Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-09-20
GENERAL NEWS.

n RECENT LONDON O1SpdCcn Sd1O CadC
a fleet of twenty-one Japanese trans
ports, conveying 10000 troops, sailed a
few days ago from Japanese port. It
is supposed it is the intention of the
japanese commander to land his forces
at some point on the Chinese coast.
The Chinese feet under the command
of Adm. Ting had sailed south for the
purpose of intercepting the Japanese.
Ten thousand people from all parts
of the state attended the Somerville,
n. j., fair on the 14th-the majority
drawn to see and hear Senator David
B. Hill. He made a bitter attack on
the income tax features of the Wilson
tariff bill.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
eipal cities of the United States for the
week ended September IA showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of rs;
in New York the increase was 30; out
side New York the increase was 15.1.
THERE were 223 failures reported by
Bradstreet throughout the United
States for the week ended September
IA, against 300 year ago.
BRADSTREET'S review of trade for the
week ended September IA said that
business was improving and the out
look was exceptionally bright. Colder
weather stimulated the sales in dry
goods, clothing and shoes. Live stock
at Kansas City and Omaha had weak
ened on account of heavy receipts of
common grades. Wheat, corn, oats,
pork and lard had advanced.
SENSATION was created in the order
of the Ladies of the G. A. r. on the
18th at Pittsburgh, Pa, by the an
nouncement that Past National Treas
urer Mrs. Grubb, of Camden, n. j., was
short in her accounts.
ROBERT j. again lowered the worlds
pacing record on the 18th. He went a
mile at Terre Haute, Ind, in 2:O115
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BUTLER has filed
in the district court at New Orleans
suit for the impeachment of Mayor
Fitzpatrick of that city.
A DISPATCH of the 18th said that
drought had brought an epidemic of
typhoid fever through all the upper
Miami valley. At Piqua, O., eleven
corpses were awaiting burial, most of
them from the prevalent fever. Deaths
were reported from all over Miami
county. Mrs. Emma Morgan died in
Troy, leaving the two Oldest of her
eight children i'll with the fever.
THE fourth annual convention of the
United Lumbermen'S association was
called to order in Denver, Col, on the
18th by President John w. Barry, of
Fairbury, Neb., with delegates from
fifteen states present.
News received from st. Petersburg
indicates that the cars illness is cere-
bral, complicated with an ailment of
the kidneys. Prayers for his recovery
have been ordered twice at court
ALIx trotted a mile at Terre Haute,
Ind, on the 18th in 2:O4, tying Nancy
Hanks.
THE eighth annual convention OF
the superintendent of American GENE
ferries began in Philadelphia on the
11th.
REPORT came from Perry, Ok, that
a gentleman of good reputation had an
interview with Bill Doolan, who has
been the leader of the Dalton gang for
years. near Ingalls, recently. Doolan
gave the man to understand that Bill
Dalton, whose death was heralded over
the couatry some months ago, was not
dead. but had left Oklahoma and the
Indian territory for a more congenial
CLINE. Doolan said Bill Dalton had
gone away and was now living a quiet
and peaceable life, and that his reputed
death was all a ruse to put the officers
off their guard till he could get away
and keep from being hunted