Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
AHoMAs COLLINS has been sentenced
for life at Huntington, w. Va He was
one of the four men who robbed Chesa-
pea1e & Ohio train a couple of weeks
ago, when Oscar Die, a passenger, was
killed. Forgey, his partner, is await
ing trial.
THE Columbus fountain at Chicago
has been dedicated. 1t was given by
John B. Drake.
WILLIAM B. GREEN, secretary of the
American Banking associatibn,y has
been dismissed Tor soliciting &kscrip
tions to lobby biz or ths bsbeit of
banks.
THE Ohio -iver an B claire. O.! is froz-
en- over for the first time since 1885.
FIRE at Sc and So Walker street, New
York, did damage to the extent of
1927, OO0
Ten thousand troops have been mo-
bilized to suppress the spreading rebel
lion in the Argentine province of Cor
rientes.
PATRICK MAHoNEY and j. 81. Barnett
were terribly mangled on the Rock
Island track at SEVENTEEN street, Chi
cago. Both died within an hour.
NAvAJoEs threaten to resent the rush
to the San Juan gold fields, which they
claim to be their land.
Ten persons were drowned by a
pleasure yacht upsetting in the bay at
Sydney, N. S. W.
A DISPATCH from San Antonio, Tex,
announces the death of Hiram S. Lig
gett senior member of the Liggett &
Myers Tobacco Co., of st. Louis, from
consumption.
LAURA HUNT, daughter of lawyer,
eloped with the village barber at
GAINESVILLE, o.
A SCORE or more of Polanders engaged
in drunken brawl in Pitts urgh and
a number of persons were seriously
wounded one dying from the effects of
his injuries.
THE real estate firm of Corser & Co.,
Minneapolis, Mimi, has assigned. Liza
bilities, 81, 900, 900. The failure was
caused by a speculation in grain.
THE corner stone of the great Prot
estant Episcopal cathedral at New
York (St. John the Divine) was laid on
the 27th.
AN incendiary fired the Becker
Leather Co.'S building at Milwa ukee,
causing loss of $3.50, 900 and the deaths
of two fremen and fatal injury of
another
JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER has made
another huge gift to the Chicago uni
| versity. amounting, it is said, to 81, OOO.-
900.
M. A. 81. HINKLo, of Cincinnati, is de-
veloping plan of national opera, to
last 80 weeks, from October to May.
BROOKS STORY, the notorious des-
| perado, has escaped from the Missis-
sippi penitentiary.
The treasury department is gradually
recovering the gold it lost by shipments
| abroad. The heavy disbursements, how
ever, reduced the net cash to s26, 800, 600.
THERE was a fight between United
States troops and Mexican revolution
lists near Roma, Tex, resulting in loss
of life to both sides The revolution.
lists escaped to the brush.
| ANOTHER poisoned convict, making
the tenth, died at Little Rock, Ark.
Twelve others, it was stated, were in q
precarious condition.
| IT is inferred from the report OF
chemist experts that Baron Reinach, OF
Panama scandal fame, did not commit
suicide, but was poisoned by parties
implicated. Two others were also, it is
asserted, put out of the way in the
same manner.
| COL NICHOLAS VERREs SMITH wants
| $40, 900 damages of Three Rivers, Que,
| for libel He was lately consul there
and his report to the state department,
caused the city council to pass some
bilious resolutions.
THE Coney Island club has taken
down its purse of s45, 900 for the Nc
Auliffe-Burge championship. The
pugilists had been fussing over the
conditions
ATToRNEY-GENERAL MILLER was
wrought up over the appointment OF
Bill Dalton as a deputy marshal in the
Indian territory and has started an in
vestigation-