Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-01

children were burned to death in a fire
at the West Street hotel at Seattle,
Wash, on the 27th. All were SO badly
burned that recognition was almost
impossible. The fire was caused by
the explosion of a lamp.
FIRE in the Southern railway freight
house at Asheville. n. c., destroyed
the buildings, together with four
loaded cars and four shantv cars All
freight in the building and every rec
ord was totally destroyed. The loss
was estimated at $50, 900; insured.
A FIRE completely Quilted the Myers
block, a fve-story building, corner
Broadway and Leonard street, n. Y.
The loss was estimated at $3.50, 900. The
building was occupied on three floors
by restaurant keepers.
THE wife of President Diaz, at Mexico
City, wrote letter to the proprietors
of the two cigarette factories, the 1000
girls in which struck against machines.
begging them to treat the strikers with
kindness. AS a result of this letter
nearly all of the girls have been taken
back to work and the strike was virtu-
ally at an end, being victory for the
girls
A MOTION to take up resolution in
Georgia legislature declaring it to be
the sense of the legislature that con-
gress should enact law for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver and
condemning the representatives in con-
gress who. voted for the repeal of the
Sherman act, was defeated by vote of
"a to 63.
AT Waltham, Mass, Tyler reduced
ho % fiu: r1Cr CfCT Ord fn d
3-5, Il 2-5 below the record recently
made by Zeigler in Sacramento, Cal.
AT Red Oak, Ia, on the 2Sth, the
barn belonging to n. Yeager, of Omaha,
was destroyed. It was used as winter
quarters for race horses in charge of j.
Tilden. The 3-year-old stallion Ant
werp, by Anteo, 2:16M, and Elgin Girl,
2:1915, valued at So, O00 were both
burned. A yearling colt by Redwald,
2:2315 was also lost. The fire was I'M
doubtedly of incendiary origin.
BICYCLIsT JOHN S. JOHNSON, at Buff
falo, n. Y. on the oath made mile in
the unparalleled time of 1885 2-5, al
most IA seconds faster than any rider
has ever covered the distance in the
world.
a STATEMENT, purporting to come
from Livadia by way of Paris, alleged
that the operation of thoracentesis has
been performed upon the car with
success. The releasing of liquid mat
ter by puncturing has greatly relieved
the patients breathing and the pres
sure around the heart.
A DISPATCH from London on the Goth
stated two more victories on Chinese
soil have been placed to the credit of
the japanese forces. The first was
merely a skirmish, the Chinese fleeing
from their earthworks to batteries
lower down the river Yalu, throwing
away their arms in their flight. The
| second encounter was sharp and rather
bloody, the Chinese finally retiring in
disorder.
THE Farmers and Mechanics bank
at Malvern, Ia, was visited by burglars
recently and So, 900 in cash was stolen.
| Nitro-glycerine was used in opening
the vault, but the thieves did not thor
oughly understand its use and the build
ing was practically blown to pieces and
! the money and other contents sent
| crashing into the street. The eXplo-
| sion aroused the whole neigh borhOod.
IT was reported that Chancellor Won
Caprivi had rendered his resignation as
chancellor of the German empire and
| CndU IL ndO Doon accepted.
JUDGE BROWN, at Indianapolis, Ind,
sustained the grand lodge, knights of
Pythias- in it's suit against Koerner
lodge for property. Koerner lodge
was sued because the supreme lodge,
having ruled out the German ritual, it
surrendered its charter, but held its
property. The ruling was in favor of
the grand lodge. The case was test
and was regarded as important in that
it will be followed by other suits
throughout the United States. An APP
peal will be taken.
| HENRY Billings, Jack Billings,
| Spruce Billings and Jesse Street, mem
bers of gang of whitecarpers who
| have committed many outrageS in Tip
| ton county, Tenn, were found guilty
| at Covington and given long terms in
the penitentiary.
IN Chicago one of the large ware
houses of the William Deering reaper
works has burned. Loss, 500, 900; in
Sured.
THE joint congress of the American
Secular union and of the Free Thought
Federation of America convened at
Chicago on the Goth.
ST. PETERSBURG police have seized a
number of nihilist proc1ama tions
which have been secretly circulated
and have arrested a number of young
men on the charge of distributing them
in various quarters of that city.
A DISPATCH from IronwoOd, Mich.
said that what may prove to be the
| worst accident in the history of the