Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

IHE COLORADO supreme court mas de-
cided that Maneater Packer, who killed
five men in 1874 and ate part of their
bodies, must serve the cumulative SEN
fences imposed for each murder.
THE secretary of the treasury has
authorized the treasurer of the United
States to anticipate the payment of
July interest.
SIXTEEN lives were lost by an explo-
sion in chemical works at Odessa,
Russia. The bodies were consumed in
the burning building.
Four persons in Cette and one person
in Lyons, France, died of cholera on
the goth.
SEVEN persons were burned to death
by a fire which destroyed the Bunnen
block. Duluth, MINI.
RETURN shipments Of gold from
Europe are reported. The treasury
balance stood at s94, O00,31O.
P. II. WINSTON, one of the alleged
smuggling officials of Seattle, Wash,
hotly denounces the accusation.
ONE hundred and thirty families
were rendered homeless by fire which
destroyed the village of Gibson, near
Fredericton, n. Il.
BIG silver mines of Colorado are again
talking of shutting down. complaining
that they can find no market for high
grade ores.
Two engines on the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy collided near Buda, Ill,
with the result that both the engineers
and fremen were badly injured.
DURING a performance of Ringing
Bros circus at River Falls. Wis. light
ming struck the main tent killing seven
people and seriously injuring many
more
In the anarchist riots at Breslau, Ger
many, fourteen persons were wounded
five fatally.
ANOTHER fatal result from the bite
of a fly is reported from Cuero, Mex
Ross Farnsworth, the fifteen-year-old
son of Conductor Farnsworth, of the
Southern Pacific, was bitten a few days
ago by a fly. Blood poisoning set in
and death resulted.
ANARCHISTS whom he had discharged
partially wrecked the dwelling Of
Julius Kunitzer, at Lodez, .5 miles
from Washington, by means of dyna-
mite bomb.
THE loss by the Mesaba iron range
fires will aggregate at least 81, 500, Goo
AN alarm of fire in church at Beris-
d
1876 people were crushed and suffoca ted
to death.
HENRY SHELDON & Co., tea and coffee
merchants, New York, have failed
AN epidemic of suicide is reported in
Buda Pesth and other Hungarian
towns
SIX masked robbers attempted to hold
up q Santa Fe train at Coolidge. but
the engineer was too quick for them.
THE monument in commemoration
of the Fort Dearborn Indian massacre
the gift of George NJ. Pullman to Chi
cago, has been unveiled.
1T has been discovered that three
men were left in the Jail at Virginia,
Mimi. during the Mesaba range fires.
Their calcined bones were recovered.
SOCIALISTS have been rioting at
Andrycho, a town in Austrian Galicia.
Some of them were killed by the
troops.
Four students We're drowned at
Joliet, Que. by the upsetting of boat.
SUPERIOR JUDGE GRANT has decided
in favor of Sacramento and against San
Jose in the California state capital re-
mova1 case.
SwITcHMAN McGEARY has been held
by a Gravesend justice for the killing
OF the nine people by the wrecl1ing of
the Sheepshead Bay race train.
A FIFTEEN million dollar ocean steam
ship combination has been formed at
Jersey City.
The commission to revise the statutes
of Illinois met at Springfield and or
gained.