Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16

ended August III SAID that the advance
in corn disclosed a belief that the in
jury TO this crop had been great Pork
products were little stronger. The
business in boots and shoes was healthy.
The sales of wool would have been
large if there had been sufficient stocks
available.
WHAT is supposed to have been an
attempt to blow up Packingtown at
Chicago occurred on the night Of the
9th. The explosion took place in a
wagon filed with empty boxes The
report was like that of cannon, but
the only damage to property was the
destruction of the wagon and boxes,
which were reduced to xindling wood.
A DEKALB, Tex, special says about 3
o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th
crowd of boys and men met in a
small prairie miles south of town and
were playing baseball A shower came
up during the game and they all ran
to a large oak. Lightning struck the
tree and seven were killed outright
About a dozen others were hurt and it
is thought some of them will die.
In duel with pistols at the City of
Mexico Senior Jose Vrestagui, chief of
the Mexican stamp department, was
killed by Francisco Romero, well
known congressman. The duel was
the result of quarrel over woman.
By the falling of a scaffold in New
York city, upon which eight men were
at work, two were killed and others
hurt internally.
CHAIRMAN HATCH. of the house COM
mittee on agriculture, has reported
favorably on the bill to prevent the
adulteration and misbranding of foods
and drugs. The accompanying report
states that the adulteration of foods
has reached alarming extents. It
urges that the bill overcomes the evil
without creating an army of food and
drug experts
AT an early hour on the 9th over
one-third of Dawson, Mimi, was
burned, and the hardest kind of work
alone saved the rest of the town. The
loss is about S35, 900.
THREE incendiary fires were started
at Anolxa, Mimi, recently. Aid was
called from Minneapolis and special
train was sent with hose trucks and
firemen.
THE report of the Indian Office on the
Kickapoo lands has been completed
and all that remains for the interior
department to do in the premises is for
| the secretary to approve the report be-
fore the lands are opened to settlement
on the day fixed by the president, Civ
ing at least thirty days notice. 1t is
believed generally by interior depart
ment officials that the formal prelimi-
naries will be completed in season to
permit the opening of the lands in
about six weeks.
THROUGH the efforts of the district
eighty commonwealers, comprising the
Calvin and Thomas divisions of Frye's
army, left over the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad for their homes in Cincinnati
and Los Angeles.
AT La Sale, Ill, in attempting to
arrest Polish miner named Joseph
Schurman, he was fatally shot and two
deputy sheriffs were wounded with
saber thrusts. Miners hearing the
noise rushed to the scene and an at
tempt was made to mob the deputies.
The militia We're called out and the
mob was finally dispersed. A state of
intense excitement prevailed and it
| was feared there would be more blood
| shed.
The grand lodge of the American
Protestant association, comprising rep
resentatives from all lodges through
out the United States, assembled in
annual convention on the sth at
| Wilkesbarre, Pa. The work was
mostly of a secret character. The
! convention was to be in session three
| days.
| A DISASTROUS prairie fire swept over
the farms in Allen county, Indiana, o.,
the Sth and destroyed hundreds Gf
bushels of grain in shock and hundreds
| of cords of wood.
LIZZIE McDERMoTT, girl employed
by the Scott Stamp & Coin Co., in New
York, has been arrested charged with
stealing from $40, 900 to $50, 900 worth
of rare stamps.
| THE town of Clifford, Ill, was almost
swept away by flames which started at
. o'clock on the morning of the 9th.
Two grain elevators, the Illinois Cen
trail depot and almost the entire bust
ness portion of the town is in ashes.