Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-12-30

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Tex. Twelve cars were thrown down
a steep embankment One was loaded
with government horses, only one of
which was killed.
! THE blowers at the Swayzee Fruit
Jar company's plant at Marion, Ind.
walked out because of a reduction in
| the wage scale About $50 men and
boys were affected.
| ARMED men guarded every entrance
to Stroud, Ok, On the Esd. At the depot
no one was allowed to leave trains for
fear of bringing smallpox into town.
Men with Winchesters and shotguns
were stationed at the depot and no
packages from the places where the
disease was known to exist were al
lowed to be taken to the town.
The Cincinnati Commercial-Tribu ne
has published an interview with Gen.
Miles in which the general declared
that he was Investigating the scandal
in which S27 tons of refrigerator beef
and 1913, 900 pounds of canned fresh
beef, unfit for food, was sent to one
| town in Porto Rico alone for the sol
diers.
| A NEW counterfeit 81 silver certifi-
cate has been discovered by the author
tiles at Washington. 1t is of the Sc
ries of 1896, Bruce, register; Roberts,
treasurer, and apparently printed from
photo-etched plates on heavy bond
paper. No attempt has been made to
initiate the silk fiber. The execution
/ is poor and the work would dece- re
| only the most careless handlers.
MAJ. GEN. MERRIAM has ordered that
the work of preparing the transport
at San Francisco for another voyage
to Manila be rushed. He expected to
be ready in few days to have the
Twentieth United States infantry go
| there from Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
to board the Scandia for the Philip
pines.
A BOY was killed and his mother
wounded by soldiers at Eutaw, Ala
| ADJr. GEN. CoRBIN has received a
note from the president directing him
to prepare rolls for the mastering out
of so, 600 more volunteers All of the
volunteer regiments mustered out will
be sent to their respective states and
given a 60-days' furlough. Not more
than one regiment of volunteers from
any state will be kept in the service.
| MIKE HENNEssEY, one of the best
known mining men in the Black hills,
and John O'Connell, blacksmith.
| were burned to death in cabin a few
miles from Deadwood, S. D., in which
| they had been stopping.
THE Tacoma sailed on the 22d from
| San Francisco with lot of army
| mules for the use of the United States
| troops stationed at Manila. In addi-
| ton to the live stock the Tacoma
carried large assortment of wagons,
| carts, grading plows and other things
necessary for the work of improving
the roads in the Philippines.
INFLUENZA was reported as tighten
ing it's grip on Chicago.
AN epidemic of grip was reported as
prevailing in New York. In Philadel-
phia about $4,000 people were suffer
ing from the disease on the 22d. In
Washiu gton many of the government
departments and large commercial
houses were said to be seriously incon-
venienced by so many employees being
absent with the complaint Physi-
clans were busy fighting the disease
in Toledo, O, and other places.
| NEGOTIATIONS were reported to be in
progress for the consolidation of all
the lead companies in Missouri in to
one mammoth corporation.
A POWDER magazine exploded in the
| Chinese camp at Hang Chow, which
leveled a square mile of houses and
killed about 8. 600 soldiers
PATRICK HAGGERTY died at Potsdam,
N. Y, the other day, aged 109. He
was said to be well preserved men tai
ly and physically.
REPRESENTATIVE VANDIvER, of the
Fourteenth Missouri district had a
narrow escape from death the other
night in Washington. He was found
in his room unconscious and nearly as
phyxiated from the effects of defec-
tive furnace and was with difficulty
brought around.
NEAR Athens, Mich, a Lake Shore
passenger train struck a carriage con-
tanning Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Churchill.
The couple were killed. They were
driving from Athens, where they had
been married, to their new home in
the country, which had been fitted up
for them with their numerous we'd
ding presents.
A REAR-END collision occurred on the
Pennsylvania railroad on the 21st three
miles from Railway, n. j., which re-
suited in the loss Of two lives and seri-
Gus, though not fatal, injuries to four
persons. About 90 other persons were
cut and bruised and nearly all the oc-
cupants Of both trains in collision were
thrown from their berths. A thick
fog prevailed.
THE work of completing the combi-
nation of the pottery companies of the
United States, to be known as the
American Pottery company, with a
capital of $2T, 600, 600, is expected to be
consummated in New York within a
short time.
NEWS was received at Seattle, Wash,
of an avalanche on the Chilkoot pass,
Alaska, in which at least six persons
had persisted, five bodies having been
recovered.
GEN. LEE has been directed by Sec
| retarv of War A1cer to distribute ra-