Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-07-06


enne, Wyo., was dismal failure.
IT is likely that soon all the western
roads will have a one-fare round-trip
rate to the worlds fair
AT San Francisco Mrs Kate Critics
was murdered in most brutal manner
by Martin O'Neil Both were intoxi-
Gated
The passenger steamer Gothic, built
for the White Star Steamship Co., by
Harland & Wolf, of Belfast, has been
successfully launched. She will sail In
the Atlantic service of the company in
the autumn, but will ultimately be
placed in the New Zealand traffic.
THE dock at Grand Rapids, Mich,
gave way under the Good Templar ex-
cnrsionists. About $50 persons were
nearly precipitated into the water, but
no one was seriously hurt.
THE liabilities of ex-Secretary Charles
Foster, of Fostoria, o., approximate
81, 600, 900.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June %, showed an average de-
crease of IA compared with the CORES
ponding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 80.
JOE BIRD, Choctaw half-breed, con-
victed of wife murder, was shot by the
Sher1H at W1lburtOn, i. Il.
1T is said privately that Adm. Tryon
was the cause of the sinking of his
ship, having signaled to the Camper
down to turn in too narrow waters
YALE defeated Harvard by four
lengths in the boat race at New Lon
don, Conn, on the 30th.
THE story that western Kansas is in
need of assistance for the purchase of
\ & 4 f,1e H. n41
egate Milton. who is well informed
about the true situation.
The Starr gang is on deck once more,
it being reported that they robbed the
Frisco depot at Chelsea, 1. L.
THOSE interested in the speedy open
ing of the Cherokee strip have decided
to make an appeal to President Cleve-
land to see if he cannot hasten matters
little.
ALL the glass plants in the country
have closed down, as is customary with
them, until September L.
IRON manufacturers and iron workers
have at last agreed upon a scale of
wages upon compromise basis.
THE rumored closing of the Pullman
shops at Detroit, Mich. is denied.
A WAR of bakers has made a deep cut
in the price of bread at Lebanon, ILL.,,
forty loaves being sold for a dollar.
A DISPATCH from Mecca states that
$50 deaths from cholera occurred in that
city on the 2Sth.
The bullion value of silver dollar
went down to AS cents at New York.
Prominent citizens of Denver, Col,
condemn the silver panic as hurtful to
the state, which is not dependent en-
ti1.Qlu roiJoin~ tho silver.
would make out. The state would do
well if it had no silver-in fact it was
doing we'll anterior to mining.
CANADA is seeking closer trade with
Australia.
THE duke of SaXe-Meiningen has Civ
en- $4,000 marks from his private purse
for the relief of the peasants from the
distress caused by the drought.
THE German opera artist Stagno and
his secretary have been arrested on the
charge of forging the name of CORE
spondent to a bogus dispatch.
THE government has made consider
able reductions in land Office expenses.
w. A. PINKNEY and Daniel Barber
were executed at Marlborough, Md,
recently for the murder of Francis NJ.
Bowie, a wealthy farmer of Prince
George county, on the evening of March
26 last
THE Pawnee allotments in the Indian
| territory have been completed.
WHEAT took another big tumble on
| the 3oth and again the low price record
on the Chicago market was broken.
| THE government has learned lesson
| from the Ford theater tragedy, and is
| moving clerks out of unsafe buildings.
AMONG recent appointments are the
| following: Scott Wil1e, of Illinois, to
be assistant secretary of the treasury:
James Z. Tillman, of Tennessee, to be
| register of the treasury; Overton Cade,
| of Louisiana, to be superintendent of
| the mint at New Orleans; Theodore S.
! Wilkinson, to be collector of customs at
New Orleans: S. r. Ellis, to be surveyor
of customs at New Orleans; George P.
Finley, to be collector of customs at
| Galveston, Tex