Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-16
MIsCEHANEOUS.

duchy of Lancaster.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE saloon brock at Whiteland, Ia
has been destroyed by fire.
GEN. MILES and staff have been in
specting the sites for a new military
post at Little Rock, Ark.
TROUBLE along the Rio Grande do
Sui border in Brazil has broken out
again. A correspondent at Artegas tel
egraphs that the government police ar
rested and disarmed 100 federals who
were about to make a raid
THE Colombian warship La Popa has
arrived at Colon with thirty-two polit-
zeal exiles who have been expelled from
Bogota on account of their partici pa
ton in the recent riots
| PEOPLE of four parishes in northern
Louisiana are reported in a starving
condition from repeated failure of their
| crops.
The citizens of Purcell, I. T., have
| formed a vigilance committee to pre-
vent lot jumping.
| ESTIMATES of leading Montana cat
tlemen are that at least 25 per cent. of
the cattle on the ranges have been lost
! from the storms and terribly cold
| weather of the past two weeks.
IT is said that the celebrated Econo-
mite society of Pennsylvania is to be
wound up
IT.was reported that another grave
crisis existed in France and that the
ministry had resolved to resign.
AN east-bound Big Four passenger
train was derailed at Pana, Ill, and
three coaches burned. The baggage
master was killed and fourteen passen-
gers were injured
| CINCINNATI medical students recently
| got into a row in dissecting room and
| belabored each other with fragments of
human bodies.
The king and queen of Greece have
been visiting the earthquake wrecked
island of Zante.
| FIRE destroyed a hotel at Centerville,
Ia, and three people were fatally in
jured by leaping from windows
SUIT has been filed against the
trustees of the Harmony society, of
Pennsylvania to wind up the affairs of
the Economics.
| IN the case of the two anarchists,
charged with being accompliees of
Bergman, the assailant of FrielS at
Pittsburgh, Pa, the jury returned a
verdict of guilty by direction of the
court.
FIRE caused q panic in a Leipsic
restaurant recently and eight people
| were crushed to death
THE Pennsylvania house has passed.
$50 to La a bill to prohibit the manu-
facture and sale of cigarettes in that
state.
AT the meeting of the Epworth league
at Chicago it was decided to hold the
international Methodist conference at
Cleveland, O., July 6, z, and 9.
! A SEQUEL to the horrible burning af-
fair at Paris, Tex, took place in the
| lynching of a stepsoh of Henry Smith
FERDINAND and Charles de Lesseps
and the other Panama defendants have
been sentenced to 3,eee francs fine and
ave years Imprisonment. The sentence
on the aged Ferdinand de Lesseps
caused profound sensation.
ASA POTTER, president of the broken
Maverick bank, of Boston, has been
found guilty of fraud
-FOUR teamsters We're caught in an
avalanche of snow on a Colorado road
and were swept to death.
HE county insane asylum at Dover,
n. H., burned on the night of the eth
and forty-four unfortunate inmates
were burned to death
! The jury at New York in the case of
Charles ~. Gardner. Rev. DIR. Park
bursts agent, found him guilty of ex-
Aortion. He had received money from
the keeper Of disorderly house to Sc
cure, its safety from police interference
a MAD dog scare prevails at KalaB1a-
mazoo. Mich.
The malleable iron works at Moline.
III, have been destroyed by fire.
| The international Navigation Co, or
American line" formerly the Inman
line), has signed contract with the
Cramps for the cons truction OF two
great and swift steamships, which are
to be faster than either saae City of Paris
or the City of New York
In speech in the Texas house the
representative of Lamar county, where
the, negro, Smith, was recently burned
at the stake, strongly defended the act
OF his constituents in SO dong.