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

that 1t Will discontinue It's steamers
between San Francisco and Central
American points
| THE National Brick Manufacturers
association at Louisville, KY, decided
to adopt a uniform size brick pattern
21Sx41xS1z inches. The next annual
convention will be held in Chicago
| Two sailors have reached st. Johns,
Newfoundland, the only survivors of a
crew, rescued after fifteen days with
| out food.
| THE railroad and lake steamship
lines have esta blished worlds fair in
! formation bureau at Chicago
THE dry goods merchants of New York
city adopted a resolution opposing the
continuance of the purchase of silver
| bullion.
| Two robbers raided the bank at
| Waverly, Kan, in regular Dalton style.
After obtaining a small sum of money
| they took fight, killing one of their
| pursuers, but were finally captured,
after considerable firing:
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended January % showed an average
increase of Is compared with the COR
responding week of last year. In New
! York the increase was Ill.
THE courts of Oklahoma have de-
| cided that separate schools for white
and colored children are constitutional.
IN dynamite works at Macdory, Ala.
an explosion occurred which wrecked
the building and killed two men, blow
ing them to fragments.
An explosion in a coal mine at Tolzod,
near Cram, Hungary, imprisoned about
| $50 men, all of whom were thought to
be dead. The bodies of those nearest
the shaft were recovered.
| A BookKEEPER of the Royal Insurance
Co. at New York was detected in a clev-
er and bold attempt to cash a forged
check for $50, 600.
| THE Rome (Ga.) sanitarium was de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire, with
loss of 100000.
FOOTPADS are terror at Fort Wayne,
Ind.
| THE little steamer E. 81. Barmer ran
on snag in Bayou Pigeon, a few miles
above Morgan City, La. and sank in
| twenty feet of water. The boat was a
| total loss; no insurance.
| A RECEIVER has been asked for the
| City electric street car line of Little
| Rock, Ark.
MEXICO has asked for the extradition
of the three Cara bandits captured in
| Texas.
| A Waiting party was broken-up by
Father John Cushing at Plainfield. n.
| j., recently. The walters were main
| ly members of his congregation and he
raided the hall when the dance was in
full sway
| A FIERCE fight is raging in the coffin
trust over proposed reduction of price.
| A GREAT railway war is brewing In
New England, the parties to it being
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
and the New York & New England,
with Reading edging in as side issue.
| The Spanish government is under
stood not to be disposed to grant the
request of the United States that mis-
sionaries be readmitted to the Caroline
islands, and be protected in the dis
charge of their evangelical work.
The Rothschilds syndicate has boz
rowed $40, 900, 900 in gold in the United
States for the use of Austria to aid her
currency reform.
BARON SCHULTZ, the husband of
the once famous cantatrice, Lady Anna
Bishop, and known fifteen years ago as
a prince of good fellows in almost every
part Of the world, died a decrepit vaga-
bond, of typhus, in Riverside hospital,
New York.
| 1HE OIHclhHdCl cudrICy DdII DrOuSnG
$1,000 net receipts, which will be turned
over to the city board of charities
HENRY FROST, diamond dealer OF
Chicago, has disappeared, and as he al
ways carried nearly $1,000 worth of
diamonds upon his person it is feared
he has been foully dealt with.
The Alabama senate reconsidered its
vote defeating the bill providing an an
| nnitv of $500 for Mrs Jefferson Davis
and passed it by vote of II to H. 1t
now goes to the house.
WHILE crossing the railroad tracks
near Landreth, Del, two unknown men
were struck by an extra south-bound
express and instantly killed. John
Johnson had his thigh broken, but may