 compared with the cor
responding week of last year In New
York the decrease was 1874.
THE Yellow Poplar Co.'S plant at
Ironton, O., was burned. Loss, $780,
OOO Thirty dwellings were burned in
addition and Mrs Brush, an invalid,
lost her life.
ARMOUR, Swift and Morris, the great
meat packers, it is reported, will utilize
their plant at ToIleston, Ind, by the
erection of huge tanneries and leather
| warehouses
THE Anchor mill at Meredosia, Ill,
was wrecked by a boiler explosion.
Patrick Cody. the engineer, was killed.
FIFTEEN cars were ditched by an &C
cident on the Chicago & Indiana coal
railroad near Brazil, Ind
THE White Star line has given up all
hope of the Naronic.
E. P. HALsTEAD, a special pension
examiner at Kansas City has been de-
posed by Secretary Smith.
served in the south April 6.
PAPERS of the late DIR. Francis T
Fontenoy, of GAINESVILLE, Tenn, in
clude confession of a murder commit
ted in 1865
THE Alton will again become mem
Der of the Western Passenger associa-
ton.
THE maximum freight law just en-
tod hvyf ho No1 nell LOT, xx,ii
be fought by the railroads.
THE schooner Genesta, of Gloucester,
Mass. capsized in squall 80 miles off
Barnegat. OF her crew, Hustling, Clark.
Butler, McGhenny and two Dean broth
ers were lost
PRIVATE advices from Servia indicate
that revolution is imminent Regent
Ristich is reported to contemplate re-
signing. Radicals abstain from all par
ticipation in the proceedings of the
Skuptschina.
Rev. JAMES RODMAN and wife, of
New York, who were separated during
the Chicago fire, each believing the
other dead, have been strangely re-
united
THE plasterers' tenders strike in Bos-
ton has ended. the men being granted
every demand made.
THE lasters and cutters employed in
Auburn, Me-. shoe factories have struck
for new scale of prices.
The shortage in the Ottawa county.
O., treasury is growing and the figures
thus far indicate it will be upwards of
$50, 900.
UNKNOWN miscreants tried to burn
and blow up Emmanuel Baptist church
in Little Rock, Ark. but did not sue
coed.
JEsU FUEN, a Mexican of San Ber-
nardino, Cal, stabbed William Gold
koffer fatally and then nearly severed
| the head of Francisco Flores, a Next
| can woman with whom he had been
living.
A DEFALCATIoN of $500 has been
found in the funds of the New Basin
| board of control of New Orleans.
Treasurer Williams. of the old board,
is openly accused, though no charges
have yet been preferred.