Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

hardware company and Berry reStau-
rant. Loss, S150, ZOO.
AFTER knowing for two short years
what it is to be millionaire many
times Alex. Mcdonald is again poor
man. The reign of the klondike king
has ended and he has shouldered his
pick and started ont as a poor miner,
leaving his bride in Dawson, Alaska,
with a horde of creditors for whose
benefit all his mining interests have
been assigned. He was not at all dis
heartened and declared it was too much
worry to be a millionaire.
SECRETARY RooT on the 11th sent out
to all mayors of cities of more than
$50, 900 population an appeal for assist
tornado in Porto Rico.
A STREET car ran off the Prairie street
bridge at Merrill, Wis, on the 11th
dropping into the river 30 feet below.
The car was completely wrecked. Sew
aral persons were more or less injured.
A SEVERE wind and rainstorm at
Chicago on the evening OF the 11th did
much damage. Signs and awnings
were blown down and windows broken.
Several places were set on fire by the
lightning and many vessels broke loose
from their moorings and were more or
less damaged.
BILL WILSON, colored, who was in
Jail at Port Gibson, Miss, on charge
IF attempted assault, was hanged by a
mob on the Jail gallows. the execution
taking place so quietly that none of the
officials knew what was going on.
Iur
Mex, that when Gen. Torres learned
that his nephew had been killed by
the Yaquis he promptly ordered 40 In
dian prisoners that had fallen into his
hands in a recent engagement to be
taken out and shot.
FIERCE wind and rainstorm at
Bessemer, Mich, destroyed several
business houses and moved the opera
house and 25 dwelling-houses from
their foundations.
OWING to the prevalence of southern
or splenic fever among the cattle of
Washita county, Ok, Gov. Barnes is
sued a proclamation quarantining that
county and forbidding the taking of
cattle from that county into any other
part of the territory until October 10.
A HURRICANE recently broke over
Porto Rico and other West Indian is
lands and did appalling damage, hun
dreds of houses being demolished and
food stores destroyed. Meager advices
reported large number of persons
killed. At Montserrat, in the island of
Guadaloupe, 102 persons lost their lives.
In many towns few buildings were left
standing. Gen. Davis, the governor
general # Porto Rico. cabled an ap-
peal to Washington for means to as
sist the distressed.
THE monthly report of the statisti-
clan of the department of agriculture
at Washington showed the average
condition of cotton on August to have
5een S4. There was a decline durin g
July amounting to two points in Mis-
souri,. On the other hand there was an
improvement of two points in Okla
homa and the Indian territory. The
averages on August 1 were as follows:
Missouri. S6: Oklahoma, so; Indian ter
ritory, 93.
| LIGHTNING struck the barn of Engel-
bert Jeersly near Camp Douglass, Wis,
destroying it and killing his two sons
and seriously injuring his wife.
A TIDAL. wave at Valparaiso, Chill
| did immense damage.
THE city marshal of Marion, Va,
shot Joe Rult and his wife while resist
ing arrest.
WHILE train was crossing bridge
| at Hanover, Ill, the bridge gave way.
| ditching 12 cars and delaying other
| trains Il hours.
A STREET car was wrecked early on
the 9th at Cleveland, o. Residents
within radius of = miles were awak-
ened by the roar and sprang from their
beds to seek the cause. The car was
blown from the track and badly de-
molished, but nobody was hurt. The
| explosive used evidently was nitro
glycerine. There was no clew as to
| the identity of the miscreants who
committed the outrage.
THE Smeltermen's union at Denver,
Col, voted almost unanimously to con-
| tinue it's strike until the American
Smelling and Refining company agreed
to pay the wages awarded by the state
board of arbitration.
| THE steamer Iowa was sunk below
Mount Vernon, Ind, the other night.
| The steamer carried a colored excur.
sion party of about 600. No lives were
lost, but there were many narrow es-
capes. The steamer struck a snag.
THE business men of Cleveland. o..
held meeting on the 9th to protest
against the boycott and to subscribe
money for maintaining law and order
during the street car strike.
Echo BROWN, colored. was shot and
killed the other night and Edgar an6
Edward Barr severely fogged by &
gang of armed men at Amite City, La
The negroes were charged with numer
Gus crimes.
The engine and a portion of tn,
southbound Los Angeles express trair
on the Southern Pacific railroad
were derailed near Don Palos. Cal, tn,
other morning. Engineer C. j. Fort
| was killed, but none of the passenger
lost their lives. Some of the cars wer,
badly wrecked. being hurled into
ditch.
WHILE some gas pipe was being lait
at Royal Center, Ind, an explosion
took place and one man was killed an(
three others severely injured
i Four firemen lost their lives in ;
blaze at the Mercer Chemical company
building at Omaha, Neb., from comins
in contact with live wire.
In response to a call issued some tim,
ago by the Central Federated union, 9
delegates, representing los labor or
CARNATIONS, met in Clarendon hall al
New York on the 7th and formed !,
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