Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-25

BY the capsizing of tug and dredge
boat on Lake Conneaut, O., five persons
were drowned.
WARREN & Co, of the Chicago board
| of trade, have assigned.
FIRE at Starbuck, Wash, destroyed
| the Union Pacific car and machine
shops, nineteen locomotives and all
other railroad property except the coal
| bunkers. Loss, $500, 200.
THE Spanish steamer bearing the
Infanta Eulalie arrived at quarantine
on the 18th.
! THE Santa Fe wants return rate OF
| s16. so to the worlds fair from Missouri
| river points.
| A SCHEME has been completed for the
slaughter of cattle in New York on
western packing house plans.
THE premier of South Australia re-
ports financial matters all right and
harvest prospects excellent.
THE failure of the First National
bank at Cedar Falls, Ia, shows peculiar
transactions.
| The National bank of Evanston
| failed, causing great excitement in that
suburb of Chicago.
| LAWSON RUNYON, prominent CherO-
lxee, was shot and killed by ex-Deputy
| United States Marshal Creekmoor.
| A BRAKEMAN and three workmen
were killed by runaway train at Du-
| bois, Pa.
BEFORE the Crescent City club at New
Orleans Billy Mccarthy, the Australian,
knocked out La Blanche, the marine,
in sixteen rounds.
A FIRE at Trondhjem, Norway, re-
| suited in the loss of a number of lives.
| Four persons were killed while jump
| ing from a burning building and three
women and two children were burned
to death in the flames.
| AT Ilmenau, Saxe-Weimar, the boiler
of a locomotive exploded, killing five
persons instantly and injuring num-
Der of others so seriously that eight of
them were dying.
| CLEARING house returns for the week
ended May IS showed an average de-
crease of LIZ compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 6.4.
j. A. R. ELLIOTT, of Kansas City, Mo-,
captured the Missouri state trophy as
the champion wing shot in the state
birds.
| JUDGE KICKS, at Cleveland, O., ap-
pointed a receiver for the Clover Leaf
the Toledo, Kansas City & ST. Louis
railway.
FROM indisputable sources it is
learned that Erastus Wimans total liza
bilities will aggregate about S617, 600, a
little more or less, according to whether
certain contingent debts are counted
in.
BLONDIN, the strong man with Coles
circus, undertook to hold a powerful
team of horses together at Lake Placid
N. Y. Several blood-vessels in the
mans head and chest were ruptured
and he died.
! THERE is great excitement in Normal,
Ill, over the failure of the Exchange
bank of that city, and the president has
been arrested for receiving deposits
after he knew the bank was insolvent.
The plate glass trust is an assured
fact.
IT is said that mistake has been
made by the interior department in re-
ferring back to the Cherolxees the mat
ter of to whom the seventy allotments
shall be made in the strip.
A COMPANY is being formed to build a
railway from Bowie, Tex, to the City
of Mexico.
IT is conceded that Collector Wenne-
ker, of st. Louis, will be dismissed as
soon as his successor can be decided on.
THE Russian cruiser Vitiaz is a total
loss on the coast of Corea. The report
states that all hands were saved.
NINE young men have been arrested
for distributing boycotting circulars
against the firm of Diel & Bro, gents
furnishings, ST. Louis.
A WASHINGTON florist has offered $500
for the first Isabella souvenir quarter.
The controversy between Benjamin
Feuchts and eight other members of
the Economic society and Trustee John
S. Duss has come to an end by an ami
cable settlement, by which the contest
ants will withdraw from the society.
MoNCHICOURT, the Panama 1iquidator,
has commenced suit against M. Imbert.
the administrator of Baron Reinach's
fortune, to recover 100000 francs,
which it is alleged Reinach received
; from the company.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
WALTER WILLIAMS, of Columbia, Mo-,
was honored by election as president OF