Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-16
THE WEST.

A TERRIBLE wind storm ragged at CAIRO,
ILL.,, on the 9TH, which did great damage in
the city. The greatest damage was done
on the river. A barge containing 10000
bushels of coal was broken and sunk In
three fathoms of water.
BEN F. SMALLwooD has been elected
Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation by
majority of ninety eight votes.
HEAVY rains, accompanied with severe
lightning, did much damage in Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska in the three days
ended August 7.
ABOUT $50 Italians quit work the
Mahoning grade near Findlay, o., on the
9th. Their places were Immediately filled
by Americans. Many of the Italians were
left destitute and threatened vengeance on
the contractors.
SIX men on the Pennsylvania road near
Altoona, Pa, were recently engaged upon
a light trestle when a heavy car of bridge
stone in running a flying switch became
uncomfortable and left the rails where the
bridge began and landed upon the trestle,
throwing the workers into the river fifty
feet below. Two of them were fatally
hurt and three crippled for life.
VoGEsoN & KEEPS -four mill, Evansville,
Ind, was destroyed by fire the other night
Loss, $4,000.
CHARLES LEES planning mill and other
property was destroyed by fire at East
Saginaw, Mich, on the Sth- Loss, $780, 200.
PROSECUTORS in the bowlder country
above Livingston, Mont, have found what
is said to be the richest find of gold ever
made.
ANDREW SALINE, a ranchman near Fort
Lewis, Col, and the sixteen-year- son
of William Roberts, a neighbor, were
found burned to death the other day, their
place having caught fire at night.
THE third annual convention of miners
and mine laborers began at Cleveland, o.,
on the Sth. National District Master
Workman Lewis in his address defended
strikes.
THE trouble with the Apaches on the
San Carlos reservation in Arizona is ended
and no further difficulties are expected.
THE brakemen on the Duluth (Minn.) &
Iron Range railroad. who have been get
ting $50 per month, are on strike for $65,
stopping the fifteen ore trains run between
the mines and its two harbors.
A MIXED train on the Fairfield branch of
the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st. Louis &
Chicago railway, was thrown from the
track, near Morgantown, Ind, recently by
a broken rail. The conductor and several
passengers were seriously injured.
THE death of man named Hopp at Bat
tie Greek, Mich, recently gave rise to ru-
mors of Asiatic cholera. An investigation
was being made.
E. II. STEELE, formerly proprietor of the
Big Boston clothing store at Minneapolis,
Mimi, has assigned, with liabilities in the
neighborhood of $150,000.
INDIANA Republicans on the 9Th nomi
mated General Alvin P. Hovey for Govern
or. The nominee was born at MountV ernon,
Posey County, Ind, September 6, 1921,
and served with distinction in the civil war.
THOMAS HAINES, defaulting cashier of
the Atlantic & North Carolina railway, has
been arrested in Chicago. The amount of
his theft is unknown.
JEALOUSY caused Shelby F. Parke, a
wealthy citizen of Perryville, Ind, to
shoot and kill DR.. H. H. Peyton recently.
THE Michigan Assembly of the Knights
of Labor have declared strongly for Henry
Georges land tax theory.
THE cattle south of Decatur, ILL.,, have
been quarantined because of an outbreak
of Texas fever.
Chickasaw Indians, has been reelected
over William Bird, a full blood. The
adopted citizens supported Guy.
THE old crucible steel works of the Cleve-
land CO., Steel Company were started up
on the 9th under new management for the
first time. An hour later the place was in
ashes, sparks having ignited the walls.
BY a collision between two trains at
Darling, O., on the 9th, one engine and
several cars were ruined, but no one was
hurt.
THE Locomotive Brotherhood met at st.
Louis on the 9th to consider the Burlin gton
strike.