Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-31

and Correction began at NASHVILLE,
Tenn, on the 24th.
THE whist congress met in session at
Philadelphia on the oath
THE congressional investigation into
frauds and irregularities in naval
armor plate began on the 24th with
open doors. Representative Dunphy
was before the committee.
Gov. WAITE has authorized the loan
ing of 100 tents and the camp equip
ment OF the Colorado national guard
to the Coxey army in camp at River
Front park.
WHEN the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy fast mail train was miles east
of Kewanee, Ill, on the 24th, and run
ming at the rate of so miles per hour,
the glass in the 1ubricator can
broke, and instantly three quarts
of kerosene was spilled by steam pres
sure through the cab. Striking the hot
boiler head the oil was ignited.and the
naxt moment the whole interior of the
cab was in flames, and the engineer
and fireman were horribly burned.
No INFORMATION has reached the de-
partment of agriculture as to the dam
age to crops by the recent storms.
Nothing will be received before the
regular monthly crop report to be
made public on June 10.
ASSIGNEE HUBBARD, of the Union
Loan & Trust Co., which failed last
summer, stated in court at Sioux City,
Ia, that the liabilities of the company
were 81, 600, 900, and that the creditors,
who are mostly eastern people, will
not get over 5 per cent. of their claims.
THE failures for the week ended May
25 were 1873 in the United States, against
259 last year, and % in Canada, against
II last year
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended May 25 showed an average de-
crease as compared with the CORE
spending week of last year of 1872; in
New York the decrease was 1913; out
side, 1915
A PERMANENT organization was
formed and officers were elected at the
last session of the American Congress
of Liberal Religious societies at Chica-
go, which name was finally adopted.
The new society will be incorporated
under the laws of Illinois.
STRIKERS at Cripple Creek, Col, on
the 25th attacked the Strong mine,
overpowering the guards, after which
they blew up the shafthouse, it is re-
ported, causing the death of eleven
men who had started to work. A reg
ular reign of terror existed there and a
desperate battle was expected at any
moment.
BRADsTREET's trade review says the
conditions prevailing in commercial
circles throughout the country are the
dullest relatively for twenty years and
they promise to continue for some
time. Dun's review says the prices of
products still tend downward.
FIVE hundred miners at Ardmore, I.
t., have quit work pending a meeting
to decide whether strike shall take
place.
THE grand court of the United Com
mercial Travellers of America began its
annual session in Cleveland, O., on the
25th.
A FoUR-sToRY brick building on At
lantic avenue. Brooklyn, collapsed the
other afternoon. One man, named
Erickson, was killed, three are missing,
and five or six are badly hurt. The
structure was used as storehouse.
A SUIT for damage in the sum OF
800, 600 has been begun in the United
States circuit court at Chicago by the
French republic against the Worlds
| Columbian exposition. The litigation
grows out of the French governments
claim for damages to goods injured
during the manufactures building fire
DELEGATES from southern Iowa ar
rived in Fort Dodge, Ia, on the 25th
and called out all the miners, about GOO
| men.
A PLOT to blow up the Parliament
buildings and the Bourse by the use Of
bombs has been discovered in Buenos
Ayres. The police have seized severa
bombshells, and have arrested two
Austrians and an Italian who are
charged with completely in the con
spiracy.
THE London Sporting Life says thai
the National Sporting club will offer {
purse of $4,000 for the contest between
Corbett and Jackson. provided the
contest be decided during the presen'
year.