Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-09

IcCtSu thirty years d:p.
A GREAT coal strike is impending in
south Wales unless the masters recede
from their present position on wages.
About 100, 900 men and 200 collieries are
affected.
FRANK C. IVES, the American billiard
champion. has received a letter from
Roberts. the English champion, stating
that the latter viii be ready to meet
Ives in April or May.
WHILE driving out OF Cotton Plant,
Ark, Marshall Festerman's team took
fright and ran away, throwing him out
upon his head and killing him instantly.
The federal grand jury at Lincoln,
Neb., adjourned after indicIing c. w.
Mosher, president of the wrecked Cap
itol National bank. The indictment
contains thirty six counts.
AFTER secret session the chief win
dow glass manufacturers and jobbers
of the country resolved to ally them
selves with the combination to be known
as the National Glass Co.
ALL the mines of the Delaware, Lack
awanna & Western Coal Co. in the
Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys,
employing about $4,000 persons. have
been put upon eight hours per day.
The island of Zanti was shaken by
two more shocks more violent than any
other OF the previous shocks The
shocks were accompanied by furious
storm of thunder, lightning and rain.
The minister of the interior has gone
to the islands to make arrangements to
assist the sufferers.
In tenement fire in New York
Morris Cohen, with his wife and child,
was burned to death.
IRA TERRILL, eX-speaker of the Okla
homa house. has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for murder.
OLD Two Strikes, the crafty Sioux
chief, is believed to be plotting another
outbreak and to have hidden camp in
the Bad lands.
Two lives were lost by a natural gas
explosion in the house of John d.
Shofstal, Urbana. o.
The Bauco de Roma y Ia Plata, of
Buenos Ayres, has suspended in conse-
quence of the losses sustained in gold
speculation by the manager of the con-
Germ These losses amount to ST.
O00, 600.
BY an explosion of fire damp in a
mine at Krebs, l. T., two men were in
stantly killed.
IN a railroad collision at East Doug
and several wounded
DUN's weekly review of trade says
that business is much disturbed on &C
count of the uncertainty of legislation.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended February 2 showed an average
increase of SO compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the increase was As.
THE Pittsburgh Art society rendered
Mr. Carnegie a reception.
THE station agent at Swaledale, Ia,
has disappeared
AT farmers institute held at Gin
ton, Ill, strong resolutions were adopt
ed in opposition to the movement for
improving the roads of the state.
The tin mines near Deadwood, S. D.,
have closed down indefinitely
NJ GERM. manager of the Financial
Weekly of Paris, has been arrested for
swindling.
NAVAJO, Yaqui and Mayo Indians in
Sonora, Mexico, are reported to be com
hitting almost daily outrages on the
whites.
DURING the carnival fetes in Nice,
France, the triumphal car caught fire
and seven fgurantes narrowly escaped
injury.
ONE man was fatally and thirteen
others badly injured by an explosion OF
hot iron Stag in the Star foundry at
Worcester, Mass.
The liberty bell will be exhibited at
the worlds fair.
THE British high court of justice has
granted a petition for the removal of
the trial of Alderman Ben Tillet, the
labor leader, from Bristol to the Old
Bailey at London. He is accused of
having melted the laboring people at
Bristol to riot December 23
THE president of the Louisville g.
Nashville railroad has refused to grant
request for increased pay made by
engineers and a strike was probable.
The earthquakes in Zaute have COM
pleteiy devastated the island, doing
damage which can hardly be computed.