Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-23
A SPECIAL to the Cincinnati Enquirer


Gallia, o. At Portsmouth the Second
Presbyterian church was badly dam
aged by dynamite. Attempts were
also made to blow up other buildings
A gang of 81 outlaws were said to be
evading all efforts of the officers and
posse to capture them. The large
stock barns of Judge FL. A. Kentz
have also been burned by the incen-
daries-
THE Spaniards under Gen. Suarez
Inclan have sustained a crushing de-
feat in Cuba at the hands of the insur-
gents under Antonio Maceo. Not only
was Inclan's column defeated with
heavy loss, but it was reported in Ha-
vana that the Spanish general himself
was captured and is now held a prisoner
by Maceo.
THE Hallet & Davis Co., dealers in
pianos and organs at Chicago, have
made an assignment. statement
was fled showing assets of 1888, 900;
liabilities, $4,000.
CHARLES MARGRAVE, the postmaster
at Emory Gap. Tenn, was shot from
ambush while going home and fatally
wounded. William Lefew is under ar
rest on suspicion. Lefew's brother
was shot and killed last Christmas in
Margrave's store. Margrave was
charged with the crime.
JOHN GoNsALvEs and John Gasparri,
Italian sailors, quarreled in cabin of
the fishing smack Lenora at Charles
ton, S. c., on the 18th and Gasparri
plunged a knife into the stomach of
Gonsalves, disemboweling him. Gas
parri afterwards ran into the cabin
and committed suicide by drawing the
same knife with which he had killed
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from ear to ear.
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado swept through
the Adirondacks recently. A funnel
shaped cloud struck the earth between
Fort Edward and Argyle in Washing
ton county, N. Y, destroying farm
dwellings and barns Damage was
also done at several other places, but
no loss of life was reported.
THE strikers at the Brown Hoist
works at Cleveland, O., We're irritated
,, by the news that the company had got
lot of non-union men from Canada
and Cincinnati and they appointed
committees to patrol certain territory
in the neigh borhood of the works early
on the morning of the 18th and hunt
the men, and when a non-union man
was spied he was pounded and beaten,
the police being utterly powerless to
cope with the strikers. The mayor or
dered company of militia to the scene
| of the rioting.
A SERIOUS collision took place on
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road near Quincy, ILL, on the 18th. At
the Sand cut, where the road makes a
sharp curve. switch engine crashed
into the engine of a freight train.
Both engines were totally demolished
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freight train was killed at his post, and
Frank Athey, his fireman, died soon
after. Fireman Smith will also die.
Won Stein berg, the other engineer,
was also seriously injured, but will re-
cover.
The steam barge Ramoa. loaded with
grain from Buffalo, n. Y, struck a
rock in the Narrows, near Rockville,
Ont. and sank. The crew were res
cued.
SALEM. ILL.,. on the 18th was in holi-
day attire to welcome William j.
Bryan to the scene of his bovhood
days. The ceremonies were somewhat
marred by a heavy rainstorm. Mr..
| Bryan made a speech recalling the
memories of the days passed in Salem.
WHILE bathing at Lake Minnetonka,
a summer resort in Minneapolis, Flor
ence Bird. aged Il, Birdie Mills, aged
IA, and Helen CLANCY, aged Is, were
| drowned
THE British ship Curfew, from Dun
dee, has been lost in the Red sea with
ali on board.
Mrs. HICKS. of Anderson, Ind, ap-
piled match to light fire in her nat
ural gas stove and there was an explo-
sion. The stove was blown to pieces
and the house collapsed. She was
picked up in the yard fatally injured
IMMIGRATION statistics which have
been compiled on Ellis Island for the
gear ended July L showed an increase
of 72.7s1 in immigration over that of
the year 1S94-95. During the year just
ended 263, 700 immigrants were landed
at New York, against 100. 92S brought
the year before.
A CHICAGO dispatch stated that c. A.
Walsh, of Iowa, has been selected as
temporary secretary of the national
democratic committee with the under
standing that his appointment would
be made permanent when the commit
tee meets again.
MORE than 100 replies had been re-
ceived up to the 10th by the committee
at Chicago which issued the call for a
sound money democratic convention.
The replies came from Maine, Michi-
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