Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-31

Esd caused $50. 900 damage all told. A
negro was arrested on suspicion.
OK the Upper Ottawa river, near Penn
broke, Ont, some miscreant recently
cut the ropes mooring raft of timber,
on which twenty-five men were asleep.
The raft consequently was wrecked in
the rapids and twenty Of the sleeping
men were drowned, only two succeeding
in reaching the shore.
AT yacht race at Duluth, Mimi, re-
Gently one of the boats capsized in q
squan- Charles Lindaer, the owner,
and another man were drowned.
THE American schooner William Rice
with crew of sixteen men has been
lost at sea-
THE steamer Egypt, of the National
line, took fire on the Atlantic recently
and was abandoned. The crew and
passengers were rescued by . passing
vessel.
FIRE in Fairville, N. Y, destroyed
the opera house and number of small
stores The loss was $55, 600; insurance,
$25, 600.
Two men were killed and several
barns and fire alarm boxes and tele-
phones in Sheboygan, Wis, burned by
lightning recently.
SECRETARY HARRIS, of the North Da-
kota Railroad Commission, denounces
as false the report that North Dakota
elevators will refuse to store grain this
year.
THE Secretary OF the Treasury has
purchased So, $50, 600 per cents at prices
ranging from 1924 @124, and 1892 500
AIS at 1O314@1O312.
A MYSTERIOUS explosion occurred in
Billiards. boarding house at Savannah,
| Ga, the other night The house col
lapsed and three persons were killed
@nd six in jured.
Two men were blown to pieces by an
explosion in the corning mill of the Laf-
lin & Rand powder works near Paterson,
N. j.
The Government inspectors have Sc
cured the names of 214 persons who
were on board the i'll fated steamer Sea
Wing, which was wrecked on Lake
Pepin. The steamer and barge were
allowed by law to carry only IT'S persons.
The penalty for violating the law is
severe.
printing houses in the country has been
formed and will be controlled by Hynes,
Ketchum & Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mont. by the fling of the will of the
late Judge A. j. Davis. The document,
which was dated in Iowa in 1886, makes
his brother John Davis sole heir. An
nuities are also given to two illegitimate
children. The estate is valued at &c.
900, 600.
A HORRIBLE case of cannibalism is re-
ported from Cairo, Egypt. A negress
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with sudden recurrence of savage in
stincts, killed two children of her en-
ployer and devoured their bodies.
A TERRIFIC thunder storm is reported
from jackson valley, Nevada Rocks
were upheaved. sand thrown hundred
feet in the air, trees torn up and the
ground rent ten feet deep. Two Piute
Indians and several animals are re-
ported to have been killed. The thun-
dercloud was about an acre in area.
THE crops throughout France, except
in one section east of the Rhone, have
been destroyed by incessant rains.
Official reports from the great wheat
district of LaBasque state that the crop
is rotting. The losses are estimated at
500, 600, 900 francs
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended July "a num-
bered 1919, compared with 2O7 the pHevi-
Gus week and 216 the corresponding
week of last year. Business was re-
ported improving.
IT is officially stated that seventy fatal
cases of Asiatic cholera have occurred
in Baku, Russia, and vicinity. The heat
in the vicinity is intense.
BRAKEMAN WILLIAM HIBLER was
killed near Bloomington, Ind, recently.
Conductor Arnold of the train has been
arrested on a charge of having thrown
Hibler from the train.
A BAND of Arnadts recently made a
| night attack upon the Montenegrin vii
lage Rogmore, many persons being MUIR
| dered- The Arnauts plundered the viii
1age and then.1eft. .Afterward the band
| was attacked by Turkish troops and
sixty Arnauts were killed and many
others wounded.