Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-11-03

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An earthquake shock recently passed
| over Ottawa, Ont
| CHICAGO is trying to get the general
| 1900.
w. NJ. LEONARD. while standing near
the engine at Taylor's gin at Granger.
Tex, accidentally fell on the driving
| belt. He was hurled with terrific
force against the side of the house and
| instantly killed, nearly every bone in
his body being broken.
| A TELEGRAM from st. Petersburg
said that medical authorities admitted
that the epidemic prevailing in Lower
Russia was the plague. The death rate
was reported very high.
| Two fires occurred the other night
| at Corsicana. Tex, resulting in the to-
tai destruction of several residences
and one saloon and the loss of three
lives. William johnson and two small
children. Johnson started the fatal
fire by using crude petroleum in his
| kitchen stove.
| In jealous rare, after quarreling
| with his wife for half an hour the
other night, August Harte, a tailor at
| st. Louis, shot himself in the right
| temple and was not expected to sur
! vive his wound.
The grand jury at San Francisco has
voted to indict Mrs. Cordelia Botkin in
that city for the alleged murder of
| Mrs. John P. Dunning at Dover, Del,
by poisoned candy.
THE schooner ST. Peter sank on Lake
| Ontario, near Sodus, and all on board
| persisted with the exception of the
captain, who was picked up by a life
| saving crew in an unconscious condi-
ton. Eight persons at least went
| down with the vessel.
| The steamer L. r. Doty, with a crew
of Is men, was believed by marine men
to have been lost in the recent great
storm in midlake off Kenosha, Wis
| The British cabinet has decided, it
| was reported at Paris, to proclaim
protectorate over Egypt by Great
Britain.
| THE japanese steamer Mijagala was
sunk in a collision at Kobe and so ia
| panese were drowned.
A LARGE sawmill at Vancouver, B.
c., was burned on the Goth aud $50 men
were thrown out of employment The
loss amounted to several hundred
| thousand dollars.
AT recent meeting of the wire and
nail manufacturers, held at Pitts burgh,
| Pa, it was decided to reduce the price
of wire nails five cents per keg and to
| advance the price of galvanized wire,
both smooth and barbed, five cents per
100 pounds.
| THERE was boiler explosion in the
| sawmill at West Marion, Ind, which
| completely wrecked the plant and
fatally injured three men.
| UNION painters at Indianapolis, Ind,
were locked out by the Master Paint
| ers' association on the 26th because
| the men would not withdraw a boycott
| against a certain firm.
A REAR-END collision occurred on the
Union Pacific sidetrack at Omaha,
| Neb., between two freight trains, re.
su1ting in the death of three train
men and the serious injury of another.
THE steamboat Bolivia reached New
| Orleans on the 25th with the largest
shipment OF immigrants that ever came
| to that port on single ship, the hui
man cargo consisting of 1. 800 Sicilians,
who took passage at Palermo. There
| were in the lot $50 able-bodied men,
| 245 women, 81 children between the
ages of of four and IL years, and 81
| nfantS.
AN engine on the Santa Barbara
| branch of the Southern Pacific ran off
the track near Camalus, Cal, and En-
| gineer Davis was caught under the
| cab and crushed to death. The fire
man on the engine was seriously but
not fatally injured.
| Col. FREDERICK FUNSTON, of the
| Twentieth Kansas regiment. was mar
ried on the evening of the 18th to Miss
Edna Blankart, of Oakland, Cal. She
will go to Manila with him
Two men were shot to death by en-.
ragged people of Republican Church. S.
| c., because they implicated each other
before the coroner's jury in the MUIR
| der of woman.
| AN age party was recently given at
the home of G. S. Tarbox, in Arcola,
Ill. in which the guests present num-
| bered % ladies and their aggregate
ages summed up a grand total of 1,6O6
| years, the youngest of whom was 20
and the Oldest 81 years.
AS the stores in Kokomo. Ind, were
being closed the other night eight
strangers began to hold up the people
en- route to their homes. The police
after a battle, in which one of the
gang was shot through the hip, round
ed the footpads up and jailed them.
| The supreme court of Missouri
awarded the writ of mandamus asked
by the midd1e-of-the-road populists
against Secretary of State Lesueur, to
| compel him to file their state ticket.
The court ruled that the secretary OF
| state must file all tickets which are
presented to him in regular form. So
| both populist tickets will appear on
| the official ballot
RAMON BASAL, cashier of the City
Bank of Mexico, spending his vacation
touring the United States, was robbed
of nearly SIS, 900 in money, bank drafts
and railroad tickets by a negress near