Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-18

ILL.,, burned on the 18th. It was a
wooden structure and the flames licked
it up so rapidly that the guests barely
escaped with their lives and lost most
of their clothing and valuables.
WALTER GRAY. of Lomax. Ia, while
hunting on the Mississippi river, was
knocked from skiff by the reeoil of
his gun and drowned.
JOSEPH KELLEY, one of the Great
Falls bank robbers and self-confessed
murderer of Cashier Stickney, was SEN
fenced to 80 years imprisonment at
Dover, n. H.. on the 18th.
IT was reported by the Indian agent
Of the five tribes on the 18th that the
Creek Indians, who refused to allow
the Dawes commission to enroll their
Games on the new citizenship rolls,
we're hocking to the towns to meet the
commission.
AT the meeting of the general assem-
ply of the Knights of Labor at Louis
sil1e, KY, on the 18th James r. Sover-
.ign was retired as general master
| workman and Henry A. Hicks. of New
York, was chosen to fill his place. I.
D. Chamberlain, of Pueblo, Col, was
elected as general master foreman.
Mr.. Sovereign made his annual adj
dress. taking for his theme the great
| miners strike and the court injunc-
| tions against strikers
WHILE watching some stock being
| loaded at Girardville station, Pa, the
other night Enoch Davis, Henry Jones.
Edward Davis and Frank Grady, all
| young men, were struck by an engine.
| Enock Davis and Henry Jones were
| killed and the other two seriously in
! jured.
THERE were 273 failures in the United
| States for the week ended the 18th, &C
cording to Bradstreet's report, against
25S for the corresponding week last
| year.
| A PASSENGER train on the Louisville,
Henderson & ST. Louis road struck
| freight car which had been blown on
| to the main track at Lewisport, KY,
and the engine, tender and combina-
| ton car We're overturned. The stove
| in the combination car set fire to the
| inhammable matter around it and be-
| fore the trainmen could remove the
cars the other coaches were destroyed.
| The passengers escaped.
THREE hundred cloakmakers in
Freedman Bros shops at New York
went on strike on the 18th by order of
| their union. Fifteen hundred opera
tives in outside shops supplying Freed
| LndH DOS also
JAMES SIMPSON, engineer, and John
Robinson, fireman of freight engine
on the Burlington & Missouri River
railroad, were blown from their cab
near Crawford, Neb., by the explosion
of the engine boiler and both instantly
killed. The engine, which was pulling
out ''doub le-header," was completely
wrecked.
| n -
| terstate Association of Live Stock San
itary boards, has called a conference
| of live stock sanitary boards and state
veterinarians of Kansas. Nebraska,
Missouri, Iowa and other states at St.
Louis December for the purpose of
agreeing upon quarantine line with
| reference to Arkansas and Tennessee.
Miss ALICE E. LowREY, of Noble
county, Ind, the organizer of a ma
tional society for the suppression of
the tobacco habit, is going to wage
war against the weed in Missouri. She
will form organizations in the state,
composed of young women pledged
| against tobacco and sworn that they
will never marry man addicted to its
| use.
| 1t was said at New York that Chief
Hazen, the head of the secret service,
had been asked to hand in his resigna-
ton, to take effect November Is. Chief
| Hazen, it was rumored, will be sue
ceeded by Thomas J. Porter, secret
service operator stationed at Chicago.
THERE was an uproarious scene in
| the lower branch of the Philadelphia
city council the other night when the
| vote of rs to SO was announced to give
away for 80 years the gas works, worth
$40. 000, 600. Cries came from the audi
ence in the gallery of shame, "bri be-
| takers" ROBBERS" ''perjurers," etc,
and there was storm of Misses such
as had never before been heard in the
chamber. The police were called on,
| but they were powerlesS to stop the
| demonstration against the councilmen.
AT San Francisco George Green, of
that city, knocked out Owen Zeigler,
of Philadelphia, in one round. Green
| got blow on Zsigler's ''solar plexus."
The Middlesboro (Ky.) foundry, one
of the largest plants in the south, was
| destroyed by fire on the 10th. The
plant employed ESQ men. The loss will
reach 5000, 600.
The stamp of unconstitutionality
was placed by the appellate division of
the New York supreme court upon the
antitrust law passed bv the last legis-
1ature and signed by Gov. Black.
THE National Grange, Patrons OF
Husbandry. convened at Harrisburg,
Pa, on the 10Th with good attend
ance. The report of the treasurer
showed the finances to be in salts
factory state and Worthy Master Brig
ham made an address.
THE gas generator in the factory OF
the PiQua co. Hosiery company ex.
ploded the other morning, causing a
panic among the 100 girls on the floor.
The building was wrecked and two
girls were terribly injured.
THE session of the general assembly
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