Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

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A DECREE was promulgated in Portu-
gal reducing the import duty on wheat
to z reis per kilogram.
DURING a storm at st. Mary's, O., the
chain works of the Bimel Standish
Manufacturing Co., was struck and
seventy of the employees were knocked
speechless by the shock and some were
seriously stunned. The lightning set
tinguished.
blown to pieces by an explosion Of
dynamite at Washington, Pa.
CHARLES LIVERPOOL. of Washington,
one of the crew of the United States
survey steamer Endeavor, was drowned
in the harbor at Nantucket Mass,
while bathing by the steamer. He
ance could reach him was dead
THE wife of Hon. NJ. Stuart. vice
president of the Ohio bar association,
killed herself with corrosive sublima ate
recently.
CANADIAN gulf fisheries are reported
a failure this year owing to the ravages
of Ia grippe among the fishermen.
A SPECIAL to Denver, Col, from Fort
Collins says: A severe hailstorm has
visited this section, completely destroy
ing the wheat and other crops in a strip
of country of six miles wide by twenty
long. The loss to the farmers will be
in the neighborhood of $3.50, 600.
LYNN. Mass, was visited by a serious
fire on the night of the 18th, breaking
out in the Blake block. The loss was
$500. 600.
THE First National bank of Palatka,
Fla, has suspended
THE city of Santiago, Chill, has just
been visited with the severest fire ever
known in South America, the loss being
estimated at more than 81, O0O, 900. The
British legation was completely con-
sumed.
A TERRIBLE wreck was reported on
the Chicago & Erie on the nth near
Kenton, o. Swift's refrigerator train
ran into a work train, killing nine la
borers and injuring many more.
CHIN Hop SING, a leper, has been
found in laundry in New York.
THE Navajo trouble at Flagstaff.
Ariz., has ended. The Indian chief ar
rested on a charge of horse thieving
was discharged on insufficient evidence.
The postal subsidies bill is expected
to cost the government So, 795, 900 an
nually.
GREAT damage has been done to
crops in three Minnesota counties by
hail
SHANGHAI papers of June 30 an
nounce the murder CT an English Gus
toms house officer, A. w. Green, and
Mr.. Argent, a member of the Method
ist mission, by Chinese rioters at Wuh-
su. A number of houses were burned
during the riot.
A WIDOW, Mrs Eliza Haiser, and her
little son and daughter, while driving
across the Panhandle railroad tracks at
Chicago were hurled into the air by
a north bound fast passenger train.
Mother and daughter were killed and
the boy probably fatally injured.
DURING a severe electric storm at
Clintonville, Wis, the house of Henry
Pantz was struck by lightning and both
he and his wife were killed.
NEARLY three miles of snow sheds on
the Central Pacific road burned recent
~. The fire is supposed to have origin
ated from sparks of locomotive.
The people of Knoxville, Tenn. have
voted to issue $500, 600 bonds for sewers
and bridges
THE miners at Girard, Ill, have struck
to force the company to pay their wages
weekly according to law.
NEARLY the entire business portion of
Glasgow, KY, was destroyed by fire
the other morning. Woods saddlery
shop, the newspaper Office, Moores &
Co.'s dry goods store. Jones' hall. the
post Office, the Gauley house and other
houses and several residences were
burned The loss will reach $50, 900.
THE surface of No. mine of the
Kingston Coal Co.. at Edwardsville,
Pa, caved in and a mum Der of houses
were wrecked The cave-in covers an
area of two acres. The mine was dam
aged to the extent of $40, 600. This is
the third cavern at that mine
A DISPATCH from St Petersburg says
that the preparations for giving an of
fetal reception to the French fleet un-
der the command of Adm. Gervais,
which is now on its way to Cronstadt,
have been completed.