Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21

water works tunnel disaster at Cleve-
land, o., were found by a rescuing
party on the 18th. The bodies were
brought to the shore end, about 6, 900
feet from the tunnel head, in a hand
car. The scene when they arrived at
the surface, where an enormous crowd
had assembled, among whom were
many relatives and friends of the vic
Tins, was Understandable. The police
had all they could do to control the al
most frantic people.
THE City of Puebla and the Peru, car
rying the fourth military expedition to
Manila, left San Francisco on the 18th.
Gen. Otis was on board the CITY of
Puebla-
Hon. A. S. MCKENNoN, of the Dawes
commission, has gone to Wewoka, L
T.. for the purpose of completing the
census of the Seminole Indians When
this work is completed the Seminoles
will be ready to have their lands al
lotted.
FIRE destroyed seven business houses
in Murfreesboro. Tenn, the other dav,
causing losses estimated at more than
500, 600.
THE transport Seneca left Siboney.
Cuba, on the 14th for Fort Monroe.
She had on board IS sick and wounded
American soldiers.
YELLOW fever has broken out among
the American troops in the vicinity of
Santiago. Full dispatches to this
effect were received by the secretary
Of war and by the surgeon general of
the army on the 18th. Hospitals and
a special quarantine camp were estab-
lished and the most stringent precau.
tions taken to prevent refugees from
coming into contact with the troops.
WILLIAM SEINE, aged 4s, millwright
at Dayton, O.. in a fit of jealousy,
gashed his wife's throat terribly with
razor the other morning. chased his
daughter with the bloody weapon and
chen cut his own throat, dying in.
stantly. Sixty stitches were taken in
the wife's throat to close the wounds
inflicted and it was said she might re-
cover.
FIRE on the 18th destroyed the large
building of the Malleable and Wrought
Iron company at Racine, Wis, result
ing in pecuniary loss of 500, 600, to-
gether with three lives and serious in.
jury to score or more of persons.
The National League of Republican
~ wa
18th and President Crawford delivered
his annual address.
1T was stated on good authority that
Adrian Z. Arson, eX-manager of the
New York team, will have a control.
ling interest in one of the Western
league clubs next season and also man.
age the team himself.
JOHN HENRY JAMES, negro, was
Iynched by a mob of 200 men near
Charlottesville. Va, the other morning
for assaulting white girl.
A RECENT dispatch to London on the
18th stated that in spite of official de.
malls a desire for peace practically
prevailed in all classes in Spain, but
the government was afraid that the
revolutionary parties might take adj
vantage If the government should open
negotiations.
GEN. TORAL formally surrendered
Santiago de Cuba to the American
troops under Gen. Shafter at three
o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th on
the understanding that his troops
were to be transported to Spain by the
United States government.
The marble and granite dealers OF
Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois. Missouri,
Kansas and South Dakota at the con.
vention at Council Bluffs, Ia, organ.
lied the National Marble and Granite
Dealers Association of the United
States, with James A. Graham, of Des
Moines, Ia, president and J. N. Kill
dew, OF York, Neb., secretary and
treasurer.
A RECENT special from Mansfield. O..
stated that As prisoners in the state re-
tor 81, l.
thumbs in dungeons and given only
one scant meal a day, having gone on
a strike" because their tobacco sup.
ply was cut off. There were 25 others
implicated but they returned to work
when informed what the punishment
would be.
ACCORDING to special dispatch from
Madrid the Correspondents Militar
that the Spanish govern
ment has decided to suspend the pay
ment of salaries to all civil and mill
tary servants, as the money is needed
for war expenses.
WHILE threshing on the farm OF
Adam Walker, in Van Buren, county,
Mich, an explosion occurred in the
which wrecked it John
Reice was instantly killed, Frank
johnson was mortally wounded and
three other men badly injured. 1t was
believed dynamite had been placed in
q sheaf of wheat by some enemy OF
Walker.
AT Coaling, Ala, the other morning,
Sid Johnson, a negro, was lynched for
respectable widow and at
to assault a 16-year-old girl.
The frenzied citizens hung him to a
tree, after which they literally filed
his body with lead.
An election was held at st. Louis on
the 12th to amend the city charter, to
allow an expenditure of $50, 000, 600 for
public improvements. About 43. zoo
votes were cast. of which SO, 500 were