Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-04-27

taking fire after being demolished by
tornado near Meridian, Miss.
THE free miners attacked tee convict
guards at Tracy City, Tenn, for the,
purpose of freeing the prisoners A
severe conflict followed and two or three
men were killed.
THE czar at the Lividia palace, In the
Crimea, is said to have found an ex-
quisitely painted egg on his table
Easter morning. 1t contained small
silver dagger, two ivory deaths heads
and slip of paper bearing the words:
s'Christ has risen; we also shall rise
again"
A BAND of Turks have been stealing
Ill, to feed a number of bears they had
with them at their camp.
THE Woonsoclxet company has been
received into the rubber trust. There
is now only one company outside-the
Boston Rubber Co.
THE frost of the 18th and 18th killed
about three-fourths of the growing cot
ton around Paris, Tex.
NORTH DAKOTA had steady fall of
snow on the 10Th.
The United States supreme court
justices have decided not to attend the
naval review or opening of the worlds
fair.
NINE miners persisted by fire in the
Butte s. Boston Co.'S shaft at Butte,
Mont.
DETAILS of the terrible storm in Mis-
sissippi show forty deaths and two hun
dred persons injured.
THE weeks -four output was smaller.
with lower prices ruling.
JUDGE HALLET, at st. Louis, has de-
cided that Edison is not the inventor OF
the incandescent lamp, the credit be-
longing to Henry Goebel, the invention
dating back to 1854.
THE Columbus caravels arrived al
Hampton Roads on the 21st.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April 90 showed an average in
crease of 1876 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the increase was 2O.6.
| Two New York murderers-Pal1iste
and Rohle-under sentence of electro
cution escaped from the death cell al
Sing Sing. Rohle threw pepper in the
| guards face, got his keys and pistol
intimidated another guard, locking
both in the cell, released Pallister anC
both got clear away in the storm thai
was prevailing.
| DR.. E. j. SMITH, of COnnOrSville
Ind, died of broken heart recently al
Washington. He was engaged seeking
an Office as pension examiner.
| A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt
at Kingston, n. M.
THERE was an enormous amount q
glass broken at the worlds fair during
the recent storm. Several exhibit
We're ruined.
| xuiSnct
alarmed at the decrease of railway
rates. ''Taxes and the cost of labor are
increasing, while ties are going down.
says Vice President Brooks, of the
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. ANNA WEBB, white woman.
has been run out of Atkins, Ark, fol-
preaching miscegenation.
| IT is said that the reason the supreme
court justices declined to attend the
| naval review or worlds fair opening
was because they felt snubbed at the
arrangements made for their attend
| ance.
| WHOLESALE live stock smuggling is
reported on the Rio Grande, Tex.
THE Mississippi Sanitary association
has urged the treasury department to
re-esta b1ish the cholera quarantine and
| immigration inspection service of last
year.
THE Cherokee delegation which will
make the final settlement for the strip
has left for Washington.
| Mrs. FRANCIS HARRIS at New Haven,
Conn.,, shot herself over the body of her
| dead husband.
JACOB NEWMAN, a lawyer of Akron,
o. was victimized out of $500 by an
| old swindle.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER has thor
oughly investigated the situation as re-
CARDS the opening of the strip and says
that settlers may consider themselves
fortunate if they get in by fall.
RECEIVERS have been appointed for
the Pennsylvania Steel Co., which has
extensive plants at Steelton, Pa, and
Sparrows Point, Md.