Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-04-16

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a score or more of buildings being
blown down at Gillett and other
places many houses were also demol-
ished. Rnmors Of loss of life in the
outlying districts were in general cir
culation.
A TERRIFIC windstorm visited Abb
lene, Tex, early on the morning of
the 18th, many residences and work
shops being demolished and telephone
polls blown down. At Colorado City
a boy was killed and at Cresson the NJ.
E church and nine business houses
and residences were destroyed At
Bates. Denton county, the NJ. E church
was also demolished and great loss re-
suited to other places in the state from
buildings being blown down.
A FIRE which started at two o'clock
on the 18th in three story tenement
house at Cleveland. o.. caused loss of
SO. 600 and put the lives of the mem
bers of Is families in peril for brief
period The fire started on the second
floor of the building, which was a
frame structure. One woman was bad
ly hurt in jumping from a third story
window.
Col JOHN a. CoCKERILL, the we'll
known newspaper correspondent, died
on. the 10th of apoplexv at Cairo, Egypt,
aged 81. He went to Japan year ago
as the New York Herald's correspond
ent. It was during his stay in st.
Louis that he became involved in a
bitter political quarrel with Col Stay
back, which resulted in Cocker,ll kill
ing Stay back.
III. ii. HOLMES, the murderer now I'M
der sentence OF death at Philadelphia
for the murder of Benjamin Peitzel.
has made a confession. It covers near
ly three newspaper pages He admits
to having committed % murders.
FAILURES for the week ended the
10th were, according to Dun's Review,
200 in the United States, against o07
last year, and 80 in Canada, against 27
last year.
WA-PA-SHo, chief of the Sac and Fox
tribe of Indians. was arrested at his
home in the reservation and brought to
Oklahoma City. Ok. recently for re-
fusing to allow officers to place his
children in the government school. He
hid the children in the bushes and
stood the officers off with Winchester.
THE London Chronicle published a
dispatch from Rome on the 9th giving
letter from Cardinal Rampolla ex-
pressing the satisfaction of the pope at
the efforts made to decidein tern at ional
controversies by permanent tribunal
of arbitration and also stating that his
holiness had congratulated Cardinals
Gibbons, Vaughn aad Logue for hav-
ing signed an appeal for Anglo-Ameri-
can arbitration.
SPECIAL to the Chicago Evening
Post from New York on the 9th said
that report had reached there from
Washington that the president had
made most startling move in the Gu
ban matter. 1t was said to be neither
more nor less than a personal letter to
Senior de Lone, the Spanish minister,
asking him to urge his government to
take action at once to stop hostilities
before the United States intervenes-
Hone KoNG. China. has been declared
an infected port and the steamship line
from there to Viadivostock has sus-
pended operations. At Kobe. Japan, a
general quarantine station has been
esta blished and systematic efforts
made to com bat the dread disease. Be-
sides the black plague, cholera and
smallpox in a virulent form have
made their appearance
A SPECIAL from Madrid said that the
spanish government na0 completed
the preparations of sending to sea a
squadron of Il vessels and that the
movement of the fleet would depend
on President Cleveland's course on the
Cuban resolutions
j. D. BUCK, acting president of the
Theosophical society in America, has
called a meeting of the members at
New York on April 90 and % and
wants all who can to make q special
effort to attend it
THE village of Rockford, near Grand
Rapids, Mich. was almost wiped out
by fire on the Sth. two entire business
blocks being destroyed. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, $50, O0O The village
had just closed a contract for a water
system and in month could have sue
cessfully COPIED with the fire.
EX.-Gov. BROWN. of Rhode Island,
was stated to be a candidate for vice
president of the United States
TwENTY-FoUR valuable mich cows
have been slaughtered in the herd OF
the Harmony society at Economy, Pa,
because they were found to be afflicted
| with tuberculosis Every mich COW
| in the Sewickley valley was ordered to
be inoculated at once in an effort to
stay the spread of the disease.
THE American strawboard works OF
Anderson, Ind, has closed down in
| definitely because the market was