Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-08-24

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| eral more meetings on the 18th and lis
! tened to some fiery speeches from pro
nounced anarchists
THAT currency is still scarce was evi
| denced in New York on the 18th wher
the premium again advanced to owe,
per cent
THUS far the catch of seals in Japar
| waters has been: By the American flee
| of eighteen vessels, $4,000; by the Brit
ish feet, nineteen vessels, 24,01O. The
catch is large one
ROBERT KINCAID, the missing ex
banker of Mound City, Kan, has re
turned He denied any intention o.
| acting dishonesty by his creditors
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended August IL showed an average
decrease of 276 compared with the cor
responding week of, last year. In New
York the decrease was 23.4; outside
1872. But one city had an increase
which was Duluth-3S.
DAN ARATA. the Denver saloonist
and murderer recently lynched by q
mob was leader of a gang of italian
counterfeiters.
A NEGRO accidentally found large
collection of jewelry in the mud on the
banks of the river below New Orleans.
A POSSE captured two supposed rob-
bers near Winslow, Ark, after wound
ing both of them, one fatally.
The army worm has appeared in the
cotton fields of the Arkansas and Mis-
sissippi river bottoms
The banks at Chattanooga will issue
'spay rolf checks to accommodate man
ufacturers and laborers.
ST. PAUL and Minneapolis publisher
are talking of reduced prices for type
setting.
THERE has been an unusual number
OF enlistments in the army recently.
THERE was great excitement in Italy
over the massacre of Italians at Aigues.
Morles, and serious trouble with
France on account of it was threat
ened.
ST. PETERSBURG papers state that the
Russian crops will not exceed good
average.
AN express car containing consign-
ment of gold for Chicago was wrecked
on the Fort Wayne, at Whiting, Ind,
and the coin was scattered in the road
but was all saved.
IT was reported that soldiers and a
band of sooners had fought on the
strip and that three of the sooners had
been killed.
THE American Agriculturist, in its
annual review of the crop situation,
says that while the output will be less
than the average the net returns will
be much as usual
THREE thousand employees in the
Havemeyer sugar refinery at Williams
burg have been laid off, and it is re-
hat tho anfir-a foroo will ia 1..id
off.
looked for in the case of c. P. Barrett
and two others, of Spartansburg, S. c.,
who have been indicted for defrauding
the United States government.
EDWARD BRENNAN, of New York city,
went over Niagara falls lately. He
was out in boat when it overturned.
A CONGRESS from various trades
unions met at New York on the Goth
to consider the condition of the labor
ing classes. It was resolved to solicit
public work.
THE other night an unarmed body of
1aboring men waited on the Chinese
restaurants in Selma, Cal. and deported
the keepers. sending them out of town
quietly and using no violence.
The government receipts for nine
teen days of August were SIS, $40 900:
receipts for fiscal year, $40, 545, 776 Ex-
penditures for month, to date, s22 ,295,
600; expenditures for fiscal year, SOL
SS2, SSS.
A SPIRITED team was struck by the
east-bound Lehigh flyer at Leroy, n. Y.
Five of the inmates of the carriage
were killed. They were on their way
to church at the time.
In Russia the past week 76s deaths
from, and 2, 113 fresh cases of cholera,
were reported; in Galicia in two days
twenty-three fresh cases and twenty
two deaths and in Austria twenty-eight
cases and twelve deaths.
PENSION examiners are trying to de-
termine whether James T. Toff, who is
in the soldiers home at Bath, N. Y, is
the same James Toff who was supposed
to have been lost at sea and whose
widow is now drawing pension.