Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-23
SMALL -pox is reported near Fillmore.

ADVICES OyQuey, NJ .. W., snow
that there is a deficit of 81, 200, 900 in
the annual budget. and that great COM
mercial depression prevails
OWING to the low price of silver the
Coeur d'Alene mines of Idaho are to
shut down.
A CARNIVAL dance horror occurred
| near Buda Pesth, when child dropped
a lighted piece of paper in a cask of
petroleum Twenty of the dancers
were burned to death.
THE trunk trust is near dissolution.
THE congressional committee investi-
eating the American end of the Panama
canal scandal had Banker Seligman on
the stand at New York. His bank act
ed for the Panama company, and he
stated that all together $40 600, 900 had
been deposited in his bank to the canal
companys credit 1t was all gone.
The American committee had received
5000, coo francs for their services.
THREE prisoners. among them Will
liam Vanorman, the Waverlv bank rob
Der and murderer escaped from Jail at
Burlington, Kan.
IT is charged in Binghamton, n. Y,
that Marguerite Stoner, an ex-nun of
Montreal, who has been lecturing
against Catholicism, has been poisoned
| at a hotel in Binghamton.
| FIRE in Birmingham, Ala, destroyed
| the stores of the Alabama Gas and Fix
| ture Co. and of G. w. Harris. dealer in
wall paper. Losses S1O0.0
Two men were killed by powder
explosion in the McAbee works at Yer
| ona, Pa
TURTLE mountain half-breeds in
| North Dakota are in revolt over being
- L,
THERE are fifteen original stgners of
| the Mexican constitution stlii living.
They will hold a reunion shortls.
The island of Madagascar has been
swept by hurricane that wrought
| frightful destruction to life and prop
erty.
DURING the coming jubilee at Rome
| the pope, in an address to the American
| episcopate, will approve all of Satolii's
proposals.
Col SUTER has reported that, in his
opinion, it would not be wise to spend
any money for the Improvement of the
| Kansas river at present.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended February 16 showed an average
decrease of 1O.1 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
| York the decrease was Ill.
H. G. YEAGER, grand recorder of the
A. o. q. W. of Montana, has been in.
dicted by the grand jury for malfeas-
| ance in office and embeZzlement.
| GALVESTON, Tex, has started q war
| on lotteries
JOHN TURNER and Floyd Wooley died
on the scaffold at Jasper, Tenn, for
the murder of George Dawson, near
South Pittsburgh, some months ago.
| They were executed in drenching
rain.
The Wells-Fargo iron safe at Bolton,
Tex, has been carried of by thieves.
GHoULs have been desecrating graves
at indianapolis, Ind, and Nauvoo, Ill
| A VISIT to Terre Haute, the home of
ex-Secretary Thompson, by the COM
mittee investigating the American end
of the Panama scandal is likely, in or
der to hear the eX-secretary's evidence.
He is too i'll to appear at Washington.
PRESIDING JUDGE PERIvIER, of the
French court of appeals, denies the re-
ports that the sentences of the Panama
| prisoners were determined at the last
moment before the reading of the de-
cision.
| NJ. SIEGFRIED, minister of commerce
of France, has submitted to the COM
| mittee customs Of the chamber of
deputies proposal to levy a duty of
! sixteen francs on refined and of thirteen
francs on raw petroleum.
PUGhIsT MITCHELL has been permit
ted to land
ICE gorges near Ottawa, Ill, caused
high water and the flooding of the low
lands.
EX-soLbIERs of Great Britain propose
to give an exhibition of British army
tactics during the worlds fair
THE Georgia Agricultural society has
adopted unanimous resolution urging
the reduction of cotton acreage and di-
versifed crops
The sulphate pulp mill of the Rich.
ards Paper Co., near Bangor, Me-,
burned. Loss, $500, 900; insurance,
$50, 600.