Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-12-27


corresponding week last year of S-4;
in New York the increase was S. g: out
side New York the increase was 80.
THE Lexow investigating committee
at New York is still unearthing things
of a sensational character, showing
that the entire police system of that
city is rotten to the core; that black
mail, bribery, extortion and corruption
are common crimes in the department
and that high officials are implicated.
THE officers of the Indiana grand
lodge of the Knights of Pythias say
that steps will soon be taken to enjoin
the Improved Order of Knights of
Pythias,'' which was recently organ
lied, from using the words knights
of Pythias'' in their name. 1t is
claimed that by the act of congress
under which the Knights of Pythias
was incorporated other orders are for
hidden to use these words.
THE Portuguese government has do
cided to construct a navy, and with
this object in view 5000, 900 yearly will
be provided for twenty years. Tenders
will be invited from ship builders in
the United States and other countries.
A MOST successful rabbit hunt took
place on the Goth at Lamar, Col. About
100 hunters came in on the night train
and left early in the morning for the
haunts of the jack rabbits, About l.
900 were killed.
THE public schools of Smithville,
Ind, have been closed because of
malignant diptheria.
OVER 1000 hungry women and chill
dren called on President Caceres, at
Lima, Peru, who ordered them to dis
P;otinor followed 1ocfinCr
| three hours. Many persons were killed
or wounded.
AT Lima, Peru, over 1000 hungry
women and children called on Presi-
dent Caceres, who ordered them to dis
perse. Rioting followed, lasting over
three hours. Many persons were killed
Or wounded.
JAMES ALLEN. colored, was riddled
with bullets by n mob, which went to
the house of James Clark, near Browns
vile, Tenn, and took him out. He
was tried in the criminal court for
completely in the burning of a barn on
the farm of Forney Jacocks, but was
acquitted Two others were convicted
and sentenced to two years each in the
penitentiary.
A DISPATCH from Massowah, Egypt,
announced that the Italian troops de-
feated the Arabs near Halai. It was
believed the victory would prevent
any further intrigues upon the part of
the Abyssinians.
THE long-contested patent suit of the
United States against the American
Bell Telephone Co. was decided at Bos-
ton on the 10Th against the telephone
company. The suit was a bill in equity
for the repeal of letters patent issued
to Emile Berliner for a combined te1e-
phone and telegraph system, assigned
to the Bell company, which they never
put in use and prevented others from
using. The value of the patent was
said to be S., 900, 600. Bell telephone
stock fell several points in consequence
of the decision.
CHARLES PETERSON shot his wife on
the goth, at New York, killing her, and
then killed himself. Jealousy for
which there appears to have been no
ground was the motive. Five young
children are left orphans by the tragedy.
ERAsTUs f. BEADLE, the publisher of
dime books, died on the 10Th at his
country house in Cooperstown, n. Y,
aged "a years.
ABOUT twenty-five delegates, repre-
senting as many lodges of the Knights
OF yCnlaS IneG dG buHdIO, N. L, ana
formed a new order to be known as
the Improved Order OF Knights of
Pythias.'' The convention was the
outgrowth of the German lodges OBJ
iecting to conduct their ritual in Eng
lish.
JOHN E. BIELBY, the cashier of the
Central national bank of Rome, n. Y,
confessed that he was a defaulter to
the amount of $27, 900. He specialized
in stocks and downward market
caught him
A FIRE at the Spring Hills, n. s., col
lieries threw out of work 400 men and
involved a property loss of about $780,
600. 1t was with the utmost difficulty
the fire was prevented from working
down into the mines.
REV. DIR. MCGLYNN, of New York, it
was stated, had made a complete re-
cantation of the doctrines which
brought on him the ban of excommuni-
cation from the Catholic church, and
Archbishop Corrigan will soon put him
in charge of a parish.
BY the explosion of boiler in Rus
sell Bros planning mill and box factory,
at West Bay City, Mich, five youths
were instantly killed and several others
injured. The explosion occurred while
the mill was shut down for noon and
the boys were in the engine room eat
ing lunch. All the bodies were terri
bly, mutilated.
EUGENE V. DEBs, president Of the
American Railway ,1niOO and his coll