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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
HISCEIHANEOux

AN attorney of Norfolk, Va, named
Drewey, now under arrest, is charged
with securing fraudulent pension claims
by the wholesale, using as his instru-
ments in many cases, co1ored women
and men who could not read or write.
THE supposed dead body of Roehle,
the convicted murderer who, with Pal
lister, escaped from Sing Sing, has been
found in the river, and it is supposed
that Pallister killed him to facilitate
his own escape.
THREE men were drowned at Dixon,
Ill, as the result of the capsizing of
iatboat.
ARGUMENTS in the cases of the three
New York Cinnamon who were arrest
ed to test the Geary exclusion act were
made before the United States supreme
court on the 10th.
THE biennial convention of the inter
national Y. NJ. C. A, at Indianapolis,
Ind, met on the 10th with a large at
tendance.
THE Vermont building at the world S
fair was dedicated on the 10th and the
event brought many New Englanders
to witness it.
THE Bank of Santa Clara County,
Cal, closed its doors, having discovered
an embezzlement of nearly $780, 900.
THE village of North Galveston, Ind,
was almost totally destroyed by fire
and five lives were lost in the flames
LOOKOUT, Cushing & Orth's fine son
of Trouba bour, won the Kentucky
Derby at Louisville, never being headed
from start to finish.
HENRY WILLARD is figuring on a plan
for a collateral trust loan of SIS. 900. 600
for the Northern Pacific
SEVERAL German officers will assist
at the maneuverS of the Italian mill
tary forces in northern Italy, near the
frontier of France.
THE prominent firm of Brueder &
Wolff, manufacturers of carpets, Wen
ma, has failed. The liabilities are l.
600, 900 forms
THE Land & River Improvement Co.,
of West Superior, Wis, has placed an
attachment of $500, 600 on the West SUI
perior Iron s. Steel Co., causing the
steel works to shut down.
THE secretary of the navy has ap-
pointed Medical Inspector J. Rufus
Tryon surgeon-general of the navy, to
succeed Gen. John Mills Brown. re-
tired.
BoArs have succeeded in reaching
Duluth, Mimi. breaking the coal
blockade.
THE Pennsylvania house has passed
| an anti-cigarette bill
LIEUT.. w. NJ. WILLIAMS is to be court
martialed at Fort Wayne, Mich, for
failing to pay his debts.
TIE Oklahoma G. A. r has been in
session at FL Reno.
THE Italian grain crops are said to be
ruined.
THE mutilated remains of two men
were found in a barrel at Kansas CITY.
Mo. Investigation showed that medi-
cal students had been perpetrating an
| old and horrible hoax.
THE Capital National bank of Indian
! apolis, Ind, failed on the 18th.
THE fifth annual congress of the
Scotch-Irish Society of America met at
| Springfield. O., with President Robert
Bonner. of New York, in the chair and
many distinguished men as delegates.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

ROBERT T. LINCOLN, ex-minister to
England, has arrived in New York
from Europe. He will go to Chicago
and resume his law practice.
THE Catholic Knights of America have
decided to hold the next meeting in
Omaha. Ex-Treasurer O'Brien's offer
of compromise was rejected.
A LOCOMOTIVE exploded on the Leban-
On Valley road in Pennsylvania. kill
ing the engineer, Levi Yodum, of Read
ing, Pa, and two other men, names
unknown.
THE United States grand jury at Lit
tie Rock has fled the report of it's in
vestigation of the affairs of the First
National bank, returning five true bills
against III. G. A1lis, president, and Creed
I. Walker
The four things which democratic
leaders have planned to accomplish in
the next congress are: Repeal of the
federal elections and Sherman laws;
repeal of the 10 per cent tax on state
banks; levying of an income tax and
general revision of the tariff.
HARVARD defeated Yale in the field
athletics at Cambridge, Mass.
THE national committee on Sunday
closing is taking active steps to fight
the proposed opening of the worlds
fair on Sunday, May 81.
The attendance at the worlds fair
thus far has far exceeded that for the
corresponding period at the centennial.
THERE Vas run Of the Plankinton
bank. of Milwaukee, but it was soon
ended and confidence was restored.
IT is said that James r. Keene won
81, 500. 900 by the Cordage crash at New
York.
By the falling of a cage in the Calu-
met and Hecla mines, at Honghton,
Mich, ten men went down 5000 feet
and were dashed to pieces
ADvICEs from Nicaragua state the
Irevolutionists are gaining ground and
daily are becoming more aggressive.
| Miss ROSE CLEVELAND, sister of the
president, has sailed from England for
the United States.
BISHOP BIssELL, of the Episcopal
church, Vermont, is dead.
! OFF the Cornwall coast the ship
Countess Evelyn collided with steamer
in fog and went down with all on
board.
By the wreck of ferryboat in Rus
STA a large number of persons were
drowned.
| REPUBLICANS have succeeded in elect
ing a majority of the Rhode Island
Legislature and will elect their state
ticket
ANOTHER break has occurred in the
| Mississippi leyees near Lakeport. Ark.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
Train Held In.

ST. LOUIS, May 1.-two men held
up the north bound Mobile & Ohio
passenger train about IL o'clock last
night at a water tank mile from Lake
ton, KY, and threatened to blow up
the express car with dynamite unless
the door was at once opened
Messenger Ray, of the Southern Ex-
press CO., thereupon opened the door
and was covered with revolvers- He
refused to open the safe. however. and
before the robbers could do so they
were frightened of.
1t has been learned that the robbers
secured only about 81 600 in cash
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
Novel Customs Case.

WASHINGTON, May ia novel case
has come up for decision in the treasury
department in its enforcement of the
customs laws It involves the question
of the character of natural gas, whether
it comes under tariff law as mineral
product or in any other way. Natural
gas is imported IN great quantities by
pipe line companies at Buffalo. \. Y.
from Canada The Buffalo Gas Co.
complains that the natural gas com
panies should pay a duty on imported
natural gas, and the matter is now be-
fore the board OF general appraisers at
New York fer decision
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
. Jews OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and azaa
pERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE emperor of Germany has ex-
pressed himself warmly against the
bishop of Metz for speaking of the
pope as a prisoner at the vatican He
said the bishops language was an out
rage.
QUEEN VERONA held drawing room
at Buckingham palace and several
American ladies were received. Cos
tunes were quite gorgeous.
RUMoR has it that the duke of Vera
qua will be the first ambassador from
Spain to the United States.
COMMISSIONERS BLoUNT has been APP
pointed minister to Hawaii, to succeed
Mr.. Stevens.
CONGRESSMAN BYNUM and many other
members have expressed themselves as
in favor of having an extra session as
early as June.
THE national league of republican
clubs met at Louisville, KY, on the 10TH
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER has gone to
the lake country of Wisconsin to re-
cuperSte.
THE president has appointed Frank
Fl. Jones, of Springfield, Ill, first as
Evans, resigned.
WILLIAM c. RENFRow was inaugu-
rated governor of Oklahoma on the
10th, but he is not governor yet, for
President Cleveland has declined to
sign his commission until he can in
vestigate certain charges against him.
QUEEN VICTORIA took part in the
opening of the Imperial institute at
1,<.1r llry<,
nounced that it was her last public ap-
pearance.
LORD WILLIAM PAULET is dead. He
was field marshal in the British army
and distinguished himself in the Grim
can war.
Gov. HoGG has warned the Texas
legislature of it's extravagances.
A REPORT that the Russian treaty had
been finally ratified proved premature.
The treaty, however, is expected by
the next European mail, when the
president will probably sign it.
THE president has appointed j. Hamp-
ton Hodge, of Virginia, to be consul at
Annoy, China, vice Edward Bedloe, of
Philadelphia, and John A. Michel, OF
Texas, to be collector of customs for
the district of Brazos de Santiago.
THE republican national league at
Louisville, KY, adopted resolutions
favoring woman suffrage, elected w.
w. Tracy, of Illinois, president, and
selected Denver as the next meeting
place.
THE cause of the resignation of Dele
gate Rawlins, of Utah, was a personal
disagreement with the president over
the patronage question.
ADvICEs received at Washington state
that the revolutionists in Nicaragua
have practically gained control of the
government.
E. o. LYNCH, director of the mint, has
resigned.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has received a
telegram from ex-Secretary Fairchild
declining to serve on the commission TIC
investigate the New York custom house
Mr.. Fairchild states that his business
engagements will not permit.
The annual budget, presented to the
Spanish cortes, shows an actual surplus
of 259, 461 pesetas- Such startling
novelty in national finances is the cause
of much jubilation.
THE presidents new rule barring out
ofice-seekers, according to Private Sec.
rotary Thurber, is working like charm
PREPARATIONS are being made by the
Gould family to erect church in mem
Dry of the late Jay Gould.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

BENJAMIN w. BUCHANAN, rs years
old, who committed suicide in New
York last week, was the oldest the
atrical doorkeeper in New York, says
Dunlop's Stage News. He was first at
Barnum's museum in Ann street, then
at Bryant's minstrels both at 472 Broad
way and on Twenty-third street and
after that at Tammany hall and Mad
ison Square garden. Poor Ben was one
of the very best of the old timers; but
dropsy, dyspepsia and finally insomnia
made him think he would be better off
dead than alive.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
PLIARLE PROVERBS.

"a GOOD servant makes good mas
ter'-and bad servant also makes q
good master-swear
"a SMALL spark makes great fire.
and short spark" has been known
to make a million-dollar match.
BORROWED garments never Fit well: >,
and the same may be said of the gar.
ments made to measure in London.
THE weakest must go to the WALL
except that in an exhibition of paint
ings the strongest go to the wall:
though in some exhibitions the r,zIa
apparently still holds--PuclS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

York with a capital of 1000, 900 for the
construction and equipment of line
between Niagara Falls and Albany, N.
Y. for the transmission of electric pow
er generated by the Niagara Falls
Power Co, with the waters of Niagara
river passing through wheel pits in a
tunnel, which has just been completed.
The tunnel is 5000 feet in length and
twenty-four feet in diameter. The
Niagara Falls Power Co. has expended
nearly So, 600, 600 in its development at
the falls and consumed nearly three
years in the work. 1t now seeks mar
ket for the electric power thus gener-
Rted-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

THE safe or treasury rooms of the
leading Transatlantic steamers are in
teresting structures. They are SO art
fully concealed and contrived and so
strongly built that, with a single ex-
ception. that of Pacific liner carrying
gold dust on a long voyage, we believe,
they have never been robbed. In some
vessels these safe vaults are placed
amidships, in some aft, but they are al
ways at the bottom OF tie ship. below
everything else, and practically right
on the keel. The room is generally
some eight or ten feet square and high,
and built of iron plates three or four
inches thick. and it is furnished with
such a formidable array of locks, bolts
and bars as to strike dismay to the
hearts of even the deftest and most ex-
perienced burglars.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

GREAT effort is being made to inter
est women in legal study, and at the
New York university course of free
lectures has been arranged, at the close
of which certificates of proficiency will
be awarded. Twenty scholarships have
been afforded to women and a two
hundred dollar prize will be given by
the university and the Women's Legal
Education society to the student pass
ing the highest examination.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

DIR. WILLIAM EVERETT, who has been
returned to congress from Henry Cabot
Lodges old district, has for nearly fif-
teen years been head master of Adams
academy at Quincy, Mass. He is the
author of some books for boys, two of
which, Changing Base" and Double
Play" have long been popular with
youthful readers.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

PRINCE YosHIHITo, who is coming to
Chicago this summer, is the only son
of the mikado; he is only 10.
Girls are barred from succeeding
to the throne in Japan, so that the
ambition of the family is conferred in
this one boy, though there are three
small daughters in the imperial house
hold
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

Rev. THOMAS STURGEON will sail from
Auckland, New Zealand, for San Fran
cisco May 20. He will pass several days
in Chicago and will assist Moody and
Sankey in the evangelical work during
the worlds fair
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
kpiehts TO Meet at omaha.

CHICAGO. May 15--The Catholic
Knights of America decided to hold
the next meeting in Omaha Ex-Treas-
u-er % Brien-s offer OF compromise was
rejected and prosecution of the matter
left with the executive committee.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

THE will of the late Joseph S. Spin
ney, who left an estate valued at 3d.
1000, was filed for probate recently
in Brooklyn. The will makes several
small requests to relatives and friends
and then orders the estate to be divided
between his sister, the Wesleyan uni
versity of Middletown, Conn, and the
Seamen'S Friend society.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

DEsTITUTIoN is decimating the popu-
lation of the rural districts in central
and southeastern Russia. Fevers, fam
inc and the utmost suffering prevail in
the provinces of Saratoff, Samara and
VOrOneSh.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

IN Antwerp two women have just
been appointed assistant clerks of the
court of civil cases, while in Sweden
and Denmark the masculine reporters
in the press gallery of the national
legislature have been replaced by
women. The official stenographer of
the lower house of the Danish parlia-
ment is Miss Grundtvig.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
Land for Ratarians.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, May 15.-Repre-
sentatives of a Holland colonial COM
pany who have been here for several
days left for fancy county this morn
ing. They contemplate purchasing
20, 900 acres of land for Dutch irn1ni
grants
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

GOVERNMENT secret service officers are
taking vigorous measures to stop ad-
vertisers FASTING paper stickers on coins.
In many instances it is necessary to
soak the paper off before it would be
possible to 'snow that the coin had not
been followed out and filed with alloy.
The treasury has decided that the law
will permit the prosecution of any firm
using this mode of advertising.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

THE supreme court of North Dakota
has affirmed the validity of the con-
stitutional amendment which had been
attacked through writ of habeas cor
pus applied for on behalf of a Fargo
saloon keeper.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

A STEAMER from Bergen, Norway, has
been making her way through the great
northern lakes, carrying a cargo of
herring to Chicago, to exchange for
dried beef for Norway.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

THE chambermaids employed by sew
eral large New York hotels met and APP
pointed committee to see the propri-
etors of the Waldorf, Savoy, Holland
and Plaza hotels and make a demand
for higher wages, better food and
shorter hours.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

Syrup

1 am farmer at Edom, Texas. I
have used German Syrup for six
years successfully for Sore Throat,
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Pains in
Chest and Lungs and Spittingup OF
Blood. I have tried many kinds of
Cough Syrups in my time, but let
me say to anyone wanting such a
Northumberland Syrupis the best.
We are subject to so many sudden
changes from cold to hot, damp
weather here, but in families where
German Syrup is used there is little
trouble from colds. John F. Jones'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

THE czarevitch will attend the au-
tumn maneuvers of the Austro-Hun-
garian army. He will meet Emperor
William and Emperor Franz Joseph in
Buda PeSth.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

THE New York Socialistic Labor as
sociation raised $4,000 for the social
istic voters of Germany at the election
to be held in that country June Is.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

THE president has firmly set himself
against the ring of Indian agents. The
ring consists of men of different pol
itics
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

ALL twisted boring tools are of Amer
lean invention.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
Jack McAuiire Knocked Out.

DENVER, Col. May 15.-The Jack Nc
Auliffe Theatrical Co. disbanded here.
The reason given is that it would not
be profitable to complete the season,
which would have ended at San Fran
cisco. Mr.. McAuliffe and the mem bers
of his company will leave for the east
shortly.
A locomotive exploded on the Leb-
anon Valley road in Pennsylvania, kill
ing the engineer, Levi Yodum, of Read
ing, Pa, and two other men, names un-
known.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE city treasury of Pueblo, Col, is
empty.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18

ENGLAND has five admirals who are
90 years old or over.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
In the Spring

Many people are troubled with dizziness. dull
ness, unpleasant taste in the morning. and
that tired feeling Pimples, boils and
other manifestations OF impure blood also
appear, annoying and depressing.
To an such sufferers earnestly urge trial
of Hoods SarSaparilla- No preparation
ever received such unanimous praise for its
success IS q Spring Medicine. It cures
scrofula salt rheurn and every other evil
dence OF impure blood 1t overcones thai
stired feeling and AL other debility.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-05-10
The Duchess Won.

The London clubs are laughing over
the story of the Duchess of Montrose
and Mrs. Bancroft. The Duchess en-.
gagged St. Georges Hall one night to
rehearse company of amateurs for
Il society entertainment at her home
On her Grace's arrival at the hall she
found the stage in the possession of
Mrs. Bancroft, who was rehearsing a
professional company in piece writ
ten by herself. The Duchess said,
haughtily:
This is my stage and want it,"
Mrs. Bancroft replied sweetly: mo,
Duchess, the stage is mine and | want
it,
Il say, woman, It's my stage" shout.
ell the Duchess.
Then take it, y smiled the actress.
The Duchess then called up hen anna.
teurS and began rehearsng at one side
of the stage. The actress called ur
her professionals and continued re-
hearsing on the other. At last the
Duchess, losing patience, began to use
language more forcible than polite.
The actress tried hard to give the
Duchess as good as she sent. but was
no match for her horsy grace; so draw
ing her skirts we'll above her ankles
she looked the Duchess up and down,
then turned to her company and
said: Ladies' and gentlemen, let us
leave these common people and so
departed under II voliey from the
Duchess. The hall had been let to
both,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-05-10
He Got Their Password.

This happened in little town In
southern Illinois not many days ago.
1t is in a section where the Farmers
Alliance is strong and lodge of that
organization exists in the town. They
meet Monday nights.
There is only one lodge room in the
town, and on Tuesday nights it is oc-
cupied by the local branch of the
Knights of Pythias.
The president of one of the country
sub-Alliances came to town one Tues
day. He had visited the town Alli-
ance, and when he saw lights in the
lodge room concluded he would go
over and condole with the brethren
over the defeat of Buchanan.
He gave the proper knock at the
outer door, The wicket was raised
and an ear was placed at it to hear the
password.
81 plough, l hoe.I spade" whispered
the Alliance man.
The ear was replaced by an eye, and
it in turn gave place to mouth, which
whispered in reply:
"The HI you d." and the wicket
dropped with bang.
The indignant farmer shortly after
ward met "brother," to whom he
told his tale of woe.
"Why. dad blame it," was the sharp
comment of the brother, "them's
Knights of Pythias, and you've given
'em our password"
"Dogged if | amt" was the re-
spouse, "but (brightening up) durn
'em, I've got theirs. N. T. Herald.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-05-10
"Blacked Out"

Speaking of the Russian censorship,
Mr.. George KEENAN,, in an article in
the Century. SAYS: What does the
Russian Government hope or expect tc
accomplish by 'blacking out articles
that aim simply to tell the truth with
regard to Russian affairs, and by
throwing into prison every man in
whose possession such articles may be
found?
The Russian author Prugayin. in a
book that was inadvertently sanctioned
by the press censor but that was af
terward seized and burned, asks the
same question. and says: Can an idea
be choked to death? Can thought be
killed, buried, or annihilated? Are not
truth, and love, and justice. and free
dom immortal? 1t is the most terrible
of mistakes to suppose that ideas can
ever be crushed. People have persisted
men have died in chains and case
mates. their bodies have decayed. theiI
graves have been lost, and their very
names have been forgotten; but their
ideas and aspirations live on. Washed
in the blood of suffering, such ideas and
aspirations have become the dream OF
every man in whose brain Thoughts
stirs and in whose breast Il heart beats. ;
The press censor, when he burned
Prugavin's book, thought that he had
destroyed forever its pernicious' intlu-
ence; but the ideas and aspirations OF
the gifted author live on; and his
words, although burned by order of
Government in Russia, will appeal to
hundreds of thousands of sympathetic
hearts in England and the United
States.
Sometime in the far-distant future
the free Russian patriot, no longer
blinded by the censorship OF the press,
will look over the pages of his national
history that record these attempts to
gag public opinion and strangle human
thought, and will wish from the bot.
tom of his heart that so numiliating
and shameful record might be black
I'd out.