Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

troit, Mich, has been arrested on the
charge of having stolen SIS, 723 from
that city's treasury.
THE immense lumber plant of the
Foster Lumber Co, at Kildare, Ok, was
destroyed by fire on the 22d. Loss,
$40. 600. The fire was ineendiary.
A SENSATION has been caused at the
army post situated on Angel island,
Cal. by the discovery that a large
quantity of gunpower and coal oil,
which was stored on the bluffs at some
distance fronDthe barracks, had been
removed. 1t is thought that both citi-
zens and soldiers are concerned in the
robbery.O
Gov. WAITE, of Colorado issued an
address coulp1imenting the national
guards for their conduct on the 18th
and 18th at Denver and Cripple Creek.
AFTER a hearing which lasted nearly
eight hours Judge Chetlain decided
that he had the power to prolong the
date of the execution of Prendergast,
the murderer of @Mayor Harrison, of
Chicago. and he therefore extended the
time two weeks. and ordered a trialto
begin on the 24th to determine she
sanity of the murderer.
THE fifth international penitentiary
congress is to meet at Paris in June,
1895, and the United States govern
ment has been invited to participate
by sending delegates thereto and by
causing reports. statistics and docu-
ments to be contributed for embodi-
ment in its proceedings. The attorney
general has referred the matter to con-
gress
THE Chinese customs authorities have
finally granted a permit allowing the
tank steamer which arrived in Shang-
hal several days ago loaded with petro-
leum to discharge her cargo.
TEN families on Lord billions Tough
Glynn estate near Castle Reagh, Ire
land, have been evicted
The stonecutters of the city of Mil
vaukee are on a strike for the enforce
nent of the eight-hour rule and an adj
vance in pay. They now receive IS. 25.
They demand "a a day.
The students of Buda Pesth. adj
mirers of Louis Kossuth, the dead Hun
garian patriot, broke the windows
of houses not having marks of mourn.
hoisted mourning banners over the
boxes The police and military were
necessary to bring about order.
FAILURES for the week ended the
23d were pa in the nited States
against GIT last year; in Canada, so
against 20 last year.
DUN's Review of the 23d said that
business grows larger, but not more
profitable Prices of commodities dc
not rise, but on the whole are lower.
The demand for cotton goods was fair
1y large. Wheat, cotton and pork had
declined a little. Corn was a cent
stronger. Cattle were low.
THE dynamite works of the Acme
Powder Co. at Black Run, Pa, were
destroyed by an explosion. Five per
sons were killed and one badly injured
! ArTY-GEN. OLNEY submitted to the
secretary of the interior an opinion or
the Cherokee bond contract. He sus
tains the latter's decision that the
| Cherokee nation has right to assign
the So, $40, 900 bonds to EFT. Wilson &
! Co., of New York city. The contract
accordingly will be recognized by the
| department.
BUFF HIGGINS, the murderer o
Peter McCooey, was hanged at Chicago
on the Esd.
The board of audit gave out officially
Oh the 23d that John Y. McKane's &C
| count with Gravesend, n. Y, was 81
muddled that he apparently owed th'
town $500, O0O
A, STRIKE was inaugurated on the
lines of the Robinson Electric Stree
railway at Toledo, o., on. the 22d, IL
motor men and conductors refusing t.
| take oGt their cars, pending the rein
statement of four men4lleged to haIs
been discharged for unionism. TIL
wires were cut in many places.
BILL GALLAGHER, a cowboy, was shO
and killed at Meeteeze, Wyo., by job
Witham, another cowboy, whom he al
tempted to shoot for interceding for
woman whom Gallagher was beating
JUSTICE O'BRIEN. OF the suprem
court, has denied the application for
writ of habeas corpus in the case c
John Y. McKane. In his remarks Ju:
tice O'Brlen scored McKane's lawyer
for their repeated appeals to the sam
Judge.