Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-05
MSCELLANEOUS.

FIVE hundred of the 1000 miners of
Streator, Ill, met in mass meeting and
after stormy session voted to stay
out for last years prices.
A SEVERE rain and windstorm swept
over east Tennessee on the night of
the Goth and was followed by a cloud
burst on the Tennessee river, 20 miles
east of Knoxville. Much damage was
done to crops, whole corn fields being
almost destroyed. Several houses and
barns We're washed away. No loss of
life is reported.
POLICE in cities in Italy have made
large number of arrests in consequence
of the reported existence of an inter-
national anarchistic plot to blow up
public buildings and murder prominent
political personages.
THE list of those killed by the eX-
plosion of the Albion colliery in Wales
continues to swell, and the number is
now far ahead of the first estim ates of
the fatalities. Thus far 26s bodies have
been brought to the surface. One
hundred and twenty of the dead were
buried on the 27th. The funeral was
attended by 10000 golfers.
ALL of the miners at Spring Gulch,
Col, $50 in number, have struck. This
closes the last company mine on the
western slope, and compels a suspen-
sion at the coke ovens at Cardiff, which
are supplied with Spring Gulch coal.
KELLY's army of 1000 wealers was
reported as terrorizing Lawrenceburg.
Ind, and taking whatever they wanted.
OSCAR PETERSON, James Doggett and
Daniel Corners, miners, were suffo-
Gated to death in the jefferson mine at
Victor, Cal, by foul air. Peterson was
first overcome and the other two men
went to his rescue.
A CYCLONE passed over Pipestone,
Mimi, on the 27th, causing injury to
persons and heavy property losses.
Mrs. Clifford 7. Hicks was instantly
killed, and Mr.. Hicks seriously injured.
1t was reported from points adjacent
that a number of farm and school
houses had been destroyed, and there
is possibility that a number of lives
| have been lost.
REPORTS from the country around
Wilmar, Mimi. show that over thirty
houses and barns were totally de-
stroyed by the tornado. A family OF
seven is reported to be killed at Rose
| land.
! A TORNADO struck Sisseton agency,
S. D., while the payment of the Indians
was in progress. Over 1000 people
were on the ground. One store build
ing and one barn were torn to pieces
the Indian tepees blown away and
several people injured, two fatally
The latter were two whites.
AT II o'clock on the night of the 2stl
every member of the A. r. U. in tn.
Santa Fe employ at Argentine, Kan.
| l. IL, RI do. HOY
cotting Pullman cars. Judge Foster
of Topeka, Kan. has issued an ordel
directing United States Marshal Neel,
to protect the railroads property. TIL.
Missouri Pacific switchmen at st. Loui
have struck, tying up that road.
THE strike against handling Pull
man cars was extending all over tn,
country on the 27th. Eleven Chicago
roads were tied up. Not a train moved
from California, only subur ban train
being run. An order was issued for
general strike on <he Santa Fee.
ABOUT thousand Italians who 1et
after the assassination of Presiden
Carnot, fearing persecution, wer
camping in the fields near Metz Mos
of them were without means and wer,
suffering many hardships.
THE bill creating Labor day a ma
tional holiday has become a law, 70
Mr.. Cummings, of New York, who frs
introduced the bill, took it to the presi
dent and had it signed.
AT Cairo, Ill, every railroad line en-
tering the city was at standstil1 ol
the 2Sth on account of the Pullman
boycott. The employees at the stool
yards at Chicago have decided to strik
unless the company refused freight o
lines hauling Pullman cars. All A r
.. men on the Santa Fe at Pnablo
Col, have quit work. All was quiet a
Albuquerque, N. NJ, though not a trail
was moving on the Santa Fe or Atlanti
& Pacific San Francisco was complete
~ shut off by rail with the outer world
THE Chicago Sugar Refinery Co., EN-
ploying $500 men, closed its works OF
the 2Sth on account Of the railroad
strike.