Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-06-30


loss
THE four-sSory brick building occu-
pied By the Jacques Manufacturing
company at Chicago burned on the
oath. Loss, So, 900. Pipeman Florence
McAuliffe was fatally injured by an
explosion.
The management of the Mount Yer
non Qll) Coal Mining company dis
charged every union man. With a
view to cutting down expenses they
purchased five coal-mining machines
and put them in operation. The in
PRODUCTION of the labor-saving devices
made the demand for skilled labor no
longer imperative.
M. E. WYLDER and John Pratt, two
miners employed in the Gillespie coal
mines at Carlinvi1le, Ill, had a large
room mined and were getting ready to
blast when the entire room of coal
gave way and both men were caught.
Wylder was injured internally and
cannot recover. Pratt was severely
injured about the head, but will prob
ably recover. The coal that fell on
them weighed about 40 tons.
FEARFUL hailStOrm swept through
Walsh county, n. D., on the 23d- Crops
in the pathway of the storm were
ruined and in the cities of Park River
and Grafton every window on the west
side of buildings was broken and the
trees denuded of their foliage.
CHARLEY FINCHER, aged Is years, ac-
cidentally shot and instantly killed
Otto Covey, aged II years, at Mayfeld,
KY, while the latter was playing bur-
glar and Fincher was playing police
man.
CHARLES WASHINGTON. colored man,
who recently assaulted Mrs. Ward near
Mine Lick, Tenn. and was captured
and lodged in Jail at Cool1eville, was
taken from prison by mob and hanged
in the presence of 1000 people.
WHILE driving wheat binder at ST.
Bethlehem, Tenn, Richard Dunlap
was thrown beneath the machine by a
team running away. The sharp iron
points on the blade penetrated his
head, producing fatal injuries.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at Oshkosh,
Wis, on the 23d as a result of the
woodworkers' strike. Several hundred
women, armed with clubs, rocks, eggs
and paper sacks of pepper, gathered
near the Morgan sash, door and blind
factory and drove back the non-union
workmen who had taken the strikers
places, not a man being allowed to
enter the factory. The police were
powerless.
Iowa day" was observed at the
Omaha exposition on the Esd, ire
mendous crowds from the Hawlxeye
state being present. John N. Bald
win, of Council Bluffs, delivered the
Grafton.
DURING recent typhoon at Port
Arthur, China. a Chinese torpedo boat
destroyer was driven ashore and $50
men were drowned.
A BIG gold strike has been made at
the mines in Llano county, 80 miles
north of Austin, Tex. The ore, it was
said, assayed as high as $50 per ton.
A CLoUDBURsT on the 23d near Alton a,
a few miles northeast of Galesburg,
Ill, caused the death of John HUI bbell
and Mrs. n. A. Anderson. Walnut
creek rose Al feet, washing out the
Burlingt on railway tracks and flood
ing the country for miles around.
THE Citizens national and the Union
national banks in Kansas City, Mo-,
were consolidated on the 22d under
the name of the Union national bank.
The General Federation of Women's
clubs opened at Denver, Col, on the
Ellen HenrOtln presiding.
DEMOCRATS, populists and free silver
republicans of Michigan, in state con-
vention, nominated fusion ticket
headed by ex-Congressman Whiting, a
democrat, for governor. At the request
of the populists, plank was inserted
in the democratic platform favoring
the initiative and referendum.
prc oir;o fraS in aI
Joining countie i'm Texas have caused
many fine ranges to be burned over.
At least l, OOO, 900 acres of fine grass
has been destroyed. Miles of valua-
BILE range in the great Winn pasture,
in Lubbock county, were burned.
DIR. GEORGE w. RUSH, of Savannah,
Ga, shot and fatally wounded George
Dewitt. his father-in-law, at the home
of the latter at Dayton, O., the other
night. The men had been on bad
terms.
A FIRE broke out the other mornin g
in the flour mill of Blodgett's Milling
company at Beloit, Wis. The mill was
| burned to the ground and the loss will
be over $50. 600, partially covered by
insurance. About go men will be out
of employment as result of the fire.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND delivered
the annual Founders day address of
the commencement exercises of the
Lawrencevilte school at Princeton, n.
j.. on the 21st. The keynote of his
| speech was opposition to the expansion
OF our territory by conquest as being a
| dangerous perversion of our mission.
The Loyal Brotherhood. new secret
| organization whose members are bound
| together by terrible oath, was said
| to be establishing lodges in Sioux CITY,
Ia There are lodges in Kansas, Ne
braska, Missouri. the Dakotas and