Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-09

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attempted inceEdiarism. The insur-
ance companies a1lege that there have
been within a few years no less than
twenty-six fires in the property owned
by the family of which Mrs. Taylor is
a member.
THE striking miners at Starkvil1e,
Col, held meeting on the Sd, and by
a unanimous vote decided to return to
work. It was expected the mines at
that place would be opened with a full
force On the 9Th.
A FIRE in Lal<eview, Mich, burned
all the buildings on both sides of Main
street. Thirty-fve buildings were con-
sumed, comprising the principal part
of the business portion and including
both hotels, the post Office, dry goods
store, a general store and two drug
stores. Loss, $3.50, 900; insurance I'M
known.
THE Chinese were put to rout in
battle with Japanese at Shang Yeng
and a large number of prisoners and
munitions of war were captured The
Japanese loss is reported as 1000.
THERE was c1oudburst in the hills
above Berwind, Col, recently and the
water came down the canyon leading
to that place in such a volume that a
party of five persons, who were caught,
were swept away and drowned.
DUN's report of trade says that the
settlement of the tariff question one
way or the other will make an impor-
tant change in the state of business.
So much business has been deferred
ard stocks have been so reduced that
large preparations are being made for
an increased activity. Wool has ad-
vanced. The injury to crops by hot
winds will affect all interests. Iron
manufacture is hindered by trouble in
the coke region.
FIRE at Marion, Ia, on the Sd de-
stroyed S125,0O0 worth of property in
the business part of the town. An en-
tire block of the buildings burned be-
fore the flames could be checked. 1t
originated in the gas and electric light
works and was followed by an explo-
sion. Loss, $40, 900, with insurance of
So, 500. The aggregate insurance is
about $50, O0O
THE jury in the case of Cesario, the
assassin of President Carnot, of France,
brought in a verdict of guilty and the
presiding judge sentenced the prisoner
to be guillotined. When the death sem
tence was uttered Csesario exclaimed:
''Long live the social revolution!'
News of the Wellman polar expedi-
ton has been received at Tromsoe,
Norway. Soon after leaving Danes
island the Ragnvald-Jarl encountered
great field of pack ice and the vessel
| was hemmed in and crushed to pieces.
Arthur Wellman, undaunted by the
loss of the vessel, resolutely set out in
a northern direction on his search for
the pole.
SAMUEL B. FOSTER, attorney for the
| railroads, fled additional claims for
damages growing out of the strike at
Chicago on the I'd. The amount was
$500. Mr.. Foster stated that within
the next thirty days claims would be
fled against the city and county for
s.. ZOO, 900 damages.
In st. Paul, Mimi, the Omaha car
shops opened on the I'd for work with
eighty-five men, and will soon have a
full force at work. All the A. R. u.
men were anxious to get back, but the
company is taking in only such as they
see fit. This ends all signs of the strike
on the Omaha line there.
| ANOTHER fire broke out at Minneap-
oils, Mimi, on the Sd. 1t was believed
| to have been incendiary- It occurred
in the warehouse of the Nelson Paper
Co., and the nearest fire alarm box was
found to be plugged up tight. The
warehouse full of paper burned, to-
gether with a quantity of dry mill
wood. Loss 5000, insurance s., 900.
CHRIS EVANS was killed by his II
| year-old son, Bud, in Hamblen county,
near Bulls Gap, Tex. Evans was
drunk and had shot the boy with a
| Winchester rife.
THE Pullman works at Chicago were
started on the I'd quietly and without
demonstration on the part of the ex-
employees. But $50 men reported for
work, although the company expected
800. About 1000 strikers gathered
about the buildings and good-natured-
ly chaffed the returning workmen, but
no attempt at violence was made. A
heavy detail of police was on hand and
remained at the works all day on guard.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
A FIRE broke out on the United States
man-of-war Marion at Mare Island
Cal, and it was three hours before the
flames could be eXtinguished. Dam.
age, only s., 200.
The tariff conferees agreed on the
5th that report should be made one
way or the other within seventytwo
hours. The discussion was on the
sugar, coal and iron schedules.
Two men at Brazil, Ind, were at
tackled by strikers and horribly beaten
and stabbed because they were scabs
who had gone to work in the place Oh
strikers.
THE discovery of fire in the grand
stand at the West Side Ball park al
Chicago on the 5th caused wild panic
among the spectators, in which several
met serious injury and number OF
others were cut and bruised.
THE large livery barn of c. NJ. Klots-
bach at Madison, S. D., containing
thirty-fve horses, fifteen carriages and
buggies, was burned. Two men sleep.
ing in the Office were suffocated and
burned to death.
THE monte de piete or national
pawnship, at Roubaix, department of
Nord, France, was destroyed by fire.
The damage amounts to 1000, OOG