Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-09-06

DCSsS review or trade Tor the week
ended the 31st said the activity which
came from exhausted stocks and the
removal of uncertainty about the tar
iff continued Wheat was moving
largely and the price had risen a shade
during the past week. Corn had ad-
vanced 81 cents, while pork had risen
25 cents barrel and lard 55 cents per
100 pounds. Cotton had declined Is
cent. The demand for products of iron
and steel had increased, but prices
tended downward.
THE Leona river, swollen to raging
torrent by the recent heavy rains,
rushed without moments warning on
the town of Uvalde, Tex, wrecking
many houses and drowning many Peo-
pie. Forty miles of the Southern Pa
cffic railway track were reported
| washed away and fears were enter
tanned that 100 families living on a
| ditch south of town had been lost.
The loss of property was said to be in
the neighborhood of 81, 100000.
A RECENT order of the Belgium gov
eminent subjects all American cattle
to forty-five days quarantine.
On the Canton river, near Hong
Kong, a flower boat caught fire and
the flames spread until hundreds of
| those crafts were destroyed and at
least 1000 Chinese persisted.
THE London Times published col
| umn letter, signed by Thomas G. Shear
| man, of New York, dealing with the
| fight for the new tariff law in the
| United States. Mr.. Shearman predicts
| that the cause of free trade will gain a
| signal victory in 1886, and that in 1900
| the only question will be whether any
| tariff at all shall be allowed to remain.
| THE body of the late Congressman
| Shaw lay in state at the family man
sion at Eau Claire, Wis, on the both,
attended by guard of honor of twelve
Knights of Pythias in full uniform, and
| many citizens paid their last respects.
The funeral services at the house be-
gan at o'clock, Rev. DIR. Dudley, of
| the First Congregational church, Off
ciating. There were over /, 500 Knights
| of Pythias in the procession.
PIETRo ToNNINO, president of the re-
| public of San Marine, is dead. The re-
public is the smallest in the world, be-
| ing only % square miles in extent and
having but 5000 population. It is in
northeast Italy and has been indie
pendent since the fourth century,
when it was founded by Marinus, a
hermit.
| CONGRESSMAN J. o. ABBOTT was unan-
imously renominated by the Sixth dis
| trict democratic convention at Hills
| boro, Tex, on the ,39Sth ballot
| A DISPATCH from Cairo said it was
| learned on high authority that notable
personages were likely to be implicated
in the scandal growing out of the
| traffic in slave girls.
| ADv1CEs from Juneau, Alaska, give
details of fierce battle among the
Chilcat Indians. A few days previous
| to the fight two Canadian sloops ar
| rived at Chi1cat 1adened with liquor.
| Large quantities were soon disposed of
in exchange for furs, etc. Then began
a scene of fierce orgy. Immense fires
| were started and several hundred In
| dams assembled to drink liquor and
dance. Settlers living few miles dis
tant heard yelling and surmising the
| origin of the trouble dared not venture
to the neighborhood until late in the
afternoon of the next day. They be-
held sickening sight. Dead and
| wounded Indians were lying all around
the village.
FRANK NELSON, OF Trout Creek. Mich.
threw dishes at his wife and children
and ended by trying to empty a shot
| dG Un01u I1C was drTCSGC%l, OuG d
gang of about twenty whitecaps took
him from Jail and gave him 100 lashes
on the bare back and tied him to tree.
He was rescued by q sherif's posse and
may not recover.
SALVADOR FRANCH, the condemned an
| archist who threw the bomb in the
| Lyceo theater at Barcelona, Spain, on
| November z last, thereby killing or
| wounding nearly 100 persons, has be-
come very penitent during his confne-
| ment and is anxious to obtain the for
giveness of the people of barcelona.
His special wish is that the Franciscan
| monks allow him to become tertiary
| or member of the third degree of their
| order.
IN response to a call representatives
of churches of all denomina tions, tenn
| perance and other societies in Indiana
met at indianapolis to take action to
inaugurate a movement independent
of the old political parties to work
against saloons and against all csndi
dates in sympathy with the saloon ele.
ment. The organization is to be car.
ried into every county of the state.
ORDERS have been received for the
evacuation of the island of Cyprus and
the British garrison is preparing tc
leave. The news has caused a panic
among the Christian population. who
believe that island is about to be re-
stored to the possession of Turkey.