Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

IL Is fepOrCcO Oh d pdrcuGIy SOOO au-
thority that DR.. Briggs contemplates
the establishment of an independent
Presbyterian church.
IT was announced in the Dublin court
of bankruptcy that there was no estate
to meet the claims against Michael Da-
witt, who was compelled to go into
bankruptcy on account of his inability
to meet the costs of the proceedings in
stituted against him by P. Mahoney,
his Parnellite antagonist in the North
Meath election.
THE Dahomeyans at the worlds fair
dedicated their village with peculiar
and barbaric ceremonies.
A FREIGHT train and a motor car col
lided in Council Bluffs, Ia, killing one
person and severely injuring several
others.
THE great Derby race at Epson, En-
gland, was won by Q length by Mr.. Nc
Calmont's bay colt Isinglass, Raven
bury second and Raeburn third. The
winner was the favorite.
THE official statement as to cholera
in Russia is the most encouraging yet.
The Volga and most districts are free
and the province of Saratof, which lost
$4,000 people in 1892, has only few
isolated cases. The disease still fingers
in the Caucasus.
BANKER MEARs, of North Dakota,
called on Comptroller Eckles to discuss
resuming business and was informed
that he would not again be allowed to
run a national bank.
THE general assembly Of the United
| Presbyterians has repeated its former
| declaration against members of the
church joining any secret societies
ANOTHER long and bitter struggle
over the question of wages in the great
! iron district of Pennsylvania seems in
evitable.
THE attendance and receipts for the
first month of the worlds fair were not
what the directors hoped for.
| FARMER JOHN HUGHES, near Guthrie,
Ok, dug up skeleton and near it was
! 81, 500 in old coins and a large amount
| in bills.
THE big lake at Austin, Tex, pre-
| pared for the international regatta,
| sprung leak and great quantities OF
water escaped.
THE construction of jetties on the
Mexican side of the Rio Grande may
cause international complications by
changing the course of the river.
MANY congressman have neglected tc
make appointments to West Point and
the naval academy as they are per
mitted to and should do under the law.
! VICE PRESIDENT BLAKE, of the Do
mestic Sewing Machine Co. has made
application to the court of chancery a;
| Newark, n. j., for the appointment OF
! a receiver.
THE Plankinton bank at Milwaukee
| suspended on the 1st.
! THE Merchants National bank, Ia
coma, Wash, has suspended.
| ADvICEs from Colombia say: The
steamer Saragosa is reported to have
been lost in the whirlpool of Mantle
| guerra with all on board.
QUITE serious loss resulted from the
recent storms in Arkansas. Tenne ssee
Kentucky and Mississippi. Several
lives We're lost.
| TOWNSEND. the man who planned te
assassinate Gladstone. has been found
to be of unsound mind and sent tx
prison.
NEGOTIATIONS have been successfully
concluded for the cession to the gov
eminent and opening to settlement OF
the surplus Sioux lands IN South Da
lxota.
THE failure Of the delegation TO sell
| the Cherokee bonds has created con
| sternation in the nation. where the
merchants were all selling On credit or
the strength of soon getting the
money.