Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

FLOODS in the Frazer river, in British
Columbia, have caused appalling waste
and destruction. All crops are ruined.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres dated
May 30 said that business was paralyzed
owing to the rise in the gold premium
and the falling off in exports. Gen.
Roca, in an interview, attributed the
rise of the gold premium to the bad
state of trade which, he said, was the
result of the drought and the low prices
of produce.
A TRAIN on the Wisconsin Central
road met with horrible accident, be-
ing derailed while running fifty miles
an hour, piling engine and cars in a
heap of broken timber. To add to the
horror the mass was soon in a sheet of
flame. Six persons were burned to
death and many others injured.
THE cotton mills at Hayfeld, En-
gland, owned by Mr.. T. H. Sidelbottom,
member of parliament for Stalibridge,
have been shut down owing to the de-
preston in the cotton trade. The stop
page of these mills has thrown 5000
| people out OF work.
| PARTICULARS of the loss, with all
hands, of the American fishing schooner
| Robert j. Edwards on Sable island Jan
uary II last came to hand on the 3Oth.
The report says the schooner was never
seen after striking.
| AT Washington all the government
departments were closed and Decora-
ton day was observed by an elaborate
programme. Several congressman took
| part in the exercises as orators in the
different cemeteries, and President
| Cleveland and members of his cabinet
were among the audience. The day
was also observed in other cities with
very elaborate ceremonies.
THE town of Viggianello, Italy, was
shaken by an earthquake on the 30th.
| A number of houses were destroyed,
but SO far as has been learned nobody
was killed. The people are camped in
| the fields.
AT Vancouver, B. c., the Frazer river
has become a raging torrent. Whole
villages on the banks of the stream
were floating and eight lives were
| known to have been lost. At Morris
steamers sail --;ght across where farms
used to be. he damage done to the
Canadian Pacific railroad is very seri-
Gus. Every farmer and rancher at
Hatztic prairie is ruined. The Salmon
Arm bridge has collapsed.
The Denver Coxey army, numbering
! 1,OOU men. mas ucClOSd W Jake dO-
vantage of the flood to float down the
Platte river to the Missouri and then
on to ST. Louis.
FIVE people have lost their lives by
drowning at Smiths Falls, Ont. Alex
Lindsay took Mrs Ingram, a neighbor's
wife, and his brothers three children,
aged respectively s, 12 and ID, out for a
sail When a little distance out the
boat capsized. and all We're drowned.
| The bodies were recovered soon after.
THE indictment against Col. Fred c.
Ainsworth for manslaughter, growing
out of the collapse of Ford's theater al
Washington, in which more than a
score of government clerks were killed
has been ordered quasbed.
AN explosion followed by a fire oc.
Cured in distillery on the ground
floor of the double tenement house 44e
Suffolk street, New York, and before
the firemen could complete the work of
rescue Lizzie Yagea, aged 4 years, was
suffocated. Twenty families tenanted
the building. The explosion and fire
cut them off from the stairway. Fiji
teen children were thrown from upper
windows into blankets below. Some
of the older ones escaped by creeping
on a narrow ledge of the second story
to the window OF the next house. -Four
adults were injured
The communists of Paris have de-
cided to repeat the demonstration OF
the 27th in the cemetery of Pere La
Chaise every week until they shall nc
longer be molested by the police.
AT Boscobel, Wis. an Iowa contin-
gent of Coxeyites, after waiting all
day for transportation, took torcible
possession of the passenger train go
ing east and could not be elected.
THE president has approved the bill
for the sale of the lands of the Otoes
and Missouris in Kansas and Nebraska.
THE effects of the coal strike are Sc
riously felt at Dubuque, Ia. among the
manufacturing institutions and rail
roads. One factory burns corn. Others
are using wood and one or two have
closed down. The Illinois Central
railroad, to husband it's supply, has
taken off one train on each division
Dealers have very little coal on hand
A TREASURY statement shows that
the expenditures of the government fol-
the eleven months of the current fiscal
year have exceeded the receipt. by
ST., OOO, 600. The figures indicate a de
felt for the twelve raonths of about
S7s, oGo, goo.