Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-07-13

THE Cherokee commission has sue
ceeded in effecting an agreement with
the kaw Indians for the ceSsion of their
lands to the United States and they
will soon be opened to settlement.
EVERY foreign corporation with a
state agency must file it's charter in
Tennessee.
THE trial of ex-Treasurer Woodruff,
of Arkansas, has been continued to
October.
THE Lancet says that there have been
seventy-five deaths from cholera in the
southern part of France since May, and
during the past four weeks 13S deaths
from the same disease in Marseilles,
| thirteen in Cette and ffty-one in Tou-
| Ion.
THE Baltimore & Ohio is rebuilding
| its line from Pennsylvania to the Ohio
river.
| A JUDGMENT was rendered in the New
York supreme court in favor of the
First National bank of Chicago against
ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, with inter
est. The suit was brought on a prom
issory note for $4,000.
THE people of Washington are petit
tioning the government to give them
the Ford theater building for a public
library.
THE schooner Horace B. Parker, OF
! Gloucester, Mass, has. been seized at
Port Royal, Newfoundland, because it
refused to pay an extra premium on
silver certificates with which it paid
! for it's license.
IT has been decided that it will be
best to leave troops at Antlers, /. T.,
for while yet.
MOST of the Cherokees entitled to
allotments on the strip have made their
selections. About two-thirds of them
take farms in the eastern neck of the
strip east of the Pawnee reservation.
The rest will be near the Santa Fe
railway.
D. S. KREEDER, his wife and four chill
dren were murdered at Cando, n. D.,
by hired man named Bonn burgh.
THE directors of the Denver e Rio
Grande have passed the quarterly div
idend of per cent.
ARAB slave traders have been twice
defeated in the Congo Free State.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended July 6 showed an average de-
crease of So compared with the CORES
ponding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 81.
THE riots in Paris broke out afresh
on the night of the eth, the police and
the mob having a bloody encounter in
the Boulevard Voltaire.
r. G. DUN's weekly review of trade
says that there is a perceptible improve
ment in the business situation.
AT Bardwe1l, Ky, the murderer of
the two Ray girls was hanged and his
body afterwards burned.
c. NJ. PEOPLES, after jumping bail
twice, was turned over to Deputy
Sheriff Clerk, of Denver, by the Chicago
| authorities. Peoples is wanted in Den
yer on two charges of forgery and one
of embezZlement.
A correspondent in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, telegraphs to Panama that
nineteen prominent partisans of Bonilla
were shot in that city, under orders
from President Vasques; many others
who are in prison, suspected of COM
plicity in Bonilla's schemes, fear they
will meet similar fate.
TRAIN robbers held up an immigrant
train at st. AIMS, twenty miles from
Montreal, and attempted to rob the
baggage car. The train hands over
powered the robbers and placed them
under arrest.
The Christian Endeavorers will meet
next at San Francisco in 1895 About
Is, 900 attended the Montreal conven-
ton.
CHANCELLOR MCGILL, at Trenton, n.
j., gra nted rule to show cause why a
receiver should not be appointed for
the Somerset County bank, a state
bank at Somerville. The banks en-
barrassment is due to that of ex-Con-
gresham Pidcock, whose paper the
bank carried to the extent of 800. O0O
The capital stock of the institution is
100000, surplus $500 and deposits
about s25O,OO
The Camperdown was placed on dock
at Valetta, Malta, to undergo repairs
AS she came out of the water it was
seen that her stem had been broken off
just under the torpedo tube, about nine
feet down. her ram was bent over to-
ward the port side and six of her plates,
three on each side, were damaged.