Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-11

PRAYERS are being offered in Russia
for fine weather
THE Western Passenger association
has fixed round the world tourists
tickets at $500, and changed the date
for the inauguration of summer tourist
rates from May II to June L.
JOCKEY HAMLINE fell at the Cumber-
land park races, Nashville, Tenn, and
was badly injured.
THE gates of the worlds fair will be
open on Sunday, but the public will
have access only to the horticultural
building and the greenhouses.
IT has been decided. that the meeting
of the international monetary confer
ence in Brussels shall be postponed un-
til some time in November.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended May 4 showed an average in
crease of 7.3 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the increase was 9.3.
S. V. WHITE, the stock jobber, failed
again at New York during the excite
ment over the bear raids on Cordage.
Sugar, Whisky and other Industrial Sc
curities. A better feeling afterward
set in and it was said White would re-
sumo.
THE Boston-to-Chicago bicycle race
ended when Bliss and Van Cicklen
reached Chicago with the message from
the governor of Massachusetts,. The
journey was completed in little less
than 122 hours, or twenty-five hours be-
hind schedule time. The delay was due
to bad roads.
The Turkish porte announces the ar
rest of two Armenian teachers who
-o1 IN, 6n Mo,sc
lege. 1t is charged that the disturb
of the villages were due to the machin-
ations of these teachers.
COLD and frost have rendered neces-
sary much repla nting of the cotton
crop.
ONE hundred and ffty-one new ma
tiona1 banks have been authorized since
the first of the year.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has approved of
a proposed issue Of bonds by the Cher
olSees on the contamination of the sale
of the strip to the government.
AN east and west rate of s44. so has
been put in effect between California
and Missouri river points.
A BOYCOTT by the religious organiza-
tions of the country is threat tened
against the worlds fair if the gates are
opened on Sunday.
THE proposed Sioux City, Chicago &
Baltimore road has already received
proffers from other Iowa roads to be
taken in.
TROUBLE is looked for between the
editors of the Memphis Appeal-Ava-
lanche and the Memphis Commercial on
account of an article which appeared in
the former paper.
OLA and Mercedes Plows, beautiful
young ladies of Chicago, attempted sui
eide with morphine on account of an
unhappy home life. Ola died, but
Mercedes recovered.
THE block on the east side of Broad
way between Forty-fourth and Forty
fifth streets, New York, was complete
ly destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at from 1925. 900 to $780,
A LETTER from Chilli received at San
Francisco tells of the killing of Frank
Matthewson, an American railroad sur
veyor, by mob of Gillian ha1f-breeds
near Conception. He was cut to pieces
with knives.
MAIL advices to Galveston bring the
news that revolution has broken out
in Nicaragua. The movement is an
outcome of the old hostility entertained
by the eastern department toward the
western department of the republic.
THE town of Kowal, in Poland,
about eighty miles south of War
saw, has been visited by a destruc-
tive conhagration. The big infrmary
and asylum were burned. No less than
eighty persons persisted and 800 families
were made homeless.
THE executive committee of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers are ex-
aiming the books and accounts of the
grand officers. There are charges that
the grand chief has recl1lessly squan-
dered the money of the order. It is
stated that between $40, 900 and $50, 600
was spent in the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids s. Northern and Rock Island
strikes.
JOHN KUsLER, farmer. living near
Guthrie, Ok, has died suddenly under
circumstances which lead the coroner
to believe that he was poisoned.