Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-09-27

OpElaSuo1O, u, was killed anu OuTOO
tramps were seriously, perhaps fatally
injured. The property loss was heavy.
A NARROW strip of country 200 miles
long, in Iowa and Minnesota was laid
waste by a hurricane on the night Of
the 21st. Ruined towns, devastated
farms and many dead and injured peo-
pie marked the course of the tornado.
It started about 10 miles south of
Spencer, in northwestern Iowa, and
sweeping across the state, wiped out
the little town of Cylinder, and in jured
the country districts badly. 1t then
crossed into Minnesota, running the lit
tie town of Leroy and damaging severe
ly Homer and Lowther. The number
of lives lost are variously estimated at
from ifty-two to 100
THE sovereign grand lodge and the
grand sire, I. o. o. F., have sustained
the action of the grand master of the
Kansas lodge, thus disso1ving the re-
| calcitrant lodges in Kansas until they
meet assessments for charitable pur-
poses.
LOUIS c. BOYD, wealthy young man
from New York, who about two years
| ago purchased coffee plantation near
Orizaba, Mex, had trouble with Mex
lean planter, Juan Borega, over the
question of boundaries. The feud has
been settled by the two men meeting
in a duel, which resulted in Boyd being
shot dead and Borega seriously wound
ed.
AN immense meeting in favor of the
granting of amnesty to the Irish polit-
ical prisoners was held in Phoenix park,
Dublin, on the 23d. Addresses were
made by John Redmond, Timothy Har-
rington and DIR. Joseph Kenney. It
was estimated fully $1,000 people were
present.
IT was reported that the car of Rus
STA had had an attack of apoplexy, but
his real condition was kept secret.
The democratic congressional COM
mittee of the Ashland, KY. district de-
cided that w. C. Owens was the nomi-
nee of the party for congress. w. C.
P. Breckenridge filed protest, but
closed with the statement that he would
give the nominee his support.
IMMENSE deposits of mineral paint
have been discovered near Guthrie,
Ok, at one place fully a thousand tons
being in sight, and company was be-
ing organized to put in a large paint
mill and fully develop the find.
THREE attempts were made in thirty
six hours to set fire to the oil store
house of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road Co. at Beach and West Taylor
| streets. Chicago, and at night fourteen
watchmen guarded the Chicago Sugar
Refining Co., whose oil warehouse ad-
joins that OF the railroad company,
while hose was laid in readiness to
again suppress any blaze and the en-
ployes who form the fire brigade of the
esta blishment were on fire duty.
IN Detroit, Mich, in a savage little
fire, caused by an explosion of chem
ica1s in the laboratory of Parlse, Davis
& Co., four men were badly burned,
one of them fatally.
AN open horse car on the Eighth
avenue line was held up on the night
of the goth near Abingdon square, New
York, by gang of about forty hood
lums, some black and some white, and
the twelve passengers were robbed.
One man lost a gold watch and
woman a pocketbook containing $25,
while several others were relieved of
smaller sums. When the police ar
rived the young toughs were in retreat
and only two of them were caught.
EDMONIA ANDERSON and Irene Wash
ington, two octoroons, fought to the
death with knives at Swift, Ala,
Washington woman died from twenty
one stab wounds. The Anderson yvom-
an then stabbed herself to the heart.
A FRESH shipment of firearms has
been made to Union county, KY, to
arm the taxpayers OF Lindell and
Caseyville precincts who are resisting
the collection of the railroad tax.
About 700 are now armed with Win
chesters and dynamite, and are await
ing the arrival of Collector Blackwell
and his 100 armed deputies. Capt.
Blackwell said that he would collect
the tax if it took military power to do
it. The people said that they would
-sesist to the death.
THE report of the formation of a new
baseball league has been confirmed.
Ex-Manager Bucken berger, of the
Pittsburgh club, and A. K. Scandrett,
ex-secretary of the same organization,
stated the new league had already
been organized. The circuit is to be
made up of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
Be ton, New York, Brooklyn, Detroit,
Providence and Chicago or Buffalo,
and that the new organization is to be
known as the National association.
Two persons were killed and twenty
six wounded by the falling of plat
form at Akron, O.. recently.
In Boston on the Goth, acting upon
the instructions of the Clothing Trades
council No. 2, the garment makers of
that city to the number of two thousand
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