Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24

the city dump in Decatur, Ill, and he
was ordered to bury it in the ground
by the authorities, but instead of do
ing so he piled the stuff on heap of
refuse and set fire to it and there was
q terrible explosion Chimneys top
pied, ceilings and walls were cracked
and much damage done to buildings,
and suits against the city will prob
ably result.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta on the 18th
said that earthquake shocks still con-
binued to be felt in Assam and that the
ruin in that province was appalling;
that courts, treasures, jails and hos
pitfalls had collapsed; that crops were
mostly ruined and number of roads
had been completely demolished.
JACOB GRINER, OF Ayresville, o., was
killed by lightning while in his barn
and Peter Tabler was killed by the
same means while in his house, which
was consumed by fire.
JUDGE WALTER G. ONG, of the COM
mon pleas bench at Cleveland, O., was
nearly killed on the nth by being
caught on his bicycle between a wagon
and a motor. He was struck by the
motor and crushed by the 1ifeguard.
His spine was badly injured.
WHILE bathing in pool near Green
Vile, Tex, Miss Austin, Miss Ida
Schenck and Cashier King, of the
First national bank of that city, were
drowned
AN inspection party headed by Civil
Engineer Gum, of Kansas City, and
several directors of the Muskogee. Ok
lahoma & Western railway, passed
through Tahlequah, /. T., recently en-
route to Fayetteville, Ark. 1t was
stated officially that the contract for
the building of the road would be let
within go days.
JIMMY MICHAEL, the Welshman, beat
Eddy McDuffee on the Charles river
track at Cambridge, Mass, on the nth
in the hottest 15-mile bicycle race
ever run in America, and at the same
time esta blishing a new 15-mi1e paced
competition record of 20 minutes IL
seconds.
The general Lutheran synod COM
pleted it's work at Mansfield, o., on
the 18th and adjourned. The next
synod will be held at York, Pa.
A LITTLE wllirlwind the other day in
New Orleans blew the roof off of pub
lie market, damaged about so houses
and spent itself in about six squares.
Nobody was seriously hurt.
Ed KILGORE, a contractor and build
er, was fatally shot by Miss Fanny
Jackson and her three brothers at La
donna, Tex, for s1andering the young
woman.
AT Chicago on the 10th there was
one death and one prostration from
the hot weather.
THE steamer Sultan, bound from
Jeddah for Calcutta with a large num-
Der of Mecca pilgrims, foundered near
the island of Socotra, 100 miles east of
Cape Guardifa, the eastern extremity
of Africa. The natives were drowned,
but all the crew of the Sultan and the
remainder of the pilgrims were saved.
THE Henry Ellen coal mines near
Birmingham, Ala, were on fire on the
18th. The miners were got out safely.
FOUR women returning from a pic
mic in a carriage were struck by train
at Logansport, Ind, and two of them
were instantly killed and the other
two were fatally injured. All had
been drinking and they were reckless
ly driving.
THE settlers in Edmunds and Brown
counties, S. D., were fighting grass
hoppers with crude petroleum, it was
reported on the 10th. being alarmed at
the numbers of the pest.
A RAT hunt was recently INDUCED in
by about go sports at Newman, Ill,
and 2, 220 rodents were slain. Nothing
but clubs and pitchforks were used as
weapons.
THE state labor, commissioner of
California. who has returned to San
Francisco from personal investiga-
ton of the labor employed in the beet
fields, said that nearly 50 per cent. of
all the labor useu in the beet fields of
California is Japanese and Chinese,
with the Chinese fast going to the
wall as against the competition of the
Japanese.
THE Union Pacific on the 18th pulled
out of the Western Passenger associa-
ton by giving the 80 days notice of
withdrawal. The cause of the with
drawal was the old fight over the divi-
sions to be allowed the Oregon Short
Line.
A READING glass in the show win
dow of Waldin's jewelry store at Bur-
lington, Ia, accidentally placed so as
to focus the SUMS hot rays on the It's
sue paper trimming of the window, set
fire to them, and but for the opportune
passing of a citizen would have caused
a disastrous fire.
THE Goth annual session of the ma
tional council of the Junior Order of
American Mechanics began at Pitts
burgh, Pa, ION the 18th. Reports of
officers were read. The finance COM
mittee recommended per capita tax
of IL cents, and that the laws be so
amended to make it payable semi-an-
nually in March and September.
81 T.fo he
block of Georgetown, Col, and burned
the larger part of the business section.
including Is stores. Just before the
fire had run its course there was an
explosion of giant powder in a general