Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09

| a BATTLE LOOK place. Recently D1-
tween oyster dredgers and Virginia
police schooner in Tangier sound, Ches-
| apeake bay. Tt is reported that the
/ schooner was driven off.
THE Chinese of San Francisco are be-
| ginning to register at the rate of ten
per day.
THE German government will send
/ the corvette Empress Frederick to the
| naval review
TIE Episcopal bishops in session at
New York have adopted resolutions
| against ansi-Chinese legislation and
against appropriations for sectarian
schools.
ADvICEs from many foreign nations
| give the assurance that the naval dis
play in connection with the worlds
fair will be the grandest event of the
kind ever witnessed
| RIOT and bloodshed resulted from an
attempt to impose additional market
taxes on the people of Szoboszlo, Hum
| gary.
By the bursting of a pulley in an
electric power house at Lowell, Mass,
| one man was killed.
WHILE workmen were tearing down
a building in Indianapolis the third
floor gave way and William Brockmier
was crushed to death.
| THE Yale crew has commenced train
ing.
FRANK LEsNErT, receiver of public
moneys at Roswell, n. NJ, has been
missing since February z, and foul play
| is feared The last heard of him was
when he drew 5000 from an Ell Paso
bank, presumably for the purpose of
settling his accounts with the govern
ment
A sNow-PLOW, west bound, struck A.
Thompson ard AIS son near Paynes-
vile, Mimi, killing Thompson and
probably fatally injuring his son.
THE San Francisco e Salt Lake rail-
road project, a proposed opposition line
to the Southern Pacific, has been aban-
| doned.
| The American Bank Note Co., of New
York, which has the contract for print
ing the admission tickets for the worlds
| fair, struck off the first sheets on the I'd.
| Half million tickets will be sent to
Chicago on April 1 and the rest will
follow at short intervals.
THE grand jury at Chicago indicted
Charles d. Law, general superintendent
of the Chicago, Pittsburgh & Fort
Wayne railroad, and other employees for
murder, due to the fatal accident at the
| Forty-seventh street crossing Deem Der
% last
BOB SIMMs. aged 20, was hanged at
| Birmingham, Ala, for the murder of
Elmer Jordan a year ago.
A SINGLE Crow Indian terrorized Will
sey, Mont, for several hours and was
finally shot dead. Other Crows threaten
| vengeance.
COMMUNICATING WEIssERT of the
G.. A. R., has issued general order
relative to the proper observance of
Memorial day.
JOSE GABRIEL, a half-breed Mission
| Indian, SO years old, was hanged in the
California penitentiary for the murder
of Mr.. and Mrs. Geisser, near Otey, San
| Diego county.
r. 6. Dun & Co. take hopeful view
of the business situation.
FIVE children were suffocated in a
tenement house in New York.
JOE GODDARD was knocked out by Ed
Smith in the eighteenth round at the
New Orleans pugilistic carnival.
i SOCIETY ladies and gentlemen of Co.
lum bus, Ind, are threa tened with in
dictment for playing progressive euchre.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended March showed an average in
crease of d2.3 compared with the cor
responding week Of last year. In New
York the increase was 12.1
THE Denver clearing house says it
has 81, 900, 900 of gold coin to lend the
government for legal tender notes.
AN important land-grant decision in
volving vast territory along the line
of the Northern Pacific railroad has
been rendered by Secretary Noble.
THE twelfth bulletin on church sta
tistics has been issued by the census
bureau.
THE beautiful silver service, the gift
of the citizens of Detroit, has been for
mally presented to the cruiser Detroit
RUSSELL. SAGE bought the New York
& Massac husetts railroad at auction fol
5 $50, 600. Its original cost was 81, 500,
900.
JOHN NEWELL, of the Lake Shore, VII
f soon retire as president.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
IN 4 wreck in the railroad yards OF
Cincinnati, the other morning, three
:. men were fatally injured.
DETAILS from the Mississippi cyclone
show more fatalities and suffer- ng anc
an appeal for aid has been issued.
The steamers Naronic and Italy
= which left Liverpool on the same day
:, were long overdue and great fear was
entertained for their safety.
THEoDIUs OLYNTHUs DOUGLASS, &
Graal- 1,o hoe