Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-08-06

coast of Hai-Cha. China Many villages
were destroyed and it was estimated
that at least 4, 900 people were drowned
In addition an immense number Of
cattle also persisted. The rice fields
We're submerged and famine is feared
in the district during the coming fall.
DENVER, Col, evening paper print
ed an extra edition on the I'd stating
that at a meeting of leading repu bile
ans in that city it was decided to de-
mand the resignation of Senator VOL
colt on account of his support to the
republican national ticket.
AT Columbus City, Ala, Maynard
Covans and Miss Proctor and Miss
Bishop took refuge in an old building
from storm, when the structure col
lapsed and Mr.. Covans and Miss Proc
tor We're instantly killed and Miss
Bishop fatally injured.
A VICIOUS hog in Benton county, Ark,
during the temporary absence of Mrs.
Mary Smith, attacked the woman's
infant twins and her four-year-old boy,
who were playing in the yard, and
killed them.
The Columbus Buggy Co., Of Column
bus, o., made an assignment on the
1st. The firm had branch houses in a
dozen leading cities of the country.
The cause of the failure was said to be
the general business depression.
A BODY of striking miners went to
the Hymera mine at Sullivan. Ind, set
fire to the plant and then burned the
mine below. The loss was estimated
at $50, 90.
TWENTY-FIVE houses and business
premises were totally destroyed and
u others partially destroyed by a. fire
at Grass Valley, Cal Loss $50. GOO.
The fire was believed to have been of
incendiary origin.
THE Atlanta {Ga.) Constitution pub
| lished telegram from Senator James
! K. Jones on the 31st that he could not
consider any proposition for the with
drawa1 of Sewall, but would entertain
any fair proposition for fusion on elect
oral ticket.
THE intense heat still continued on
the Goth in st. Louis, Cincinnati and
Indianapolis. In st. Louis there were
fully so prostrations, ten of them be-
ing fatal, with prospects of several
more proving so. In Cincinnati 20
prostrations were reported, five of
them being fatal. In indianapolis two
deaths were reported. Dispatch from
many other cities indicated much the
same condition.
AN awful railroad accident occurred
| on the evening of the Goth near At
| lantic City, \. J., where two railroad
tracks cross one another. An express
train crashed into an excursion train
broadside and plowed through, liter
! ally cleaving it in twain. A rough
estimate placed the number of killed
and injured at 100, but it was hoped
that this might be an exaggeration
The number, however, was undou BIT
eddy more than 80.
ABOUT 900 spectators were present at
the fight on the goth at Salt Lake CITY
| and when Carter'S head struck the
floor, as the result of Thompson's ter
rife blow. not half dozen persons
suspected that he was seriously hurt.
| He died soon after.
SPEAKER THOMAS B. REED opened
the republican national campaign of
1896 at Alfred, Ne, on the goth. on his
denomination to congress. Mr.. Reed
discussed the currency question from
| the standpoint of the repu blican pla T.
| form.
AT Huntington, Ind, a tornado dam
aged many dwellings, twisted off trees
and rendered worthless many fields of
corn and oats. 1t was accompa MED
by deluging rain.
DISPATCHES on the Goth from ST.
Louis Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago
and other places told of the extreme
heat and many deaths from prostrat ton
were reported.
BERT GREEN, colored, convicted of
the murder of Miles P. Mitchell, in De-
cemb Der last, was hanged at Jackson.
| Tenn, on the 29th. He protested his
| innocence to the last.
S. d. WoRDEN, the railroad striker
charged with wrecking the railroad
| bridge near Sacramento two years ago
and thereby causing the death of En-
/ gineer Clark and three United States
soldiers, must hang, the supreme court
having affirmed the judgment of the
| lower court, which convicted him.
EIGHT persons were more or less in
jured by the crashing together of two
trolley cars near Baltimore Md. on
| the 31St- The cars were wrecked.
JOHN CLARK RIDPATH. of Greencastle
Ind. the historian. was nominated for
congress on the Goth by acclama ton by
the democrats of the Fifth Indiana dis
| trict
JOSEPH GREIDLER, of Minneapolis,
one of the crack bicycle circuit racers,
| was killed at Lima O., on the 29th He
was probably overcome by heat, for he
left the track. ran straight into the