Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-08-03

| ROCKY mountain vi CO., is no more,
and the big petroleum monopoly has
the field to itself once more.
FIFTEEN of the striking plate glass
| workers at Irwin, Pa, were arrested
| on charges of conspiracy.
| DUN's review says soundness and
! strength is disclosed in the business
world, notwithstanding the financial
| disturbances.
MANY Pennsylvania iron and steel
workers threaten to withdraw from the
| Amalgamated association.
| STRIKING miners rioted in Gran, Hun
gary, until dispersed by the police.
Many were wounded Ten were ar
| rested.
| AT a meeting of the directors of the
Mass, it was voted to operate these
| mills on half time.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL NIX has in
his possession about fifty head of cattle
which he confiscated from the gang OF
horse and cattle thieves who were
captured in the Cherokee strip.
THE Irving-Terry theatrical company
has sailed on the steamship Numidian
from Liverpool for Montreal. The COM
pany will open in San Francisco on
September 4.
A RADICAL reorganization of the coast
| survey is contemplated by Secretary
| Carlisle. Some of the changes may re-
quire congressional action. The work
of reform will begin by chopping off
beads.
The Utes will soon be compelled to
vacate their reservation in Colorado and
will be sent to Utah.
THREE clerks signed their names to
notes upon which s54, 600 was obtained
from the Elmira, n. Y, national bank
The gates of the worlds fair were
opened last Sunday.
SEvENTY-THREE New England and
New York banks have been swindled
by forged duplicate grain receipts
PAYING TELLER ADRIAN PARDON, of
the First national bank of Paterson,
n. j., has been arrested for stealing
SO, $50.
THERE was a run on the Howard saw
ings institution at Newark, N. j. The
bank weathered the storm.
The Union indurated fiber works.
Buffalo, n. Y, have been DESTROYED by
fire.
The Denver chamber of commerce
and board of trade have sent silver
memorial to congress.
ONE person was killed and three 9TH
ers were seriously injured in an accident
on bridge in Chicago.
DR.. LEE LING, Chinese physician, of
Chicago, and Miss Lizzie Fairman, an
American girl, of the same city, were
recently married at Peoria, Ill.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH was hanged
in efigy at Rome, O., because of the
suspension of pensioner.
SANFORD & Sons carpet mills at Am
sterdam, n. Y, have been shut down.
No protracted stoppage of any of the
Carnegie Steel Co.'s big plants have
been ordered and none are probable.
THE navy department has awarded
contracts for supplying about million
pounds of steel gun forging to the Mid
vale and Bethlehem companies, of
Pennsylvania.
The independents Beige says that in
view Of the disastrous effects of the re-
cent drought the Belgian government
is making preparations on large scale
in experiments for producing rainfall
by artificial means.
The American express train No. 81,
on the Michigan Central railway, was
wrecked at Springfield, Ont. Seven
coaches and the locomotive were de-
rallied. Four of the coaches were bad
ly wrecked. No lives were lost. The
engineer was badly scalded.
EXHIBITORS have presented their
grievances to the management Of the
worlds fair.
THE Mcneil & Urban Safe & Lock
Co., one of the oldest safe firms in the
country, have assigned to Howard
Douglass of Cincinnati The assets
are S160,000: liabilities unknown. The
firm has been unfortunate in several
large contracts.
ONE of the most daring robberies ever
attempted in Chicago was committed
at the residence of Mrs. r. Ammon in
broad daylight. The thieves, after bind
ing and gagging Mrs. Ammon, succeed
ed in robbing her of diamonds and a
gold watch, the whole value being s2,-
900. and made good their escape.