Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-12-16


nearly drowned and made homeless
The damage may reach $500, 900.
A REAR-END collision occurred on the
/ Oregon railway, 1! mics east of Pen
/ ileton. Ore, between a fast mail and
! a freight train and four menowere Sc
-iously injured Q
THE great six-day, or rather l42-hour,
bicycle race at Madison Square
garden, New York, came to an end on
the night of the 10th. The score was
as follows: Miller, 2. 007 miles; Waller.
4 1855; Pierce, LOG; Albert, rI,se2;
! Gimm, 1.7s2; Lawson, 1.757; Aaronson,
II,729; Nawn. 1,721;o Forster, 1,66s;
Stevens, 1919; Hale, 1,502; Julius, L. 1856.
Miss REEL, superintendent of Indian
'chools, in her annual report To the
secretary eff the interior makes strong
l9lea fer the Industrial feature of edu-
rational work ameeg the Indians
| Articles of Incorporation of the
Pi1ed with the secretary of state at
fren TOP. n. j. The capital stock IS
s.5. ooe. 600.
| TUE national convention of the
American Federation of Labor met in
Kansas City. Mo-. an the 1ath, Samuel
IGemners, president of the federation.
presided.
1 A MILK trust with q eapitaf of Sfb,-
Doc. coo is an assured fact in Chicago.
I RoREar MOORE. q farmer living Eve
miles east of Hazleten, Pa. shot aad
mortaily wounded Charles aaa Paris
Decker. brothers. at the village church
door on the night of the 18th. The
| troub arose over the question of fenee
| ing the church property.
AT Dexter, !. T., William Lot fatally
stabbed John Shaw. The men quar-
relied over a trivial matter.
| REPORTS received at Dallas. Tex on
the 9th stated that o severe blizzard
ragged all over Texas.
THE total loss by . recent fire in the
| works of the Standard Oil company at
Los Angeles, Cal, amounted to $685.
900.
/ POINT PARK, on Lookout mountain.
ia Tennessee, has been transferred to
| the government as a part of the ChiclSa-
mauga-Chattanooga national military
| park.
THE steamer B. E. Young ran into a
su bmerged rock near Decatur. Ala.
md sunk one of her barges with ], oae
| tons Of coal.
THE hat factory of John W. Green s.
Co.. one of the largest in Dan bury,
Conn.,, was completely destroyed by
Gre the other n ght. Loss. Sl25. 600:
insurance, S1o1, coo. Four hundred men
| were thrown out Of employment
THE river Neva suddenly rose nine
feet the other night. flooding the lower
quarters of St Petersburg, and COM
muniea alton was carried On by boats
The inhabitants were panic-stricken
and there was great loss of life and
property.
THREE men were killed and eight
injured, three of them probably
fatally, by the explosion OF a press
mill and four grinding mills in the
Hag1ey yard OF the Dupont powder
works at Wiim in q ton, Del
THE Farmers National congress at
Fort Worth, Tex. on the 9Th adopted
resolu tons favorine aid in construct
ing the Nicaragua canal; government
control of the same; favoring the de-
velopment of the beet sugar Industry;
recommending the passage of laws pro-
viding that grain be separated from
seeds of noxious weeds before being
put on the market; favoring the lease
or sale of arid lands. SO as to make
them taxable. and asking congress for
increased appropriations for rural free
mail delivery.
A CHAMPAIGN. ILL.,, dispatch stated
that q pure food and pure seed confer
enee. taking in the entire state, will
be held at the university Of Illinois
December IS for the purpose of consid-
erin9 the adatteratien OF foods and
putting on foot movement which
will bring legislation against adulter-
atoms.
While Fighting Are in the dock of the
Lehigh Coal & Coke company at West
Sa perior. Mich. four men were buried
under thousands Of tous Of burning
coal. One was got cut in a precarious
condition; the others have undou bted-
ttv persisted. It was thought 90, 600
tons OF coal were burned.
THE post office at Clifton. 30 miles
south of Fresno, Cal. was robbed the
other night by two masked men who
held mp A. T. Wilkinson, the postmas-
ter. and secured every thing OF value
In the place.
TnE United States transport New
nart, bearing the Twentieth Kansas
regiment, under Lient. Col. Little, with
the Wyoming light battery, which left
saa Francisco November 8. arrived at
Manila GA the It'll.
The business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 9th
were esF. according to Bradstreet's
commercial report against zss for the
corresponding week in last year.
THE faar statues OF the confederate
soldiers neaument en- Capitol hill at
Montgomery. Alta. were unveiled On
the 7th. They represent infantry.
cavalry. artillery and savy. The Is
confederate states we're represented
by is young ladies and the four
branches of the service 30 feur Seaeg
| ladies. There was an immense at
tendance.