Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-04-09

destroyed by fire. Loss, $50, 600.
FIRE at the Washburn and Moen
plant at Quinsigamond. Mass. caused
a loss of $50, 1000. Two hundred men
will be thrown out of work by it
S. B. ARCHER, of New York, secre-
tary of the National Tariff Commits
sion league, consulted Detroit conven-
ton promoters on the 9Th regarding
holding the national convention. The
secretary predicted that at least 1900
advocates of the removal of the tariff
question from politics would attend
the convention. Of upwards of 200
commercial bodies in the United States
all but two had appoin ted delegates.
CARDINAL GIBBONS on the 9Th at
Baltimore, Md, gave out lengthy
appeal for arbitration instead of war,
signed by himself and Cardinals
Vaughan, of Westminster, and Logue,
of Ireland. The document was the re-
suit of a correspondence upon the sub
ject between Cardinal Gibbons and his
colleagues whose names are aft Xed to
the appeal, and was issued on Easter
Sunday because of the appropriate
ness of the day.
A TERRIBLE fire has occurred at
Manila, the capital of the Philippine
islands. by which 4, 900 houses were de-
stroyed and 10000 people left homeless.
A DISPATCH to the New York World
On the 5th stated that England had
concluded a treaty of alliance with
Spain.
AT the Clark street dime museum at
Chicago on the 5th fire broke out and
at least 1000 persons were panic
stricken and made a wild rush for the
| doors. There was also wild confusion
| among the freaks, but no one was
particularly hurt.
FIRE at Saratoga, n. Y, on the &C.
| destroyed the Putnam music hall,
Reeves paint store and Scanlan's print
ing Office. Loss, $50. 900.
REGISTERS and receivers of land Of
| fees at Croolsston and Duluth, Mimi.
have been notified in a circular pro-
mulgated by the general land office
| that at nine o'clock Friday morning.
May Is next. is the hour of opening
| their offices for entries of Red Lake
Indian reservation lands These lands
| will be subject to the disposal of actual
| settlers only under the homestead law.
| Each settler is to pay S1.25 per acre in
| five annual installments.
| FIVE persons were overcome by coal
| gas in Capt. c. Johnson's house at Park
| vile, L. l.. recently and Margaret Con-
| nors will die as the result of Inhalation
of the fumes. The others were report
| ed not out of danger. A defective hue
| was supposed to have caused the acct
dent
JUST before dark the other night a
| bridge on the Baltimore & Ohio South
| western, near Shoals, Ind, was dis
| covered to be on fire. Train No. A
| was due, and was heard approaching
at a high rate of speed. With much
| presence of mind Mrs. Freeman took
off her petticoat and, running up the
| track. waved it frantically. The en-
| gineer brought his train to a stand
within a few yards of the burning
bridge, thus preventing horror.
EARLY on the morning of the Sd
| boiler exploded at one of the Forest
| Oil Co. 8 wells on the Thorn burg farm
| in Robinson, few miles from Pitts
| burgh, Pa. and Engineer Thomas
was blown 100 feet and both arms and
! both. legs were broken He also re-
| ceived terrible cash in the abdomen
| and was badly scalded He will die.
SHERIFF w. O.. GwYNNB was killed
and John T. Madden fatally wounded
at Concord, Ga, in an attempt to cap
ture the Delk gang of outlaws The
| desperadoes got away in the dark, but
two posses were reported as being after
| them and it was said the outlaws
| would be lynched if caught
A YOUNG negro, 10 years old, was
| taken from jail at Tupelo, 80 miles
from Memphis, Tenn, early on the
morning of the Sd by a mob and
| lynched in front of the courthouse.
The mob went to the sheriff's house,
overpowered him with shotguns,
marched him to the Jail and forced
| him to open it. The men wore masks.
| The prisoner made assault on a
white lady near Plantersville a short
time ago.
| FIVE hundred mechanics employed
on the big Siegel-Cooper building at
| New York went on strike recently be-
| cause non-union cornice and skylight
makers had been engaged
AN unknown negro boy, about 16
gears old, was found on the Texas &
| Pacific railway track, at Terrell, Tex.
the other day, cut in two by train.
| It was supposed that he was stealing
| a ride.
ONE thousand people surrounded the
city prison at Akron, O., recently and
made threats against A. B. Strong, the
suspected murderer of the Stones at
| Talmadge. The militia was put under
| arms at the armory and force Of
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