Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-01-12
FIRES.

Jan 26-BusineSs block in Columbus, o.; $780,
| 900. Central part of Beverly, w. Va, includ
Feb. Sire in business portion of Memphis.
Tenn; 81, 0oo,o0o.
Feb 17-Severa. business houses in New Or
Feb 1S-F NJ. McGillin Compapy's dry goods
| emporium at Cleveland o.: s5Jo.oJo
| Feb 27-F'ire originating in Smith, Gray &
| IS clothing establishment at Brooklyn, n. Y,
caused loss OF SS0.0J0
eahs and baes OF OF eotton e~
Apr. 19-Eight blocks of buildings in kenosha,
| Apr 2l-Malt house of Henry Alterbrand &
| Co, at Brooklyn, N Y; 500, e0a
Phiiadelphia destroyed property valued at
| 81, 600, o00 60 persons injured.
! May 10-Lumber yard and sixteen buildings
May Fulfilling and elevator interests at Os-
! My 3o-Fniton iron works Hammond car
works and Van brakes brass founiry. at San
Of n9qssS 1n IN nage
caster, Pa. lost by tire: s112,00o
| Creole Camp, Col, destroyed: SI.OoJ 900.
June l3-Over 100 buildings at Ch;eora, Pa
out - wharves and freight houses Of Bay Line
| Steamboat Co. two scho9ners, offices of Corner
anS 1eeef of IS
business places at San jose Cal; s50,00l -. b.
/ B. q r Knight siorehouse at River Point, r.
July 5-Forty-one buildings at Rockland.
July 6--I4arge portion of Shoshone, Idado.
July 7-Au out enc business house and sew
| IL
part of Arcola. Miss.
July a5--Over IS blocks of Day City, Mich.
| completely destroyed; 81 O00.0J1
| Aug. 14-Entire town of Red Mountain, Col,
| dest royed by incendiar:es.
Aug. 27oMetropolitan opera house in New
Sen. s-Acadeny of Music at Cleveland, O.,
| totally destroyed
| Sep. IO-Twenty-four miles of snow sheds on
| the Central Pacific line, in Colorado
other property destroyed at Albany, N. Y;
/
buildings: IS sOo,O 600.
- Nov: 55-oT1wenty-two buildings in Brooklyn,
Nov. thinning village of Federal. near Pitts
NOV umber Panng
plant at t. Arkansas City, Ark, burned; $500 900
at NeM York aHs OF
s Noy - Elegant and costly summer resi-
I. with h contents lts s4oSoSo UNI ->e"''' ~
Dec 81 & G Rio Grand s,6 sailway round
Dec 1s"siG large warehouses; and IL. ooo bales
| of cotton des troyed at Baltimore; s500.0jJ
n Dee S v an 81 Inc LINES at Ma6aTh Ind
| Dec. 1o-FIre originating in Udell Wooden
ware Cos building in St Louis caused loss of
Dec. a4--Business section of Slater, Mo-,
Dec. EVERY business house except one, in
| $4,000. .Incendiary fires in milwaukee, de-
| stroyed tanneries Of William Becker Leather
nd
Disastrous fires occurred in the following
%sg a saS m Ia oSo
City 81 81 Milan i;d Mo; Jeanetse Pa ~, Wood
B B{1 Ind md: LTaeeyxllls, Wyo:; Mount
Mimi GAINESVILLE, Ark: St. Charles, Mo;
Fremont, Col; Henrietta, Tex; Chase Mich;
1 Tchu!a' Mss; hudson o.: Fall Riyer,
Troy, W: Va; Bethany Mo; Biwabec. MINI:
North English, Ia: Dane Station Wis: Cakes
dale, Wash; Bode, New: Sisson, Cal: Alh
va. o. Likoa. Wash; Mason City, la: Howard,
S. D.; Fort Bragg, Col; Runnello, Ia: North
Cal; Salix. Ia: Blueford, Ill: Hill City, S. D.:
| kingsbury, Cal; Randolph, Wis; Plain City,
| ton, Tex; Eldorado Springs, Mo: Winston N.
G Clyde, Mo: ::Gowrie Ia; Cumberland Cap
Sumter, S. c.
FOREIGN.
| Jan 7-Khedive of Egypt, Tewik Pasha
Jan 13~CardinaI Manning died in London:
! aged "a. Albert Victor, heir -presumptive to
the throne of England, died in London.
Jan 2i-John Couch Adams, F. r. $, a we'll
| known astronomer, died in London: aged IS.
, IAN Fifty persons killed or Injured by
Jan 3l-Rev. Charles Haddol Spurgeon. the
distinguished Baptist minister, died at Men
| Feb. 3-Temperature In Russia's famine dig
| tricts registered 30 and 40 degrees below zero
Many freezing to death.
Baltimore affair OF October 16, 1891, were SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for 40. $40 and 920 days
| respectively at Valparaiso, Chilli, by Judge of
Crimes Foster
Feb. 9-English parliament reopened and
Feb. 10-Sir James Card, K c. B., +. R. -,
died in London: aged IS
Fob Ir1l,a hi
| to be dying by hundreds from typhus fever, and
supplies sent thither could not be distributed
Fl, Feb ls-seven Seventy men men killed killed in expo,
| resigned because of action of chamber OF depu.
ties the bill dealing with church associations.
Feb 2o-Four thousand unemployed men in
! Berlin marching make demonstration be
fore emperor's palace, were routed by police, go
Feb 26-Berlin rioters gathered again. and
sacked several buildings before they were dis
Mar. 5-Barrios elected president OF Guat-
| emala.
| Mar. u-One hundred and ffty-three miners
| killed a the Asderlais (BelgiuIn) colliery.
Mar. @-Dynamite explosion, caused By
| Lyonnals, large banking Institution in Paris.
Mar: 3o,F1re raging at Mandelay, capital of
and over 200 persons lost their lives.
Apr 9-Oxford won in annual boat race with
Apr l5-Amelia B. Edwards, well-known nov
elist and lecturer, died in London.
ed to have foundered in Caspian sea: PSI pas
sengerS drowned. -. Terrible hurricane passed
over central New Zealand. doing great damage;
several persons killed. City of Bolivia Vene-
zuela, captured by Insurgents AMI death OF San
tiago Ro lii occurred
May 19-Hurricane in Isle of Mauritius in In
dian ocean DESTROYED portion of Port Louis,
capital city, and 200 persons crushed TO death
80. Three villages in Russia totally destroyed
by earthquake: - persons killed
Nav 20-Spain removes its prohibition against
American pork. Nineteen persons killed by
explosion in dynamite factory in Galdoncano,
Spain.
May :6-Pecher & Co., bankers at Antwerp,
failed for 81 .j0.OOl
May So-F'ire at Grinigar. India, 1000 houses:
cholera epidemic i'll same place caused 1000
de tbs in = week.
June lover 400 miners persisted in disaster
at Berkenhead silver mine at Przibram, Bo-
hernia
June Eruption of Gunong Aroo on the
Great Sangir islands, in the China sea, the most
destructive VOLCANOES of modern times buried
10000 people in the lava and ashes.
! June S-New Oriental bank OF London failed
for about e15.0O0.0J0 &c 600 O00 paid-up capital.
June 20 Hundreds Of persons dying daily in
Russia finn cholera.
Jul. s-Haif the city of ST Johns, n. F. de
stroyed By fire. entaling loss of S15. 900 001 and
at least % lives
Aug. 4-Rt Hon. Arthur Wellesley elected
speaker of new British parliament. -RzecZe a
Russian town fired from four corners and COM
pletely destroyed. IL persons being killed
-. n 49,