Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-06-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
FIRE broke out in the Mary Lee mine,
10 miles from Birmingham, Ala, cut
ting off fifty men who were working
in the rear part of the mine. The i'm
prisoned men made dash for the open
ing, rushing through smoke and flame.
-Four of the number were taken out
dead. The others escaped, several of
whom were badly burned.
A DISPATCH from Oran, Algeria, says
that a severe earthquake occurred there
on the night of the goth. The popu-
lace was badly frightened and spent
the remainder of the night in the open
spaces.
CROPS were ruined in strip several
miles wide and long near Pierre, N. D.,
on the 10Th by cyclone. No persons
were seriously injured, but several
houses were blown down and other
damage done.
AT Saginaw, Mich, Newell B. Par
sons, late confidential clerk for Wells,
Stone & Co., who was convicted of
stealing 1868, 200 worth of railroad
bonds from his employers, has been
sentenced to five years in state prison.
THE sealer schooner Unga is lost and
all hands are drowned, is theannounce-
Japan. Like the Matthew Turner and
the Mascot the vessel capsized in
typhoon and all hands were lost. The
Sophie Sutherland sighted the over
turned vessel off the Japan coast.
THE Italians and Huns were running
things at the mines round Walston and
Punxsautawney Pa, to suit themselves
on the 21st. The citizens feared that
there would be an attack ON the En-
disappearing miners and their fam
lilies. There was great excitement and
troops were expected.
THE board of regents of the Okla
bona Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege has elected to the presidency of
the institution Maj. Afford, of Wash
ington, formerly president of the
Maryland Agricultural college.
Two thousand Gogebic miners, COM
prising all the forces at the Norrie,
Aurora, Pabst, Newport and East Nor
RE, Mich, mines, have gone out on a
strike.
FIRE broke out at the Agnes cabinet
factory in London, Eng. The flames,
assisted by fierce wind, spread furi-
ously, and within an hour eight or ten
other factories were burning. Alto
| gether twenty buildings were Quilted,
| and many others were damaged by fire
and water. The estimated damage is
100000
! A BIRMINGHAM, Ala, special of the
21st said the fire in the Mary Lee mine
was still burning in spite of all efforts
to extinguish it. OF the fifty men who
were overcome by the heat and dragged
out four were dead and two expected
to die.
EXTENSIVE floods have prevailed the
| last four days in southeastern New
Mexico and western Texas. The hume
of the Pecos Valley Irrigation & I'm
provement Co.'s canal and the Texas
Pacific railroad bridge were carried
away by the flood in Block river.
JACOB JONES was fatally hurt and his
son Robert instantly killed near Wal.
bridge, KY, by the explosion of a saw
mill boiler. The building was COM
pletely wrecked.
MoLAcH, 2:17, by Strange, died al
Rush Park, Ia, on the 21st- He was
expected to go in 2:1O this season, and
was valued at $4,000. He was the
property of Chicago parties.
AT Warrior, Ala, a house occupied
by negro miners was dynamited and
six men were injured.
NEWS has been received OF double
tragedy in Crawford county, Ga.
Wart Dent and o. P. Wright had a diff.
ficulty in Dents store. Wright cut
Dent across the abdomen. Friends in.
terfered, and Wright went across the
street and was followed by Dent, who
with entrails protruding, plunged q
pitchforlz into Wright's breast and
broke the fork to pieces over his head
Both men will die.
WHILE cleaning out street cistern
recently at Springfield. Ill, George
Williams, aged 35, married. was suffo
Gated by sewer gas and died almost in
stantly. Reuben King was overcome
and died few hours later.
J. NJ. TOWNSEND, president of ths
Anti-Lynching league. has written s
letter to Miss Frances Willard asking
her to retract or defend statements she
is alleged to have made regarding the
negro while in England. that she
thought lynching sometimes justi
fable.
CLEARING house returns for the weel
ended June % showed TN average de
crease as compared with The CORE
spending week of last year of $50; il
New York the decrease was 24.5; out
| side, 81.