Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-10-04

IT was stated on the authority of s.
man high in the councils of the admin
istratiOn that Mr.. Lyman would retire
from the civil service commission in
few days. Mr.. Lyman was one of the
original members of the commission.
GENERAL NEWS.
Mrs. NANCY WILSON. with lamp in
hand, went to look at her sleeping
grandchildren in their crib on the night
of the Both at Blocton. Ala, and the
lamp ignited mosquito bar hanging
over the bed, and the bar fell burning
on her and the children. James Dever-
eauX, her son-in-law, went to the as
sistance of the group and was badly
burned, possibly fatally. Mrs. Wilson
inhaled flame and died soon after
wards. Her 2-year-old grandchild was
also burned to DEATH
A FEW of the veterans at the Sol
diers' home at Dayton, o., visited the
dives in the vicinity of the institution
on the goth, having been paid their
pension money the previous day. The
next morning three of the old soldiers
were found robbed and murdered and
their bodies lying in the road. The
detectives have fifty suspects locked
up.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended September % showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 10;
in New York the increase was So; out
side New York the increase was 100.
BRADsTREET's weekly report of trade
said that there had been reaction in
the volume of general trade through
out the country. Wheat, corn and oats
have all declined and the low price of
cotton had had an unfavorable infiu-
ence on business. The distribution of
dry goods from eastern points had de-
clined on aslackening demand.
NEWS has been received from Costa
Rica of an anarchists attempt to as
sassinate President Yglesias during the
military review in San Jose. Five shots
were fred
THE governor of Oklahoma has
caused the arrest of number of squat
ters in the Cherokee strip who had To-
Gated on school lands and would not
get out.
PRINCETON undergraduates voted in
body to abolish hazing.
In Nanaimo, B. c., two men were
burned to death, two other men and
little girl were badly injured and $780,
600 worth of property destroyed by fire
on the 2Sth.
A DISPATCH of the 2sth from st.
Petersburg said the condition of the
car was considerably worse. The
kidney Inflammation from which he was
suffering was much increased. Prof
Layden, the celebrated specialist in
internal complaints has been sum-
moned from Berlin.
STEVE O'DoNNEI.L has issued a chal-
1enge to Bob Fitzsimmons to fight.
A RECENT special dispatch from
Shanghai said that Ii Hung Chang
would shortly be superseded as viceroy
by WI Ia Change, late governor of HUI
Peh; Lord Ii, late Chinese minister to
Japan, had been degraded; Yu Lu, the
military governor of Mukden was to
succeed Ii Hung Chang as superin-
tendent of the northern trade, and that
the massacre of foreigners at Pekin
was regarded as imminent.
RECENT dispatches from Bay ST. Paul,
on the north shore of the st. Lawrence
river, Canada. reported light earth
quake shock lasting about thirty sec
onds
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, was cut off from
communication with south Florida on
the 27th by the storm which occurred
in the country down south, all the
wires being down and no trains arriv-
ing there. There were rumors that the
ancient city of st. Augustine had SUI
fered severely. The orange crop YVES
greatly damaged. At Jacksonville the
new union depot was wrecked.
SENATOR DAVID b. HILL was nomi-
mated amidst intense enthusiasm by
the democrats assembled in convention
at Saratoga, n. Y, for the governor
ship of the empire state over his de-
clination.