Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-01-19


reported to be endeayoring to drive all
Hebrews from the country.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to form a SYM
dictate of the thirty-eight Alaska salmon
canneries with $4,000. 900 capital
Two Chicago waterworks engineers
are imprisoned in the crib, two and
one-half miles out in the lake, by ice.
and may have to remain there several
weeks
THE trial of the men charged with
completely in the Homestead poisoning
cases began at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
18th.
CLERGYAlEN will have to pay full fare
in the future when they ride on the NJ,
K. & T.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt
at Jeffersonville, Ind, one night re-
Gently.
The delegates of the British Miners
federation, in session at Birmingham
have adopted resolution asking par
lament to pass a bill making eight
hours legal days work.
The Hamburg health officers report
1919 deaths, from cholera in 1892 and
26,323 deaths from all causes. The
births mum ered %, $685.
THE Texas court of appeals has de-
cided that the Austin dam bonds,
amounting to 81, 400, 900, are illegal
This. it is believed, will void the whole
issue.
The St Louis hotel Duluth, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, 500, 600.
AT Story City, Ia, a snow pillow ran
into a passenger train on the Chicago 81
Northwestern road and several paSSen-
gers were badly injured
IVIrJT 81, fo1y
prisoners across the Mississippi river at
Cummings, Ark, one of them capsized
the boat and two were drowned.
Two more negroes and one white
man, making five in all, have been
lynched for the murder of Atkinson
and family at Cotton Plant. Ark.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended January IL showed an average
decrease of 3. compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was lis.
Four negroes were executed at Ches-
tertown, Md. They belonged to gang
that waylaid and brutally murdered
DIR. j. NJ. Hill last April.
A STORY from China says that robbers
set fire to a wooden shed where the
people were witnessing celebra ton
and 800 were burned and trampled to
death.
The ,slOop ShaWmut was burned at
Boston and two of her crew persisted in
the flames.
THE frozen body of drunkard has
been found near Deer creek. Taswell
county, Ill.
PROJECTORS of the st Louis & Chi
cago Electric railway appeared before
the senate committee on commerce and
asked to be allowed to import material
free of duty so as to avoid getting into
the clutches of the electric monopoly ir
this country.
SUPERINTENDENT BYRNEs, of New
York, has opened war on the gam bling
and opium dens.
SEVERAL poor persons arrested for
stealing coal at Chattanooga, Tenn. :,
were let off without penalty by Judge
Moon, who thought the severe weather
a sufficient excuse.
The celebrated stallion Ormonde,
which was recently sold to Mr.. William
Mcdonald, of San Francisco, who, it is
said, paid $50, 200 for him, arrived at
Southampton recently from Buenos
Ayres, where he had been for some time
past
The Presbyterian mission at Table
| quah, 1. Z. has burned.
! FREIGHT officers of the western and
southwestern roads met at Chicago and
agreed to advance the rate on ship
ments of paper of all descriptions "a
cents per 100 pounds from Wisconsin
points. Menominee Mich, and Rockton,
| Ill. to st. Paul and Minneapolis
| WADLEIGH's old mill at Atkins, Tenn,
burned and two men sleeping in it per-
| iShed.
JACOB n. MORRIS, postmaster at Lin
coin, ILL.,, has been deposed by Inspector
| Laughlin because of 81, 400 shortage.
| BILL DEAL, Bill Herman and Wade
Stewart have been arrested for robbing
the station at Daugherty, 1. L.
CREED RAYMOND, for many years
chief counsel for the Southern Pacific
railroad. died at San Francisco. He
had been i'll for over a month and death
| was expected.