Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-23

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Four hundred men and boys en-
ployed at the Epson nut works, Cleve-
land, o., went on strike on the 18th
and the plant was closed down. The
employees demanded the restoration OF
10 per cent. cut made two years ago
AN earthquake shock occurred at
Florence, Italy, on the 18th and many
people spent the night in the streets. a
second shock increasing the first alarm.
Numbers of houses were badly cracked.
At surrounding villages many deaths
were reported, at Grassina forty houses
being wrecked and at San MARITIME the
church demolished, crushing many
people in the ruins.
NEAR Klamath Falls, Ore, the Alger
stage was recently stopped by masked
robbers and all the passenge rs were
made to turn over their valuables- The
mail sacks and the express box were
also robbed. The amount stolen was
not known, but it was large.
THE Western Federation OF Miners.
at Denver, Col, adopted resolutions
supporting the principles of the Omaha
populist platform, favoring the I'M
limited coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to /, appealing to all branches of
organized labor to unite for protec-
ton, concentrating efforts at the bal
lot to secure the election OF the party
pledged to work for the enactment OF
laws beneficial to the masses of the
people and the repeal of all laws which
| placed capital above labor. and declar-
ing that occupancy and use were the
only title to land.
AN agent of the United States land
office, who was sent to investigate pine
land thefts in the Ashland, Wis. dis
trict, has made discoveries of thefts
that are said to be astounding.
DURING a drunken row at the Indian
camp near Black River Falls, Wis,
Jim Swallow and George Blackhawk,
two braves, got into a quarrel and set
tied their trouble with knives, accord
ing to the Indian code. Blackhawk
was literally cut to pieces.
AT Parker, near Muncie, Ind, at an
early hour on the 18th the boarding
| house of Mrs. John Hewitt was wrecked
by dynamite explosion. Mrs. Hewitt
and her daughter were taken out of
the wreck unconscious. Mrs. Hewitt
was injured internally and her daugh-
| ter's legs were crushed. Four other
occupants of the house were slightly
| injured. Mrs. Hewitt was living apart
from her husband and when he ap-
peared at the scene of the disaster Mrs.
Hewitt accused him of causing the
| outrage.
| CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended May II showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of 3. z; in New
York the increase was sos; outside
New York. 90.
MIKE KING was hanged at Helen
wood, Tenn, on the 18th for the MUIR
der of w. A. Seek. It was the first
legal execution in the county. and a
large crowd was present. The con-
| demned man broke down completely
on the scaffold.
FIVE miles of nets, said to belong to
E. r. Edison, of Cleveland, o., were
seized on the 18th by the Canadian gov
eminent cruiser near Rondeau, it being
claimed that they were in Canadian
| waters.
A TWO and a half story wooden tene-
ment house occupied by several French
| families, in Coventry, miles from
| Providence, r. l., collapse on the 18th
and three persons were killed and
eleven injured. 1t was thought that
two of the latter were fatally hurt.
The building had been raised to per.
NIT the building of another story be-
meath it.
THE four-masted barkentine Jose
phine, Capt. Mclean, which sailed
from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, April II with
a $500, 900 cargo of coffee for Baltimore,
Md, went ashore recently on Little
island shore Her crew were rescued
by the United States life saving crews.
THE Spanish steamer Gravina, bound
from Antwerp for Lisbon, was lost on
the 18th off Capones during typhoon,
and only two of those on board were
saved.
A NUMBER of warehouses and facto-
ries near the leather market at Der
mondsey, London, covering IL acres
of ground, have burned. The loss wa:
estimated at 81. 600, 900.
NEAR Fresno. CAL, the Kings river
overfowed it's banks on the Laguna de
Tache ranch on the 10th, destroying
LILO acres Of fine grain. The breal
commenced in the James canal, anC
was so feet wide.
THE levee at Paradise cut, neal
Stockton, Cal, broke on the 10th anC
the waters Of the San Joaquin river
flowed over the country from theil
banks to Moore's landing, a distance
of 40 miles. One-fourth of the inun
dated land was in wheat, the rest be
ing grazing land. The San Joaquin
was higher than ever before, the warn
weather having melted great volume
| of snow in the mountains.