Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-14

Clark, living near Wesson. Miss. have
died and the mother of the children
and a 17-year-old daughter were re-
ported very sick. with little hopes for
the young lady's recovery.
AS result Of the failure of the con-
ference between the conference COM
mittee of the journeymen plumbers
and the executive committee of the
master plumbers, of Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 8th the Building Trades council
ordered a general strike on all build
ings in that city where non-union
plumbers, gas or steam filters were
employed.
A SPANISH soldier, terri bly, enact
ated and so weak that he could hardly
walk, was picked up By men from the
United States gun boat Annapolis at a
point near the entrance to Guantana-
mo bay. According to his story there
was absolutely nothing to eat in Guam
tanamo, but the Spaniards were daily
told that if they surrendered to the
Americans they were sure to be MUIR
dered.
A SUIT has been commenced in Bowie
county, Tex. against the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf railroad for the for
feiture of its charter in not maintain
ing its general offices in Texas.
The seventeenth in International con-
ference of Y. P. S. c. E. took place re-
Gently at Nashville, Tenn. The Kan
sas City (Mo.) union was rendered the
banner for the best progress made.
Detroit was selected for the 1899 meet
ing.
PETER MAHER defeated Joe Goddard
in eight rounds the other night at the
Lenox Athletic club at New York.
They had been scheduled to fight 25
rounds with fve-ounce gloves.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the Sth num-
bered 241, according to Bradstreet's re-
port against 213 for the corresponding
week in last year.
REV. ROBERT MORRIS, pastor of the
Methodist church of Flackville, Ind,
and Miss Harrington were drowned in
the artificial lake at louisville, Ind.
the other afternoon by their boat be-
ing struck by toboggan car and over
turned.
The passenger list of the French
line steamer La Bourgogne, which
was recently sunk in a collision with
the ship Cromartyshire. off Sable is
land, in the north Atlantic, has been
carefully revised and it shows that
there were TIA souls on board the
steamer, of whom $50 were lost and
1874 saved. Of the saved IL were second
class. Al steerage and the remaining
105 were memb erS of the crew.
ALL records were broken in st. Louis
by the heavy rainfall of the 7th. Re-
ports from all sections of the city in
dicated that the damage done by the
water would mount up in to the thou
sands. During PA hours ended at six
a. m., on the 9TH, OS inches of rain
fell
WHILE the Schmid brothers were
watching the parade of Buffalo Bi1rs
show at Newcastle, Pa, on the 18th
thieves entered their store from the
rear and stole $50. 900 worth of dia-
monds and jewelry and escaped.
Four men were killed and another
one fatally hurt by the breaking of a
scaffold at the plant of the Glucose
Sugar Refining company at Marshall
town, Ia.
IT was announced that the Colum bus
baseball team of the Western league
will be removed to Denver, Col, and
that hereafter Denver will be included
in that league.
OMAHAs franchise in the Western
Baseball league has been transferred
to st. Joseph, Mo.
GEN. SKATER has denied the re-
ported killing of Spanish soldiers BY
the Cubans.
THE Illinois Manufacturers associa-
ton at Chicago, which took up the
fight against the contention of express
companies that patrons must furnish
revenue stamps for receipts, has re-
ceived notice from the internal reve-
nue. Office in Washington that the ex-
press companies themselves must affix
the stamps.
BETWEEN 1000 and Is, 900 innocent
victims of the war have fed to Ell
Caney in wild panic to escape the ter
rors of the threatened bonn bardment
of Santiago de Cuba, and they were
confronted by the horrors of starva-
ton. The crowd comprised tottering
old men and women supported by chill
dren and mothers with babes.
In one of the thick fogs which hang
like pail over the Grand banks about
100 miles from Halifax, N. S., in the
North Atlantic, there was a collision
between the great French liner La
Bourgogne, bound from New York to
Europe, and the iron sailing ship Gro
marty in which the former vessel
was sunk and over 500 persons met a
watery grave. Only 1853 lives were
saved, including one woman.
ADMIRAL CERvERA made a short
statement to a correspondent of the
Associated press on board the battle
ship Iowa as follows: 81 would rather
lose my ships at sea, like sailor. than
In harbor 1t was the only thing
left for me to do"
THE plan of feeding the starving
Cubans is proceeding Systematically.
despite the attention which the au-