Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-06-13

A TORNADO swept the district of Mo-
tola in the province of Locce, Italy.
Property to the amount of 1000, 600
Tires was damaged.
IT was said that Maj. McClaughrey,
Of Illinois, would be warden of the
new United States prison at Leaven-
worth. Kan.
THE town of Cameron, W. Va, place
of 1. 500 people, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th, and the
homeless people were camping on the
hills that surround the ruins Many
of the inhabitants lost all they pos
sessed. The loss will probably reach
500. 600. A special train which left
Wheeling with a fire engine for the
fire was wrecked 10 miles from Cam
eron and the engineer and fireman
were killed.
AT DAVID, /. T., on the 9th. Col. A.
j. Blackwell, the eccentric and wealthy
Cherokee who founded the town of
Blackwell, in the Cherokee strip, laid
the corner stone of Solomon's temple,
a structure he is going to build to per-
petuate the Indian religion. Black
we'll preached the sermon and an
nounced that the structure would be
completed within two years, at cost
of $13O, 600.
FIFTY masked men, heavily armed,
took Joseph Fossati and Robbie Allen,
a colored woman who runs house of
i'll repute at Walla Wal1a, Wash, and
applied to them a coat of tar and
feathers and ordered them to leave
town. Although Fossati is a son OF
very respectable family he was per-
sistent in living with the woman and
recently they were married.
CHICAGO democrats were said to be
badly split on the silver question. Sec
rotary Hinrichsen's proposal to pro-
vide by law how the party shall select
its candidates aroused the Indignation
of the anti-silver men, who said that
such a law would disfranchise them
unconstitutionally. From every Chi
cago district two delegations will
probably be sent to the next demo-
cratic national convention.
STRoICK's planning mill and lumber
yard and nineteen dwellings at Balti-
more, Md, were Quilted by fire on
the 9th. The property loss was placed
at $125, 000. One hundred people were
rendered homeless The insurance ag-
gregates $50, 900.
THE John M. Learned silk mills at
Northampton, Mass, were totally de-
istroyed by fire. About $50 hands will
be thrown out of employment The
total loss is estimated at 500, 900; in
surance. $50, 900.
g DAN CREEDoN, the Australian mid
d1eweight, and Billy Hennessy, of Gin
ton, Ia, were matched to meet at the
Suffolk club at Boston on June 1S. The
men signed to fight twenty rounds at
15S pounds
THREE boys, Emmett Sweeney, Pat
rick Morris and Michael Sheridan, were
drowned while bathing in Lake Erie
at Cleveland, O., on the 9th.
UNITED STATES SENATOR JOHN b
GORDON, of Georgia, announced in a
card his permanent retirement from
politics at the end of his present term
of Office.
THE great relay bicycle race of the
red and blue between Chicago and
New. York, was finished at 1856 o'clock
on the morning of the Sth. The actual
time of the race was 65 hours. So min
utes. This has broken all American
records for a relay race.
IT was reported by courier from Hay
den, Col, that 800 armed cattlemen had
started for the E1khead mountain coun-
try with the intention of driving the
sheep men out It was rumored that
the sheep herders were. accompanied
by $50 Pinkertons and would resist
LEE HARRIS and Abe Mitchell, col.
ored murderers, highwaymen and
thieves, were hanged in the Jail yard
at Birnin G ham, Ala. on the 9TH, before
1900 people Both bodies were turned
over to the undertaken who had pur-
chased them for SIS from the men them
| selves
! FIRE, which broke ont in the grain
elevator attached to the Ballen tine
brewery at Newark. n. J., soon after
| midnight on the Sd, caused a loss of
| $3.50, 600
NEAR Strassburg, so miles south OF
| Birmingham, Ala, the body of Jim
Powell, a negro, was found hanging to
tree recently Powell entered the
residence of John Bussey, a farmer
near there, and assaulted young
daughter of the farmer. The father.
hearing the girls screams, went to hel
assistance, but the negro escaped
| Pursuit was given the negro by posse
| and he was captured.
Two farmers living ID miles south
east of Pond Creek, Ok, quarreleC
over the settlement of pasture rent
| and as one by the name of Snidel
turned around to leave the other man
Henry, emptied a load of buclshot intG
| his back. The murderer was arrested
The Illinois democratic state conven
ton on the 5th declared in favor of tn,