Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-15


an injunction restraining the directors
of the worlds fair from opening on
Sunday, but as an appeal was taken to
the supreme court the injunction will
not be operative for some time.
WHILE the Nicaraguan revolutionists
We're marching into Managua. the cap
ital, they were fired upon by police and
several were killed on both sides.
TREASURE seekers in the city of Mex
leo who have secured some old docu-
ments are seeking s2,0oo,O 900 in gold and
jewelry said to have been buried by
order of the emperor, Maximilian.
Some gold powder and silverware have
been found.
INSPECTOR FAIsoN has made his re-
port covering the recent Choctaw
troubles, and the Jones people charge
that he is partial to the Locke faction.
THE Indebtedness of the PlankintOn
bank, Milwaukee, is 81, 200, 900. Its at
fairs are in bad shape.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June s show an average de-
crease of 30 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 3. 4.
THE historic old Fords theater, in
Washington, where President Lincoln
was assassinated, collapsed with hun
dreds of clerks at work in 1t. Twenty
two were killed outright and scores
were seriously injured
A GANG of tramps raided the town of
Waunakee, Wis, terrorized the citi-
zens and plundered every store and
residence in the town.
THE strikers on the canal at Lemont,
Ill, attacked the camp of the drainage
contractors and in the fight which en-
sued several of them were killed.
r. 6. DUN's weekly review says that
trade is slightly improving and that
there is a material improvement in the
financial situation.
The robbery of the Mobile & Ohio
express car at Forest Lawn, Ill, was
perpetrated by cool and daring gang
who made complete success of the
job
The Cherokee delegates have re-
turned to Tahlequah and there is wide
spread disappointment because they
failed to bring back any money for the
bonds.
MANY frst-class post offices show a
marked increase in receipts during the
year ended May 81 last.
THE Ohio river lines have arranged
cheap worlds fair excursions.
The worst is thought to be over in
the flooded districts in the south and
those threatened with overflow. Great
damage has been done to crops and
there is much suffering.
The civil service commission has been
called upon to decide whether the post
master-general can remove clerk in
the classified service for insubordina-
ton.
The commission appointed by the
treasury department to investigate the
workings of the New York custom
house and appraisers office found many
irregularities.
JOSEPH HIGGINS, owning a private
bank at 81 Washington street, Chicago,
and three in Illinois towns, made an
assignment. The assets are scheduled
at $4,000, but the liabilities are not es-
timated.
The failures for the week {Dun's re
port have been 322 in number in the
United States, against 16S for the same
week last year, and 25 in Canada,
against "a last year. Last week the
total number of failures was 259.
IT was reported that Henry Starr, the
the famous train and bank robber, was
SuTTOuAOeo ny OepuGy HdFSldIS DIT
Nowata, his home, small station on
the Valley Route railroad, in the Creek
nation.
The grand jury at Chattanooga,
Tenn, has indicted ten inmates of the
worl1house, some of them guards and
others prisoners, for wanton abuse of
prisoners
The clothing manufacturers charged
at New York with conspiracy were re-
leased of further liability, the grand
jury disrnissing the complaint against
them. 1t was alleged that they ordered
a lockout.
Two men who were in jail at Catletts-
burg, KY, for safe breaking were being
returned to Pike county for trial, when
at Richardson, KY, they were attacked
by a mob, who endeavored to take the
prisoners away from the officers. The
officers opened fire on the mob, killing
two men.