Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-07-18

Of an artificial reservoir containing
large quantity of water, at the corner
Of Main and Sixth streets. destroyed
considerable property and fatally in
jured j. A. Keller. an engineer.
A CYCLONE struck Cherry Hill, NJ J.,
on the 18th, and heaps OF ruins marked
the track of the storm. rendering many
people homeless Three persons were
reported killed and many others Sc
verely injured
AT Hampton, Ark, early on the 18th
two negroes were mobbed by seventy
five men. Two weeks ago a white man
was killed by three negroes and two
of them were arrested. The cu1prlts
were carried to the neigh boring for
ests by the mob and hanged to trees
The men were not masked and made
no effort to conceal their Identity.
The negroes greatly outnumber the
whites in the vicinity and further trou-
bic was expected
Mr. II. TITTswoRrH, of South Haven,
Mich, took his new yacht, Artist. out
for her trial trip, in company with the
builders, Messrs. Coates & Stillson.
When about 4 miles north of the har-
Dor a squat struck and capsized her
and all were drowned.
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Mary Tomas sch, who accompanied an
excursion from Cleveland, O., to Chip
pewa lake, were drowned on the 14th
by the capsizing of a row boat. The
girls went out rowing with Adolph
Schwartz. When they were quite a
distance from the shore they tried to
exchange seats with each other and
the skiff was overturned. Schwartz
was saved.
O'DONNELLsoN, n. D., was visited by
a cyclone on the 14th. It lifted several
houses off their foundations andwhirled
them through the air with their Oc-
cupants and dropped them at consid-
cradle distance. injuring many people
and wrecking the buildings. The grain
in the pathway of the storm was also
badly damaged.
A DISPATCH from New York stated
that the Associated Pioneers society
of the territorial days of California
had issued call to the late Gen. John
C. Fremont's friends for funds to erect
a suitable monument over his grave.
AT the session of the Fetal Clerks
National Protective association in st.
Louis, on the 18th, A. II. Sellers, of
Kansas City, No, was reelected presi-
dent.
IN the final heat of the grand chal-
lenge cup at the Henley regatta on the
18th the Trinity crew, which defeated
the Cornell crew the previous day. beat
the New college crew and won the cup.
AT the New York Bankers assOcia-
ton meeting at Saratoga on the 18th,
Judge Dexter, of Elmira, offered res
olution which was adopted, that the
association favor the appointment
by congress of commission consisting
of experts and business men to report
to congress a comprehensive currency
system to meet the commercial needs
of the nation.
THE features of the mile track races
at Davenport, Ia, on the 18th was Joe
Patchen's mile in 2:O514, the fastest
stallion mile of the year. He was
paced by a runner and went the quart
ers in O:31sl, 1929, 1929, 2:O54. A
brisk breeze was blowing at the time.
A PARTY of fishermen at Dublin,
Fla. caught in their net the dead body
of Carrie Zadgett. The girl had been
notified to leave the city because she
had separated a man and wife. It was
believed that party of women, as
sisted by some men, had carried the
girl to the river and had thrown her
in, as her hands and feet were bound
with ropes and large stone was fast
ened to them. 1t was also thought
that the girls sister had been served
the same way. as she, too, was missing.
SHORTLY before noon on the 18th a
large number of policemen were sent
to the Chinese quarter in Denver, Col. :,
in response to a riot call. About TWEEN
tv Chinaman were doing battle with
axes, knives, bs and stones, but on
the appearance of the police wagon
they scattered. Sam Lung Wa, pro-
prietor of an opium joint. was found
with severe wounds on the head, which
may cause his death.
A DISASTROUS confiagrat ton occurred
on the 18th at Brotterode, village at
Hesse Nassau, Germany, and $50 houses
were destroyed and ten of the villagers
killed while seeking to rescue their
valuables- About 1000 persons were
| made homeless.
a DIAGRAM of the great Corbett-F itz-
| simmons building was displayed at
| Dallas, Tex. on the 10th. It showed
an octagon structure covering 400 feet
of ground, or nearly four acres. The
| following are its grand divisions: I'm
i7,6SS; seats in balcony. 2,4O6: seats
for the press, Csc; total, So, There
/ never was such a theater built in the
United States The prize ring is in
/ the exact center and will be 40 feet
square. elevated feet from the ground.
| A FIRE at ChicaUO on the 9th de-