Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-11-18
A ST. LOUIS firm secured q govern
nent contract for 12, 000 hospital tents.

| THE big whalebaek barge No. i04,
owned by the American Steel Barge
company, parted her tow line in Cleve-
land co. harbor during a gale and at
I>nce drifted against the west break
water. All attempts to get line to
her from the tugs were in vain and.
after pounding against the breakwater
or several hours, she finally went to
the bottom. Six men. composing the
crew of the barge, were rescued by the
ife-saving crew with much difficulty.
HUNDREDS of people were reported
sick and many cattle have died through
drinking the water from the Roaring
Fork river, which has been made
poisonous through the concentrators
1t Aspen, Col, in which zinc ores are
treated, dumping the tailings into the
river. Ranchers are taking steps to
stop the pollution of the stream.
A COMPLIMENTARY banquet to Gen.
Miles was given at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel, New York. on the night of the
t1th. Leading politicians. military.
naval and business men were present
to the number of 700. Gen. Miles spoke
Of the recent war with Spain.
AN overturned kettle of grease
caught fire in the Great Western tin
plate company's mill at Joliet, Ill, on
the 10th and owing to the hurricane
blowing the plant was in ashes in 80
minu tes. The mill employed 275
skilled workmen. Loss, $3.50, 900; in
surance, S47. 900.
AT Rehobeth, S. c.. five negroes laid
dead on the 10th along the roadside.
another was killed the previous day
and four others were thought to be
dead in the woods. One white man
was buried, three others were dying
and several more were wounded. 1t
was caused by trouble on election day
in which two white men were killed.
THE steamer Australia on the 10th
brought advices from Honolulu to San
francisco that sickness among the SOL
diers in camp there was increasing.
Typhoid fever was rampant, the mill
tary hospital was crowded and the
nursing force was entirely inadequate
to the demands made upon it.
THE engine on Baltimore & Ohio
train ran off the rails at Mount Vernon,
O., the other night, turning over on
the side. The engineer was seriously
injured and another man slightly hurt
THE worlds ten-shot pistol record
was broken in Philadelphia on the 9th
by c. FL. Taylor, of the Massachusetts,
Rifle association. He made the limit
score of 100 and placed ten consecutive
shots within SO inches of the bulbs
eye at $40 yards. The previous rec
ord. which has stood since 1885, was SO,
by E. j. Darlington. of Wilmington.
Del.
THE kaiser will visit Spain on his re-
turn from Palestine.
ARTHUR DOLE, young man of JEFF
ferson City, Mo-, was accidentally shot
and killed at Sycamore, Ill. while duck
hunting with a party of friends. In
Icrawling through a hedge and draw
ling his gun after him it was dis
charged, the entire charge lodging in
his side. His companions fastened to
him. but he called one by name and
said: ST guess Pm shot, JIM and died.
LAKE MICHIGAN, swept by a north
east gale, was tearing great holes in
the sea wall and the paved beach along
the lake front at Chicago on the 10th.
The Lincoln park commissioners had
repaired the damage of the storm of
October o5, but the action of the waves
undermined the outer driveway in Lin
coin park, after displacing the heavy
granite blocks with which the beach
was paved.
THE whaling steamer Thrasher ar
rived at San Francisco from the Arctic
with big cargo. She had the luck
that has followed most of the recen tly
arrived whalers and stored away in
her hold Is, 600 pounds of whalebone.
PAUL BROWN. mulatto, was sen.
fenced at Winnipeg. Man., to be
hanged December % for the murder OF
Wilbur E. Burton, colored, in that city
on May % last Brown is native of
jefferson county, Mo.
E. C. BRUCE, night operator at the
depot for the Iron Mountain railroad
at Little Rock. Ark, dangerously
wounded Mrs. Fred b. Day and then
Killed himself. He had quarrel about
vacating his apartment
POSSE of citizens of North Grafton,
Mass, surrounded a gang of burglars
who had broken into the post office
the other night and captured two and
killed one of the burglars.
WHILE crossing the Nickel Plate road
at New Haven, Ind, a freight train
was thrown from the track and, with
six cars laden with merchandise, went
into the ditch. The loss to the com.
pany was heavy. No one was injured.
SOME one stole Il truck at New York
loaded with cigars. The truck was
afterwards found at Hoboken, n. j.,
minus the horses and stock. The value
of the property stolen was $50, 600. No
clew to the thief
Gov. Browns cotton gin. with cotton
valued at 3d. 900. and the Seminole
nation school building, valued at Sa0.-
600, burned at Wewoka, I. T. Cause
of fire unknown.
AT Liverpool, O., Deputy State Fac
tory Inspector Hull ordered 500 chill
dren of school age out of the local fac
tories and a difficulty was experienced
in filing their places, while many of
the schools were oYercroMded.