Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-04-06

The Pennsylvania board of pardons
has recommended pardons for Abe Buzz
card, the notorious Welsh mountain
outlaw, and James S. DUNCAN, the
wrecker of the Bank of America, Phiia-
delphia-
AN appeal for aid has been made In
behalf of the cyclone sufferers IN north
ern Mississippi.
RIVERS in southern Minnesota were
out of their banks and serious danger
was threatened from floods and ice
gorges-
FIRE destroyed the Forest City Var
nish Co. IS works at Cleveland. O., and
one of the employees lost his life
PRESIDENT HIGGINBoTHAM, Of the
worlds fair, has made statement de-
nying the numerous stories about ex-
tortions which were to be practiced-
THE fact that Sutton is guilty of the
forgery of the whisky warehouse re-
ceipts at Louisville, KY, has been
clearly esta blished by the confession of
his boohkeeper
GOVERNMENT officials are not alarmed
over the appearance of cholera among
immigrants at Halifax and say the
quarantine arrangements are amply
sufficient to keep the disease out of this
country.
THERE is serious split in the Chero-
kee council over the manner in which
the final settlement and payment of
the strip money shall be made.
No WATER, the leader of the refract-
tory Sioux, has been captured and the
prisoners wanted will be brought in as
soon as they are able to be moved
THE French government has accepted
NJ. Andrieux's offer that he be given a
special officer and he would arrest Ar
ton, the Panama canal go-between.
THE Texas house of representatives
passed the bill accepting the sugar
bounty.
The Western Passenger association,
it is said, will agree on a Q 2-i0 cents
per mile worlds fair rate.
Rev. MCNEILLE, pastor of the Congre
gational church at Bridgeport, Conn,
has been dismissed by his congregation
for wearing patent leather shoes and
other fnery.
AN Austrian engineer has invented a
material to be inserted in soldiers uni
forms, which is said to make them bull
let proof
OWING to the split in the Irish party,
the Dublin Freeman's Journal was pub
lished at a net loss of Els, 600 last year,
as against profit of Els, 600 the previ-
Gus year.
THE Methodist ministers of Ulster are
going to England to assist in the anti
home rule agitation.
A SCHEME is on foot at Binghamton,
n. Y, to corner the charcoal industry.
SHoEMAKERs of Auburn, Ne, will de-
mand an increase in wages, and, as the
manufacturers are united to resist it,
there is good prospect for long fight
and q lockout.
SECRETARY GRESHAM has decided that
the declaration of independence and
the constitution of the United States
are too valua BILE to risk exhibiting them
at the worlds fair
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended March 80 showed an average de-
crease of 3. 1 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 9. 5.
THE Illinois supreme court has rem
dered a decision ending the internecine
strife in the Evangelical church by
ousting the Dubbs faction.
THE News Record of Chicago prints
long dispatch from Washington assert
ing that officials engaged in the Behr-
ing sea case have been drawing double
salaries Elijah w. Halford is impli-
Gated and so is j. Stanley Brown, who
married Garfie1ds daughter Mollie.
Bob TALToN, who was to have been
hanged at Tahlequah, 1. T., was
granted a thirty days reprieve by Chief
Harris.
GOVERNMENT inspectors have located
an illicit still in a big brewery at Phil
adelphia and have seized the brewery
and arrested the perpetrators.
THE Ho-O-Den or Sacred Palace of the
japanese at the worlds fair grounds,
in Jackson park, has been dedicated
with interesting ceremonies.
A GOOD many horses in the vicinity of
Carthage, Ill, are afflicted with pc
culiar ailment called ''strangles." 1t
resembles the distemper, although IA
talities are few.
THE Reading roads statement for
February shows deficit in earnings
over last