Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-11-25

I6at the SAILING FeSSel Atldutic WAS
ashore. She had crew of % men on
board and only three got ashore alive.
The vessel was bound from Tacoma,
Wash, for Africa with wheat
A BIG fire occurred at the Merrill
Chemical company's building at Louis
vile, KY, on the 18th.
JOHN w. KELLEY, the inventor of the
Kelley motor, died at Philadel phia on
the 18th from pneumonia. aged 81 years
AN extensive timber shed at st.
Petersburg was destroyed by fire and
ten persons were burned to ashes
WAGNER, I. T.. was visited by a
$40, 600 fire on the night of the 18th, IL
stores being destroyed
ABOUT 200 lepers escaped from con-
fnement at Manila through the neg.
lect of Spanish officers un beknown to
the American officials Orders have
been issued to the effect that all lepers
will be arrested and sent to one of the
uninhabited islands in the Philippine
groups and fed and cared for at the ex-
pense of the government.
DESPERATE attempt was made by
two convicts to escape from the peni-
entiary at Colum bus, o.. on the 18th.
In the battle which ensued one guard
was killed and the two convicts re-
AN electric street car at Tacoma,
Wash, was derailed by the con troller
refusing to shut off the current on a
heavy down grade. The car was
smashed to sp1inters and the seven
persons aboard received injuries
THE bill providing for a treaty COM
mission was lost in the Cherokee SEN
ate by tie vote, Tahlequah O. To
dispatch said. The Cherokees will
now be governed by the Curtis bill
By the terms of the bill the tribes were
given their choice of treating with the
Dawes commission or accepting the
provisions of the Curtis bill.
The village of Prairie City. I'LL, was
almost destroyed by fire. Five store
rooms were burned, together with
their contents There was no means
of fighting the fire except by bucket
line.
THE largest Judgment ever ente red
in the United States district court at
st. Louis was handed down by Judge
of the Mercantile Trust company of
New York, trustee for bondholders,
against the St Louis & San Francisco.
Railway company. The amount was
ST., $50, 1862 The Frisco road was sold
at auction over two years ago under a
foreclosure sale and the amount of the
judgment was the difference between
the proceeds of the sale and the face
value of the bonds held by the fore
closing parties.
THREE miners were blown to atoms
by the explosion of dynamite in the
Berkeley shaft at Butte, Mont
AT st. Louis. at a meeting of repre-
sentatives of the white and yellow
pine industries of Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota. Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri, Indian territory, Texas,
Louisiana and Mississippi, a resolution
was adopted urging the establishment
of a bureau of tim Der and lumber sta
tistics as a part of the division of
forestry of the department of agricul-
ture.
Two electric cars on the Cairo OILY
Electric railway col1ided, seriously
damaging the cars and injuring a
number of passengers, who were
thrown violently down by the shock
and cut by flying glass.
MRS ELIZABETH Easing, the mother
of five children, chopped her usband's
head with an ak at St. Louis while he
was asleep. She was driven to desper-
alton by his cruel treatment.
KING HUMBERT opened the Italian
parliament on the 10th.
MRS. LILLIAN M. N. STEVENS was
elected president of the National w.
c. 7. U. at the meeting at st. Paul,
Mimi, on the 18th. Mrs. Susannah M.
d. Fry, of Minnesota, was made CORE.
spending secretary; Mrs Clara G. Hof-
man, of Missouri, recording secretary,
and Mrs. Helen M. Barker, treasurer.
A resolu ton asking congress to stop
the destruction of song birds for mil
inery purposes was carried.
A COLLISION between two Pittsburg
& Gulf freight trains near Mena, Ark.
caused the death of two tramps and
the total wreck of one engine and six
freight cars.
The rumor was current in Wall
street, New York, on the 18th that the
Pittsburg & Gulf railroad had been
sold to the Southern Pacific.
The Santa Fee railroad has secured
terminal facilities in San Francisco.
AT Marlboro. Mass, the joint execu-
tive council of the boot and shoe work
ers' unions on the 14th ordered out
1900 employees in seven factories
In Brown, Rock and Dixon ounties,
Neb., thousands of acres have been
swept by prairie fires and much grain,
hay, barns and several houses de-
stroyed. In Gregory, Todd and Trip
counties. S. D., the range was on fire
and many cattle were reported lost.
The national quarantine convention
assembled at Memphis, Tenn. on the
18th. majority of the delegates
were from the southern states more
affected by the visitation of yellow
fever, as they were asked to send
larger representation than the other