Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-30

IOrI01CeQ Wnere the OFFICES are HcIO QUIZ
side the state. The decision aft ects
much capital invested by parties living
outside the state.
ENOCH Nov, on trial at Plymouth,
Ind, for attempting to bride an elect
or at the November election, was
found guilty and sentenced to ten days
in Jail, fined s25 and disfranchised for
ten years, the lowest penalty under the
law.
A. A. ROBINSON. second vice-presi-
dent and general manager of the Santa
Fe, has resigned j. ]. Frey was ap-
pointed general manager, but not
elected second vice-president
THE steamer Gaelic arrived at San
Francisco with large cargo of worlds
fair exhibits from China, Japan, Java,
Corea, Borneo and other Oriental coun-
tries.
A Boston special says: A secret
meeting of the tanners combine was
held in this city, and it was decided to
fix the capitalization at $50, 600. 600.
THE Platte river of Nebraska has
been out of its banks again.
THE Texas Central freight brakemen
have struck because one of their men
was discharged.
CANADA's parliament is considering
the Incorporation of a big canal for
steamships between Lake Erie and the
Seaboard.
PRESIDENT S. Fl. III. CLARK, in an in
terview at Omaha, says he will make
no changes in the Missouri Pacific man
agement. He will go to St Louis next
week.
EDWARD CoRRIGAN, the well known
turf man, lost his suit against the
Coney Island Jockey club.
THE presidential post office of Chand-
Ter, Edmonds and Hennessy, all in
Oklahoma, have been created
FIVE men have been arrested at as
many different points on the Big Four
railroad system for wholesale robberies
of freight cars.
INTERNAL REVENUE COMMISSIONERS
MASON has refused to grant further
time to distillers to pay taxes on whis-
ky in bonded warehouses.
Mrs. DELLA THOMPSON has been ar
rested at Highmore, S. D., for setting
recent fires which did great damage.
A letter proposing to divide profits on
the sale of lumber for building be-
trayed her.
To shut out Office seekers the execu-
tive offices will be closed to the public
Tuesdays and Fridays.
The great cotton strike in England
has ended in compromise.
A GERMAN tailor claims to have in
vented curiass which is bullet proof
at a reasonable distance.
IT is denied from Anna, Ill, that
there has been wholesale elopement
there as was reported.
A BAND of revolutionists entered the
town of Allegro, Brazil, which they
sacked after a fight in which forty resi-
dents were killed.
AT Denver, Col, two firemen were
killed and two badly hurt by falling
wall in a fire at the Summit Fuel &
Coal Co. IS warehouse.
SIX men were killed by an explosion
in Oak Hill colliery, near Minersville,
Pa.
IT has been settled beyond doubt
that the recent fires in Milwaukee were
the work of a frebug, a man being
caught in the act.
LOUIS PARADICE, an American sailor
who was held as a spy in Siberia, tells
horrible story of the manner in which
prisoners are treated there.
SAM JONES, the evangelist, and Charles
Dobbs, another minister, of Carterville,
Ga, have declared open war and are
said to be looking for each other with
pistols
Gov. SEAY, of Oklahoma, received in
structions from the interior department
to lay off the county lines and town
sites in the strip and he set about the
work at once.
FIRE broke out in the paint store of
Chatfeld & Weigand, at Denver, Col :,
nd 1icoor,o,.0I -
been attached to oil barrels. The mem
bers of the firm were arrested.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended March % showed an average in
crease of 6, 5 compared with the CORES
ponding week of last year. In New
York the increase was 6.6
ONE hundred people were killed inside
| of four days by snow avalanches in
Yetshiki Gun, Hida province, Japan.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
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