Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-19
A BoMaIexploded in front of the house

of Judge De Paix at Argenteuil, near
Versailles, France The building was
considerably damaged by the explosion.
which was undoubtedly due to venge-
ance upon the part of anarchists
The collector of customs at Tampa,
Fla, has been instructed to collect
duty on lottery tickets, which he has
heretofore admitted free. dutiable value
being fixed at the price of the ticket.
SENATOR WoLCOTT has introduced
OIL providing for the allotment in sew
crafty of lands in the Uncom pahgre
Indian reservation in Utah and the
remainder of the lands to settlement
The postmaster-general says that
hereafter only short names, or names
OF one word only, will be accepted for
newly established post Offices
POLICE of Rome have unearthed an.
other dynamite conspiracy.
CHARLES GUsTAvoN. a grave-digger,
Chicago, fell dead from heart disease
in a half-made grave His body lay an
hour before being discovered
NEAR Collisburg, Tex, Frank Crews.
q farm hand, shot and mortally wound
ed his employer. Thomas Murrell. with
out warning. Mrs Murrell rushed to
cut her throat, killing her instantly.
The murderer escaped.
THE old guard house in the United
States jail yard at Fort Smith, Ark.
has been destroyed by fire. The build
ing is noted as having held many
famous union and confederate prison
ers during the late war, according as it
was in the hands of one or the other
armies Incendiarism was the cause.
The New Albany Qnd.) presbytery,
which has just adjourned. took action
in the Neutrality-suspicious. scandal
and adopted resolutions to be presented
at the general assembly, which meets
at Saratoga next May, asking that men
of dissolute and immoral habits be ex-
cluded from the national councils
THE Latter Day Saints conference
at Lamont, Ia, reported Sunday
school membership of 7.1S3 and the
number of schools as 153, a gain in
schools of 3S and in membership of
1,S76, all this during the past year.
AN investigation into the explosion
of bomb in front of the house of the
justice of the peace at Argenteuil,
France, shows that it was not the
work of anarchists as at first supposed,
but that it was the result of practical
joke upon the part of the Justices son.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April 13 showed an average de-
crease as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of 20. z; in New
York the decrease was 91.0; outside,
21.1.
The general council of the United
Mine Workers of Ala bama, has ordered
general strike against proposed re-
duction in wages.
BRADsTREET's Trade Review for the
week ended the 18th said that western
cities reports of more favorable bust
ness formed the exception. Prices
of wheat, iron, steel, cattle, corn
and cotton were all lower. Oats
and lard had advanced 4 cent.
pork so cents. The industrial situa-
ton was more complicated and less en-
couraging. There were fifty-six strikes
in force throughout the country involv-
ing about SIS. 600 people.
Two hundred Slavs have left Pitts
burgh. Pa, for the cotton plantations
of Texas. They are fast taking the
place of the negro.
RESIDENTS of northern and central
Wyoming have asked that additional
troops be stationed at Fort Washakie
as the Indians are threatening.
A DISPATCH from Great Falls, Mont.
of the 18th stated that promptly at
noon the Great Northern employees
struck. The mail will be allowed to
run. but no passenger coaches.
Police of Paris discovered twelve tin
boxes filed with dangerous explosives
near0Aubervilliers north of the French
capital.
THE schooner Jennie NJ Carter, from
Sullivan, Me-, for Philadelphia, with a
cargo of paving stones, went ashore
at Newburyport, Mass, without soul
aboard and it was believed the entire
crew had persisted.
A GIGANTIC scheme for the develop
ment of the gold belt by an extension
of the well known Silver Cord tunnel
entirely through the hills to Big Evans
gulch is under consideration at Lead
vile, Col