Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-25

-FOUR men were killed and i've others
badly injured the other afternoon by
| the collapse of a cornice on the new
building in the course of erection at
Ats and ATT North Fifth street, Phila-
| delphia-
A CLoUDBURsT up Sawmill run, Pitts
burgh, Pa. on the 18th caused tidal
wave in that stream, endangering the
lives of dozen persons. Five chill
dren were reported missing and were
| supposed to have been drowned. The
great body of water did much damage.
| A SENSATION was created in the Third
Missouri camp at Thoroughfare Gap,
| Va, when the officers discovered that
nearly every man in the regiment had
signed a petition to have the regiment
mustered out. The petition stated
that the men enlisted to fight, not for
| garrison duty, that the war was over
| and that their families needed them at
| home.
GEN. WOOD has ordered the sale of
whisky, beer and wines stopped every
where in Santiago. He provided Sc
we're penalties forsinfractions of the
rule. Restaurant keepers were greatly
depressed by the order which confined
their sale of drinks to coffee and lem
onade.
The Second Arkansas regiment
showed a mutinous spirit when they
were ordered out to drill on the 10th,
| but the prompt action of Mai. Stark
quelled it.
AN Indianapolis, Ind, dispatch on
the 18th said that Frank p. Sargent,
grand master of the Brotherhood of
| Locomotive Firemen, had officially no.
titled the order that he will retire at
the end of his term, having been ap-
pointed a member of the Industrial
commission by President Mckinley.
ADvICEs from Slxalat, in Galicia, Aus
tria, reported that 800 houses were
destroyed and f,S0O persons made
homeless by fire there.
Two American ships, which sailed
| from the Pacific coast early in the
spring. arrived at New York on the
18th, having been all the intervening
time on the sea. without being re-
ported and oblivious to the fact of the
| war waged between this country and
Spain, making their capture as prizes
of war possible. The war began and
| was terminated within the space of
their voyage.
| The American Bar association be-
gan it's annual session on the 18th at
Saratoga, n. Y. There was a large
attendance of distinguished mem bers
of the bar from all p arts of the coun-
| try.
1t was asserted that 700 workmen in
the allied building trades of st. Louis
| were out as the result of strike for
better wages inaugurated some time
ago and that the suspension of work
may spread.
EIGHT deaths from sunstroke oc-
Cured at Paris, France, on the 10th.
&HE surgeon generals Office has de-
cided to take all the we'll and conva-
lescent men away from Key West,
Fla, SO that they will not be in
danger from the outbreak of yellow
fever at that point.
GEN. FITzHUGH LEE has declared his
intention to enter the senatorial race
in Virginia
A FREIGHT train on the Texas & Pa
cifc was derailed and thrown from a
trestle two miles east of Fort Worth,
Tex, with fatal effect. Two tramps
were killed and three others seriously
injured, the engineer was fatally hurt
and the fireman seriously injured.
SOME time ago it was said that Leo
KILL was afflicted with progressive
paralysis, accompanied by dementia.
The statement was promptly denied,
but the papal authorities have now
been compelled to admit its truth, and
it is a matter of common talk at Rome
that the pope's reason has complet ely
left him, and that he is unable to walk
any longer or to talk coherently.
GRAND review of the army at Camp
Thomas, at Chickamauga, Ga, was
held on the 18th by Gen. Breckenridge.
Fully A, 600 soldiers passed by the re-
| -
men thought it wonderful that such
| well-trained soldiers could have been
made from raw men within three
| mon tbs.
AT Garry Owen, Ia, AZ children went
to a picnic and when they had eaten
dinner they were one after the other
taken violently i'll. All the doctors in
the neighborhood were summoned,
and by the use of stomach pumps all
were saved. It was thought they
were poisoned by eating canned meat.
| LIGHTNING struck large oil tank
belonging to the Buckeye Pipe Line
company at Findlay. O., completely
destroying $4,000 barrels of oil. A
terrific explosion occurred and the fire
spread to outbuildings. track and
fences and destroyed Is cars belonging
to the Lake Erie & Western Railroad
company. The total loss was esti-
mated at $50, 900.
DURING one of the most violent cleo
trical storms ever witnessed at Neils-
vile, Wis, four or five fires were in
progress and the Catholic parsonage
buildings were completely destroyed.
James owen and John Currier were
killed.
DURING the progress of a violent
thunderstorm at Wheeling. Ind. bolt
of lightning struck 9O-foot tank in
the Standard Oil company's refinery,