Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-03-14
GENERAL NEWS.


FIRE broke out on the 10th at the Old
Abe mine at White Oak, n. NJ, and in
a few minutes the hoist structure was
a mass of flames. The damage runs up
into the thousands, but the most dis
tressing feature was that eight miners
were imprisoned in the depths whose
fate was unknown, but who were
thought to have been suffocated. Res
cning parties tried to work, but the
smoke and gases from charred wood
had penetrated the upper levels and
they could not be passed for some time.
The cable chess match between the
Manhattan Chess club, of New York,
and the British Chess club resulted in
a draw. When play ceased at $3.50
o'clock on the 9th only one game was
finished.
The military commission appointed
by Gov. Mckinley to inquire into the
shooting of certain citizens at Wash
ingtOn Court House, O., by troops IN
der Col. Colt, while defending negro
prisoner from being 1ynched, sustained
Col Colt and the governor has Endorsed
the report.
JOHN SWEENEY, of Allegheny, Pa,
was literally roasted alive at his home
early on the 10th. His wife was so
badly burned in her efforts to rescue
him that she had to be taken to the
hospital, where she was lying in very
serious condition. An exploded lamp
was the cause of the fire.
The police were called out to quell a
disturbance by tramps at the rail mill
east of Boone, Ia, which the tramps
had taken possession of. When the
officers arrived at the mill they were
attacked by the tramps. The police
used their revolvers and Jim Freeman,
alias Riley, was shot through the heart
and instantly killed; Tim Lanman, an
other tramp, was shot through the
breast and fatally wounded; a third
tramp was shot through the arm.
Twelve of the tramps were captured
and jailed.
A TERRIFIC explosion of the tank of
the steamer Bawnmore, lying at the
Arctic oil works dock at the Potrero.
San Francisco, caused great excite
ment in that section of the city on the
Sth. Two men were terribly bruised
and burned, receiving what are
thought to be mortal injuries, and the
vessel was badly strained.
THE tunnel on College hill, Provi-
dence, R. l., was blown up by a gas ex-
plosion which shook the city. One man
was killed. The explosion seriously
crippled the counter weight system
used in connection with the electric
cars.
FREDERICK E. SICKLEs, we'll known
inventor in the engineering line, died
suddenly in Kansas City, Mo-, on the
sth of heart disease, aged rs years.
The steamer Rosedale sunk in the
Wabash near New Haven, Ill, on the
6th. One man was drowned She was
loaded with corn. The boat was val
ued at 81, 600.
THE principal of the Burroughs
school at Chicago, Samuel Harrison.
zvas severely beaten by Albert Rolston,
q constable. Rolston claimed that
Harrison had BACKED the seyes of
Rolston's son and badly marked the
boys face. The fight lasted so long
that the patrol wagon was sent for
Rolston had Prof. Harrison arrested on
the charge of assault and battery.
DRIED beef poisoned the entire fam
lily of Mrs. Eliza Cowen, of Mortified,
O., and Mrs. Cowen and her three chill
dren were lying at the point of death
on the 9TH. The members of the fam
lily were taken i'll within fifteen min
utes after partaking of the dried beef
IN New York Mrs. Rose Kennelty, so
years old, persisted by fire in a six-story
double fat building, and for a time the
forty or fifty other occupants of the
building were in great peril of sharing
her fate.