Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-06-21
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

IHE annual meeting OF the Royal Ar
canum society terminated on the 18th at
Detroit, Mich, with the installation of
new officers. An amendment was or
dered to be prepared by the committee
on laws. prohibiting further member
ship in Arkansas, that state having
drawn twice the amount paid in.
THE assignee of the National Co
operative Building and Investment as
ISOLATION, at Denver, Col, says the con-
Germ will not pay one cent on the
dollar.
A LARGE number of American-Cana-
dian seed men were in Toronto, Can, on
the 18th attending the twelfth meeting
of the American Seed Trade association.
THE American Institute of Homeopa-
thy convened in jubilee session at the
First Baptist church, Denver, Col, on
the 14th.
A REPORT comes from New York that
a combination of the gasoline and gas
stove manufacturing interests have
been effected and trust formed with
capital of $40, 900, 900.
FIRE at Yamagata, Japan, province
of Usen, destroyed 1900 houses, and
thirteen people lost their lives during
the confagration.
A STEAMER from China brings news
of sanguinary fight between pirates
and the villagers and soldiers at
Tanchi. Thirtytwo pirates were
killed and three captured. Several
pirates were drowned also in trying to
escape.
AT Monroe, La, on the night of the
| 18th fires were discovered in two va
cant houses. B1oodhounds were put
on the trail of the party who had done
the work. After making circuitous
route, they went to the house of a
white man named J. FL. Day, a party
who has been strongly suspected OF
having done such work before. Cir
cumstantial evidence pointed conclu-
sively to him as having been the in
cendiary. Day was arrested and put
! in Jail. Later in the night he was
taken out and hanged to the limb of a
tree.
A DISPATCH from Castlebar, Ireland
said that passenger boat returning to
Westport Quay from Achil island with
eighty harvesters who were to be
shipped to Scotland capsized and it is
believed that fifty of the harvesters lost
their lives Eighteen bodies have al
ready been recovered
FIRE in New York recently caused g
loss of $3.50, 600 in the wholesale paper
district.
THE pump-house at the Alverton coke
plant of Mcclure & Co. at Greensburg
Pa, was blown up with dynamite
shortly after midnight on the 18th.
The explosion was terrific and the
building was completely wrecked
The strikers are held responsible fol
the outrage and the perpetrators ara
said to be Known.
AT Cramphill, n. J., Johann Kauff
man arose from his bed and with SONS
sharp instrument cut the Threats O.
his wife and three children. Then
washing the blood from his person, h,
dressed himself neatly and committed
suicide by hanging. Late in the after
noon the five dead bodies were found
Poverty was the cause.
, DURING street parade of a sumEc
spectacle at Philadelphia section o
one of the terra Gotta balconies of Al
office building fell upon the crowd Oh
the sidewalk beneath, crushing tn
, heads of an old woman and a litti
girl and injuring a number OF othe
bystanders.
FIRE in Panama recently destfoye
J about $50 small cheap dwellings, caus
ing losses of $3.50, 900.
: THE prolonged drought in South Da
kota was broken on the I4th by a vic
: lent thunderstorm in which nearly a
: inch of water fell. The crops are SAT
with an adequate rainfall hereafter.