Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

| The Hecla bronze and iron works a,
North Eleventh and Third streets, VIII
Harrisburg, Brooklyn, N. Y, have beer
almost completely burned out. It was
estimated the amount of property de
stroyed was $500, 600.
! ST. MARY's Roman Catholic Church
| at Quincy, Ill, has been DESTROYED by
fire. Loss, $4,000.
ALL the missing fishermen who were
carried out to sea by the breaking O.
the ice in Saginaw bay, Mich, are re.
ported safe at Fish Village, near Fish
Point There were many thrilling es
capes, but no lives were lost.
A miner named John Dueeman was
killed and two others badly injured by
an explosion at the Nelson collierv.
| at Shamolxin, Pa
THERE is a scandal over the magazine
gun affecting the English War Office.
The matter has attracted the attention
of Parliament.
EIGHTEEN lives were lost in HAYDEN
& Co.'S mine at Evansville, near Halle
ton, Pa, on the 4th, caused by water
breaking into the slope where they
were at work. The rest of the men es-
capped. On the same day three men lost
their lives in a similar way in colliery
No. of the Susquehanna Coal Com
pany at Grand Tunnel, near Wilkes,
barre
VEINS Of coal in the mountains near
Newcastle, Col, are on fire, causing
much alarm.
The recent campaign in the North.
west will cost the country about g., OOO.-
OOO
McELRoY's dry goods store at Detroit,
Mich, has been destroyed by fire. The
loss was SITS. 200; insurance, $4,000.
The creditors of Banker Kean, of
Chicago, have decided to accept thirty
five cents on the dollar
APPLICATIONS for injunctions against
twenty-five saloons have been filed bv
the State Temperance Alliance at Fort
Dodge, Ia Detectives have been at
work for weeks in gathering evidence.
PRIVATE letter from Winona, N.
d., gives news of the death of two SOL
diers by drowning in the Missouri river,
names unknown. They had been ca
rousing at Winona and were on their
return to Fort Yates and went through
an air hole in the ice.
The Pullman repair shops at ST. Louis
have been destroyed by fire. Loss,
1925, 900.
THERE was report of a serious dis
aster on the Cotton Belt road near
Clarendon, Ark, on the night of the
5th. Nine persons were said to be
killed
NINE children were burned to death
in fire at an orphan asylum at Mos
COW, Russia Many others were seri-
ously injured.
THERE is no doubt of Treasurer Wood
ruff, of Arkansas, being defaulter to
the amount of $96, 900.
JAY P. DAVIS, defaulting deputy clerk
of the district court at st. Paul, Mimi,
has been given six years in the ''pen.''
PASSENGER train No. 634 on the Lit
tie Rock & Fort Smith road was ditched
near Alma, Ark, every coach being
wrecked. Only three passengers were
injured Spreading rails was the
cause.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended February num-
bered 206, compared with 800 the pre-
vious week and 321 the corresponding
week of last year.
HARVEY REYNOLDS, the most noted
moonshiner of Alabama and Ten
nessee, has been captured at Birming-
ham.
EOUR hundred men were thrown out
of employment at Mahoney City, Pa. /,
by the shutting down of the Tunnel
Ridge colliery.
THREE bandits were killed by officers
on the steamer Iglesi at Havana. The
outlaws were endeavoring to escape at
the time.
THE long overdue steamer Denmark
has arrived at New York from Europe.
She had encountered a series of fierce
gales, in which one cattleman was
drowned and the vessel considerably
disabled.
STERNBERG's bolt works at Reading,
Pa, have been destroyed by fire. Loss,
$500, 600; fair insurance.
IT has been officially decided to com.
mence work on the Siberian railway at
Obdivostock this year.
TWENTY-FIVE men were recently
buried under an avalanche of snow at
Ruetta, a village of Switzerland.